Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The Best Stephen King Movies Ranked


The Best Stephen King Movies Ranked

When you think about masters of horror, there are a few names that some up: Clive Barker, Wes Craven, and more. However, if you ask 100 people to name a writer of horror, every single person will mention Stephen King, without fail. Since 1976, his novels and novellas have appeared on the big screen, year after year. That's over 50 years of King's work being in the spotlight.

We gathered for you today a list of 27 movies adapted from Stephen Kings novels ranked by their rotten tomato’s score, which let’s be honest is the best way to decide if a movie is good or not. Plus, we know in this time we are all looking for something to binge so we add all the platforms where you can stream these movies right now.


Here is a list of the best thriller movies you can stream on Netflix right now.

27. Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  15%
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

Available on Amazon (US only)

26. Needful Things (1993)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  31 %
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.

Available on Amazon  and Amazon UK

25. The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  34 %
A scientist performs experiments involving intelligence enhancing drugs and virtual reality on a simple-minded gardener. He puts the gardener on an extensive schedule of learning, and quickly he becomes brilliant. But at this point the gardener has a few ideas of his own on how the research should continue, and the scientist begins losing control of his experiments.

Available on Amazon  and Amazon UK

24. Children of the Corn (1984)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  35 %
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.

Available on Amazon  and Amazon UKHulu

23. Firestarter (1984)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  35 %
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.

Available on Amazon (US only)

22. In The Tall Grass (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  37 %
A brother and sister enter a field of tall grass to rescue a boy, but they soon realize they cannot escape and something evil lurks in the grass.

Available on Netflix

21. Cujo (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  61 %
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

20. It: Chapter Two (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  63 %
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK



19. The Running Man (1987)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  63 %
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

18. Cat’s Eye (1985)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  67%
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.

Available on Amazon (US only)

17. Christine (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  69 %
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UKNetflix (UK only)

16. The Mist (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  72 %
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

Availble on: Amazon (US Only)

15. Creepshow (1982)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  73 %
An anthology which tells five terrifying tales based on the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.

Movie on Amazon and Amazon UK

14. Doctor Sleep (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  77 %
Years following the events of "The Shining," a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

13. The Green Mile (1999)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  78 %
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

12. 1408 (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  80%
A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Available on Amazon (US only)

11. Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  84 %
In a small New England town, Dolores Claiborne works as a housekeeper for the rich but heartless Vera Donovan. When Vera turns up dead, Dolores is accused of killing her elderly employer.

10. The Shining (1980)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  85 % 
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.
Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

9. It: Chapter One (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  85 %
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UKNetflix (UK only)

8. Salem’s Lot (1979)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  88 %
A novelist discovers that a vampire has taken up residence in his New England hometown. Based on Stephen King's novel.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

7. 1922 (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90 %
A rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.

Available on Netflix

6. Misery (1990)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  90 %
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.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UKHuluNetflix (UK only)

5. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  90 %
Andy Dufresne, a successful banker, is arrested for the murders of his wife and her lover, and is sentenced to life imprisonment at the Shawshank prison. He becomes the most unconventional prisoner.

Available on Netflix (US only), Amazon and Amazon UK

4. Gerald’s Game (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  91 %
A woman accidentally kills her husband during a kinky game. Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions.

Available on Netflix

3. Stand By Me (1986)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  91 %
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a boyhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

2. The Dead Zone (1983) 

Rotten Tomatoes Score:  91 %
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

1. Carrie (1976)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92 %
On the day of her prom night, seventeen-year-old Carrie discovers that she possesses telekinetic powers. She puts her powers to use when she is humiliated after a prank.

Available on Amazon and Amazon UK

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