{"id":211465,"date":"2025-09-09T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211465\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:30:10","slug":"stephen-king-reveals-his-10-favorite-movies-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211465\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King Reveals His 10 Favorite Movies of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs another Stephen King<\/a> thriller is set to hit theaters, the bestselling author has revealed his 10 favorite movies of all time.<\/p>\n

\n\tKing took to X to post the list, which comes as the Lionsgate film The Long Walk \u2014 which is based on King\u2019s 1979 dystopian novel \u2014 is set to stroll into theaters this month. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe author listed his favorites, but first noted his list excludes four particular films that were based on his novels or novellas.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe four titles he left out (because, one assumes, they would otherwise likely be among his personal Top 10) are 1990\u2019s Misery, 1994\u2019s The Shawshank Redemption, 1986\u2019s Stand by Me and 1999\u2019s The Green Mile. All four are frequently cited among the best King adaptations. Misery and Stand by Me notably share the same director (Rob Reiner), as do Shawshank and Mile (Frank Darabont). Also, two of them (Stand by Me and Shawshank) were based on novellas from the same collection of four stories (Different Seasons). Only one title, Misery, would be classified as a horror story despite it being the genre most strongly associated with King.<\/p>\n

\n\t(If you\u2019re surprised 1980\u2019s The Shining isn\u2019t on his list of favorite adaptations, King famously had many objections to Stanley Kubrick\u2019s iconic film, saying, among other things, \u201cThe character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all. All he does is get crazier. In the book, he\u2019s a guy who\u2019s struggling with his sanity and finally loses it \u2026 [the film is] like a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for his list of favorite films of all time that are not based on his published works, he said the following titles were \u201cin no particular order\u201d: 1977\u2019s Sorcerer, 1974\u2019s The Godfather Part II, 1972\u2019s The Getaway, 1993\u2019s Groundhog Day, 1943\u2019s Casablanca, 1948\u2019s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1975\u2019s Jaws, 1973\u2019s Mean Streets, 1977\u2019s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1944\u2019s Double Indemnity. <\/p>\n

\n\tSeveral of these are rather common best-of-all-time choices, such as Spielberg\u2019s Jaws and Close Encounters, Michael Curtiz\u2019 Casablanca, Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Godfather Part II and Billy Wilder\u2019s Double Indemnity. Harold Ramis\u2019 Groundhog Day, too, is considered a quasi-modern masterpiece by many. <\/p>\n

\n\tMean Streets is an interesting choice, however, as few would rank it among Martin Scorsese\u2019s best films (we sure didn\u2019t<\/a>). <\/p>\n

\n\tAnother intriguing pick is The Getaway (we\u2019re assuming King means the 1972 version and not the 1994 remake). The gritty Sam Peckinpah crime drama is based on Jim Thompson\u2019s 1958 novel, and King is a big fan of Thompson\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere definitely seems to be a time period sweet spot to the list, with six of the films from the 1970s, back when King was in 20s. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhich brings us to the most surprising pick on the list: William Friedkin\u2019s Sorcerer. The rather confusingly titled film is a bit like Treasure of the Sierra Madre and tells the story of four fugitives from very different backgrounds taking refuge in a Central American village who agree to transport trucks loaded with unstable explosives across perilous jungle roads. The film was a box office flop upon its release, though has gained some critical favor in the years since. It\u2019s most notable for this incredibly riveting \u201chow did they do that?\u201d sequence where the trucks have to cross a rickety wooden bridge over a river during a rainstorm.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As another Stephen King thriller is set to hit theaters, the bestselling author has revealed his 10 favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,12757,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-211465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-stephen-king","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115171519586955895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}