Best Stephen King horror movies
List by yo-adrianStephen King has to be the most prolific writer of horror movies in the modern era. So many of his books (and even short stories) have been made it onto the big screen that his name has earned the title of the king of horror. One of his short stories, Children of the Corn, spawned 10 feature-length films (and another on the way). This list contains some of my favorite Stephen King adaptations.
The Shining (1980)
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86%
8.4
Watch TrailerJack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren’t prepared for the madness that lurks within.
It (1990)
- 57%
- 6.9
Watch TrailerIn 1960, a group of social outcasts who are bullied by a gang of greasers led by Henry Bowers are also tormented by an evil demon who can shape-shift into a clown and feed on children’s fears and kill them. After defeating the demonic clown as kids, …
It (2017)
- 85%
- 7.4
Watch TrailerIn a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Thinner (1996)
- 15%
- 5.7
Watch TrailerA fat Lawyer finds himself growing “Thinner” when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he …
Secret Window (2004)
- 46%
- 6.6
Watch TrailerMort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence,…
Dreamcatcher (2003)
- 30%
- 5.5
Watch TrailerFour boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they’re overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, …
Graveyard Shift (1990)
- 13%
- 4.8
Watch TrailerJohn Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community’s top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the “graveyard shift” — from around midnight to dawn — and, alon…
Salem’s Lot (1979)
- 85%
- 6.8
Watch TrailerA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Carrie (2002)
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- 5.5
Watch TrailerCarrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Misery (1990)
- 89%
- 7.8
Watch TrailerNovelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
