1. "IT"
   "Silver Bullet"
2. "Creepshow"
   "Graveyard Shift"

King's massive novel "IT" was around 500,000 words in length, making it about the size of four or five regular novels. The book was adapted as a miniseries on TV in the 1990s starring Tim Curry and then became his most successful adaptation in 2017, starring Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

1. "Misery"
   "Carrie"
2. "Dolores Claiborne"
   "1922"

The very first of King's adaptations, "Carrie" has proved to be one of the most popular and garnered both a remake and a sequel, neither of which was particularly popular, especially compared to that first one.

1. "Misery"
   "Stand By Me"
2. "The Running Man"
   "Apt Pupil"

Kathy Bates takes on the role of the very disturbed Annie Wilkes in "Misery." This was one of the few King adaptations to be nominated for an Academy Award. Bates won the award for Best Actress in the film.

1. "Cujo"
   "1922"
2. "No Smoking"
   "Dolan's Cadillac"

"Cujo" was about a rabid St. Bernard, but the movie's dog handler was not happy about it. Karl Miller, who was tasked with training the dogs in the movie, asked for any other breed to work with because St. Bernards are a notoriously difficult breed to train.

1. "The Shawshank Redemption"
   "Hearts in Atlantis"
2. "Riding the Bullet"
   "Mercy"

"The Shawshank Redemption" is arguably one of King's most popular adaptations ever and also one of the most critically acclaimed. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards though it didn't win any.

1. "Desperation"
   "Children of the Corn"
2. "Salem's Lot"
   "Firestarter"

"Childen of the Corn" has spawned several sequels even though King only wrote the one novel. In the movie, a being known only as "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" will provide a bountiful harvest if victims are sacrificed to him.

1. "The Shining"
   "Cujo"
2. "Gerald's Game"
   "Graveyard Shift"

Considered by many to be the greatest King adaptation ever, "The Shining" starred Jack Nicholson in one of his most iconic roles. Despite the fan love for the movie, Stephen King himself apparently hated the film, and lead actress Shelly Duvall also hated making the movie thanks to nearly non-stop abuse and harassment from director Stanley Kubrick.

1. "Christine"
   "The Dead Zone"
2. "Gerald's Game"
   "Stand By Me"

"Stand By Me" was the first-ever non-horror adaptation of a King novel and was extremely popular. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Director Rob Reiner once said it was his favorite film out of all the ones he's directed.

1. "The Shining"
   "Carrie"
2. "Firestarter"
   "The Dark Half"

One of King's earliest adaptations, "Firestarter" featured Drew Barrymore when she was just 9 years old. Back in 2002, the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy) made a miniseries sequel starring Marguerite Moreau.

1. "The Dark Tower"
   "Gerald's Game"
2. "Christine"
   "The Green Mile"

"The Dark Tower" is kind of a sci-fi/horror/Western about multiple realities that are supported by the eponymous Dark Tower. The book series by King threads through nearly all of King's other works in some small way, and King himself even exists in the books.

1. "Carrie"
   "Cat's Eye"
2. "The Shawshank Redemption"
   "The Green Mile"

"The Green Mile" is one of King's rare films that can't rightly be called horror even if it does have fantastic elements to it. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clarke Duncan.

1. "Dolan's Caddilac"
   "Dolores Claiborne"
2. "The Mist"
   "Doctor Sleep"

"The Mist" was released in 2007 and was so popular it actually ended up being adapted as a TV series in 2017 on Spike. Though the movie did fairly well, the TV series did not and was canceled after a single season.

1. "The Langoliers"
   "Maximum Overdrive"
2. "The Mangler"
   "Misery"

"Maximum Overdrive" was considered a massive failure of a movie and is routinely listed not just as one of King's worst but one of the worst movies ever made in general. It was also the first movie King directed himself.

1. "Dreamcatcher"
   "1408"
2. "The Stand"
   "Pet Sematary"

"Pet Sematary" is another one of King's books that have been adapted more than once. The original movie came out in 1989, and then a unpopular sequel was made in 1992. The original was then remade in 2019.

1. "The Lawnmower Man"
   "The Night Flier"
2. "In The Tall Grass"
   "Needful Things"

Written by Stephen King and Joe Hill, "In the Tall Grass" is a surreal tale of a group of people trapped in a grassy field in which time and space no longer make a lot of sense. It starred Patrick Wilson, who's been a horror staple in movies like "Insidious" and "The Conjuring."

1. "Silver Bullet"
   "The Lawnmower Man"
2. "The Running Man"
   "Salem's Lot"

"The Running Man" is based on a book by Richard Bachman, which is one of King's pennames. The movie was one of several collaborations on-screen between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse "The Body" Ventura, both of whom would later become governors.

1. "Creepshow 2"
   "Thinner"
2. "A Good Marriage"
   "In the Tall Grass"

"Creepshow 2" followed up the collaboration between King and George Romero in the first "Creepshow" movie. There were meant to be five parts to this film, including one called "The Cat From Hell" that ended up later being used in the movie "Tales from the Darkside: The Movie."

1. "Thinner"
   "The Mangler"
2. "Secret Window"
   "Dreamcatcher"

Arguably one of King's most bizarre adaptations, "The Mangler" is about a demonically-possessed laundry press. It was directed by legendary horror director Tobe Hooper who's most famous for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

1. "1408"
   "Needful Things"
2. "Graveyard Shift"
   "Mercy"

"1408" stars John Cusack and Sam Jackson, who also starred together in "Cell," another King adaptation several years later. "1408" has four separate endings. One was theatrical, one is available on the Blu-ray, and one used to be on Netflix though it was swapped out after a while.

1. "Secret Window"
   "Golden Years"
2. "Gerald's Game"
   "A Good Marriage"

Director Mike Flanagan's "Gerald's Game" was considered by many to be unfilmable due to the fact much of the story is supposed to be in the mind of the central character. The headboard of the bed in the movie is actually half of the evil mirror from the movie "Oculus," which was also directed by Mike Flanagan.

1. "Creepshow"
   "Graveyard Shift"
2. "Needful Things"
   "Children of the Corn"

Directed by "Night of the Living Dead's" George Romero, "Creepshow" is a horror anthology presented like tales in a comic book. When the movie was replayed on television back in the day, many channels would actually omit the final segment entitled "They're Creeping Up On You" due to time constraints.

1. "The Lawnmower Man"
   "Graveyard Shift"
2. "Salem's Lot"
   "Bag of Bones"

It's safe to say "The Lawnmower Man" is one of Stephen King's least favorite adaptations ever. The original title was "Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man" until the author sued to have his name removed, basically arguing the movie butchered his story so badly it had nothing to do with what he wrote. And it's true, the movie and the story it's based on have literally nothing in common.

1. "Needful Things"
   "The Mangler"
2. "1922"
   "Apt Pupil"

Max Von Sydow stars as the nefarious shopkeep Leland Gaunt in "Needful Things." The Sheriff in the movie is named Alan Pangborn, who is also in King's movie "The Dark Half" and the TV show "Castle Rock."

1. "Golden Years"
   "The Stand"
2. "The Tommyknockers"
   "Silver Bullet"

"Silver Bullet" is a 1985 film that starred Gary Busey and Corey Haim. Word is that Gary Busey got so into the character he was playing that he actually ad-libs a good portion of his dialogue in the film.

1. "Sleepwalkers"
   "Dolores Claiborne"
2. "Riding the Bullet"
   "Cujo"

"Dolores Claiborne" was the second collaboration between King and Kathy Bates. In fact, Stephen King wrote the character in the novel specifically with Kathy Bates in mind after really enjoying her performance in the movie "Misery."

1. "The Night Flier"
   "Thinner"
2. "Dolores Claiborne"
   "The Lawnmower Man"

When "Thinner" was first released, it was actually put in some theaters as one half of a double feature alongside Michael Jackson's "Ghosts," which was also written by Stephen King.

1. "Thinner"
   "Needful Things"
2. "The Dark Half"
   "Christine"

Directed by horror icon John Carpenter, "Christine" was actually greenlit as a movie before Stephen King had even published the novel, proving just how popular a writer he was at that point in time. Sixteen Plymouth Furys were used in the filming of the movie, along with some repurposed Belvederes and Savoys.

1. "The Mist"
   "Dreamcatcher"
2. "The Stand"
   "IT"

"Dreamcatcher" starred Morgan Freeman, who doesn't even show up until the film is almost half over, and Thomas Jane, who took the role because his mom was a big fan of Stephen King's work and told him he should make it.

1. "Silver Bullet"
   "Christine"
2. "The Dead Zone"
   "Sleepwalkers"

Directed by horror legend David Cronenberg and starring Christopher Walken, this is one of King's best-reviewed adaptation to date with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was also adapted into a TV show that starred Anthony Michael Hall.

1. "1408"
   "1922"
2. "No Smoking"
   "In The Tall Grass"

"1922" is the third King adaptation Thomas Jane starred in after "Dreamcatcher" and "The Mist." This was also the second adaptation of a King story made by Netflix. "Gerald's Game" was the first and "In The Tall Grass" is the third.

1. "The Stand"
   "Sometimes They Come Back"
2. "The Langoliers"
   "The Night Flier"

"The Night Flier" is one of King's lesser-known adaptations. There was actually going to be a sequel to this called "Fear of Flying" that the director and King worked on together, but they weren't able to secure funding since the first movie wasn't all that popular.

1. "No Smoking"
   "Gerald's Game"
2. "Riding the Bullet"
   "Secret Window"

Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey in "Secret Window." In one part of the movie, when Depp's character is having trouble sleeping, there's an ocean scene that wasn't actually filmed for this movie. It was extra footage that had been shot for "Jurassic Park II."

1. "Dolores Claiborne"
   "The Shining"
2. "Secret Window"
   "The Dark Half"

"The Dark Half" is a very slightly autobiographical tale from King as, for many years, King wrote under the name Richard Bachman without anyone knowing it was actually him. By outing himself, he effectively killed off the alter ego, much like the character in "The Dark Half."

1. "The Night Flier"
   "Graveyard Shift"
2. "Creepshow"
   "Cat's Eye"

"Cat's Eye" is another King adaptation that starred a young Drew Barrymore. The presence of the cat links each of the three tales in the story. There was originally a prologue that explained the presence of the cat, but it was cut out of the final film, making it confusing as to why the cat is even there at all.

1. "Pet Sematary"
   "Cat's Eye"
2. "Sleepwalkers"
   "Sometimes They Come Back"

"Sleepwalkers" was the first film King wrote specifically as a screenplay, rather than the other movies, which were adapted from novels he had already written. All things being equal, it's one of King's least successful films to date.