I love both The Dark Half and The Dead Zone.

Though I do have to question how the killer in the rubber coat in The Dead Zone was able to generate enough force to kill himself with those scissors.  Gruesome idea, but plausibly unsound.

Still, a great flick.

Excellent, you have given me reason to watch it again.  Walken one of my fave actors.

Dead Zone I was going to say anyway.

Can't really think of any more underrated ones.  Liked the Stand, didn't like the Mist.

Though I do have to question how the killer in the rubber coat in The Dead Zone was able to generate enough force to kill himself with those scissors.  Gruesome idea, but plausibly unsound.

Still, a great flick.

I've been trying to get my hands on Sometimes They Come Back.  Anyone seen this?  This is definitely one of the better ones, it is sort of on a similar level as IT. 

Anyone here seen the Dark Half directed by George Romero?  That is definitely underrated a bit. 

Dead Zone. Directed by Cronenberg and starring Walken.

LoudLon wrote:

Well, a lot of King movies are flat out failures.  I don't think there's any underrating going on when it comes to stuff like The Stand, The Langoliers, The Golden Years, etc. because, well, they were actually bad.

Personally I think the most under-rated is Needful Things.  I loved the book but the ending was god-awful, which is something King actually does a lot -- pulls you into this great story and wows you and scares you and thrills you and then does something really lame for an ending.  I mean seriously, Pangborn scares off the devil with a can of trick worms embued with the power of his love for his son?  PSSSHHHHTT!  The movie ending works SO much better.  And I think Ed Harris was the best Sheriff Pangborn to date.

IMO.

Another to avoid is SleepWalkers.

Yep, Sleepwalkers sucks bad. Only cool part was the car chase scene. The Trans AM was awesome.

I'm also a fan of Graveyard Shift. It's not even close to being a great movie but it doesn't take itself too seriously so it really works for me for sheer popcorn entertainment.

Night Flier and The Dark Half are pretty good.

Forgot about dark half .totally agree with DG

Well, a lot of King movies are flat out failures.  I don't think there's any underrating going on when it comes to stuff like The Stand, The Langoliers, The Golden Years, etc. because, well, they were actually bad.

Personally I think the most under-rated is Needful Things.  I loved the book but the ending was god-awful, which is something King actually does a lot -- pulls you into this great story and wows you and scares you and thrills you and then does something really lame for an ending.  I mean seriously, Pangborn scares off the devil with a can of trick worms embued with the power of his love for his son?  PSSSHHHHTT!  The movie ending works SO much better.  And I think Ed Harris was the best Sheriff Pangborn to date.

IMO.

Another to avoid is SleepWalkers.

I'm kinda with Lon on this.  Most King movies sucked.  The ones that didn't were fairly successful, thereby making them not really underrated.

Maybe Silver Bullet?

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ok...I take back that most King movies sucked.  Upon further thought, there were quite a few good ones.  Maybe 50/50 IMHO.