Writer-director Frank Darabont talks his first movie jobs as a crew member on low budget horror films like HELL NIGHT (1981); his first work as a screenwriter and director; and adapting the work of Stephen King.
I first read Kings Last Rung on The Ladder in fifth grade during State Assesment Tests or whatever they called em. I cried then and I still cry to this day when I read it. I remember my mom always having a copy of the eyeball bandaged hand of Night Shift around the house. These stories are as ingrained into my being as the hairs falling out of my head
I think the ending of the film The Mist has a power the ambiguous ending of the novella lacked and made the story more profound, similar to how Stand By Me took the gun out of Chris's hand and put it in Gordie's to add a greater emotional depth.