Stephen King Movies that Worth Watching

Stephen Edwin King, one of the greatest American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. As IT movie 2017 is officially shattering box office records during its opening weekend. We've made this best movie list based on Stephen King stories.   

Release Date
1985-10-11
  • Rate : 6.4
  • Production Companies : Dino De Laurentiis Company, International Film Corporation (II)
  • Director : John T. Kretchmer, Daniel Attias
  • Stars : Gary Busey , Everett McGill , Tovah Feldshuh
  • The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside, he's preparing the barbecue.
Release Date
1996-10-25
  • Rate : 5.8
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Spelling Films
  • Director : Sean McCarron, Lisa M. Rowe, Michael Green
  • Stars : Robert John Burke , Michael Constantine , Lucinda Jenney
  • An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
Release Date
2017-08-04
  • Rate : 5.6
  • Production Companies : Imagine Entertainment, MRC
  • Director : Hercules Malan, Isabel Martens, J.J. Perry
  • Stars : Idris Elba , Matthew McConaughey , Tom Taylor
  • A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Release Date
1983-08-12
  • Rate : 6.1
  • Production Companies : TAFT Entertainment Pictures, Sunn Classic Pictures
  • Director : Lewis Teague, Jackie Saunders
  • Stars : Dee Wallace , Danny Pintauro , Daniel Hugh Kelly
  • A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Release Date
1995-03-24
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corporation
  • Director : Josh McLaglen, Lars P. Winther, Kristie Sills
  • Stars : Kathy Bates , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Judy Parfitt
  • Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
Release Date
1987-11-13
  • Rate : 6.6
  • Production Companies : Keith Barish Productions, TAFT Entertainment Pictures
  • Director : Paul Michael Glaser, Robert Grasmere, Bennie E. Dobbins
  • Stars : Arnold Schwarzenegger , Richard Dawson , María Conchita Alonso
  • By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Release Date
2014-10-18
  • Rate : 5.6
  • Production Companies : HBO Films, Ostar Productions
  • Director : Mikael Salomon, Bruce Zwicker, Luke Freeman
  • Stars : Maria Bello , Ann Dowd , Will Harris
  • Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.
Release Date
1983-10-21
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Lorimar Film Entertainment
  • Director : John Board, Gillian Richardson, Lydia Wazana
  • Stars : Christopher Walken , Brooke Adams , Tom Skerritt
  • Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Release Date
2004-03-12
  • Rate : 6.5
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures Corporation, Pariah
  • Director : David Koepp, Jesabelle Boileau, Linda Perkins
  • Stars : Johnny Depp , John Turturro , Maria Bello
  • Mort 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, he begins to question his own sanity.
Release Date
1994-09-23
  • Rate : 9.3
  • Production Companies : Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director : James Ellis Deakins, Robert Barnett, John R. Woodward
  • Stars : Tim Robbins , Morgan Freeman , Bob Gunton
  • Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Release Date
1980-05-23
  • Rate : 8.4
  • Production Companies : Hawk Films, The Producer Circle Co.
  • Director : Stanley Kubrick, Brian W. Cook, Terry Needham
  • Stars : Jack Nicholson , Shelley Duvall , Danny Lloyd
  • Jack 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.
Release Date
2007-11-21
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Darkwoods Productions, Dimension Films
  • Director : Frank Darabont, Greg Nicotero, K.C. Colwell
  • Stars : Thomas Jane , Laurie Holden , Toby Jones
  • After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Release Date
2007-06-22
  • Rate : 6.8
  • Production Companies : The Weinstein Company, di Bonaventura Pictures
  • Director : Mikael Håfström, James Andrew Haven, Jessica Hurles-Laws
  • Stars : John Cusack , Samuel L. Jackson , Mary McCormack
  • A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Release Date
2017-09-08
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : New Line Cinema, Vertigo Entertainment
  • Director : Adam Richard Benish, Adam Bocknek, Penny Charter
  • Stars : Jaeden Martell , Sophia Lillis , Jack Dylan Grazer
  • In 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.
Release Date
1990-11-18
  • Rate : 6.8
  • Production Companies : Green/Epstein Productions, Lorimar Television
  • Director : Jean Bereziuk, Patrice Leung
  • Stars : Tim Curry , Harry Anderson , Dennis Christopher
  • In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.