One of Stephen King's most frequent collaborators is director Mick Garris, and here's every project they've worked on together to date. As one of the most adapted authors in history, it makes sense that King's material has found itself in the hands of the same filmmaker more than once. To that end, zombie godfather George Romero directed both Creepshow and The Dark Half, while Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist. More recently, Mike Flanagan directed both Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, and will soon move on to Revival. But no one goes to the King well more frequently than Garris.

While not a household name himself, Garris has carved out quite the career within the horror genre, beginning with 1988 sequel Critters 2: The Main Course. Some of the other non-King horror projects on Garris' resume include Psycho 4: The Beginning, and The Fly 2, the latter of which he only wrote, not directed. Garris also created Showtime's acclaimed horror anthology series Masters of Horror, as well as its not-so-acclaimed NBC sequel Fear Itself.

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Still, for better or worse, it's his King work that Garris will always be best known for. Here are all the times he's collaborated with King so far, including both movies and miniseries.

Sleepwalkers (1992)

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Sleepwalkers was Stephen King's first screenplay written specifically for the big screen, and not based on any of his novels or short stories. It was Mick Garris' second film as a director, and he worked closely with King on subsequent drafts of the script. Future Charmed actor Brian Krause starred as lead villain Charles Brady, one of the titular humanoid/cat-like creatures that feed off the lifeforce of virgins, while screen veteran Alice Krige played his mother/lover Mary. Their collective target was Tanya Robertson, played by Twin Peaks' Madchen Amick. The creatures have one real weakness: actual cats. Sleepwalkers is a truly bizarre movie, but did okay at the box office.

The Stand (1994)

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Easily the best loved King/Garris collaboration by fans, The Stand was a four-part 1994 miniseries that aired on ABC. A critical and commercial smash, The Stand was one of the most expensive TV projects in history at that point, featuring an enormous cast full of recognizable faces, dozens of locations, and lots of special effects work. Gary Sinise in particular impresses as lead hero Stu Redman, while Jamey Sheridan's Randall Flagg proves to be a worthy embodiment of evil, complete with mile-wide grin. There are also lots of great cameos by the likes of Ed Harris and Kathy Bates. The Stand will soon be remade as a nine-part miniseries for the CBS All Access streaming service.

Quicksilver Highway (1997)

Clive Barker's Short Story in Quicksilver Highway

Quicksilver Highway was a made-for-tv anthology movie that aired on FOX. Garris wrote and directed, adapting one story by King called "Chattery Teeth" and one by Clive Barker called "The Body Politic." Christopher Lloyd starred as a traveling showman named Aaron Quicksilver, who served as the connective tissue between the two stories. "Chattery Teeth" concerns a pair of wind-up teeth with a mind of their own, while "The Body Politic" sees a man's hands turn against him. King didn't have any direct creative involvement in Quicksilver Highway besides providing the source material, which appeared in his Nightmares and Dreamscapes story collection, after initially being published in Cemetery Dance Magazine.

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The Shining (1997)

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Also in 1997, King and Garris worked together to create a miniseries remake of The Shining. King had infamously never been happy with Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation, so after The Stand's success for ABC, the author used his clout to make a new Shining happen. King wrote the script, while Garris directed, also casting his wife Cynthia as the woman in room 217. While highly rated at the time, the general opinion is that the miniseries is awful, and while that's an exaggeration, it certainly pales in comparison with the iconic Kubrick film. King was certainly entitled to re-adapt his book, but most would rather he have left it alone.

Riding the Bullet (2004)

Riding the Bullet

Fast-forwarding to 2004, Garris reunited with King to adapt Riding the Bullet, a King novella that had made history in 2000 by becoming the world's first widely distributed e-book. The experiment was an enormous success, and the story was later included in the Everything's Eventual collection. Unfortunately, the movie wasn't nearly as successful, earning mostly negative reviews. Jonathan Jackson stars as Alan Parker, a young man in 1969 that heads out to visit his sick mother (Barbara Hershey), after having attempted suicide the day before. He attempts to hitchhike there, but ends up being picked up by George Staub (David Arquette), a man who died two years prior. The titular "Bullet" is a roller coaster Alan had backed out of riding as a child.

Desperation (2006)

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An adaptation of King's 1996 novel, Desperation was a TV movie that aired (as usual) on ABC. Garris directed while King wrote the screenplay. Reviews were mixed at best, and ratings weren't great either, due to ABC's boneheaded decision to put Desperation up against American Idol, at that point one of the most popular shows on all of TV. The biggest bright spot is the presence of Ron Perlman as Sheriff Collie Entragian, a villain possessed by an ancient evil named Tak. Other high-profile cast members include Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Matt Frewer, Henry Thomas, and Charles Durning.

Bag of Bones (2011)

Pierce Brosnan in Bag of Bones

A miniseries that aired on A&E, Bag of Bones adapted King's 1998 novel of the same name, casting Pierce Brosnan as recently widowed writer Mike Noonan. Tormented by grief and writer's block, Mike heads to the couple's summer home, only to experience strange supernatural phenomena and get mixed up in a real-life murder mystery. While the book was a big hit for King, the miniseries largely fell flat, earning poor reviews and only average ratings. Even Brosnan, generally regarded as a good actor, put in a disappointing performance. As much as Mick Garris and Stephen King have come to be closely linked, their relatively low success rate makes one wonder if it's best that they haven't teamed up again since 2011.

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