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.
A "crafty" Johnny Depp got good marks for his turn as a writer accused of plagiarism in this commercially successful 2004 thriller, based on the novella, Secret Window, Secret Garden. But the film was found lacking in scares, laughs and originality.
“This Window ultimately feels like one most of us have climbed through before.” —Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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