In The Tall Grass, which was based off a novella Hill wrote with his father King became a movie on Netflix directed by Vincenzo Natali and featured horror veteran Patrick Wilson. Hill's novel NOS4A2 was adapted into an AMC series with Star Trek star Zachary Quinto co-starring alongside Ashleigh Cummings. The series stars Darby Stanchfield, Jackson Robert Scott, Emilia Jones and Connor Jessup and recently debuted its second season with a third season already on the way.
Hill's comic series Locke & Key was turned into a hit series on Netflix after being stuck in development hell for years. Hill's novel Horns was turned into a movie in 2014, which was directed by Crawl filmmaker Alexander Aja and starred Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, and Max Minghella. This won't be the first adaptation of one of Hill's works. If you are interested in checking out the short story before seeing the movie, it can be found in Hill’s short story collection 20th Century Ghosts. In fact, The Black Phone is based on the 2004 short story of the same name written by Joe Hill, the son of legendary horror author Stephen King.
