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. John Turturro, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Sadly, The Dark Half doesn’t feel like a true Romero movie; despite offering plenty of opportunities for the horror legend to showcase his flourishes or signature style, Romero seems more inclined to “go through the motions” visually. Freddie Jones, Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die. Christopher Stone, Votes: When late-night workers at a textile mill keep dying, those left struggle to survive attacks by (wait for it) a giant bat. 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. Brian De Palma Judging by critical responses and box office, IT Chapter Two fell creatively short to the unprecedented success of the first film. The end result is a mildly entertaining, rainy day couch viewing that will leave you wishing it capitalized on its potential to be so much more. Sissy Spacek, 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. You bet. | Rob Reiner Director: Drama, Horror. Laura Harrington, Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Votes: | 120 min As entertaining as it is inconsistent, Creepshow makes a strong case that King is best serviced in small doses on the big screen. Action, Comedy, Horror. Still, it’s welcoming to see Hopkins play a character so sincere and kind, instead of trading on his Hannibal Lecter persona. | Gross: 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. Horror. Like, put all of them on. | Every Stephen King Movie and Miniseries, Ranked. If anything, this movie stands out for horror fans thanks to its batsh** (see what we did there?) Instead, the low-budget horror entry is stuck in Roger Corman-level schlock and barely rises to the level of late-night cable watch. Bates delivers a star-making (and Oscar-winning) performance as the sadistic and possessive Annie, helping the film achieve Hitchcockian levels of suspense. Maria Bello, Last updated November 2019 to add Doctor Sleep. A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. | Choosing a Stephen King movie can be a daunting task—after all, he's had a hand in over 300 screen adaptations. | 39,656 But at its (no pun intended) heart, Atlantis is a story about a kind old man (Anthony Hopkins) trying to make a meaningful connection with an innocent tween (played by a very young Anton Yelchin), using what life he has left to bond with someone who has barely begun to live theirs. Stars: TV movies … Director: Hal Holbrook, Gary Busey, 458,012 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller. | Gross: | Gross: Torn between being a Coen Bros.-esque caper and an exercise in grindhouse horror, the Christian Slater-Wes Bentley movie fails to succeed at either. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf. If directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer succeed at anything, it’s their faithful attention to the book’s tentpole moments and dreadful tone. | Finn Wolfhard, | Stars: Alexandra Paul, 184,172 | Danny Lloyd, $5.40M, PG-13 Here, he plays a businessman desperate to quit smoking and his attempt to do so has violent consequences for him and his loved one. The Mangler is about as direct-to-video as King’s less-than adaptations get, but somehow this Robert England-starrer earned a wide theatrical release. Firestarter desperately feels and looks like a John Carpenter movie. Daniel Matmor, Fritz Kiersch A classic from King’s '80s heyday, The Dead Zone is beautifully directed by David Cronenberg (weirdly his only stab at King). This allows some leeway with the liberties their adaptation takes with the source material, especially with the film’s controversial ending — which left audiences either up in arms or indifferent. Rob Reiner Fantasy, Horror. When she’s not putting on a good face for her murderous spouse, Darcy is slowly, privately mustering what it takes to take her husband down. | Gross: The highest-grossing King adaptation set many a box office record upon its October 2017 release, while also terrifying genre fans with Pennywise's much-anticipated, big-budget trip to the big screen. James Caan stars as (shocker) a writer who, after being caught in a blizzard, has the misfortune of crashing his car near the house of his most obsessive fan, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates). The Night Flier was considered so bad that it went direct-to-home video first, before New Line Cinema snapped it up for a 1998 theatrical release that proved to be one of the studio’s worst business decisions. A far cry from the excellent macabre horror of the first Creepshow anthology film, Creepshow 2 doesn’t get much better or scarier than its take on King’s short story, “The Raft,” which kicks off this sequel. (The Shining Easter eggs that pepper this sequence range from subtle to obvious, but never overpowering or distracting.). | | | Gross: | Gross: The movie is so disconnected from King’s source material that it becomes hard to engage with, especially as the last hour twists itself into a plot-driven pretzel fueled by melodrama and confusing twists. Sophia Lillis, Votes: Some are all-timers (think Shawshank Redemption or The Shining). | Gross: In the movie, he survives.) 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. Kasdan struggles to master any of the film’s constant and distracting tonal shifts, none of which are developed or executed effectively. | 94 min Director: 280,606 Based on King’s 1972 short story, and directed by horror legend Tobe Hooper in what is clearly a for-hire gig, the titular horror racking up a gruesome body count in the movie is, um, a possessed piece of laundry equipment. Stars: Director: 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. And it almost was, before Carpenter was removed from consideration following the lackluster box office of 1982’s The Thing. But Allen and LaPaglia give it their all, delivering two of the best performances in a movie based on King’s works. | Gross: Herbert Lom, Votes: Kathy Bates, The werewolf attacks at the heart of the plot seem like they were executed with stuntmen wearing masks you’d find at a Spencer’s Gifts. | | Julie Harris, Votes: | Director Scott Hicks oversees a very “loose” adaptation of the short story “Low Men In Yellow Coats,” which is both a Dark Tower-adjacent tale and part of a larger collection of stories titled Hearts in Atlantis. Dee Wallace, George A. Romero Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. Here's a history of Stephen King movie and TV cameos. Everett McGill, | 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. Ed Harris, By Rob Hunter. 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 group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal. Pierce Brosnan, | | James Woods, John Harrison | Gross: Horror. William Sadler, Votes: 126 min | 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). Emilio Estevez (whose father, Martin Sheen, appeared in the far superior The Dead Zone) rises up to lead a motley resistance against the machines. 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. Wil Wheaton, Christopher Plummer, Don Kaye Sep 21, 2019 The master of horror is ready for his closeup. 110 min Adventure, Drama. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. Mark Pavia Director: | $52.29M, R | $15.17M, R Stars: The only thing crazier than this movie being greenlit is how off the rails its premise gets. Mark L. Lester 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. Brian Krause, Not even Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey can salvage this much-anticipated adaptation of King’s masterpiece, which kicks off with one of the best opening lines in literature: “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”. | Jim Brown, Votes: Director: | Gross: | Gross: Updated on 9/6/2019 at 4:29 PM. Whether in novel or film form, Misery is one of King’s greatest and most effective horror/suspense tales. Mick Garris Tom Holland, | Michael Rooker, He truly shines in his brief scenes with nemesis the Man In Black (McConaughey). Julie Entwisle, Stephen King's movies I've seen (adaptations of his novels/short stories), from best to worst. 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 (!). Johnny Depp, This problematic choice hinders Marriage’s attempts to raise the emotional stakes or tension as the film climaxes with a violent showdown that falls short. 93 min As werecat changelings are wont to do. Jennifer Jason Leigh, $21.20M, R $30.52M, R 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. And just when you think it couldn’t get worse, the Mangler springs leg-like limbs and goes on the hunt for victims. Drama, Horror, Mystery. Stars: Stars: Alice Krige, 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. | 29,267 Dan Monahan, Stephen King is one of the most popular and successful horror writers of all time. 104 min Andy Muschietti 47,522 search. Brooke Adams, | $1.78M, R Based On The Works Of Stephen King (33) Murder (30) Blood (25) Death (24) Cult Film (23) Supernatural Power (22) Title Spoken By Character (22) Based On Novel (21) Psychotronic Film (19) Surprise Ending (19) Corpse (18) Fear (18) Violence (18) Cigarette Smoking (16) Husband Wife Relationship (16) Small Town (16) Surrealism (16) Chase (15) Flashback (15) Paranoia (14) Revenge (14) The stories of Stephen King have been getting adapted into movies and TV shows for decades. | | By submitting your information, you agree to our, All 42 Stephen King theatrical releases, ranked, from Carrie to Doctor Sleep, Fiery first look at Mortal Kombat's big screen return, as director teases 'brutal' Easter eggs, WIRE Buzz: 'A Writer's Odyssey' trailer stranger than fiction; Emma Thompson joins 'Matilda'; Avatar 2, Peter Mark Richman, prolific character actor across 8 decades, dies at 93, First look: Get your own protomolecule gear in Loot Crate’s new ‘The Expanse’ box, Battlestar Galactica: Sam Esmail wants to 'experiment with form' on still-developing Peacock revival, WIRE Buzz: 'For All Mankind' Season 2 trailer blasts off; WandaVision's future 'vision'; Peacock's 'Providence', Sorry, Arrowverse fans: The pandemic has likely axed crossover plans for this year, DC Comics reveals new 'Batman' miniseries and 'Green Lantern' series arriving this April, Holy windfall, Batman! Stars: Bob Gunton, A complete list of Stephen King's Movies. 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. Domenick John, | | | Mary McCormack, Here's our ranking of every Stephen King adaptation from very worst to very best. Daniel Hugh Kelly, | Stars: Crank it up. Amy Irving, What will be the Top 5 Best Stephen King Movies? 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. Director: George Kennedy, In Ed Harris’ second role in a King adaptation (the first being Creepshow), the Oscar-nominated actor headlines this noble misfire that brings King’s dense novel to the big screen but without much of the urgency or tension that made Needful Things the book such a pageturner. Director: Horror, Sci-Fi. 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. Director: Stand By Me was a then-risky gamble; Columbia Pictures was taking a chance on both Reiner, then a comedy-only director, and on bringing a non-horror King story to the screen. 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. 95 min | 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. $25.59M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Drew Barrymore, E.G. Director Mick Garris’ first Stephen King collaboration is arguably his worst. | Gross: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. 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. Adrienne Barbeau, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller. 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. Evan Lockhart/Thrillist. For a generation of ‘80s kids, Children of the Corn (based on a King short story published in Penthouse) was the highest octane of nightmare fuel they could put in their eyeballs. River Phoenix, 103 min Especially any scene involving Running Man host Richard Dawson, who plays an R-rated parody of himself in an action movie that arrogantly creeps up to the line of self-mockery but never crosses it. Robert Prosky, Votes: | | Tobe Hooper Mort, also estranged from his wife (Maria Bello), slowly confronts an increasingly-fractured reality when he realizes that (twist!) The movie doesn’t quite hold up as well as those fans may expect, but Corn is still an undeniably creepy entry in King’s canon. John Franklin, Votes: The movie spends the bare minimum of time exploring the moral and ethical consequences of resurrections, favoring kills and blood over thematic resonance. 114 min Tom Hanks stars as the kindest death row prison guard ever made and the late Michael Clarke Duncan plays Coffey, a falsely-accused prisoner who can heal with his touch. Fantasy, Horror, Mystery. | Christian Slater, | John Carpenter missed out on directing Firestarter but scored Christine instead. | Maria Conchita Alonso, Tim Robbins, Tell us what you think about this feature. A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror. One of the best and most overlooked King films from the ‘80s. $21.20M, R R Looking back, 2017 was a feast of Stephen: a cinematic King love-in with ballooning highs (the runaway success of It) and whoopee-cushion lows … 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. (When Coffey asks if he can avoid wearing a black shroud prior to his execution, because he is afraid of the dark, it is a gut punch.). Michael H. Moss, Votes: From Carrie to Doctor Sleep, this is a comprehensive list. 132 min 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. | Danny Pintauro, IT Chapter One’s director Andy Muschietti returns to finish what he started, this time with the “all-grown-up” versions of his young cast dealing with the sins of their past as Pennywise resurfaces to finish them off. Stars: 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. | Gross: Brooke Adams, | Megan Follows, Votes: | Gross: 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. | Stars: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. Stars: 94 min Joe Mantegna, Stars: | Gross: | Stars: | | Brad Renfro, An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight. Stars: Entertaining? 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. Director: David Cronenberg | A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid. Director: Kathy Bates, search. | 96 min Mary Lambert 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. Despite being a box office disappointment, Doctor Sleep is one of the best King adaptations. | Gross: 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. Bill Skarsgård, Instead, horror fans got a movie unworthy of inclusion on a truck stop’s $2 DVD rack. | | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. As the titular fog rolls through a small town, along with the grotesque monsters inside it, fear goes viral among the town’s citizens as they turn to mob rule in a desperate attempt to fend off the creatures trying to kill them. Shelley Duvall, 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. 98 min horror comic books of the 1950s. Stars: $9.58M, PG 111 min | | Gross: 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. 255,069 $33.80M, R role) as a young girl who can start fires with her mind. Marshall as a secluded, wealthy germaphobe, his character finds himself on the losing end of a fatal war with an army of cockroaches flooding his residence. Screenplay by Stephen King, post-production) 2017 The Dark Tower (based on The Gunslinger from 1982, first movie … | | That setup is disturbing enough without Singer’s camera lingering uncomfortably too long on his teenage star’s body, which makes rewatching the movie as difficult now as it was then.

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