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.
Set in the titular year, this 2017 Netflix feature from Australian director Zak Hilditch stars Thomas Jane as a farmer who confesses to murder and becomes haunted (possibly literally) by what he has done. Critics think it's a mostly successful, if "unsurprising," adaptation of King's 2010 novella.
“While nothing groundbreaking, the story mines a degree of profundity out of the traditional supernatural thriller tropes at its core.” —Eric Kohn, IndieWire
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