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Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Horror, Stephen King, Books
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Horror, Stephen King, Books
Stephen King has revealed which horror film even he can't sit through.
Despite being known as one of the best horror and supernatural fiction writers across the globe, Stephen King has admitted defeat when it comes to sitting down and making it all the way through one particular horror.
He may still be doing much better than me - I can barely make it through Coraline without needing to peer through my fingers at the screen - however, what movie could possibly have got the better of the so-called 'King of Horror'?
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King appeared on History of Horror hosted by Cabin Fever actor, Eli Routh.
He revealed there was one movie he first decided to watch when he was in hospital and 'doped up', which is probably the worst time to watch a horror if you ask me. Nevertheless, King's son brought the film to him in the form of VHS tape and convinced him to settle down and give it a try.
However, the movie proved too much, King forced to 'turn it off' just 'halfway through,' telling his son it was 'too freaky'.
But which horror saw even the 'King of Horror' admit defeat?
Well, the movie may only have a meagre Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 57 percent, but the horror which frightened King is none other than The Blair Witch Project.
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, their innocent exploring and interviewing of locals takes a dark turn when they enter the woods and begin to hear strange noises.
While it only received an audience score of 57 percent, it obtained an officially fresh tomatometer score of 86 percent and really, none of that even matters when it left King so terrified he had to switch it off midway through.
So haunted was he by that first half of the movie, King 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."
So, you've been warned by the King of Horror himself... watch if you dare.