Movies from Stephen King

Vivarium

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
VIVARIUM (Hulu) blew me away. Rich and strange. If you love it, thank me. If you hate it, don't blame me.
Movies from Stephen King

The Rental

Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
I liked Dave Franco's THE RENTAL (Amazon Prime) very much. We've seen this horror trope before, what Joe Bob Briggs once called "Spam in a cabin," but this features an actual plot, drawn wire-tight. Has a John D. MacDonald feel.
Movies from Stephen King

One Cut of the Dead

Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned Second World War Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
Paul Tremblay turned me on to ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (Shudder). If you think you’ve seen every variation of zombies-on-a-rampage...you haven’t. Original and big fun. Thanks, Paul!
Movies from Stephen King

Sea Fever

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
Bored? Stuck inside? Need recommends? No? Here are some, anyway. TV: BOSCH--Excellent detective series. A+ Movie: SEA FEVER--Irish horror. A- Book: MISSING PERSON, by Sarah Lotz--Internet sleuths vs. serial killer. A
Movies from Stephen King

GoodFellas

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
A great book about A great movie.
Movies from Stephen King

Big Fan

Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station and decide to follow him. At a strip club Paul cautiously decides to approach him but the chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
I loved that movie. Saw it at the Kendall Square in Cambridge.
Movies from Stephen King

Little Women

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
LITTLE WOMEN delivers big entertainment. It's involving, and quietly says, "Kindness is no crime." No sloppy sentimentality here, but several sharp banderillas planted in the patrirachy. Those thrusts struck me as a bit beyond the time, tho.
Movies from Stephen King

The Godfather: Part II

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
I agree completely. Sequels can be brilliant (GODFATHER 2), but it’s still a sequel, dependent upon the original.
Movies from Stephen King

The Final Girls

A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
THE FINAL GIRLS is really great, a sweet horror movie spoof that winds up feeling like MOONRISE KINGDOM.
Movies from Stephen King

Veronica Mars

Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
I'm so there. Always loved the show. And the movie!
Movies from Stephen King

Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
Waiting for the Sam Mendes film 1917, and it raised a question in my mind: what's the greatest war film of all time? Maybe a tie between PATHS OF GLORY and APOCALYPSE NOW?
Movies from Stephen King

Paths of Glory

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
Waiting for the Sam Mendes film 1917, and it raised a question in my mind: what's the greatest war film of all time? Maybe a tie between PATHS OF GLORY and APOCALYPSE NOW?
Movies from Stephen King

Jaws

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
After deep consideration, "You're gonna need a bigger boat" is still the best line in movie history. Runner up: "Game over, man! Game over!"
Movies from Stephen King

Calibre

Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Stephen King
Writer, Screenwriter
CALIBRE, on Netflix: This one is a genuine nail-biter. It's got a Hitchcock vibe with a little bit of THE WICKER MAN tossed in for good measure.