As his canvas (and reputation) has expanded over the years, his work has been turned into dramas, comedies, musicals, and even a Bollywood movie.īecause of this dissonance, ranking King movies is particularly difficult: The Mangler and The Shawshank Redemption barely seem to exist on the same plane of dimensional existence, let alone on the same list of movies. Sure, a lot of them are horror (certainly a lot of the worst are horror), but that’s largely because the boom period for King movies was the 1980s, when he was known solely as a horror writer.
Stephen King’s work has been adapted so many times - sometimes by King himself - that it’s impossible to find a single unifying thread in all of the film adaptations. This story originally ran in 2017 and has been updated for the release of Firestarter.
