{"id":2013528,"date":"2025-09-11T06:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2013528"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:40:18","slug":"stephen-king-lists-his-10-favorite-movies-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-king-lists-his-10-favorite-movies-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King lists his 10 favorite movies of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iconic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/stephen-king-leaving-x-over-013938638.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:horror author;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">horror author<\/a> Stephen King shared his top 10 movies of all time Monday, with some notable absences that didn\u2019t go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you\u2019re wondering, the \u201cCarrie\u201d author made it clear on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1965123590304793030?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:social platform X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">social platform X<\/a> that he was excluding some of his own adapted works, such as \u201cMisery,\u201d \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption,\u201d \u201cThe Green Mile\u201d and \u201cStand by Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While there seemed to be general approval of his choices, the absence of one film based on a classic King novel led to a stir in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe best film ever is THE SHINING,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite its legendary status in the horror genre, King has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/stephen-king-shining-movie-stanley-kubrick-opinion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:famously criticized;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">famously criticized<\/a> the film adaption and even the acting job of Jack Nicholson, who played main character Jack Torrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a 2016 interview with Deadline, King <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/02\/stephen-king-what-hollywood-owes-authors-when-their-books-become-films-q-a-the-dark-tower-the-shining-1201694691\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I think\u00a0\u2018The Shining\u2019\u00a0is a beautiful film and it looks terrific and as I\u2019ve said before, it\u2019s like a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it. In that sense, when it opened, a lot of the reviews weren\u2019t very favorable and I was one of those reviewers. I kept my mouth shut at the time, but I didn\u2019t care for it much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Others took issue with King\u2019s decision to leave all of the Star Wars films off of his list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As for the best 10 best movies of all time according to Stephen King, the prolific author listed them as follows, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Godfather Part II\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTreasure of the Sierra Madre\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cClose encounters of the 3rd Kind\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For those who prefer King\u2019s writing to his movie recommendations, fans of \u201cThe Stand\u201d may enjoy the recently published \u201cThe End of the World as We Know It,\u201d a collection of stories set in the world of the celebrated 1978 book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic horror author Stephen King shared his top 10 movies of all time Monday, with some notable absences that didn\u2019t go unnoticed. If you\u2019re wondering, the \u201cCarrie\u201d author made it clear on social platform X that he was excluding some of his own adapted works, such as \u201cMisery,\u201d \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption,\u201d \u201cThe Green Mile\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[356059,52282,360175,368769],"class_list":["post-2013528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-jack-nicholson","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-green-mile","tag-the-shawshank-redemption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Stephen-King-lists-his-10-favorite-movies-of-all-time.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}