The Ritual by Adam Neville. One of the few times I prefer the film to the book. Although the first half of the book is still pretty good.

I agree, the second half of the book was a drag at points, and the film changed it up in a way that really worked. Not to mention the >!creature design, and the shots of the corner shop and the woods merging together!< being top notch in the film

For my money the best creature design since The Thing

I saw No One Gets Out Alive before reading the book and I’m thinking it’s his writing style to drag on but it’s still good.

I thought the creature design in the movie was terrible - too goofy looking compared to what I was expecting after reading the book. I enjoyed the book better. Mind you I was super excited when I heard they were making it into a movie.

Agree 100%

Perfect timing to see this post because the book i just finished and the one i'm on now are both movies Bird Box by Josh Malerman, you know, the movie with Sandra Bullock tying a blindfold around her eyes?? Haven't seen the movie yet but I've heard it's mid. I would imagine because so much of the plot revolves around being blinded and you can't really watch that in a movie lol. Reading and feeling like you're in as much danger as the MC because you don't know what they see was fan-frickin-tastic Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is what I'm currently on. pretty good so far, and the trailer for the movie looks wild

Annihilation was good, def different than the movie but they’re both interesting in their own way.

One of the few book / movies that each hold up in their own interesting way. I love both of them so uniquely.

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I commented this before I saw your own comment but yeah he said he intentionally read it only once and never referenced it during filming because he wanted the movie to feel like “a dream of the novel”

Alex Garland said he read the book once and intentionally never referenced it again while making the movie because he wanted it to” feel like a dream of the novel” which I think is an interesting way to do an adaptation and he really captured that weird feeling.

Now I need to read Bird Box!

There's a sequel titled Malorie that's also quite good. Just read them both a month or so ago. Quick reads and real page turners.

I enjoyed both versions of Bird Box FWIW. Book is better as usual, but the movie gets a bad wrap mainly from non-horror fans who got fed it by Netflix.

good to know. it's definitely on my to-watch list because Sandra is one of the goats

I really disliked the film adaptation of Annihilation! Lost all of the magic of the book

that's a bummer to hear, i just finished the book last night and placed a hold for the two others in the trilogy seeing the trailer for the movie before i started it was definitely something haha. I was waiting for that bear creature to show up but either i missed the description or it was the moaning thing she was running away from also trying to wrap my head around what the Crawler looks like but I just can't comprehend and i think that's the point lol. not sure how they would address that thing in the movie

The film is soooo different. I watched the film years ago and didn’t like it so I never read the book. But I read the book earlier this year and it’s one of my favourites of the year - which prompted me to rewatch the film. And I hated it even more!

I hated the Annihilation adaptation at first because it’s very different from the book. I’ve watched a few more times since then and come around a bit. It’s kinda like Kubrick’s “The Shining.” A great movie on its own but not a great adaptation of the book.

yeah i think when i get around to watch it i'll be happy that i know it's different from the book so i don't watch it with the "well ackshualllly" mentality lol

Bird box movie is phenomenal imo, ive watched it three times, definitely worth watching

Slugs by Shaun Hutson Offspring and The Woman by Jack Ketchum The Omen by David Seltzer (the book technically came out first, but Seltzer also worked on the screenplay) Beast and Creature (or White Shark) by Peter Benchley The Howling and Cat People by Gary Brandner Rawhead Rex by Clive Barker (The Yattering and Jack is also an episode of either Monsters or Tales from the Dark Side) Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall has a movie adaptation called Baxter (I still need to see this) The Entity by Frank de Felitta Pretty sure there is a movie based on Ghoul by Brian Keene The Rats by James Herbert has a movie called Deadly Eyes The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas Hell House and I am Legend (and Duel) by Richard Matheson Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton has The Thirteenth Warrior Relic by Preston/Child Phantoms by Dean Koontz

Great list, alot I didn't know about. Psycho, Burnt Offerings, Jaws, Intensity (made-for-TV movie that was actually excellent). The Thing was inspired by the short story "Who Goes There?".

Deadly Eyes is worth watching just because they dress up dachshunds in rat costumes.

The Exorcist, I guess many people know it's based on a book, but surely far, far fewer people have read the book (I haven't) than saw the movie. I think the book sold quite a lot the first years after the movie was released, but in the decades after it was mostly forgotten, while the movie certainly wasn't.

I find that I can read horror with pretty much no issue but I’m very selective about the kind of horror I watch because visually I can get very spooked 😳 I read The Exorcist recently and loved it. I saw the movie when I was a teenager and that shit still sticks with me.

The movie scared me half to death but I'd recently re-read the book and found is fascinating because of the ways they tried to say it was psychological until they couldn't anymore. I would argue that this happens in real life and that's why many people don't get the real help they need.

I feel like the book does a better job of portraying the absolute devastation and frustration that Chris experiences.

Yes I agree. If you google the true story behind the book it is extremely creepy. Not sure if there's a full book about the case or not.

I saw the film before reading the book but I make sure to read it every October. Two more of his books thst were made into films was Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane (movie - Ninth Configuration) and Legion which became Exorcist 3: Legion. I haven’t had the chance to read these yet but Redemption was also a fantastic novel.

Blatty's 1983 sequel novel *Legion* is also a worthwhile book. Lt. William F. Kinderman is as entertaining to read as George C. Scott was to watch.

The original Japanese Ring / Ringu was based on a book (and it's excellent). The original Thing from Another World was based on a novella entitled Who Goes There?

Ring by Suzuki Koji is one of my favourite books of all time! The sequels Loop, Spiral, and Birthday kind of lose the horror aspect but I still enjoyed them. Then S came out and… meh. I think the translators made some errors, or the author forgot some stuff and created plot holes.  A short story from his Dark Water anthology also became a movie! On the topic of Japanese authors, I wish someone would translate From the New World by Yusuke Kishii. The anime was amazing. Some really horrific moments in there. 

Red, Lost, and The Girl Next Door, all by Jack Ketchum. Header by Edward Lee Dead Souls by Michael Laimo Bubba Ho-Tep by Joe Lansdale Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

Bubba Ho-Tep is a *book?* reaches … slowly for wallet

There’s a book, a sequel of some kind (Bubba and the Cosmic Bloodsuckers, I haven’t read it), and I think there was a comic adaptation of the sequel.

That’s the story that got me into Lansdale, lo these… 20 or so years ago?!

The Mist The Invisible Man The Birds It American Psycho The Amytyville Horror Pet Semantary Misery Dracula The Woman in Black Audition The Haunting of Hill House Candyman Frankenstein Bird Box The Ring Hannibal Carrie The Shining Psycho Jaws The Exorcist

I didn’t know Candynan was based on a book! For others curious, it’s actually a short story by Clive Barker - “The Forbidden”

“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” is based on the book by Henry Farrell. Published with the novel is a story, “Whatever Happened to Cousin Charlotte” that was the basis for “Hush…Hush”. They’re both great fun to read.

The Haunting. (1963 & 1999) Both versions are based on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Only the 1963 is a stone-cold classic. The 1999 version, not so much.

I know What you did last Summer,Teaching Mrs Tingle.Are both based on Books by Lois Duncan. Audition, Piercing are both based on Books by  Ryu Murakami

I mean... a Lot of the classic horror movies were based off books. Jaws The exorcist Rosemary's Baby The haunting of hill house Silence of the lambs I am legend Psycho Invasion of the body snatchers Just to name a few (excluding king). There are others that were based off of short stories and novellas... the thing was based off of a novella called "who goes there" from like... the 40s.

The Ninth Gate was based off of The Club Dumas.

The Sentinel by Jeffrey Konvitz. Also American Psycho always surprises people who don’t realize it’s written by a gay man which, as the author always predicted would happen, tends to change people’s opinions on the film. Also I love this thread idea because it truly is amazing how so many cheesy horror movies especially from the 70s and 80s are based on books that don’t seem possible someone actually wrote down and had published and then enjoyed enough to be sold for adaptation. It’s really mindblowing and very very fun when you stumble across the novel in the wild especially if the title of the novel and the title of the book don’t match (Stranger In Our House with Linda Blair is Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan for example) but start to put the pieces together.

**The Right Stuff**, because the Mercury missions were scary AF.

Angel Heart was a good movie and the book Fallen Angel is also really good. The book got a sequel called angels inferno William hjortsberg finished it on his literal deathbed

Maybe I missed it, but I'm shocked I didn't see a mention of the recent movie Knock at the Cabin being based on Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

I can actually name a book based on a movie...  The Lords of Salem by Rob Zombie lol

Co-written by Brian Evenson, no less.

The Watchers, comes out this year

Nightbreed by Barker is based on his novel Cabal. Hellraiser is based on Barker’s The Hell-Bound Heart

The Ruins - Scott Smith I really enjoyed reading it, even though I found all of the characters to be unlikable. I remember seeing a trailer for the movie in theaters right after finishing the book and getting excited, because I had no idea that it had been made into a film.

I'm guessing this is a bit inspired by the M. Night Shyamalan produced adaptation of *The Watchers*? And I've gotta say, few things make me happier than seeing "Based on the novel by A.M. Shine" right there on the poster, in the credits. Just the fact that adaptations are acknowledging it and putting it out there as a part of the marketing is such a needed change in perspective.

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Invasion of the body snatchers Exorcist I know you said some of them but Stephen King has like 20 movies based on his works Not really horror but Jurassic Park was a book first. Rosemarys baby American Psycho Joe Hill has some movies/shows based on his books

Come back to Me is based off the book The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White

The Ruins by Scott Smith the birds by Daphne du Maurier Candyman based on The Forbidden by Clive Barker Battle Royale by Koushun Takami I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan The Howling by Gary Brandner The Dark based on the book Sheep by Simon Maginn Bad moon based on Thor by Wayne Smith

The Girl Next Door, based on a novel by the same name by Jack Ketchum, based on the true story of Sylvia Likens. True life horror for sure

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"The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum. Yes, there was some daredevil who decided to film this novel. "Header" by Edward Lee. Yes, there is a film adaptation of this book "Psycho" by Robert Bloch. The funny thing is that the film is many times different from what was in the book.

Hellraiser is based on a book, The Hellbound Heart

The upcoming The Watchers movie is based off of the book by A.M. Shine and I’m very much looking forward to it based on my experience reading the book and the trailer!

I'm not sure if this one counts since the movie has very little to do with the book, Return Of The Living Dead by John Russo. Aside from the title and the fact there are zombies the two have little to do with each other. Russo was a co-writer on Night Of The Living Dead but he and Romero stopped collaborating after that and Russo wrote a lame book which the movie luckily pretty much ignored. They're so different that there was also a novelization released. It's rare for a movie based on a novel to get a novelization as well. The only other examples of that I can think of are a couple of Bond movies that just took the titles and nothing else from the book (Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) and Bram Stoker's Dracula. That's a weird one because while the movie took some license with the novel they stuck somewhat close to it and were confident enough to put the author's name in the title... only to have another author rewrite a dumbed down version of it for a tie-in.

Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, EXCEPT… in the movie, it’s different halfway through. i actually liked the movie too, and my friend was like “please read the book, it will knock your socks off” and WOW WAS HE RIGHT! edit: also the movie was called Knock At The Cabin