Editing Colin Wilson (section)

== Adaptations ==
[[Tobe Hooper]] directed the film ''[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]]'', an adaptation written by [[Dan O'Bannon]] based on Wilson's novel ''[[The Space Vampires]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Charles P. |title=A guide to apocalyptic cinema |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2001 |page=112 |isbn=9780313315275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmmrKvOwa_IC&q=%22space+vampires%22+lifeforce&pg=PA112}}</ref> After its release, Colin Wilson recalled that author [[John Fowles]] regarded the [[The Magus (film)|film adaptation]] of Fowles' own novel ''[[The Magus (novel)|The Magus]]'' as the worst film adaptation of a novel ever. Wilson told Fowles there was now a worse one.<ref>{{cite book| last = Wilson| first = Colin |title = [[Dreaming to Some Purpose]] | publisher = Monkfish| year = 2005| page = chapter 20| isbn = 0099471477 }}</ref>

A film of his 1961 novel ''[[Adrift in Soho]]'' by director Pablo Behrens was released by Burning Films in 2018 with a score by Anthony Reynolds.