View To A Kill: Sliver (1993)

Ira Levin’s creepy novel of voyeurism becomes quintessential Hollywood sleaze

Rich Man, Poor Man: Purple Noon (1960)

This French adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel is crisp and gorgeous but doesn’t have…

Cherchez la Femme: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

The devil in this dress becomes a damsel in distress

Private Lives: Rear Window (1954)

The classic Hitchcock film is only loosely based on the Cornell Woolrich story

American Gothic: Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle (1960–1964)

The Love Boat: Death on the Nile (2022)

A lavish pleasure cruise that quickly goes adrift, Kenneth Branagh’s second Agatha…

Ready to Die: London Fields (2018)

The real death in this adaptation of a neo-noir murder mystery is the novel it’s based on.

Loved to Death: The Black Dahlia (2006)

Brian De Palma’s incomprehensible adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel looks pretty but makes a mess of the story.

Hunger Games: Soylent Green (1973)

Can a movie be a mystery when the novel isn’t?

Dancing in the Dark: Lady of Burlesque (1943)

The Hays Code couldn’t do much to this squeaky clean but entertaining film about…