With classics like The Shining, Pet Sematary and It, Stephen King has written some of the scariest and most popular horror novels of all time. But that doesn’t mean the cult author can’t still scare himself. Collider has picked up an older article by King in which he for him personally the scariest horror scene ever describes. You can currently stream the film directly with a subscription.
Stephen King calls opening scene of zombie classic a horror masterpiece
In the Entertainment Weekly article that King wrote in 2008 on the occasion of the release of the horror film The Strangers, the author examines why so many Hollywood productions fail in the horror genre.
He writes, among other things, that Horror at its best is a very intimate experience and touches the emotions as well as the imagination. Then he talks about what he himself considers to be the best horror scene in film history:
The scariest scene I can remember is in Night of the living dead. The heroine of the cemetery visit, Barbara, is chased back to her car by a staggering zombie with white hair and dazed eyes. She locks herself in and finds that her brother has stolen the keys. The zombie reaches down, finds a rock and begins to smash it feebly against the car window. The first time I saw this (and twice after that), I was completely overwhelmed by the scene.
King’s praise for the film is not unjustified, because Night of the Living Dead is a absolute classic of the genre. With its mix of scary suspense and socially critical message, it is one of the most influential zombie films ever, alongside Zombie – Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero.
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