| Stephen King BEST MOVIES | | Carrie (1976) Carrie White is the outsider of her class. She's a mousy girl, all of her classmates hate her, and her mother is a religious fanatic who walks around in a black cape. After she unexpectedly has her first period, she is teased by the girls more ruthlessly than before. The gym teacher punishes the girls that were involved and one of them, Sue Snell, feels sorry for what she did and asks her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom instead of her. But another girl that has been banned from the prom, Chris Hargenson, isn't so forgiving and hatches an evil plan with her boyfriend that involves Carrie and a bucket full of pig's blood. But what none of the students realize is that Carrie has the power of telekinesis, the power to move things with your mind, and that when you make her mad, she transforms from an innocent girl to a rage-filled monster. And this is gonna be a prom no one will ever forget. | "... [O]ne of the best horror films of the 1970s."
- ESplatter
"Carrie rivals The Shining for the title of greatest ever Stephen King adaptation."
- Channel 4 Film
"Brian De Palma's Carrie is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie, with a shock at the end that's the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped aboard in Jaws."
- Roger Ebert
"One of the great modern horror films."
- Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
"Pure squeamish horror!"
- Zap2it.com
"This horror classic might be the ultimate teen angst flick."
- Montreal Film Journal
"...suspenseful, scary, and humorously cunning by turns, it boasts superb acting, excellent pacing, good production values, and...a thought-provoking premise."
- DVDTown.com
"Horror in the classic sense, horror that builds rather than constantly shocking, horror that works so well we don’t need a guts and gore booster-shot every two minutes."
- Apollo Guide |
| The Shining (1980) 
A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.
| "It's the experience more so than the actual content of The Shining that radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror."
- Slant Magazine
"If Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is not the best haunted house movie ever made, it is certainly among the most intricately constructed."
- Not Coming to a Theater Near You
"The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them."
- Roger Ebert
"An immortal classic."
- Slasherpool
"Among a handful of the scariest movies ever made."
- Lawrence Journal-World
"A deliberately paced, but endlessly creepy, horrifying motion picture."
- TheMovieBoy.com
"If you're looking for an intense, atmospheric movie guaranteed to give you the creeps, this film should be on your list."
- Mike Bracken's Horror Films
"By the second hour all hell breaks loose, and in the last few minutes it's sheer terror."
- DVDTown.com |
| Cujo (1983)
Donna Trenton is a frustrated suburban housewife whose life is a turmoil after her husband learns about her having an affair. Brett Camber is a young boy whose only companion is a Saint-Bernard named "Cujo", who in turn is bitten by a rabid bat. Whilst Vic, Donna's husband is away on business, and thinking over his marital troubles, Donna and her 5-year-old son Tad take her Pinto to Brett Cambers' dad's car shop... the car fails, and "Cujo" is very, very sick...
| "Unrelenting terror throughout bulk of film."
- Kansas City Kansan
"Takes a bite out of the common horror flick...Very entertaining."
- Moviehole
"There's no denying that the sequences dealing with Cujo's assault on Wallace's cheap Pinto are extremely effective."
- Reel Film Reviews
"Yep, that's one scary dog!"
- New Times
"Shockingly effective."
- Cinerina
"This one's got some bite."
- eFilmCritic.com
"CUJO was able to make this type of situation scary, and after all these years it is still as effective as when it was shot, and is a very intense moment, still recalled by many Horror fan."
- Terror Hook
"A top class film by all rights!"
- Eat My Brains Zombie Club |
| Misery (1990)
Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)...
| "Horrifying tale with deserved Oscar performance by Kathy Bates."
- Video-Reviewmaster.com
"A first-rate suspense film with excellent performances."
- Fantastica Daily
"Sweat-inducing suspense thriller."
- Cole, Smithey.com
"Will scare the bejeebers out of you!"
- Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
"This is a first rate movie, one of the best of the Stephen King adaptions ever."
- Laramie Movie Scope
"A stunning, harsh drama that lingers in the memory because of its cruel strokes."
- Arizona Daily Star
"The result is arguably the best King novel-to-film adaptation yet, a tense character study that grows and builds and has plenty of humor, both light and dark, along the way."
- Deseret News, Salt Lake City
"It is a good story, a natural, and it grabs us."
- Roger Ebert |
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| | The Dead Zone (1983)
After awakening from a 5 year coma - the result of a serious car accident on his way home from an outing with his girlfriend - high school teacher Johnny Smith finds that he has developed the ability to foretell events. When a nurse is bathing him, he realizes that her house is on fire, endangering her daughter. When his doctor and confidant, Dr. Sam Weizak, touches him he has flashbacks to the trauma Weizak suffered when separated from his mother during World War II but also knows that the woman lives in a nearby city. Johnny also finds himself pining for his girlfriend, Sarah Bracknell, who has now married and has a young child. With his powers misunderstood, Johnny relocates and tries to put it all behind him, working out of his home as a tutor. However, when he shakes the hand of a young and upcoming political candidate, he is confronted with evidence that the man will, as President of the United States, launch a cataclysm that may destroy all of mankind. | "Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel."
- TV Guide's Movie Guide
"The Dead Zone does what only a good supernatural thriller can do: It makes us forget it is supernatural."
- Roger Ebert
"A thing of dark, twisted, ironic beauty."
- DVDTalk.com
"The classic Walken role, by which all subsequent ones are measured. Possibly the best Stephen King adaptation too."
- New Times
"Near perfect."
- Reel Film Reviews
"A gripping thriller done with intelligence. One of the better film adaptations of Stephen King's work."
- FulvueDrive-in.com
"Mr. Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective; his pacing is a little unemphatic at times, but the film's individual scenes are very well staged."
- New York Times
"It's a creepy little mystery, especially for a King flick."
- Filmcritic.com |
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| | Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary (PS) is a 1989 horror flick based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. After moving into their new home the Creed family's cat is killed after wondering onto the highway. Jud an elderly neighbor shows Louis, the father, to an isolated hill behind the local Pet Cemetery and instructs him to bury the deceased feline there. Not long after the cat reappears at the Creed home, only he is not the same. The docile cat is now vicious and destructive. When their youngest son meets with a fatal accident, the distraught Louis buries him in the same location hoping to revive him. Unfortunately he unleashes far more than he had bargained for. | "Haunting, sorrowful and reverberatingly eerie. Above all, Pet Sematary is a remarkably mature and thought-provoking look at the mysterious nature of death and the complexity of the grieving process."
- TheMovieBoy.com
"Great Stephen King movie. Some true scares, lots of gore, and a hint of morality. Are you responsible for the reanimated dead?"
- About.com
"Typically creepy Stephen King fodder."
- Video-Reviewmaster.com
"Pet Sematary is easily one of my favorite King film adaptations and it more than compensated for it shortcomings by reeling me in with its courage, its somber aura, its appealing characterization, its disturbing images and its fearlessness in exploring those dark corners that most mainstream horror films never dare think of entering in the first place. This flick gets me every time."
- Arrow in the Head
"Pet Sematary is a well rounded and truly frightening piece that given the right conditions can end up scaring the shit out of you."
- Dread Central
"A mean-spirited, grim and eerie shocker with bland lead actors but several effective scares as well as gore."
- Slasherpool
"It's probably the best Stephen King flick out there. It has a creepy atmosphere, is eerie and is definitely a great horror movie from the late 80's."
- Evil Dread
"Pet Sematary is a dark, pessimistic & frightening tale filled with splattery F/X, claustrophobic atmosphere and doomed protagonist. It is also one of the few films that really makes my skin crawl, and if you´re a horror fan, seeking it out is obligatory."
- The Flesh Farm |
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| | Christine (1983)
Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way. | "*** This is the kind of movie where you walk out with a silly grin, get in your car, and lay rubber halfway down the Eisenhower."
- Roger Ebert
"Tense and faithful adaptation of the Stephen King classic."
- Capital Times (Madison, WI)
"It manages to entertain."
- ToxicUniverse
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"Tight editing and some decent scares make this one of the better King adaptations."
- Channel 4 Film
"Carpenter's classic concerning killer cars."
- Apollo Guide
"Christine demonstrates brilliant ability of John Carpenter to take a middle of the road story and turn it into classic horror."
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
"It is one of the best King adaptations ever to hit the screen."
- ESplatter
"It has solid acting, stylish directing, strong effects, a slick score and much like Christine, it has soul. The film can almost be perceived as a love triangle: a boy, a girl and a car. I can’t believe Carpenter made that work. Christine, baby…I love you. "kiss" "kiss’ "vroom"."
- Arrow in the Head |
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| | Creepshow (1982)
Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50's style comic images. A murdered man returns from the grave demanding his Father's Day cake and death ensues, a meteor's space ooze causes anything and anyone that comes in contact with it to grow (special appearance by Stephen King himself), a scheming vengeful husband buries his wife and her lover in sand to await death at high tide, a professor selects his nagging negative wife to become a tasty snack for a strange crated creature, and finally, a mean ole millionaire with an intense insect phobia becomes the prey of an army of cockroaches. | "Romero and King have approached this movie with humor and affection, as well as with an appreciation of the macabre."
- Roger Ebert
"Creepshow has a very specific goal - to capture the garish, gruesome atmosphere of an old-time horror comic. In this it succeeds for the most part. It's really a fun little film to pop in the DVD player and let spin."
- Classic-Horror.com
"This horror omnibus tickles the funny bone while stripping it of its flesh, so that hysterical laughter comes as fast as the frights and as thick as the blood."
- Channel 4 Film
"A wickedly funny horror anthology. Creepshow is a devilish delight, and the most entertaining film George Romero ever directed."
- Fantastica Daily
"A darn good horror anthology, which is pretty darn rare."
- eFilmCritic.com
"Creepshow is well worth the money for horror fans. Creepshow holds a special place in my heart as fun entertainment that will chill your blood and tickle your funny bone."
- DVD Verdict
"Creepshow is 80s American anthology horror at its absolute best."
- Oh, the Horror!
"Creepshow will go down as one of the best horror anthology films of all time."
- Best-Horror-Movies.com |
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| | Salem's Lot (1979)
Salem's Lot is a town which a new member, Mr. Straker, has taken as his new "home", and has a mysterious partner, namely Mr. Barlow. Not too long after Straker arrives in Salem's Lot, people start disappearing from sight and dying from odd causes, and no one is sure why, including Ben Mears who is in town to write a new book on the town's rumored haunted house called the Marsten House, which overlooks the town and hides a terrible secret about to be unleashed. | "Very frightening for a TV movie."
- Lawrence Journal-World
"Any fans of pre-70s horror films should find much to love here, and Salem's Lot remains a fine example of how to best turn a novel into a film."
- Classic-Horror
"The film is absolutely full of tension. Sure, we get plenty of scares and vampire action, but by the time Barlow makes an appearance- after the film has passed the two-hour mark- the audience is full of anticipation, not knowing what to expect- and wow, what a pay off."
- Final Girl
"While The Shining may be Stephen King's finest novel, his second, 'Salem's Lot, could easly be the scariest."
- Mondo-Digital
"Set in the New England town of Salem's Lot, this wonderfully crafted tale of a town slowly devoured by an Evil, brought on by evil men drawn to an evil house, is simply the scariest movie I have ever seen in my life."
- Raging Bull [Mike McGowan]
"It still manages to be thoroughly creepy - much more so than any of the subsequent hamfisted attempts at adapting King's work to the small screen."
- eFilmCritic
"Certainly remains one of the better movies made from a Stephen King novel."
- Horror DVDs Review
"I first saw Salem's Lot as an 8 year old, when it was broadcast as a 2 part mini-series on Australian TV. And it scared the shit out of me. I have never before or since been so profoundly affected by a horror film."
- Digital-Retribution |
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| | Silver Bullet (1985)
The small town of Tarker's Mill was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing ever happened. Until one night, murders begin. The town people believe its some maniac killer on the loose and intend to hunt the man down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes that the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf. After a run in with the werewolf Marty and his sister, Jane hunt all over town for the man who is the werewolf. | "I liked this movie! Sure there was a lot of so-so movies released from King's stories. This one is strickly a classic werewolf tale. It's uncomplicated, old fashioned, horror fun!"
- Horror Talk
"Silver Bullet is still a pretty effective horror film."
- Oh, the Horror!
"Transcends itself to become surprisingly entertaining."
- DVD Verdict
"Silver Bullet is a really entertaining wee film, it´s not deep or particularly clever but it is a lot of fun."
- Eat Horror
"Silver Bullet is a werewolf movie done right."
- Dr. Gore's movie reviews
"It's a solid, above average film that horror and King fans, serious or casual, should enjoy."
- Classic-Horror.com
"Fairly effective werewolf flick with medium production values."
- Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
"I am going way out on a shaky limb and actually giving the movie a three-star rating, which means I even think you might enjoy it, too."
- Roger Ebert |
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| | Stand by Me (1986)
Based on Stephen King's Short story "The Body", "Stand By Me" tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing - and it becomes a race to see who'll be able to recover the body first. | "A solid coming of age story that actually improves upon its source material."
- Needcoffee.com
"Though nostalgic, Reiner's film, based on Stephen King's autobiographical novella, is suffused with the magic of childhood; the narrative is framed by a long flashback that brings distance to the remembered reality."
- Roger Ebert
"Haunting coming-of-age drama; young River Phoenix's presence adds considerable poignancy."
- Las Vegas Review-Journal
"One of my favorite movies of all time. This film will never fade away."
- Juicy Cerebellum
"A classic coming of age story with outstanding performances."
- Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
"The most important film ever made about Friendship. The young cast are superb."
- Moviehole
"Classic coming of age movie that stands the test of time."
- TheMovieChicks.com
"An absorbing, touching examination of the loss of innocence that, despite occasionally drifting towards the sappy, undeniably deserves its place in the heart of a generation."
- Empire Magazine |
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| | Thinner (1996)
A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner. | "A constantly absorbing little chiller directed by the underrated Tom Holland (Fright Night, Child's Play)."
- Fantastica Daily
"Stephen King's freakiest film in eons."
- Moviehole
"Thinner is a great film to make some popcorn on a Friday night and roll up naked in a sleeping bad with your partner/s. It's in the true form of a Stephen King adaption and has enough blood and gore to keep you happy."
- The Flesh Farm
"Manages to produce some suspense."
- Digitally Obsessed
"Thinner is a movie that really speaks to me for some reason. It isn’t liked by a lot of people, but I’m a fan of the film and have seen it many times. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, and like a good revenge horror movie then I’d say give it a rent."
- Horror-Movies.ca
"Thinner is a good reconstruction of a Stephen King novel...One of the appreciable things this movie has to offer is that we don’t get the feeling the ending will be typical. It is a finale that will displease some but, in all honesty, I find it perfect."
- Shade.ca
"Expect the Thinner FX to be cool, the jokes to be funny and the ending (if Hollywood has the guts!) to be gut-wrenching."
- Expectation Review
"It's oddly fascinating."
- Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews |
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| | Needful Things (1993)
Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn's pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have always coveted. The Faustian price is, of course, corruption, and soon the poor sheriff's town is wracked by jealousy, spite, and violence. | "Needful Things hits hard! It’s well written, funny, dark, violent, "out there" and always on the move."
- Arrow in the Head
"One of Stephen King's better film adaptations."
- Moviehole
"A fine adaptation of one of Stephen King's best novels, it almost manages to surpass the book solely on the strength of Von Sydow's glowering villainy."
- Matinee Magazine
"Pop Needful Things into your player with no particular expectations and you might find it a worthwhile distraction."
- eFilmCritic.com
"All things considered, it's still a hell of a good ride."
- Austin Chronicle
"Any movie that has the devil laughing to ave maria must be worth something!"
- SBS
""Needful Things" is a surprisingly strong adaptation of King’s novel of small-town tensions gone horrible awry."
- The Wire
"Suspenseful, leaves a lot for the audience to think about...This is Stephen King at his best, with a great adaptation of one of his books."
- Epinions Review--by Ryan Gamble |
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| | Children of the Corn (1984)
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive. | "A masterpiece that is a must see for Stephen King fans and also for fans of the possesion/demonic genre."
- The Flesh Farm
"It's a nightmare of starchy goodness."
- Mutant Reviewers From Hell
"Children of the Corn is by no means a perfect adaptation of King’s prose, but it’s still an enjoyable experience."
- Fangoria
"Children of the Corn is still scary today more than 20 years after its initial release. The inclusion of a battle against a demonic power helps to make this one of the best horror films of all time."
- Best-Horror-Movies.com
"It's creepy and has a good atmosphere."
- Popcorn Pictures Review
"If you can get past these lame elements, I think you’ll find a movie that is heavy on intensity and atmosphere and stands the test of time."
- Headhunter's Horror House Review
"Grisly, occasionally effective horror flick."
- Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
"Ooooooo... scary kids! Don't go into the cornfields alone after this one."
- IGN Movies |
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