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.
The Creepshow franchise's George A. Romero returned to adapt King in this 1993 "serviceable thriller" about an author's pseudonym who comes to life and tries to kill his maker. Timothy Hutton, "in a showy makeup job," handled the double role.
“You'll see worse, but The Dark Half could have been darker.” —Jay Carr, Boston Globe
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