In a story without a whiff of the supernatural, Bates' Annie Wilkes is one of the scariest characters King has ever created.

But director Rob Reiner did make a key change from the original Stephen King novel on which the 1990 film is based. In the book, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) chops off romance novelist Paul Sheldon's ...

The 2025 Emmys have seen a number of touching on-stage reunions thus far — from Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham taking us back to Stars Hollow with a Gilmore Girls reunion, to Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna ...

"I didn't agree with that at all," Bates said of a change to the script Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

Stephen King is known as the King of Horror for a good reason. He has created some of the most terrifying characters in horror history, whether human or supernatural. King created an evil alien-turned ...

Kathy Bates wishes Misery was even more miserable. The Matlock star took the stage at the TCM Classic Film Festival alongside director Rob Reiner, where they looked back on the 1990 horror. The film ...

"Misery" was adapted into a film starring Kathy Bates and James Caan, and it's been called one of the greatest scary movies of all time. The book was also adapted into a play and has been shown on ...

It is a daunting thing to transform a famous novel, which was turned into a famous movie, into something on the stage. Stephen King’s novel about an obsessive super-fan named Annie Wilkes (who brings ...

Kathy Bates and James Caan in 1990's 'Misery' While it's well-known for being among the most diabolical films in recent history, Kathy Bates thinks the 1990 horror film Misery could have gone even ...