Stephen King Movies, Ranked from Worst to Best
and Joal Ryan, for Metacritic – August 2, 2017
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.
The first and thus far only non-anthology King movie featuring an original screenplay by the writer, this 1992 entry fared well with audiences, but its feline-accented storyline underwhelmed critics, who found it "idiotic," "silly" and "unusually stupid."
“You expect more from King.” —Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald