All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Nick Damici, ranked

A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the series follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper.

Richard Dane awakens to find an intruder in his home and has to kill in self-defense. The problem is the intruder’s father, Ben Russel, is a murderous ex-con bent on avenging his son’s death. Richard, a small-time businessman, is in way over his head. Soon the two find out they’re both being misled and manipulated and find themselves drawn into a web of psychopathic sex, violence, and corruption.

In the depths of lower Manhattan, Frannie Avery, a quiet English professor, becomes fixated after witnessing an intense encounter between a passionate couple. When the young woman is found dead, Frannie is interrogated by a detective who leads her into a captivating yet unsettling erotic experience. With the mounting death toll, familiar suspects start to emerge, adding to the intrigue.