India, Aug. 9 -- The 10 lesser-known Stephen King adaptations here are films that rarely make the "best-of" lists, but circle the same wounds from different angles. These are tales of loss, guilt, the catastrophe of consequence. The discovery that corruption and delusion can live quietly inside an ordinary person. And the question of what a person owes the people they love, when a monster turns up at the door. Richard Dees, a ruthless reporter for a sensationalist tabloid, pursues a suspected serial killer named Dwight Renfield aka the Night Flier (1997), who appears to travel between small airports in a black aircraft. As Dees follows the trail of increasingly gruesome murders, he discovers the killer may be a vampire. Miguel Ferrer revels in the role of a seedy, ambitious reporter forced to confront something beyond rational explanation. Critically savaged when it came out, it has since acquired a cult following. Tom Robinson (Wes Bentley) lives a quiet life until his wife witnesses an execution ordered by crime boss Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater). When the gangster has her murdered, Robinson becomes consumed by grief and the idea of revenge. He devises an elaborate plan that takes years to execute, centred on Dolan's Cadillac (2009). More crime-thriller than horror, the film explores obsession, perseverance, and the psychological cost of vengeance. Watch it if you appreciate carefully constructed revenge stories over explosive action. Todd Bowden, an intelligent but disturbed high-school student, discovers that an elderly neighbour is really a Nazi war criminal. Rather than expose him, Bowden blackmails the old man into recounting his wartime atrocities. Their relationship gradually corrupts them both. Ian McKellen is chilling as the former SS officer, as Apt Pupil (1998) examines how quietly evil can seduce. This is one of King's darkest non-supernatural stories. Mort Rainey, a writer recovering from a painful divorce, retreats to an isolated cabin hoping for solitude, only to have a stranger accuse him of plagiarism. Amid a series of increasingly disturbing events, Rainey's grip on reality begins to loosen. In Secret Window (2004), Johnny Depp delivers a subdued performance that keeps the audience wondering what is real, until the story's unsettling end. Set on a Nebraska farm, the story follows Wilfred James, who persuades his teenage son to help murder his wife after she decides to sell her inherited land. Guilt then manifests as hallucinations, supernatural suggestions and relentless misfortune. Thomas Jane is exceptional in this rural Gothic 2017 film about the slow, inevitable consequences of unforgivable choices. Jessie Burlingame accompanies her husband Gerald to a secluded lake house in an attempt to revive their marriage. During a role-playing game, he handcuffs her to the bed, before suddenly dying of a heart attack. Trapped and alone, Burlingame confronts traumatic childhood memories, while trying to find ways to survive. Mike Flanagan transforms King's intensely internal novel into a gripping psychological thriller. Carla Gugino's remarkable performance carries the 2017 film about resilience, trauma and the possibility of reclaiming one's life from the past. Years after surviving the Overlook Hotel, a now-grown Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) struggles with alcoholism and lingering trauma while trying to suppress his psychic abilities (known as "the shining"). Then he encounters Abra, a gifted young woman pursued by a cult that feeds on children with supernatural powers. Forced to embrace the abilities he has long rejected, Torrance confronts external monsters and his own past. Mike Flanagan balances supernatural horror with emotional storytelling in Doctor Sleep (2019), while acknowledging Stanley Kubrick's iconic film. Schoolteacher Johnny Smith wakes after a five-year coma to discover he now has psychic abilities that let him see people's pasts and possible futures. He initially uses his gift to help people, but eventually foresees that an ambitious politician may trigger a nuclear war. He must now decide whether preventing that future justifies committing an unthinkable act. The Dead Zone (1983) was directed by David Cronenberg and stars Christopher Walken. As a devastating blizzard isolates the small island of Little Tall, a stranger named Andre Linoge start to expose the townspeople's deepest secrets. Possessed of seemingly supernatural powers, Linoge demands the community surrender "what I want", forcing them into an impossible moral choice that pits collective survival against individual conscience. Written directly for television by King, the 1999 miniseries' unforgettable villain and haunting conclusion have made it a favourite of King fans. College student Alan Parker decides to hitchhike home after learning that his mother has suffered a stroke. During the journey, one driver's unsettling behaviour begins to suggest that he may not be among the living. Blending supernatural encounters with reflections on grief, death and the difficult transition into adulthood, Riding the Bullet (2004) unfolds as an unusually contemplative dreamlike meditation on mortality....