Stephen King has opened up about the one horror film he absolutely can't sit through - and it may surprise you.
Even though King is one of the best horror writers in the world, there’s just one movie he can’t get over.
I mean, I can’t really judge as I still get nightmares from that one time I watched Jeepers Creepers when I was a kid.
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Don’t even get me started on Jaws being the reason I can barely enter a swimming pool…
Anyway, he went on to disclose which movie got him all in a twist and with a catalogue of horror flicks out there to choose from, you probably wouldn’t have guessed it’s this one.
Appearing on History of Horror hosted by Cabin Fever actor Eli Roth, he revealed there was one movie he first decided to watch when he was in hospital and 'doped up', which is not a great time to watch a horror if you ask me.
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Nevertheless, King's son handed the film to him in the form of VHS tape and convinced him to at least give it a try.
But the movie was just too much, and King was forced to 'turn it off' just 'halfway through,' telling his son it was 'too freaky'.
So, which film was just too much for the king of horror?
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The horror which frightened King is none other than The Blair Witch Project.
As someone who once saw this film, I’m going to have to agree. Found footage is the spookiest.
The 1999 American supernatural horror written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, tells the tale of a group of three young filmmaker students who travel to a village in Maryland to create a documentary about the mythical Blair Witch.
However, it takes a dark turn when they enter the woods and begin to hear strange noises.
While it only received an audience score of 57 per ent, it obtained an officially fresh Tomatometer score of 86 percent which sounds a little bit more realistic considering what it did to King.
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The film left its mark on King and he even wrote about it in a 2010 edition of his book, Danse Macabre.
King said: "One thing about Blair Witch: the damn thing looks real. Another thing about Blair Witch: the damn thing feels real.
"And because it does, it’s like the worst nightmare you ever had, the one you woke from gasping and crying with relief because you thought you were buried alive and it turned out the cat jumped up on your bed and went to sleep on your chest."
Topics: Stephen King, Film
Britt Jones