I can’t embed the trailer here (it’s Vimeo), but the short film ‘One For the Road‘ looks a bit different than the story by the same name in Stephen King’s Night Shift. Which… okay, yes, King is a jackass. But some of his best short horror fiction is in that anthology, which means that a couple of the best short fiction stories of Twentieth Century horror is in that anthology. You do horror writing for any length of time, you learn how to compartmentalize and silo your reactions to individual authors. You just have to.
And yeah, I may need to see this one. Because the short story it may be based on is absolutely top-notch.
#commissionearned
IMO, top-notch stories rarely adapt well.
It’s the solidly constructed stories that don’t quite work in the original medium that are ripe for adaptation. Stephen King had a lot of stories like this, and some have already proven that they can be successfully adapted. (While a lot of his more popular stories have rather sucked as adaptations. But recognition made them modest commercial successes, so…)