Latest Stephen King Movie DVDs

Welcome to our list of the most recent Stephen King movie DVDs

More and more theatrical movie adaptations of Stephen King books and short stories are coming out every year, so we will do our best to keep this list of the latest Stephen King DVD’s as up to date as possible for you.

This page covers all theatrical movie releases from The Shawshank Redemption in 1994, to the present day. Made for TV adaptations of Stephen King’s work will be published on a separate page shortly.

If you were looking for a Stephen King DVD that was originally released prior to 1994, all the classic Stephen King DVDs are here.

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A Good Marriage

Original Release: October 3, 2014

Director: Peter Askin

Starring: Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Kristen Connolly, Stephen Lang

Based on the Stephen King short story of the same name that was published in Full Dark, No Stars, A Good Marriage is a Physiological thriller about a wife who discovers that her husband is a serial rapist and murderer and the complex dilemma that she then faces.

Screenplay by Stephen King

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Mercy

Original Release: October 7, 2014

Director: Peter Cornwell

Starring: Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney, Shirley Knight, Dylan McDermott, Mark Duplass, Frances O'Connor

Mercy is a supernatural thriller loosely based on the Stephen King short story Gramma, which was first published in the magazine Weirdbook in 1984 and then it appeared again in Skeleton Crew in 1985.

Mercy is the tale of a mother and her two children who move in with their dying grandmother to take care of her.  While there, they experience strange happenings that they believe can only be the work of an evil witch.

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The Mist

Original Release: November 21, 2007

Director: Frank Darabont

Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Andre Braugher, Samuel Witwer, Toby Jones

Based on The Mist that appeared in Skeleton Crew, this Stephen King movie is widely regarded as one the best screen adaptations of the writer’s work.

Following a freak storm, David Drayton, his son, and a neighbour, venture out to the local store to stock up on supplies. While they are there, the town is enveloped in strange mist that hides some strange and deadly creatures within it.

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1408

Original Release: June 22, 2007

Director: Mikael Håfström

Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub, Len Cariou, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Jasmine Jessica Anthony

Mike Enslin writes best-selling “real-life” ghost stories, but he is really a sceptic about the supernatural. When he dares to spend a night in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel, where fifty previous guests have met their end, he finds out that some ghost stories really can be true.

A genuinely creepy thriller

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Riding The Bullet

Original Release: October 15, 2004

Director: Mick Garris

Starring: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Cliff Robertson

Adapted from the Stephen King Novella of the same name, Riding the Bullet tells the story of a student, Alan Parker, who is obsessed by death. 

When he finds out that his mother is dying, he can only get home to her by hitchhiking. Along the way, he encounters George Staub, who makes him a deal he won’t forget.

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Secret Window

Original Release: March 12, 2004

Director: David Koepp

Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton

Based on the Stephen King novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, which first appeared in the Four Past Midnight collection, Secret Window is a psychological thriller starring Johnny Depp.

When author Mort Rainey is accused of plagiarism, he has to prove that he wrote the story in question first. The problem is that the evidence to support his case seems to be disappearing, along with the people that could have backed him up.

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Dreamcatcher

Original Release: March 21, 2003

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg

A normal hunting trip turns decidedly dangerous for four friends when they come across a disorientated stranger stumbling through the forest. They soon discover that the stranger has been possessed by an alien and things get worse when the military quarantine the whole area, with them still in it.

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Hearts in Atlantis

Original Release: September 28, 2001

Director: Scott Hicks

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse

The Hearts In Atlantis movie is loosely based on the Stephen King novella "Low Men in Yellow Coats", which appeared in the Hearts of Atlantis Stephen King Collection. The story revolves around a young boy, Bobby Garfield, who befriends an old man with physic powers, Ted Brautigan.

When Bobby fails to heed the old man's instructions, the consequences are dire.

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The Green Mile

Original Release: December 10, 1999

Director: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell

This superb adaptation of Stephen King’s Green Mile stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey.

When the gentle giant John Coffey arrives at Cold Mountain Penitentiary’s death row, which they call the Green Mile, it soon becomes apparent that there is more to John Coffey than meets the eye when it is discovered that he has the power to heal.

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Apt Pupil

Original Release: October 23, 1998

Director: Bryan Singer

Starring: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro

Based on the Stephen King novella of the same name, Apt Pupil is a challenging film about a difficult subject. Todd Bowden is a high school student who is obsessed by Nazi Germany, so when he discovers that a Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander, is living in his town; he blackmails him to make him tell stories of Nazi atrocities. 

The retelling of the horror of the death camps has a disturbing effect on both of them.

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The Night Flier

Original Release: May 2, 1997

Director: Mark Pavia

Starring: Miguel Ferrer, Julie Entwisle, Dan Monahan

Adapted from the Stephen King Short story of the same name, The Night Flyer follows a reporter, Robert Dees, as he pursues a scoop about a so-called vampire, Dwight Renfield. When Robert Dees does finally catch up with Renfield, he gets a lot more than just a good story for the magazine he is working for.

A genuinely creepy tale!

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Thinner

Original Release: October 25, 1996

Director: Tom Holland

Starring: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wührer, Bethany Joy Lenz

When lawyer Billy Halleck gets nothing more than a slap on the wrist for running down an old gypsy woman in his car and killing her, the woman’s husband places a curse on Halleck by saying the word “Thinner”. Halleck starts to lose weight and there’s nothing he can do about it, so he seeks help from an old gangster client of his to try to scare the gypsy family into leaving him alone.

A Stephen King DVD where even the victim is not a nice guy.

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Dolores Claiborne

Original Release: March 24, 1995

Director: Taylor Hackford

Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly, Christopher Plummer

Dolores Claiborne is a physiological thriller based on the Stephen King book of the same name. It’s another storming performance by Kathy Bates, who also appeared in Misery, in a tale of a woman accused of murder and her relationship with her estranged daughter.

Ultimately, Selena St. George, the daughter, must face the demons of her past and the truth about her parents.

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The Mangler

Original Release: 3 March 1995

Director: Tobe Hooper

Starring: Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor, Jeremy Crutchley, Vanessa Pike

Starring Robert Englund of Nightmare on Elm Street fame, The Mangler was adapted from the short story of the same name first published in the Stephen King book Night Shift.

When Police Officer John Hunton investigates the large number of worker deaths at a laundry, he discovers that the owner of the laundry, Bill Gartley, has been feeding young virgins to a possessed piece of machinery known as the Mangler.

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The Shawshank Redemption

Original Release: September 23, 1994

Director: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore

This Stephen King DVD really needs little introduction. Critically acclaimed and Stephen Kings own favourite movie adaption of his work, The Shawshank Redemption is a brilliant story of hope and friendship against all the odds.

Stephen King fan or not, everyone should watch The Shawshank redemption at least once.

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For DVDs of movies released prior to Shawshank Redmeption:

Classic Stephen King Classic Movie DVDs