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The 20 Best Stephen King Movie Adaptations of All Time

By YPB Team

From gut-wrenching prison drama to supernatural nightmares and pulpy creature features, these adaptations prove no genre is off-limits when King's imagination hits the screen. Cast your vote!

  1. The Shawshank Redemption — ranked #11
    The Shawshank Redemption
    A 1994 drama about a wrongly convicted banker's friendship and hope during decades in prison, based on King's novella.
    1000pts
  2. The Mist — ranked #22
    The Mist
    A 2007 horror film about townspeople trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious, creature-filled fog.
    772pts
  3. The Shining — ranked #33
    The Shining
    Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror film about a writer descending into madness at an isolated hotel.
    695pts
  4. Carrie — ranked #44
    Carrie
    Brian De Palma's 1976 horror classic about a bullied teenager with telekinetic powers who unleashes vengeance at prom.
    534pts
  5. The Green Mile — ranked #55
    The Green Mile
    A 1999 drama set on death row where a guard discovers a condemned man possesses miraculous healing powers.
    463pts
  6. Stand By Me — ranked #66
    Stand By Me
    A 1986 coming-of-age drama following four boys on a journey to find a body in rural Oregon.
    463pts
  7. Cujo — ranked #77
    Cujo
    A 1983 horror film about a family terrorized by a once-friendly St. Bernard turned rabid killer.
    463pts
  8. Christine — ranked #88
    Christine
    John Carpenter's 1983 horror film about a haunted, murderous 1958 Plymouth Fury.
    379pts
  9. Pet Sematary — ranked #99
    Pet Sematary
    The 1989 horror film about a burial ground that brings the dead back wrong.
    379pts
  10. Dolores Claiborne — ranked #1010
    Dolores Claiborne
    A 1995 mystery drama about a housekeeper accused of murder, unraveling decades of family secrets.
    379pts
  11. Gerald's Game — ranked #1111
    Gerald's Game
    A 2017 Netflix thriller about a woman handcuffed to a bed after her husband dies during a game gone wrong.
    379pts
  12. 1408 — ranked #1212
    1408
    A 2007 supernatural horror film about a skeptic who checks into a hotel room with a deadly reputation.
    379pts
  13. Misery — ranked #1313
    Misery
    A 1990 thriller about a novelist held captive by his obsessive, deranged number-one fan.
    379pts
  14. Needful Things — ranked #1414
    Needful Things
    A 1993 horror film about a sinister new shop owner who turns a small town against itself.
    379pts
  15. Apt Pupil — ranked #1515
    Apt Pupil
    A 1998 thriller about a teenager who discovers his neighbor is a hidden Nazi war criminal.
    278pts
  16. Doctor Sleep — ranked #1616
    Doctor Sleep
    A 2019 sequel to The Shining following an adult Danny Torrance confronting a cult that feeds on psychic children.
    278pts
  17. Creepshow — ranked #1717
    Creepshow
    George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology film styled after classic EC horror comics.
    278pts
  18. Secret Window — ranked #1818
    Secret Window
    A 2004 psychological thriller about a writer haunted by a mysterious stranger accusing him of plagiarism.
    278pts
  19. It — ranked #1919
    It
    The 2017 horror film about a shape-shifting entity terrorizing children in the town of Derry, Maine.
    154pts
  20. The Dead Zone — ranked #2020
    The Dead Zone
    David Cronenberg's 1983 film about a man who gains psychic visions after waking from a long coma.
    154pts

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Carrie opened on 3 November 1976 and started a run of more than a hundred adaptations. Twenty of them are here, and they refuse to form one genre: https://youpick.best/articles/stephen-king-ranked-many-ways

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