I recently watched Salem's Lot, and it's one of my favorite Tobe Hooper movies. I like Stephen King, but I watched Salem's Lot because Hooper is one of my favorite horror directors. I just love when great directors like Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and Rob Reiner takes these novels and make movies out of them. Rob Reiner in particular is one of the most underrated directors of all time, and two of his best works are Stephen King adaptations. Also when will you rank Tobe Hooper?
Stand by me has to have one of the most quotable climaxes of any of his movies "you don't have the sack to shoot a woodchuck", "Suck my fat one you cheap dime store hood", "I think I turned my fruit of the looms into a fudge factory", ""you'll have to kill me Ace", "No problem" all those just off the top of my head
I loved The Shining, IT tv series and movie, Maximum Overdrive, Christine, Shawshank Redemption, etc. Clearly the man writes a lot of fascinating yet intriguing stories.
Only dog lovers dislike Sleepwalkers. That movie is incredible. It's the cinematic version of when you errantly throw the basketball at the hoop from a distance as you leave practice for the day and it swishes.
17:25 I think you'd enjoy Tales from the Darkside. It's similar to Creepshow, where it's a campy horror anthology, but it also provides some real fun gore effects that I was surprised to see.
Other than *IT* Creepshow is the movie I’ve rewatched the most out of these, I’ve seen that a bunch of times. And yes the creature in the box was also my favourite story in it.
I was lucky enough to have seen it in the theaters. Maximum Overdrive is one of those films that needs to be experienced on a big screen with a good sound system. Killer soundtrack, of course. I was a huge AC/DC fan, so it was like the perfect storm of a badass movie experience.
Sometimes they come back has such a distinct twilight zone feel to it. Check it out if you get a chance, it really does feel like an extended version of a twilight zone episode
Hello Real Life Ryan, I'm new to your channel. The Stephen King Tier list. Looks great. Yes Carrie is my first Stephen King movies. When I was a kid. It was scary and sad. As I get older. I find it a said story. Salem's Lot. The Toby Hooper one. Was a good tv miniseries. King said he likes vampires that creepy looking. I really do like Stephen King stories. Some are better than others. The Shining is a classic. The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken's. Christine, Sleepwalkers and Silver bullet are some of my favorites. Cujo is a good scary story. It is another sad one. The poor dog suffers from Rabies. I love animals. I feel bad for Cujo. Please do a werewolf list. I love werewolves. We do need more of them. 🧛🐺🐕🎥
This year Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man should come out. Really hope it works, I wasn't very impressed by "Last Night in Soho" (meandering, weak characters, weak dialogues. I expected more from a guy like him.) so I have some doubts about how well Wright can do non-comedic films. I hope it doesn't suck. If not, I still have the fun satirical SciFi bloody cheesecake that is the Arnold version.
Firestarter and Cat’s Eye were some of my first Stephen King movies watched. Definitely worth watching along with Apt Pupil. Children of the Corn actually has 10 movies (including remakes) total. There was a Firestarter remake with Zack Efron but it was bad. Really bad. Needful Things definitely deserves a rewatch! It still holds up especially given current times in our volatile times.
I only watched 16 Stephen King adaptations😅, here is my top 5: 1 - It Chapter 1 2 - Stand By Me 3 - The Shawshank Redemption 4 - Green Mile 5 - Doctor Sleep
I feel some Stephen king books have gotten much better movie versions than the books for the most part. Ironically the one King book i really liked Salem's Lot is the opposite, both film versions are kinda lacking in different ways but the book is very immersive.
King wrote the Running Man?!?! Wow I never knew that, and I’ve watched that movie so many times, I said earlier that Creepshow was my second most watched movie of his, but I’ve watched this more than Creepshow, can’t believe he wrote Running Man.
The Mist felt like a cheesy ps2 game 😂 90's It is overhyped, I think it's just that tim curry is beloved. Carrie was my "oh, so the world is like this at times" movie and the shining never left my consciousness. I never got the hate from Stephen King and I'm no Kubrik fanboy.
I love "The dark towers" books. I cried when Eddie dies 😢 but why they destroyed the mowie 😭 They could do this as a mini serial book by book and matching cast whoo looks like in the books. King is my favourite author and "the dark dower" is my favourite series. I love your tottoo. We have a lot in common. '89 rules. 😉
@@sasapejcin3568 Yeah, I just don’t understand what people are thinking when they openly blurt out massive spoilers like this without giving a warning… It’s like they are just completely oblivious to other people, unless they’re trying to be jerk
@@RealLifeRyan haha I don't think half the people watching even noticed. Either way, it's a great video! My tiers are really similar to yours. Only one in that last row I've seen was Apt Pupil. Not a bad movie. Decent! Personally, I'd have put Dreamcatcher in the great tier. Not exactly a masterpiece, but sometimes movies just hit right when you're in the right mood. On this one you you kinda just have to go along for the bumpy ride. (That third act lol.) Lots of really good individual scenes, which highlight some of the great actors in that cast. Dammit The Dark Tower had no business being a movie and not a miniseries, but I think Mike Flanagan has been trying to get that in production for a few years now? Like you, I'm a big Flanagan fan, so that at least sounds promising. Dude knows what he's doing. Let's see... Nice to see Maximum Overdrive up there. Like I told a guy in another comment, I saw it in the theaters. Big screen, big sound, AC/DC, with all friends? Fuck yeah, 10/10. All time best movie experience, hands down. Anyway, I really dug this one, being a Stephen King fan since I read Cujo in '82. (old man, comin' through) Looking forward to the next one!
Controversial opinion but I like the Shining miniseries more than the Kubrick movie. Yes, Nicholson is great but I think the miniseries had more heart.
I recently watched Salem's Lot, and it's one of my favorite Tobe Hooper movies. I like Stephen King, but I watched Salem's Lot because Hooper is one of my favorite horror directors. I just love when great directors like Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick and Rob Reiner takes these novels and make movies out of them. Rob Reiner in particular is one of the most underrated directors of all time, and two of his best works are Stephen King adaptations. Also when will you rank Tobe Hooper?
Stand by me has to have one of the most quotable climaxes of any of his movies "you don't have the sack to shoot a woodchuck", "Suck my fat one you cheap dime store hood", "I think I turned my fruit of the looms into a fudge factory", ""you'll have to kill me Ace", "No problem" all those just off the top of my head
Stephen King would agree with you regarding "Stand By Me". I think he considers that movie his favorite of all the film adaptations of his books.
I want to see the top 10 werewolf movies !
I loved The Shining, IT tv series and movie, Maximum Overdrive, Christine, Shawshank Redemption, etc.
Clearly the man writes a lot of fascinating yet intriguing stories.
Only dog lovers dislike Sleepwalkers. That movie is incredible. It's the cinematic version of when you errantly throw the basketball at the hoop from a distance as you leave practice for the day and it swishes.
17:25 I think you'd enjoy Tales from the Darkside. It's similar to Creepshow, where it's a campy horror anthology, but it also provides some real fun gore effects that I was surprised to see.
Other than *IT* Creepshow is the movie I’ve rewatched the most out of these, I’ve seen that a bunch of times. And yes the creature in the box was also my favourite story in it.
I think silver bullet might be the scariest movie on this list
For 'Doctor Sleep', have you seen both the theatrical version AND the directors cut? If so, do you have a preference?
Definitely watch The Night Flyer! Super underrated adaptation
Need a book tier list.
cats eye, tales from the darkside, mangler, night flyer, AND ESPECIALLY PET SEMETARY 2 are bangers
Maximum overdrive is one of my favorite movies of all time lol. It legit used to scare me when I was a child.
I was lucky enough to have seen it in the theaters. Maximum Overdrive is one of those films that needs to be experienced on a big screen with a good sound system. Killer soundtrack, of course. I was a huge AC/DC fan, so it was like the perfect storm of a badass movie experience.
Sometimes they come back has such a distinct twilight zone feel to it. Check it out if you get a chance, it really does feel like an extended version of a twilight zone episode
Thanks for mentioning some of the remakes! I loved them in more ways than less
Silver Bullet is a favorite of mine. Thank you for the ranking, Ryan!
I plan to read more Stephen king books this year, and then hopefully watch all the movie adaptations
Hello Real Life Ryan,
I'm new to your channel. The Stephen King Tier list. Looks great. Yes Carrie is my first Stephen King movies. When I was a kid. It was scary and sad. As I get older. I find it a said story. Salem's Lot. The Toby Hooper one. Was a good tv miniseries. King said he likes vampires that creepy looking. I really do like Stephen King stories. Some are better than others. The Shining is a classic. The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken's. Christine, Sleepwalkers and Silver bullet are some of my favorites. Cujo is a good scary story. It is another sad one. The poor dog suffers from Rabies. I love animals. I feel bad for Cujo. Please do a werewolf list. I love werewolves. We do need more of them. 🧛🐺🐕🎥
This year Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man should come out. Really hope it works, I wasn't very impressed by "Last Night in Soho" (meandering, weak characters, weak dialogues. I expected more from a guy like him.) so I have some doubts about how well Wright can do non-comedic films. I hope it doesn't suck.
If not, I still have the fun satirical SciFi bloody cheesecake that is the Arnold version.
Not on the list but 1922 is a Netflix movie that is an adaptation of a novella by King. It was like a 6/10
I loved Riding the Bullet as a child. You never knew what was real and what wasn't
Firestarter and Cat’s Eye were some of my first Stephen King movies watched. Definitely worth watching along with Apt Pupil. Children of the Corn actually has 10 movies (including remakes) total. There was a Firestarter remake with Zack Efron but it was bad. Really bad. Needful Things definitely deserves a rewatch! It still holds up especially given current times in our volatile times.
I only watched 16 Stephen King adaptations😅, here is my top 5:
1 - It Chapter 1
2 - Stand By Me
3 - The Shawshank Redemption
4 - Green Mile
5 - Doctor Sleep
I'm down for thei top 10 werewolf movies!
Maximum Overdrive over Salem's Lot and Carrie is a crime. I also wouldn't put have IT or Running Man above them either, but those are fun movies
I feel some Stephen king books have gotten much better movie versions than the books for the most part. Ironically the one King book i really liked Salem's Lot is the opposite, both film versions are kinda lacking in different ways but the book is very immersive.
You missed 11.22.63, which is a very good tv show and adaptation!
King wrote the Running Man?!?! Wow I never knew that, and I’ve watched that movie so many times, I said earlier that Creepshow was my second most watched movie of his, but I’ve watched this more than Creepshow, can’t believe he wrote Running Man.
It was written under a pseudonym
Need that top 10 werewolf movies
Also, you’re the best homie!
Hell Yea!!! I love Doctor Sleep!!
It’s funny but I’ve never seen Carrie, I don’t know why, it’s been on so many times over the years but just never watched it.
How have you not seen it?
@ Yea I’ve no idea haha, so many times I thought about watching it but never did haha.
Hellraiser list and leprechaun list
The Mist felt like a cheesy ps2 game 😂 90's It is overhyped, I think it's just that tim curry is beloved. Carrie was my "oh, so the world is like this at times" movie and the shining never left my consciousness. I never got the hate from Stephen King and I'm no Kubrik fanboy.
There has been remakes of children of the corn
I love "The dark towers" books. I cried when Eddie dies 😢 but why they destroyed the mowie 😭 They could do this as a mini serial book by book and matching cast whoo looks like in the books. King is my favourite author and "the dark dower" is my favourite series. I love your tottoo. We have a lot in common. '89 rules. 😉
Thanks for the fucking spoiler… what the hell
Thanks for the spoiler… 🙄
@@danielhannesson342 sorry 🥺 but in the movie there's no Eddie , Jake is the main character.
@@danielhannesson342 I only have two books left and now I know what happens to Eddie! So disappointing!
@@sasapejcin3568 Yeah, I just don’t understand what people are thinking when they openly blurt out massive spoilers like this without giving a warning… It’s like they are just completely oblivious to other people, unless they’re trying to be jerk
Christine is a masterpiece but Creepshow isn't?
So good many books made into some would say okay movies .
RLR = 🐐
Ed Harris
Hell yeah 👍
Whatever you say in this video, you’re wrong
Issac
IT 1990 >>>>>>>>> 2017/2019
There I said it.
I don't agree, but I respect it.
*IT* 1990 was one of my favourite movies when I was young so I’ll have to put it above the remake, even though I liked the remake a lot.
1990 had some really great iconic scenes that were very well thought out but as an overall package it really doesn't hold up all that well today,.
*Decent
Omg 😭
@@RealLifeRyan haha I don't think half the people watching even noticed. Either way, it's a great video! My tiers are really similar to yours. Only one in that last row I've seen was Apt Pupil. Not a bad movie. Decent!
Personally, I'd have put Dreamcatcher in the great tier. Not exactly a masterpiece, but sometimes movies just hit right when you're in the right mood. On this one you you kinda just have to go along for the bumpy ride. (That third act lol.) Lots of really good individual scenes, which highlight some of the great actors in that cast.
Dammit The Dark Tower had no business being a movie and not a miniseries, but I think Mike Flanagan has been trying to get that in production for a few years now? Like you, I'm a big Flanagan fan, so that at least sounds promising. Dude knows what he's doing.
Let's see... Nice to see Maximum Overdrive up there. Like I told a guy in another comment, I saw it in the theaters. Big screen, big sound, AC/DC, with all friends? Fuck yeah, 10/10. All time best movie experience, hands down.
Anyway, I really dug this one, being a Stephen King fan since I read Cujo in '82. (old man, comin' through) Looking forward to the next one!
Controversial opinion but I like the Shining miniseries more than the Kubrick movie.
Yes, Nicholson is great but I think the miniseries had more heart.
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