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Stephen King has claimed that the most successful horror movies are low-budget.
The best-selling author said studio executives are out of touch in continuing to believe that high-tech wizardry makes a film scary.
He told EW.com: "Most really good horror films are low-budget affairs with special effects cooked up in someone's basement or garage. Among those that truly work are Carnival Of Souls, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night Of The Living Dead, and The Blair Witch Project.
"All cost almost nothing to make and earned millions, while their sequels and remakes were [mostly] crap."
King added: "Horror is an intimate experience, something that occurs mostly within oneself, and when it works, the screams of a sold-out house are almost intrusive.
"Studio execs, who not only live behind the curve but seem to have built mansions there, don't seem to understand that most movie-goers recognise all the blue screens and computer graphics of big-budget films and flick them aside."
