Top rated Thriller movies with a faithful adaptation

Check out today’s highest ranked Thriller movies with a faithful adaptation! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best Thriller movies with a faithful adaptation, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Doctor Sleep (2019)

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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2019-10-30 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran

Rating

rating icon 7.15
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for Stephen King's fans
  2. Ranked #3 for
    slightly inferior
  3. Ranked #5 for
    faithful to book

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Doctor Sleep trailer
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2 Color Out of Space (2019)

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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2019-09-07 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson

Rating

rating icon 6.017
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rich color
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Cosmic Horror
  3. Ranked #1 for
    otherworldly

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Color Out of Space trailer
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3 Pet Sematary (2019)

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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2019-04-04 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz

Rating

rating icon 5.738
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    deviating from book
  2. Ranked #2 for
    for Stephen King's fans
  3. Ranked #2 for
    scared to death

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Pet Sematary trailer
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4 Rebecca (2020)

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

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2020-10-16 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Lily James, Armie Hammer

Rating

rating icon 6.31
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gothic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dashing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    pretty

Trailer

Rebecca trailer
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5 We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2019)

In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.

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2019-05-17 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario

Rating

rating icon 5.484
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    handsomely produced
  2. Ranked #1 for
    air of mystery
  3. Ranked #2 for
    faithful to source material

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle trailer
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6 In the Tall Grass (2019)

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Laysla De Oliveira, Harrison Gilbertson

Rating

rating icon 5.543
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    for Stephen King's fans
  2. Ranked #5 for
    stretched plot
  3. Ranked #5 for
    totally confusing

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In the Tall Grass trailer
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7 The Dry (2021)

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

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2021-01-01 | Crime / Thriller

Cast

Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly

Rating

rating icon 6.825
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    evocative
  2. Ranked #1 for
    world-class
  3. Ranked #2 for
    never flagging

Trailer

The Dry trailer
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8 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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2019-08-08 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    scared to death
  2. Ranked #1 for
    with creep factors
  3. Ranked #2 for
    visual representation

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trailer
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9 Detention (2019)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 6.714
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    natural light
  2. Ranked #2 for
    fragmented narrative
  3. Ranked #2 for
    precious

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Detention trailer
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10 Chess Story (2021)

1938. While the Nazi troops march into Vienna, the lawyer Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA with his wife but is arrested by the Gestapo. Bartok remains steadfast and refuses to cooperate with the Gestapo that requires confidential information from him. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months and begins to weaken. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on course to overcome the mental suffering inflicted upon him, until it becomes a dangerous obsession.

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2021-09-23 | History / Drama

Cast

Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fruitful
  2. Ranked #2 for
    underacting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    artistic approach

Trailer

Chess Story trailer
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