Famed horror author Stephen King is back in the spotlight this week as a film adaptation of his 1979 dystopian novel “The Long Walk” hits cinemas Friday and is scoring rave reviews as one of the best adaptations of his work.
Helping talk up the film, he revealed his own ten favorite movies of all time with a list that mostly stuck to films from the 1940s (3) and 1970s (6), with one 1990s title making it in.
Before he began the list he deliberately ruled out four films based on his own written works, namely some of the most acclaimed adaptations of his own work – namely Rob Reiner’s “Stand By Me” and “Misery” and Frank Darabont’s “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”.
King also famously is not a fan of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” which was obviously not included either. The ten that did make it though, which he said were in no particular order in his posting (via X):
William Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”
Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II”
Sam Peckinpah’s “The Getaway”
Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog Day”
Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca”
John Huston’s “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”
Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets”
Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity”
Many of these are considered classics with the most surprising entries considered to be “Mean Streets,” “The Getaway” and “Sorcerer,” though the latter has seen appreciation of it skyrocket in recent years.
