Top rated staying true to book movies with an explosive climax

Check out today’s highest ranked staying true to book movies with an explosive climax! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best staying true to book movies with an explosive climax, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Firestarter (2022)

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

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2022-05-12 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Zac Efron

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5 for
    wasted potential
  2. Ranked #7 for
    woefully miscast
  3. Ranked #9 for
    most disappointing

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Firestarter trailer
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2 My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)

The year is 1988. Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. After an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different, which leads Abby to suspect her best friend may be possessed by a demon. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

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2022-09-29 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller

Rating

rating icon 5.799
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    staying true to book
  2. Ranked #41 for
    translating to big screen
  3. Ranked #56 for
    feels like summer

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3 It Chapter Two (2019)

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

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2019-09-04 | Horror

Cast

Bill Skarsgård, James McAvoy

Rating

rating icon 6.844
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    too much CG
  2. Ranked #1 for
    clownish
  3. Ranked #2 for
    aimed for adults

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It Chapter Two trailer
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4 The Woman in the Window (2021)

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

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2021-05-13 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Amy Adams, Gary Oldman

Rating

rating icon 6.022
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    whodunit
  2. Ranked #24 for
    build a scene
  3. Ranked #27 for
    staying true to book

Trailer

The Woman in the Window trailer
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5 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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6 Things Heard & Seen (2021)

Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.

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2021-04-29 | Horror

Cast

Amanda Seyfried, James Norton

Rating

rating icon 5.734
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    muddling
  2. Ranked #1 for
    damp squib
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bit muddled

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Things Heard & Seen 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 6.775
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    world-class
  2. Ranked #1 for
    brilliantly put together
  3. Ranked #2 for
    nicely filmed

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The Dry trailer
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8 No One Gets Out Alive (2021)

An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.

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2021-09-29 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca

Rating

rating icon 5.865
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    psychologically horrifying
  2. Ranked #37 for
    epic ending
  3. Ranked #41 for
    chilling

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9 Tell It to the Bees (2018)

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

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2018-09-09 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger

Rating

rating icon 7.583
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    happy ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    close-minded
  3. Ranked #1 for
    bit iffy

Trailer

Tell It to the Bees trailer
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10 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 6.302
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    lavish production
  2. Ranked #1 for
    dashing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    dark and gothic

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Rebecca trailer
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