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 third film based on King's 1980 novel of the same name (and a reboot/remake of the superior 1984 version starring Drew Barrymore), the latest Firestarter comes from The Vigil director Keith Thomas and stars Zac Efron and 12-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong (who also had a small role in 2019's It: Chapter Two). But the film sparked little interest from critics when it debuted simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock in May 2022.
“A film that goes through the motions with such apathetic predictability and pure cinematic laziness that you may want to set whatever device you’re watching it on ablaze.” —Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
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