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.
One of the earliest King adaptations, this 1983 box-office success about a good dog gone bad earned points for being "suspenseful and scary," but lost ground with critics for lacking bite. King, at least, is a fan. He has said it's "probably" the best of "the smaller pictures."
“Lose[s] an awful lot of ground from the fact that rabid St Bernards tend to evoke pity rather than terror.” —Time Out London
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