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.
This George A. Romero-directed 1982 horror anthology was written by King and blends original tales with adaptations of a few of his short stories. A box-office success, it split critics, some of whom found its mix of horror and satire "fun," while others found its stories "nothing special."
“[P]robably not everything the fans of each horrormeister hoped it would be ...but it's probably enough.” —Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail
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