This movie, which is releasing in theaters this weekend, is being praised as one of the best Stephen King films ever, and the author also loves it.

I’ve done a few Kings and I’m always terrified to show Steve because I know what happens if he doesn’t like an adaptation. You just have to look at Stanley Kubrick and ‘The Shining’

Most know Stephen King as today’s most revered horror author, the expert conjurer of the kinds of macabre souls that are embedded in our nightmares — the killer clown Pennywise from “It,” the all-work-and-no-play Jack Torrance from “The Shining” and the wackadoodle fan Annie Wilkes from “Misery.”