Stephen King Reveals His Top 10 Favorite Movies — But Keeps His Own Adaptations Out of the Mix

I’m sounding the quality alarm — this is simply a large one. Horror maestro Stephen King has released a database of his apical 10 favourite movies, and arsenic you’d expect, it’s 1 hellhole of a lineup.

"My 10 favourite movies (excluding MISERY, SHAWSHANK, GREEN MILE, STAND BY ME)," the beloved fearfulness novelist wrote connected X Twitter earlier listing his favorites “in nary peculiar order.”

That database contained the pursuing films: Sorcerer, The Godfather 2, The Getaway, Groundhog Day, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Jaws, Mean Streets, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Double Indemnity.

Stephen King Top 10 favourite movies:

• SORCERER
• GODFATHER 2
• THE GETAWAY
• GROUNDHOG DAY
• CASABLANCA
• TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
• JAWS
• MEAN STREETS
• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3rd KIND
• DOUBLE INDEMNITY

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Interestingly enough, King’s database — which wholly rocks, by the mode — doesn’t propulsion past 1993 successful presumption of merchandise dates, arsenic that’s the twelvemonth Groundhog Day was released. So it stands to crushed that thing successful the modern epoch has swayed him capable to instrumentality implicit 1 of the coveted favourite spots from older releases that made an content connected him successful his younger years. That said, the database is top-to-bottom heaters, truthful it doesn’t needfully request thing newer.

King made it a constituent to support his ain movie adaptations retired of the ranking process, but it would beryllium absorbing to spot however helium would fertile the adaptations of his enactment based connected which helium personally enjoys most. Clearly, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Stand By Me would extremity up beauteous precocious connected that list, considering King made it a constituent to azygous them retired successful his Twitter station — but arsenic for wherever the remainder of his films would land, it’s anybody’s guess.

When it comes to movie adaptations, it seems arsenic though there’s much and much coming from King’s enactment each year. But it looks similar determination whitethorn beryllium an unmissable 1 connected our hands present with The Long Walk. IGN’s reappraisal calls the movie “a timely and almighty condemnation of normalized violence” that makes “the worth of relationship and kindness consciousness each the much powerful.”

The Long Walk arrives successful theaters connected September 12.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.