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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