Stars: $7.43M, R Tim Matheson, Secret Window stars Johnny Depp in his first role after the surprise success of 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean, with the then-burgeoning leading man cast as Mort, a cardigan-clad author facing accusations of plagiarism by an eccentric cook named Shooter (John Turturro). | Stars: | Gross: And, given Hollywood’s predilection toward billion-dollar blockbusters, they likely never will again. If directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer succeed at anything, it’s their faithful attention to the book’s tentpole moments and dreadful tone. King’s disapproval with director Stanley Kubrick’s take on The Shining is legendary, but that doesn't change the fact that it's easily one of the best King movies ever filmed. Daniel Hugh Kelly, Director: John Turturro, Brian Krause, Tim Reid, | | 24,089 And after watching Darabont’s brutal ending, you can’t blame them. | Silver Bullet and its low-budget creature effects were considered dated and terrible upon its original release, and they are all but laughable 35 years later. Is it over-the-top? Jaeden Martell, But several Oscar nominations later, including one for Best Picture, and the top spot among IMDb’s user-voted list of all-time best films, The Shawshank Redemption has rightfully solidified itself as a Hollywood classic. David Forrester, Votes: And the impressive pyrotechnics still pack a punch from a practical effects standpoint. 91 min | A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected. After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse. One of the best and most overlooked King films from the ‘80s. | Stars: $71.99M, R As werecat changelings are wont to do. Director: Their lives intersect in ways that tug on the heartstrings with Hallmark Movie subtlety, but also provide some of the most heartbreaking moments in a film based on a Stephen King book. | Gross: $327.48M, R Stars: Stars: | Gross: Stars: Frances Sternhagen, Votes: Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Morgan Freeman, 92 min | | | Gross: Stanley Kubrick Frank Darabont’s third Stephen King adaptation is a bumpy but intense thriller with one hell of a Twilight Zone-y ending. A complete ranking of every movie, TV series, or episode involving Stephen King. | It all started back in 1976 with the release of Carrie, a movie … It’s not the best King adaptation but is one of the better-acted ones. Maximum Overdrive struggles to settle on a consistent tone, as King’s erratic sense of pacing and structure get in the way. $16.32M, R A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. search. | Gross: Director: Stars: Allyce Beasley, R | Gross: | | $21.03M, R 132 min The novelty of Jackson and Cusack reteaming after their previous King adaptation, 2007’s 1408, quickly wears off as Cell limps through an uninspired, momentum-sapped narrative that fails to muster even one effective jump scare. Moretz is miscast as the homely, awkward teen outcast, but she excels at selling the boiling contempt for her overbearing, overzealous mother, played by an over-the-top but effective Julianne Moore. | A complete ranking of every movie, TV series, or episode involving Stephen King. George A. Romero Domenick John, It limps along as the cinematic equivalent of checking off one’s daily house chores, which is fitting considering how it limped to video after a brief and small theatrical release. James Woods, | Maximum Overdrive is often considered the worst King adaptation, especially by its director: Stephen King. Not 10 minutes into the Tony Gilroy-scripted adaptation, you can see why: Bates is fantastic (and intentionally hair-raising) as the titular matriarch overseeing what’s left of her fractured family after her murderous act tore them apart. | Gross: Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. 135 min Stars: Yeardley Smith, Votes: | | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Brad Renfro, In a dystopian America, a falsely convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he must forcibly participate in a TV game show where convicts, runners, must battle killers for their freedom. A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability. | Gross: | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. | Most memorable for its clutch-the-pearls twist ending, Secret Window is writer-director David Keopp’s attempt at mixing Stephen King scares with Hitchcockian suspense. Mort, also estranged from his wife (Maria Bello), slowly confronts an increasingly-fractured reality when he realizes that (twist!) | Gross: An anthology which tells five terrifying tales inspired by the E.C. John Harrison Sissy Spacek, 15,976 8,359 140,929 Instead, horror fans got a movie unworthy of inclusion on a truck stop’s $2 DVD rack. Bob Gunton, He doesn’t believe — until he does. | King’s only attempt to direct a feature film is a visually and narratively uninspired mess that seems completely uninterested in having any fun with the source material’s wacky premise: After a comet passes Earth’s sky, machines and vehicles become sentient and target humanity. A broken Danny tries to get his life together — and suppress his psychic "shine" — when an ancient supernatural force, Rose the Hat (a terrifying Rebecca Ferguson), comes calling. A staple of 1980s’ cable, Cat’s Eye is another King-inspired anthology most memorable for two of its three installments: A Drew Barrymore-starring vignette in which she takes on a tiny, soul-sucking creature and an unsettling adaptation of King’s 1978 short story, “Smokers, Inc.” The latter features the best performance in the movie, courtesy of a pre-garbage James Woods. Whatever limited financial gains New Line saw in this strategy do not seem worth it, as Night Flier’s tale of a tabloid-y TV journalist (the late Miguel Ferrer) on the hunt for a vampire barely musters the production values of a 1990s USA Network TV movie. Bonnie Bedelia, Kathy Bates, Yes, it’s about a haunted, possessed car — a 1958 Plymouth Fury — that has a murderous obsession with its owner. | Ian McKellen, 72,358 Danny Lloyd, All Stephen King Movies Ranked. Tim Robbins, Allen’s always great in everything she’s in, which makes it all the more disappointing that A Good Marriage can’t provide her with a consistently gripping movie worthy of her talents. She is wanted by the government, led by George C. Scott, in a horror version of The Fugitive, as Scott’s character will stop at nothing before he can capture Barrymore and let the U.S. Government weaponize her powers. And the late Yelchin deftly carries the film with one of his earliest, and most endearing, roles. Michael Gornick The only thing crazier than this movie being greenlit is how off the rails its premise gets. $32.10M, R Stars: | Director: Horror, Thriller. Tell us what you think about this feature. Mary Lambert The Stephen King-aissance is upon us. Instead, the low-budget horror entry is stuck in Roger Corman-level schlock and barely rises to the level of late-night cable watch. Even King himself doubted Darabont’s script, which centers on a wrongfully convicted accountant (the never-better Tim Robbins) and his blossoming, life-changing friendship with Morgan Freeman’s Red. The only thing scarier than the creatures with eye stocks attacking our heroes is what fear does to the humans who are confined together. Stars: | Taken from the short story of the same name (that began as a writing example at the end of King's On Writing), 1408 is a great, unsettling ghost story. Chapter Two trades the relatable horrors of the first film’s child heroes for more conventional scares and jolts, much to the movie’s detriment. Night Flier could have been 2014's Nightcrawler meets Salem’s Lot, had the filmmakers had the budget (or sense) to do King’s short story justice. Every Stephen King Movie and TV Show You Can Stream Right Now. 98 min David Cronenberg Stars: | Gross: 22,723 | What will be the Top 5 Best Stephen King Movies? And Kubrick's elaborate, purposeful camera work gives the film a haunting quality all its own. Firestarter desperately feels and looks like a John Carpenter movie. Drew Barrymore, Pat Hingle, | In the King short story, it was a rat terrorizing workers, not that the change makes the material better. Which isn’t surprising, given its problematic plot about a group of friends caught in the middle of an extra-sensory alien invasion by way of (in part) a fanged, extraterrestrial worm that works its way through woodsman Jason Lee before plopping into a toilet. | Gross: | Gross: A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic. | A complete list of Stephen King's Movies. Jenny Wright, Stars: A demonic shop owner (the late Max von Sydow) unleashes slow-burn havoc on a sleepy Maine town (because King) and it’s up to Ed Harris’ sheriff to stop him. In celebration of Misery's 30th anniversary — and the December premiere of CBS All Access' much-anticipated The Stand limited series — here is a ranking of every Stephen King movie that scored a major theatrical release (sorry, Netflix’s Gerald’s Game). Ed Harris, 22,809 George A. Romero directs and Timothy Hutton stars in this underrated chiller with one of the most shocking and bleakest endings to a King work ever. A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal. Hal Holbrook, There is a thematic darkness underscoring the relationship between these two characters, one Atlantis too often ignores or outright avoids — much to the movie’s detriment. | A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror. Movies. Except every week in your inbox. | Timothy Hutton, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller. | In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the close knit community. | A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid. Linda Hamilton, Yaphet Kotto, | horror comic books of the 1950s. Director: What it lacks in consistent scares it makes up for with sustained bouts of suspense. Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. While most King adaptations live and die on their faithfulness to the source material, Running Man doesn’t use much of the book to tell its eerily timely cautionary tale of state-approved executions being used as broadcast entertainment. Rob Reiner John Franklin, Votes: In celebration of Misery's 30th anniversary — and the December premiere of CBS All Access' much-anticipated The Stand limited series — here is a ranking of every Stephen King movie that scored a major theatrical release (sorry, Netflix’s Gerald’s Game). 200 min His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. Like, put all of them on. | Andy Muschietti Frank Darabont | Leslie Nielsen, And just when you think it couldn’t get worse, the Mangler springs leg-like limbs and goes on the hunt for victims. After its engaging opening scenes, which introduce us to one of the most appealing King ensembles ever — Timothy Olyphant, Lee, Damian Lewis, and Thomas Jane — Dreamcatcher, adapted by Misery screenwriter William Goldman, devolves into a sloppy, dull thriller with instantly-dated CGI and a frustrating disregard for emotionally-honest responses to all the crazy from its characters. Creepshow marks Romero’s first collaboration with a King property (several, in the case of this original anthology). Director: Marg Helgenberger, Joshua Jackson, Christopher Walken stars in one of his all-time greatest performances as a timid man who, after surviving a catastrophic car wreck, is plagued by psychic visions that prove fatally true. Lucinda Jenney, Horror, Sci-Fi. $20.77M, R All work and no play, well, you know the rest... No one expected much from Frank Darabont’s under-the-radar adaptation of King’s novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. 362,427 | Some are all-timers (think Shawshank Redemption or The Shining). | Drama, Horror. | | The Master of Horror is ubiquitous, especially in the streaming age. Bryan Singer’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Usual Suspects centers on high school student Todd (the late Brad Renfro) discovering that his elder neighbor (Ian McKellen) is a Nazi war criminal hiding in suburbia. Flanigan is fearless and inventive in his approach to the story’s themes of grief and how loss isn’t there to make us weak, but to show us how strong we really are. $52.29M, R Thomas Jane, Daniel Matmor, Horror, Thriller. Stars: | The task, on paper, is a tricky and unenviable one, but Flanagan somehow pulls it off effortlessly, a masterpiece of chills and heartbreak on par with his Haunting of Hill House. 35,927 Peter Horton, And definitely his most disappointing. The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. Danny Pintauro, E.G. | Gross: Marshall, Votes: | 92 min Director: | Gross: Arguably the most popular story to come out of King’s Skeleton Crew collection, The Mist is a dread-fueled supernatural thriller, with most of the action taking place in a grocery store. $21.20M, R Corey Feldman, 120 min Director: Stars: Crank it up. From King’s Full Dark, No Stars collection of stories, and adapted by the Master of Horror himself, Marriage follows Allen’s character, Darcy, forced to come to grips with the terrible truth that her husband Bob (LaPaglia) is a serial killer. 93 min But the silly premise has a near-perfect amount of terror and tension, thanks to Carpenter, that keeps it from veering into schlock. A reporter is on the trail of a vampiric murderer who travels by plane. 184,172 Which is ironic, considering the subject matter. | Richard Farnsworth, | Andre Braugher, Votes: 38,993 | In fact, Shooter references Mort’s burning desire to “shoot her," with “her” being his wife. Finn Wolfhard, That is, until that gory finale, in which George is mauled and torn apart by a flock of evil birds. Brooke Adams, | The Dark Tower is a movie with studio execs’ fingerprints all over it, a piece of studio IP forced into a shape intended to launch a multi-media shared universe that proved to be DOA. Gary Busey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, 22,538 Emilio Estevez, Herbert Lom, Votes: Dean Stockwell, Cell tries to pass itself off as a cautionary tale about the perils of technology, but the filmmakers fail to find ways to make that resonate, or try to update the 2006 source material to reflect the advances in modern mobile phone technology in ways that could be truly terrifying. 39,656 A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on. 93 min Shawshank is an endlessly rewatchable, feel-good drama that, despite ample opportunity, never veers into sappy territory or strikes a false, manipulative note. 146 min But there’s more to the motives and story behind the homicide she committed, as Dolores’ estranged daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) discovers when she must return home to deal with a fresh hell concerning her mother — one with ties to their traumatic past. Working off an original screenplay written by King, Sleepwalkers centers on a nomadic race of shape-shifting creatures that are a mix of vampire, werewolf, and human-sized cat. Tom McLoughlin Plagued by behind-the-scenes controversy that clung to the movie before its release, Apt Pupil understandably struggled to find an audience despite the script being one of the better, more faithful King adaptations. Fantasy, Horror, Mystery. $15.17M, R | Gross: By Rob Hunter. One of the 1980s’ most essential films, Rob Reiner directs with a mastery of tone as four young teens go in search of a dead body and, along the way, are forced to grow up a lot sooner than they hoped. A love letter to the original movie as much as it is to the book, 2019’s Pet Sematary is a slow-burn dread fest that offers a bigger budget and louder jump scares as it explores (albeit at a surface level) the moral consequences of bringing back the dead. Stars: $28.34M, R John Carpenter Robert Rusler, Sophia Lillis, Votes: Despite being a box office disappointment, Doctor Sleep is one of the best King adaptations. After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. Bonnie Bedelia, R | Judging by critical responses and box office, IT Chapter Two fell creatively short to the unprecedented success of the first film. | Crime, Drama, Thriller. A VHS staple of many a '90s teen’s sleepovers, Pet Sematary is one of the few major Hollywood studio adaptations of a King book to accurately capture the tone and intent of the source material. Evan Lockhart/Thrillist. So it is somewhat surprising that Hollywood has such a hard time creating movies based on his books that are just as good as the source material. 167,999 After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead. 458,012 The following is a complete list of books published by Stephen King, an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Lance Kerwin, Starring E.G. One too many jump scares are balanced out by an emotional story, one that hinges on the film’s exceptional ensemble cast of children who have boundless chemistry. Alice Krige, He’s literally in life-or-death conflict with his pen name, and Hutton delivers a masterful performance that grounds the material’s campier indulgences and Romero’s execution of them. 255,069 122 min Director: John Cusack, Tom Skerritt, An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight. One of King’s more cinematic novels at the time it was published in 2006, Cell seemed destined for good things on the big screen: A mysterious audio signal delivered via cell phone turns innocent people into mad killers, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack forced to lead a pack of survivors before the signal gets them. It’s also a confidently executed and highly entertaining action film loosely based on King’s book (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman). | A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Though Carrie was the first Stephen King movie in 1976, the first TV movie was Salem’s Lot, airing on CBS. Director: They are as natural as they are likable, giving each scene the exact amount of whatever it needs to hit audiences in the feels. 110 min King’s favorite cinematic translation of one of his works, Stand By Me proves that Hollywood doesn’t need supernatural horror to make a great and timeless King adaptation. Jimmy Smits, Rose and her posse of soul-sucking immortals feeds on others’ shine, and they want to feast on Danny and his new friend, the powerful teen girl Abra (Kyliegh Curran). Jim Haynie, Votes: | Michael H. Moss, Votes: Stars: Mark L. Lester | Gross: $21.20M, R Nearly every scene depicting Jobe’s disability is problematic at best and insulting at worst, as Fahey and Brosnan engage in a disastrous sci-fi mix of Of Mice and Men meets Flowers for Algernon. Here, he plays a businessman desperate to quit smoking and his attempt to do so has violent consequences for him and his loved one. Doctor Sleep catches up with an adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor), still suffering from the trauma brought on by the Overlook Hotel and coping through it with alcohol. Director: Johnny Depp, $38.12M, PG-13 | $33.80M, R The stories of Stephen King have been getting adapted into movies and TV shows for decades. Horror. $0.13M, PG-13 94,127 The courtroom drama elements don’t really shake hands with the rest of the movie, but Dolores Claiborne succeeds despite those bumps. Ted Levine, Try as director Kimberly Peirce’s new adaptation of Carrie might, this noble misfire is unable to come close to reaching the highs of Brian De Palma’s classic take on King’s blockbuster novel. Jim Brown, Votes: Max von Sydow, Director: Director: | Pierce Brosnan, | But, for some reason, the proceedings didn’t ward off cameos from horror and sci-fi icons like Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, and Mark Hamill (!). $5.40M, PG-13 Its nearly three-hour runtime cannot sustain the tension or thrills that made its predecessor so enthralling, as it is less fun watching the adult versions of our favorite characters battle that which scarred them as kids and made them all the more endearing to us. | Gross: From Carrie to Doctor Sleep, this is a comprehensive list. Jack Nicholson’s iconic portrayal of a handyman/struggling writer driven mad by the ghosts of a remote mountain resort is the stuff of Hollywood history. Drew Barrymore, Jeremy Crutchley, Votes: That crazy Mad Lib of a horror premise gets watered down into a Psycho-like dynamic between an incestuous son (Brian Krause) and his scene-chewing mother (Star Trek: First Contact’s Alice Krige), who subsist on virgin blood in a small Indiana town. Christopher Plummer, He uses every scary tool in his considerable arsenal to craft a profound (if 20 minutes too long) meditation on life, death, and the struggles both offer on those caught between the two. One of the few things that's watchable in this disappointing effort is Corey Haim’s performance as a wheelchair-bound kid battling the werewolf terrorizing his small town. | $9.58M, PG But Allen and LaPaglia give it their all, delivering two of the best performances in a movie based on King’s works. 28,217 | A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. 89 min Fangrrls is about kicking down doors, breaking boundaries and celebrating female fans with fun, witty and entertaining content. Stars: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. Director: No, that really happened. And it almost was, before Carpenter was removed from consideration following the lackluster box office of 1982’s The Thing. | Gross: 108 min 5 Elements Every Stephen King Movie Needs August 1st, 2019 Stephen King has been one of the greats of literature since the early 1970s when “Carrie” was first published, and the legacy of his work on the big screen further proves his tremendous pop culture prominence. Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. (The AMC/Shudder show based on Creepshow is also must-see horror TV.). Horror, Thriller.
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