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While in the minority on this, I'm a huge proponent for. In an action sequence, I like how it can show the results of that action in graphic detail to the reader.
For example: My sword arched out, slicing off his head and sending it rolling on the floor until it ended in a red squish up against the wall. For me it's style choice. You just don't want to use it as crutch, like you do with which or that clauses.

Thank you, everyone. You've given me a lot of great suggestions. I really can't thank you enough.

Anything that captures the heart of the book.

Any and everything I can get. beat me, rip my arms off, fire a bazooka into my face!

Thank you everyone,  I promise you won't be indicted, subjected to congressional hearing or impeached, despite what my characters might do.
I think I have enough volunteers.

I disagree. You break the fourth wall when you address the reader directly. Until Twilight came along, the difference between first and third is that first puts the reader in the passenger seat of the car of the adventure you're telling, while third puts them in the driver's seat. Twilight and Hunger Games made third and first the same, the reader is the driver seat.

MJ,

You have lots of good idea there for Mr. Kink to work on.

I'll revise two a little for you. Transport Trump into Kennedy's place during the Cuban missile crisis and have Hillary, Pennwise, and Flagg as his key advisers.

Have both TNG and Original Star Trek Enterprises  go back in time to the Titanic and have them argue the merits of interfering with history to save it.

Now with a full day to think about it...

The Stand and It (tv miniseries) were compromised by being such lengthy novels a movie couldn't give enough time to and TV had to make them PG. Both depended on intricate character development because Mr. Kink isn't just about the supernatural but the dark side of humanity. I'm anxious to see what they do with IT this time  round, but even it's a 3hr movie, that's not long enough to show how the loser club bonded.

Misery was great because Kathy Bates gave the performance of a lifetime, I swear she's the female Jack Nicholson.

Carrie and Cujo, eh, not his best novels and hampered by just average actors.

The First Shining became a Jack Nicholson vehicle  and did not represent the book. The second attempt was just bad.

Christine was ruined by a bad actor playing Dennis and not showing more how badly Arnie (and he was cast great) was henpicked by his parents and a nerd to boot. The heart of the book is he felt he was ugly and couldn't do anything about that but found a car like him he could fix. They didn't capture that so he, Arnie ends up looking like a psycho teenager. He wasn't.

Salem's lot was bad, just cheezy bad. So was Pet Cemetery.

I hated The Mist because of they way they ended it. Committing suicide vs driving on in hope, even though the narrator left his wife, never knowing what happened to her.

Maximum Overdrive is a fun, popcorn movie and the only reason to give it a thumbs down if you're a true Stephen Kink fan is because it's completely devoid of the human side of the tragedy.

I think that's why so many of his books have failed as movies. It's not all about the horror but about the character's you can so easily endear yourself to in his stuff. They're real--he writes them so well, you can understand almost all of them, feel their pain. He's not writing Friday the 13th movies where you're rooting for the characters to die by Jason's hand.

I stand corrected. Misery was excellent and Firestarter was good as well. Needful Things just Okay.

It's funny in a really sad way that all the horror attempts have been so bad, but they nailed The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption so perfectly.
It looks like this next attempt at IT might finally work. (Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.)