Rolling Stone's Top 30 Stephen King Movies, Ranked
"So many of Stephen King's now-canonical horror novels, as well as his non–spooky-story output, have been fodder for filmmakers far and wide; the phrase 'a Stephen King movie' carries with it it's own expectations, parameters and conventions. Originally, we'd planned to do a comprehensive worst-to-best ranked list, but the 'ugly' proved to be too much for us. We've gathered 30 of the best-known, most notable Stephen King movies, and ranked them from worst to best. A few things to note: We're not including TV shows, TV miniseries or TV movies, so a hearty 'sorry' to 'Salem's Lot,' the best of the latter by a longshot. We've concentrated primarily on adaptations of his work, though there is one entry that fudges that notion a bit … but that we could not bear to leave out. And finally, we ranked these movies on a dual scale of the quality of the movie itself and how well it worked as an adaptation of King's work. Get busy readin' or get busy dyin'." - rollingstone.com
avg. score: 14 of 30 (45%)
required scores: 1, 6, 11, 15, 20
