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.
This King-penned 1989 adaption of his raising-the-dead novel of the same name was both a box-office hit and a punching bag for critics, who pummeled it as "schlock" from "ham-handed" director Mary Lambert.
“Squander[s] its chilling and fertile source material.” —Variety
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