Stephen King, knows a bit about horror, so we’re interested in his take on the age old question of ‘greatest horror movie of all time’.

He answered this question for Variety:

“I thought deeply about this question, perhaps more deeply than the subject — my scariest horror movie — deserves… but then, I’ve seen a lot of horror movies, so maybe it’s a valid Q,” he starts.

“My conclusion is that the ‘scariest’ varies according to the viewer’s age. As a kid of 16, the scariest movie was The Haunting (directed by Robert Wise). As an adult, it was The Blair Witch Project, with that building sense of doom and those truly horrible last 35 seconds. But overall, I’d have to say Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero’s low-budget masterpiece.”

Later he explains “And now that I think of it, there’s a real similarity to Blair Witch, both with minimal or no music, both cast with unknown actors who seem barely capable of summer stock in Paducahville, both with low-tech special effects. They work not in spite of those things, but because of them.”