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.
An adaption of the same-titled novella about a boy (Brad Renfro) who falls under the spell of a Nazi war criminal, director Bryan Singer's 1998 follow-up to The Usual Suspects was a box-office disappointment that "borders on the brilliant," but "offers little insight" into the nature of evil.
“In the end, artifice overwhelms art. Apt Pupil is too serious to work as a genre movie, and too contrived to be taken seriously.” —David Ansen, Newsweek
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