{"id":412193,"date":"2025-09-10T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412193\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:07:09","slug":"stephen-king-shares-his-10-favorite-movies-of-all-time-including-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412193\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King Shares His 10 Favorite Movies of All Time &#8211; Including &#8216;Jaws&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a new<strong> Stephen King<\/strong> movie arriving in theaters this week \u2013 director Francis Lawrence\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3895664\/the-long-walk-causes-viewers-heart-rates-to-reach-over-200-beats-per-minute-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Long Walk <\/strong><\/a>\u2013 King has taken to social media to share his 10 favorites movies of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen King makes sure to note that the list is in no particular order, and he\u2019s also removed adaptations of his own work from the list. King writes, however, that <strong>Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile<\/strong>, and <strong>Stand by Me<\/strong> would otherwise make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s all-time favorite movies mostly aren\u2019t horror movies, you might be surprised to discover, though Steven Spielberg\u2019s <strong>JAWS <\/strong>did make the list. Spielberg\u2019s sci-fi classic <strong>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/strong> is also on King\u2019s list, while The Exorcist director William Friedkin\u2019s other 1970s masterpiece, <strong>Sorcerer <\/strong>starring Jaws actor Roy Scheider, made the cut as well.<\/p>\n<p>Other films on Stephen King\u2019s list of his personal favorite movies include <strong>The Godfather Part II, The Getaway, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/strong>, and<strong> Double Indemnity<\/strong>, along with Martin Scorsese\u2019s <strong>Mean Streets<\/strong>. The most surprising movie on the list might be the 1993 Bill Murray comedy <strong>Groundhog Day<\/strong>, which is also the most recent movie on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SORCERER<\/li>\n<li>GODFATHER 2<\/li>\n<li>THE GETAWAY<\/li>\n<li>GROUNDHOG DAY<\/li>\n<li>CASABLANCA<\/li>\n<li>TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE<\/li>\n<li>JAWS<\/li>\n<li>MEAN STREETS<\/li>\n<li>CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3rd KIND<\/li>\n<li>DOUBLE INDEMNITY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a list of horror movies that Stephen King has personally recommend over the years, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/3421593\/15-horror-movies-stephen-king-personally-recommended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we\u2019ve got you covered<\/a>. Movies on that random list of titles that King has gone on record recommending include The Blair Witch Project, Crimson Peak, Dawn of the Dead (2004), The Descent, Event Horizon, Final Destination, Stir of Echoes, and The Witch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My 10 favorite movies (excluding MISERY, SHAWSHANK, GREEN MILE, STAND BY ME). In no particular order:<br \/>SORCERER<br \/>GODFATHER 2<br \/>THE GETAWAY<br \/>GROUNDHOG DAY<br \/>CASABLANCA<br \/>TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE<br \/>JAWS<br \/>MEAN STREETS<br \/>CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3rd KIND<br \/>DOUBLE INDEMNITY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1965123590304793030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a new Stephen King movie arriving in theaters this week \u2013 director Francis Lawrence\u2019s The Long Walk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,25566,19861,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jaws","10":"tag-stephen-king","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178035607512438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}