Yellowjackets star's new horror was so scary it had to be re-edited
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Sophie Thatcher, the star of Yellowjackets, will soon be seen in new horror movie The Boogeyman — but be warned, horror lovers, the film had to be re-edited because it was too scary the first time round.
The Boogeyman is based on a short story by Stephen King and follows high school student Sadie Harper and her sister trying to recover from their mother's death. Meanwhile, their therapist father lets a desperate patient into their house who brings in a dark entity.
Sadie is played by Thatcher, who plays Teen Natalie in Yellowjackets, which also features The Last of Us actress Melanie Lynskey.
The Boogeyman director Rob Savage recently told Empire that the movie scared early audiences so much that he had to re-edit it to make it more watchable for other audiences.
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"The first time you see the creature, the audience screamed so loud, and then immediately started talking with their neighbours and chattering, that they completely missed the next lines," Savage said.
"So we had to re-cut it and build in 45 seconds of padding, just so they didn’t miss any vital information."
He continues: "I’m a huge jump-scare guy. That’s the most gratifying part, when you see that play with an audience and you can feel them taking the bait, and then you feel the jump land."
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One of those early audience members was Stephen King himself. Savage rented out a movie theatre in Maine to screen the movie for him.
"I didn’t go because I was terrified that he was going to do a Shining on it and absolutely hate it. But apparently, he jumped on numerous occasions, and then sent this lovely, lovely message to everyone who worked on the movie," Savage said.
"And the next morning I get an email saying, 'From Stephen King.' And he says, 'Robert, I’m still thinking about your movie the next morning.'"
Yellowjackets season 2 airs on Showtime in the US and Paramount+ in the UK.
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