There has been no shortage of Stephen King adaptations in recent years, but some have been more successful than others. Most fans would agree that the best adaptation of one of King’s novels to come in 2025 was The Long Walk, which earned widespread acclaim from critics and audiences while also finding success at the box office. The harrowing horror movie stars up-and-comers Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, and it was directed by Hunger Games helmer Francis Lawrence. The most anticipated King adaptation of 2025 came at the end of the year with The Running Man, the second retelling of the story after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 action classic. Unfortunately, the collective star power of Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, and Colman Domingo wasn’t enough to get The Running Man off the ground, and it ran out of stamina quickly before scattering to Paramount Plus.
Stephen King has written hundreds of novels, many of which, such as The Running Man and Carrie have been adapted more than once. Carrie was told as a feature film back in the 70s, and now Mike Flanagan is telling the story through the lens of a Prime Video original TV show. Carrie won’t be the first time that one of King’s books unfolds over the course of a show on Prime Video, though. King’s famous short story, The Colorado Kid, was previously adapted into a series on Prime Video, Haven, which ran for five seasons between 2010 and 2015. Over 10 years after Haven went off the air, the show has resurfaced as the #10 most popular horror show in the world on Prime Video.
Advertisement
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Advertisement
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
Advertisement
🪆Chucky
Advertisement
01
Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
Advertisement
02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
Advertisement
03
What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
Advertisement
04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
Advertisement
05
You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
Advertisement
06
What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
Advertisement
07
What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
Advertisement
08
It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Advertisement
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Advertisement
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Advertisement
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Advertisement
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Advertisement
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Advertisement
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
Advertisement
What Is ‘Haven’ About?
The official synopsis for Haven, which was written and created for TV by Jim Dunn and Sam Ernst, reads as follows: “FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the coastal town of Haven, Maine, expecting a routine case. Instead, she uncovers “The Troubles” — a wave of supernatural afflictions haunting the town’s residents. Teaming with local detective Nathan Wuornos and smuggler Duke Crocker, Audrey digs deeper into the mysteries plaguing Haven, only to find her own hidden past is tied to its darkest secrets.” Haven stars Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, and Eric Balfour in leading roles. The show earned a solid 63% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes to pair with a strong 84% on the audience-driven Popcornmeter.
Advertisement
Check out all five seasons of Haven on Prime Video with ads and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of King’s work.
Advertisement
Release Date
Advertisement
2010 – 2015-00-00
Directors
Tim Southam, Fred Gerber, Jason Priestley, Rob Lieberman, T. W. Peacocke, Adam Kane, Keith Samples, Ken Girotti, Lynne Stopkewich, Rachel Talalay, Rick Rosenthal, Stephen Reynolds, Mairzee Almas
You must be logged in to post a comment Login