TOP 30 STEPHEN KING HORROR FILMS

With the release of The Cell earlier this month, It and The Dark Tower set for release next year, and rumors of a reboot of Cujo and The Stand in the works, maybe it's time to look back over the 30 horror films released in theaters over the last 40 years that were based on the works of the legendary Stephen King!

Enjoy!!!

#30   Cell (2016)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   0%

#29   Graveyard Shift (1990)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   13%

[Tucker reports on the huge rat holes he's seen]

Tucker Cleveland: I don't mind telling you, this place is infested.

#28   Sleepwalkers (1992)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   15%

Charles Brady: This doesn't have to hurt. Just think of yourself as lunch!

[Tanya hits him in the head with her camera]

Charles Brady: I lied! It does have to hurt!

#27   Thinner (1996)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   16%

Tadzu Lempke: [to a pleading Billy] Justice, ain't about bringing back the dead, white man. Justice, is about justice. Your friend the policeman, your friend the judge, they make sure nothing happen to you. They keep you safe. But I make sure something happen to them. That justice, white man. Gypsy justice!

#26   Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   17%

Bill "Billy" Robinson: It isn't the comet. It's a broom. Imagine you're a race of aliens, right? And, you're looking for a new place to live. Say you're looking for a planet like you and I looking for a new place to live. A new house. So here's Earth. Only it's like this big old house. And, it's kind of polluted, dirty, and smoky. Grease on the walls, soot in the chimney. So, they send in their interstellar house-cleaners. Send in their broom. Sweep us all up. That's what this it is, it's a broom. Using our own machines to sweep us right off.

#25   The Mangler (1995)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   20%

Mark Jackson: Have you considered the possibility that the machine may be haunted?
Officer John Hunton: Oh yeah, Mark, that's the first thing that popped into my mind!

#24   Needful Things (1993)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   26%

Leland Gaunt: Oh. You know, there are days I really hate this job. This is not my best work, not by a long shot. Oh, sure, a few murders and a couple of rather lovely explosions. I would hardly call it a rousing success, but what the hell? I'll be back. In the meantime, you and Polly, you are two terrific kids, and you'll marry her. Trust me. She's a lovely girl, Alan. You'll have a wonderful family. Oh, by the way, give my regards to your grandson. Bob will be his name, International Trade his game. I'll see him in Jakarta, 2053. August 14th. 10a.m. A nice, sunny day. We'll make headlines.

#23   Riding the Bullet (2004)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   27%

George Staub: Do you know who I am, Alan?
Alan Parker: You're a ghost...
George Staub: BOO!

#22   Dreamcatcher (2003)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   30%

Colonel Curtis: Whose radio is that?
[upon hearing crashed aliens pleading for sympathy]
Captain Owen Underhill: It's not the radio, boss. They're putting it directly into our heads.
Colonel Curtis: There it is, gentlemen. Directly into our heads. This gives you an idea what we're up against. Now if anybody is thinking, "Why, those poor helpless little fools... all naked and unarmed besides their crashed intergalactic Winnebago. What kind of a dog, what kind of a monster... could hear that heartbreak and go in just the same?" Well, I'm that dog. I'm that monster. These mothers are as harmless as a fox in a hen house. And I'm here to kick some ass! Are you with me?

#21   Creepshow 2 (1987)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   30%

Mr. Haig: Here's your package, Billy. COD, nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Mighty expensive for a toy ordered out of a funny paper.
Billy: Creepshow is not a funny paper. And this is no toy.
Mr. Haig: Well, what is it then?
Billy: It's a Venus flytrap bulb!
Mr. Haig: A Venus what-bulb?
Billy: Venus flytrap. It's a plant that eats MEAT!
[makes chomping-mouth gestures with his hands]
Billy: GRRRAAARRRRR!

#20   Tales From the Darkside (1990)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   31%

Betty: I NEVER could do long division. Let's see, how many times does twelve go into seventy-five.
Timmy: Oh, six times, three left over. Why?
Betty: Well, at twelve minutes a pound, that means you have to be in the oven by no later than 1:30. Oh, but evisceration takes at least an hour.

#19   The Night Flier (1997)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   38%

Richard Dees: Never believe what you publish, and never publish what you believe

#18   Children of the Corn (1984)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   38%

Job: Don't worry, Mister. You'll be safe here. Isaac and Malachai don't know about this place.
Burt Robeson: Enough! Who are Isaac and Malachai?
Job: Isaac started the whole thing. He's a boy preacher who came to this town three years ago. At nine-years-old back then, he had a charming way that appealed to all the kids and teens like us to follow him with his own teachings of the bible and of the Old Testiment. But me and Sarah thought he was just plain weird.

#17   Firestarter (1984)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   39%

Doctor Joseph Wanless: Ever since this child was born, her father has been trying to inhibit her use of those powers. But what if his control had weakened now?
Captain Hollister: Why would he lose control, now, after all those years?
Doctor Joseph Wanless: Ask yourself this question. How exhausting must it have been for Victoria and Andrew McGee when this child was an infant? The bottle is late, the baby cries, and at that moment, one of her toys right there in the crib beside her bursts into smokey flame.

#16   Pet Sematary (1989)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   43%

Jud Crandall: Sometimes dead is better.

#15   Secret Window (2004)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   46%

[last lines]
Mort: [voiceover] "I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone and her death will be a mystery... even to me."

#14   Silver Bullet (1985)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   50%

[first lines]
Older Jane: [Older Jane narrating] The last full moon of that Spring came a little more than a month before school let out for Summer vacation. Our town's long nightmare began that night.

#13   Mercy (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   50%

#12   Apt Pupil (1998)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   53%

Kurt Dussander: What do you want? Tell me.
Todd Bowden: I want to hear about it.
Kurt Dussander: Hear about what?
Todd Bowden: The stories. Everything.
Kurt Dussander: What everything?
Todd Bowden: Everything they're afraid to show us in school. You were there. You did those things. No one can tell it better than you can.

#11   Cujo (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   59%

[Joe Camber has encountered Cujo in the garage. Cujo glares at him menacingly & growls]

Joe Camber: Cujo?

[the dog snarls again, and approaches him menacingly]

Joe Camber: Oh my God... you're rabid!

[Cujo barks savagely and charges at Joe. He puts his arms up to defend himself as Cujo attacks]

Joe Camber: [yelling] NO! NO! CUJO!

[the dog jumps on him & knocks him down]

#10   The Dark Half (1993)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   60%

George Stark: [voice over the phone, threatening Thad] See if you can figure out where I'm calling from, Thad.
[hangs up]
Thad Beaumont: [pauses a second, then realizes] NO!
[Thad calls his own home] 
George Stark: [answering the phone] That was quick, hoss.

#09   Cat's Eye (1985)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   67%

[Quote from "Quitters, Inc" segment]
Richard 'Dick' Morrison: [after being offered a cigarette at a party] Why don't you shove them up your ass, Hal?
Drunk businessman: What? Lit?

#08   Christine (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   68%

Arnie Cunningham: [Christine won't start] Come on.
Arnie Cunningham: [Christine still won't start] Come on, Christine.
Arnie Cunningham: [Christine still won't start] Come on, baby, please. It's all right. Everything is the same.
[Christine starts and the radio comes on]
Arnie Cunningham: [smiles] Okay.

#07   Creepshow (1982)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   69%

[Quote from "The Crate" segment]

Professor Dexter Stanley: Two people are dead, and I could be blamed. I know that's a terrible consideration to have at a time like this, but -

[Henry hands him a drink and he swallows it one gulp]

Henry Northrup: Last time I saw someone do that was in the movies!

Professor Dexter Stanley: It could mean my ass, Henry, it wasn't me! It was that - that thing in the crate! And I don't even know what it was!

[giggles hysterically]

Henry Northrup: What two people? Who is dead?

Professor Dexter Stanley: Mike the janitor at Amberson Hall, and Charlie Gereson. He wanted to measure the bite marks, Henry. I guess he got his chance!

[giggles]

Professor Dexter Stanley: I certainly guess he did!

#06   The Mist (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   73%

Dan Miller: Don't go out there! There's something in the mist!

#05   1408 (2007)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   79%

Gerald Olin: The causes of death in 1408 range from heart attack, stroke, drowning.
Mike Enslin: Drowning?
Gerald Olin: Yes, one Mr. Grady Miller drowned in his chicken soup.
Mike Enslin: That's hard to do, h - how did he do that?
Gerald Olin: How indeed.

#04   Misery (1990)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   89%

Annie Wilkes: [Right after smashing Paul's ankles with a sledgehammer] God I love you.

#03   The Shining (1980)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   89%

Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here.
Delbert Grady: I'm sorry to differ with you sir, but you are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know sir. I've always been here.

#02   The Dead Zone (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   90%

Johnny Smith: [John has "seen" Stillson become President and trigger WW3, and now is making up his mind how to prevent Stillson's holocaust] If you could go back in time to Germany, before Hitler came to power, knowing what you know now, would you kill him?
Dr. Sam Weizak: Is that why you sent for me, to ask me this, uh... this question?

#01   Carrie (1976)

Rotten Tomatoes Score:   92%

Carrie: [reading from a library book] Telekinesis... thought to be the ability to move... or to cause changes... in objects... by force of the mind...?

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ON THIS DAY IN HORROR - June 28th

"100 BLOODY ACRES" released in 2013

Reg and Lindsay Morgan (Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson) own and operate a struggling blood and bone fertilizer business in outback Australia, and have just found the perfect ingredient for their new formula of organic fertilizer in this gruesomely funny horror comedy, 100 Bloody Acres!

Watch the 100 Bloody Acres trailer below!

Lindsay and Reg (Angus Simpson and Damon Herriman)
discover the "secret" formula to organic fertilizer!

Sophie (Anna McGahan), James (Oliver Ackland) and Wes (Jamie Kristian) are on their way to a music festival when their car breaks down by the side of the road. "Help" comes in the form of the strange Reg Morgan (Herriman), who picks them up in his delivery truck and takes them back to the fertiliser plant he runs with his even stranger brother Lindsay (Simpson). Along the way James and Wes discover a dead body hidden in the back of the truck - Reg having recovered the dead body earlier from a fatal car crash. Before they can act however, Reg tricks the group into going into the barn, locking them in and suggests to Lindsay that they put the three tourists in the meat grinder for their new fertilizer. After all, the brothers had done it before with a church choir group that had also died in a nearby car accident! When matters are complicated with the appearance of a snooping policeman Sgt Burke (John Jarratt) and their crazy elderly neighbor Nancy (Chrissie Page), Reg starts to having second thoughts about their plan; especially when he starts to develop a twisted romance with Sophie. But Lindsay isn't going to be dissuaded quite so easily!

Top:   John Jarratt as Sgt Burke;
Above:   Anna McGahan and Oliver Ackland (Sophie and 
James) aren't too keen to be turned into fertilizer!

Directed and written by brothers Cameron and Colin Cairns, the original sciprt for 100 Bloody Acres won in the Horror-Thriller category for scriptwriting at the 2010 Slamdance Writing Competition. Partnering with producer Julie Ryan, the film was financed by Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, Film Victoria and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund, with filming beginning in January 2012. Stars Angus Simpson and Damon Herriman are no strangers to appearing in horror films, with Simpson having been in Darkness Falls and the Insidious movies, and Herriman co-starring in the 2005 remake House of Wax (ironically as a Roadkill Clean-up Driver).

Top:   Writer/Directors Colin and Cameron Cairns;
Above:   On the set of "100 Bloody Acres"

100 Bloody Acres premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2012, before being picked up by Hopscotch Films for release in the US to overwhelming positive reviews. Matt Zoller Seitz of rogerebert.com called it "the best low-budget horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead, and one of the most assured first features in ages", and Megan Lehmann of The Hollywood Reporter described it as an "off-the-wall Australian splatter-comedy" with "lively performances" and "a shrewdly structured screenplay". The Cairns' brothers next horror follow up will be Scare Campaign, due for release in November 2016. And if their debut 100 Bloody Acres is any indication, Scare Campaign will certainly be a movie to see!

ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE:   84%

TOP 100 HORROR REMAKES

(Part 2)

#50 - 01

With so many movies adapting classic (and some not-so-classic) horror films of the past, IHdb decided to count down the TOP 100 HORROR REMAKES from the last 100-years, based on the average aggregated score provided by Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. 

In fact, it was quite surprising to find that there were so many films out there! So many in fact we had to split this massive List into two-parts - we continue from Part 1 with Part 2 of the List, including IHdb's number 1 pick below!

Enjoy!!!

#50   A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 and 2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   54.5%

#49   Blacker Than the Night (1975) and Más Negro que la Noche (2014)
Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   55.5%

#48   The Omen (1976 and 2006)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   56.5%

#47   The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   56.5%

#46   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Invasion (2007)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   56.5%

#45   Funny Games (1997 and 2007)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   57.5%

#44   A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Uninvited (2009)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   58.5%

#43   Invaders from Mars (1953 and 1986)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   59%

#42   Halloween (1978 and 2007)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   59.5%

#41   House of Wax (1953 and 2005)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   60%

#40  The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 and 2014)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   60%

#39   Willard (1971 and 2003)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   60.5%

#38   House on Haunted Hill (1959 and 1999)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   61.5%

#37   Dark Water (2002 and 2005)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   61.5%

#36   The Crazies (1973 and 2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   62%

#35   The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 and 2003)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   62%

#34   Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 and 2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   62.5%

#33   Village of the Damned (1960 and 1995)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   62.5%

#32   13 Game Sayawng (13: Game of Death)(2006) and 13 Sins (2014)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   62.5%

#31   The Blob (1958 and 1988)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   63.5%

#30   The Wolfman (1941 and 2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   64%

#29   Poltergeist (1982 and 2015)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   64.5%

#28   The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   64.5%

#27   'Salem's Lot (1979 and 2004)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   65.5%

#26   Psycho (1960 and 1998)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   66.5%

#25   Patrick (1978 and 2013)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   66.5%

#24   Frankenstein (1931) and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (1994)
Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   69.5%

#23   Rosemary's Baby (1968 and 2014)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   69.5%

#22   Carrie (1976 and 2013)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   70%

#21   The Woman in Black (1989 and 2012)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   71.5%

#20   Piranha (1978) and Piranha 3-D (2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   72.5%

#19   Spoorloos (1988) and The Vanishing (2003)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   73.5%

#18   The Shining (1980 and 1997)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   74.5%

#17   REC (2007) and Quarantine (2008)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   77%

#16   Cat People (1942 and 1982)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   77.5%

#15   The Evil Dead (1980) and Evil Dead (2015) 

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   78%

#14   We Are What We Are (2010 and 2013)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   78.5%

#13   Fright Night (1985 and 2011)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   81.5%

#12   Manhunter (1986) and Red Dragon (2002)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   81.5%

#11   Night of the Ling Dead (1968 and 1990)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   82%

#10   Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   83.5%

#09   The Thing From Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   84%

#08   Ringu (1995) and The Ring (2002)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   84.5%

#07   Dracula (1931) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   85%

#06   Cape Fear (1962 and 1991)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   85.5%

#05   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 and 2011)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   86%

#04   Little Shop of Horrors (1960 and 1986)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   91%

#03   The Fly (1958 and 1986)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   93%

#02   Let the Right One In (2008) and Let Me In (2010)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   93%

#01   Nosferatu (1922 and 1979)

Average Rotten Tomatoes Score:   95.5%

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