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.
Adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name, this 2019 feature from Mike Flanagan (who previously tackled King's Gerald's Game) serves as a sequel to both King's 1977 novel The Shining and Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 film adaptation of the same. The new film picks up over 30 years later and stars Ewan McGregor as a now-adult Dan (formerly Danny) Torrance.
“Over its 151-minute running time, Doctor Sleep floats between the bleak and mournful themes of King’s writing and the chilling, inimitable dread of Kubrick’s filmmaking. But it never quite figures out how to bring the two styles together.” —David Sims, The Atlantic
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