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.
Director Rob Reiner goes two-for-two in King adaptations with this "consistently scary," "first-rate Hitchcockian thriller" about a writer (James Caan) and his aggrieved number-one fan (Kathy Bates, in an Oscar-winning performance).
“[O]ne of the best movies made from a Stephen King story.” —Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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