Stephen King Movies, Ranked from Worst to Best
Last updated May 2023 to add The Boogeyman
Recent releases It and The Dark Tower have been erected on the most fertile, if haunted, of Hollywood grounds: Stephen King territory.
While conventional wisdom says King's horror tales "don't translate well to film," a Metacritic look at his theatrical releases shows that the vast majority of them received, at worst, mixed-to-average critical notices. Nine films, or about one-quarter of the titles, are in the green.
John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson headline this 2016 zombie-apocalypse tale, featuring a screenplay credited in part to King. "Every bit as bad as it appears," the film reported no domestic box-office grosses in its blink-and-you-missed-it run.
“[The movie] only proves how hard a job it is to adapt King. Even the author himself can’t ace it.” —Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
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