The Best Stephen King Movies (24 titles)
This is a list of the best (yes there are some) stories of Stephen king that have been made into movies. I have included a few films that in my opinion you should avoid!
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Misery
In my opinion the greatest film from a Stephen king story. Kathy Bates and James Caan are both excellent.
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Misery
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen
Director: Rob Reiner
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Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs to be rid of Misery, his plucky heroine of seven novels. She has delivered him fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Determined to escape an eternal role as pulp novelist, he ..read more »
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The Shining
What can you say that already hasn't been said? One of the scariest films ever made.
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The Shining
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Opening with spectacular aerial shots of a beautiful, mountainous landscape, Stanley Kubrick's horror classic THE SHINING, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, sucks the viewer into his frightening tale with quiet, relaxing visuals - but the ominous soundtrack warns that all is not right at ..read more »
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Salem's Lot
The original Salem's Lot is underrated in my opinion. An excellent vampire movie that still looks good today if you ignore the seventies clothes
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Salem's Lot
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Director: Tobe Hooper
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With Salem's Lot, a blood-curdling shocker based on the novel by Stephen King, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) sends the time-honored vampire legend soaring on bat wings into the modern era. Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave ..read more »
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The Shawshank Redemption
based on a Stephen King short story this regularly sits on top of the Empire all greatest film list. If you haven't seen it "Where have you been????"
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
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Stephen King's The Langoliers
Maybe a strange choice to some but I honestly really enjoyed this film.Effects were a bit dodgy but the story is great.
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Stephen King's The Langoliers
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse
Director: Tom Holland
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It begins as a routine flight from Los Angeles to Boston - it becomes a living nightmare. Ten passengers wake in mid-flight. To their horror they are completely alone. Their crewless jet hurtling towards a world very different from the one they left behind. A world in which they may be the last ..read more »
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Carrie
Carrie is a fanatastic film, scary, atmospheric and bloody! Sissy Spacek is perfect as Carrie White.
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Carrie
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie
Director: Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. ..read more »
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Stand By Me
Based on the short story The Body this is a quality film about 4 boys on a journey of discovery. The 4 leads are all brilliant. Highly recommended.
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Stand By Me
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton
Director: Rob Reiner
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Based on Stephen King's novella THE BODY, director Rob Reiner's STAND BY ME is the disarmingly tender and subtly sublime story of four kids on the precipice of early adulthood who embark upon a quest. There's Gordie (Wil Wheaton), the intelligent, creative one with the obviously bright future. His ..read more »
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Stephen King's IT
It was my favourite King novel, loses a little bit in the film but still a great movie and the clown IS scary!!
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Stephen King's IT
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Tim Curry
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would come back to Derry to do battle again...
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Stephen King's The Night Flier
Another short story from Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection which is very underrated. Good story about a killer being chased by a journalist.
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Stephen King's The Night Flier
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Miguel Ferrer, Julie Entwisle, Dan Monahan
Director: Mark Pavia
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A journalist who reports on serial killers, UFO's, abductions and molestation, now has a new story. Something is flying around at night, landing and committing murder. On the killer's trail he takes to the skies in his Cessna plane...
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Stephen King's Cujo
Pure horror from the King. Rabid St Bernard terrorising the neighbourhood.
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Stephen King's Cujo
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh-Kelly
Director: Lewis Teague
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The frightening story of a huge dog that becomes a rabid monster after being bitten by a bat. Based on the novel by Stephen King.
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