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.
Frank Darabont's third big-screen go-round with a King tale, this one about a mist that precedes a giant-bug invasion, was hailed as "riveting," but also called "pretentious." The "Twilight Zone-inspired" ending, which Darabont revised from the novella, has its fans, King among them. (The new TV series changes the story yet again, though not necessarily for the better.)
“Less horrific than it is horribly didactic.” —Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
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