The only horror movie Stephen King couldn't finish watching

The history of the horror genre in cinema could not be told without mentioning the prolific writer Stephen King on more than one occasion. If you review the films that have marked a before and after scaring several generations, you will be able to read in their credit titles that of “based on the novel by Stephen King”. The list of terrifying situations, characters and scenarios seems endless: The Shining, It, Carrie, The Boys of the Corn or Misery are just some of the adaptations that have nurtured the seventh art on more than one occasion. writer creates these stories, we might think that there is no curse, ghost or killer that can scare you. But there is a movie that not even the genius of terror could finish seeing. The author himself told the same for Comic Book: “The first time I saw The Blair Witch Project I was in the hospital and I was drugged,” he recalled the writing, “my son brought a VHS tape and told me: You have to see this”. About halfway through the movie, King acknowledged that he couldn’t finish watching it, so he told his son: “Turn it off (the TV), it’s too weird.” At least we know that the writer was not in his best condition when he began the famous story that was a real blockbuster around the world in 1999. The reason he was hospitalized was due to a car hit while walking down the road, An event that later, as he himself would relate, was a great inspiration in his later works, but it is not the first time that Stephen King speaks of The Blair Witch Project. In 2010, in one of his nonfiction books, the author pointed out his love for the original story of the film: “The damn thing feels real.And as it is, it’s like the worst nightmare you’ve ever had, the one you woke up from panting and crying in relief because you thought you were buried alive and it turned out that the cat jumped on your bed and fell asleep on your chest. ” One of the main reasons for this supposed reality was that the film is part of the mockumentary or mockumentary genre in which camera in hand, the protagonists seem to be narrating non-fictional events, although everything is perfectly dialogued.