You’d think nothing could scare the pants off Stephen King, who penned seat-gripping novels that were turned into nail-biting movies — but there was one film the King of Horror couldn’t watch all the way through: the 1999 “found-footage” flick The Blair Witch Project.
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Having written Carrie, The Shining, The Stand and Pet Sematary, King says in the upcoming documentary Chain Reactions that he’s kind of hardened when it comes to horror movies but admits that “every now and then one will get under your skin, and that one really got under my skin.”
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The Blair Witch Project is a low-budget movie starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard as three film students who mysteriously vanish after venturing into a Maryland forest to shoot a documentary on the local legend of the Blair Witch. The flick is reportedly cobbled together from frightening footage they left behind.
King was recovering from devastating injuries he suffered getting hit by a van and watched the movie with his son Joe Hill. “I was in early recovery and in a lot of pain,” King recalls. “I was taking a lot of dope for the pain. My son came in, and my memory is that he had a TV monitor hooked up to an actual tape machine, and we sat and watched that movie.”
Eventually, things got to King as events turned bad for the students on-screen!
“The more we watched, the more these kids got into the woods and started to see these talismans hanging from the trees and everything, I got to a point where I said, ‘Joe, turn it off. I can’t take it anymore,’” King says. “And that’s rare.”
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