Every Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie Based on Richard Matheson Books

We’ve been focusing on films directly based on Richard Matheson’s original stories, but there are a few things we’ve excluded. We didn’t include made-for-TV movies, or films where he simply wrote a new screenplay – even if it was brilliant! For example, he adapted classics like Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” into films, and he contributed to movies like a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie and even helped write Jaws 3. Also, we’ve left out adaptations of his books that weren’t science fiction or fantasy – things like The Young Warriors, Cold Sweat, and The Legend of Hell House. I’m really trying to focus on the core of his sci-fi and fantasy work!








