The Long Walk is easily one of my favorite underappreciated Stephen King novels, so the film adaptation was one of my most anticipated films of 2025. It did not disappoint at all, and it really captured the harrowing atmosphere of the book. This says a lot, because it’s difficult for dystopian fiction to truly stand out in modern times, but The Long Walk manages to be both standout fiction and relevant, especially for an adaptation of a novel that was published in 1979.