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Very, very few King movies are actually worth anything. I can’t possibly see the Dark Tower being done in a way that’s understandable without taking psychotropic drugs before watching it.

Misery was good. Stand by Me was okay. The Running Man was fun. So was Shawshank Redemption.

The Dark Tower series would lend itself well to film, especially the second book, The Drawing of the Three. But it would be ridiculous to try to compress everything into just a few hours. The reason some of King's earlier stuff was so good in print but not in film is because a lot of the story takes place in the character's mind and the humor didn't come across (Needful Things was REALLY funny in print). It's hard to show that on the screen. The Dark Tower series is a lot less like that than earlier works.

It's funny, I've heard people say good things about Needful Things.

I've never actually seen the film, but I tend to agree with your analysis of it, based upon the novel.

There's a rich vein of dark humor in his novels.

I haven't finished any since the final, eponymous volume of The Dark Tower though.

I think that was the zenith of his career as a horror novelist.

‘Christine’ was well done, and so were ‘It’, ‘Sometimes They Come Back’, ‘Carrie’, and ‘The Langoliers’.
Of course, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ was a masterpiece, and ‘The Green Mile’ was excellent.