Indeed, this movie was remade in 1997 as a
made-for-TV-miniseries by the author
Stephen King himself. Replacing
Jack Nicholson for
Steven Weber,
Shelly Duval for
Rebecca Demornay and
Danny Lloyd for
Courtland Mead as the Torrance family.
The big differences here are that King expanded the story into a 6-hour miniseries on par with The Stand versus Kubrick's 2 hour feature film. King focused more on the setting, environment and story whereas Kubrick delved more on the character development.
Each version has it's advantages and disadvantages with respect to the story, Kubrick gets into his surreal filmography but alters the storyline that it deviates from the book far too much; King gives the story the touch of the masters hand, but it is painfully slow to watch.
IMHO, the topiary scene with the lions with icicle fangs spooked me the same way the topiary in Zork II did.