Can't agree with anyone who think Kubrick's The Shining is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It's not even one of Kubrick's best -- Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove and 2001 are all far better.
Kubrick never even read The Shining. He had an assistant do a one-page synopsis for him. King even hated Kubrick's version at first, although he's lessened his hatred of it over the years.
The miniseries stuck closer to the book and was better in that regard, at least for the first two parts, but the third was basically just another crazy-guy-with-an-ax film, which is the crux of Kubrick's Shining.
And, for the life of me, I can't understand this love of The Stand, in book or movie version. I've read it twice, including the unabridged version, and it just isn't that good. Nothing really happens. Flu kills most of world, folks walk to Las Vegas and Boulder and, when they get there, they don't do much of anything until the end. Lots of walking, lots of talking, not much going on.