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.
The first King adaptation (of the author's first published novel, no less), is the best: "an absolutely spellbinding horror movie" that rated 1976 Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie and became director Brian De Palma's first big hit.
“The best scary-funny movie since 'Jaws' - a teasing, terrifying, lyrical shocker." —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
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