Stephen King is one of those prolific writers whose scope of work is so vast, and whose better projects are so beloved, that its easy to forget about the stuff that isnt so good. The same is true for all the movies based on his short stories and novelsso many of them, at this point, are so good, that we barely even think about the ones that didnt quite hit. For every Dreamcatcher or Firestarter theres a Carrie, a Geralds Game, a Shining.Well, we think about it. We think about it so often that weve decided to collect the worst into a list of their own. For an author as beloved as King, whose work is, for the most part, pretty cinematic even in written form, there are tons of terrible movies based on his oeuvre of short stories and novels that almost make you wonder if the source material is bad, too. (Its usually not.) That said, its always fun to look back at the bad stuff to see where it all went wrong and what could have been improved.So, lets take a look back at some of the true failures, the worst of what is, all told, a markedly bad cinematic universe. There are probably at least twice as many actually bad movies based on Kings work, but were looking back at ten of them, starting in the mid-80s all the way to just a few years ago, stories that span everything from alien invasions to werewolves to werecats to cell phone zombies and, yes, evil sentient killer machines. We dont have a grand unifying theory of why these movies are so bad when others have been so good, but maybe there are some clues hidden within all the blood and guts and clown makeup.The Worst Stephen King Movies Ever MadeThere are some great Stephen King movies out there, but there are some truly terrible ones, too.Gallery Credit: Emma StefanskyREAD MORE: The Most Underrated Horror Movies of the 21st CenturyGet our free mobile appThe Scariest Kids Movies in HistoryFiled Under: Carrie, Firestarter, Stephen King, The Monkey, The Shining