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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
No resemblance left from the original script.
To the creators of the series: If you are going to change the source material this much, don't call it "based on". I can accept "inspired from" but if you call it "based on" I expect everything to be the same as the source material, except maybe changes due to technical or legal limitations.
To the viewers: If you want to watch a close representation of the original story, I suggest you to watch "Master of Horror" season 1, episode 2, with the same title, "Dreams in the Witch-House". I LOVED that one. But this one, has nothing to do with the original story except few things, like the name of the protagonist and it has a witch house. I would rate it lower than a 5/10 even if it was called "inspired from" instead of "based on" as the script is too bad, I hated it.
It (2017)
More of an "inspired by" rather than "adapted from"
They should have called this "inspired by" instead of "adapted from" the Stephen King's book. I understand that they can't fit everything into a movie, otherwise it would have been a 10-20 hours, so they have to cut most of the not very important parts of the books, but I never understand when they change things, and in this case they even add some events that were not in the book, and it wasn't necessary for the plot either. I won't spoil the movie or the book, but if you've read the book, you'll understand, and you won't like the changes and additions. If you haven't read the book, go and read it, you'll understand.
Also, I've got chills when I was reading the book, but in the movie it was like an action movie to me. It was not scary at all. I was expecting a darker movie.
That being said, acting and cinematography was good. That's why it's not lower than 5 stars. If you haven't read the book, you might enjoy this movie.