Stephen King Movies, Ranked from Worst to Best

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor
and Joal Ryan, for Metacritic – August 2, 2017

Last updated March 2023 to add Children of the Corn

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.