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Stephen King fan can earn $1,300 to watch 13 classic films by Halloween

Horror movie buffs, we found a perfect side-hustle for you — one company will pay a fan $1,3000 to watch 13 Stephen King films before Halloween

Honestly, this sounds like something we’d do on our own anyway, so getting paid for it is like a dream come true. 

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Company USDish will provided the 13 films to the only lucky fan to binge, as well as a survival kit with a flashlight, blanket, popcorn, candy and Stephen King merch to set the mood. Plus, you’ll have to wear a Fitbit provided by the company to track your heart rate during some of the most intense scenes. 

If that wasn’t enough, you get paid the cash and a movie theater gift card to spend as you wish. We know this sounds fake, but it’s totally legit. 

The films the winner will watch are listed below, and included several of our favorites. 

 

  • Carrie (original or 2013 remake)
  • Christine
  • Creepshow
  • Cujo
  • Dreamcatch
  • It (original or 2017 remake) 
  • The Mist
  • Salem’s Lot
  • Thinner
  • Misery 

 

The company wants to know “everything” about the viewer’s experience — your thoughts, feelings, sleep habits, heart rate and more. 

We’ll provide a worksheet to help guide you along the way, but you’re not limited to what we give you—feel free to share your thoughts, like a journal, and give us all the frightening deets!” the website reads. 

To sign up, you’ll need to be 18 years or older and a U.s. citizen or permanent resident. Also, you’ll need to write a 200 word essay about why the company should pick you for the job. You can apply here. The application closes Oct. 15, so you’ll have a little over two weeks to binge all the films if you win, which we think is pretty doable. 

More Stephen King news

Speaking of Stephen King, IT Chapter Two recently released in theaters with a nearly three-hour runtime. 

Despite the length, the director has been teasing a possible supercut of the two films with brand new footage. 

Prior to the film’s release, Andy Muschietti proposed his idea for a supercut with completely new scenes that haven’t been shot yet. 

“I am thinking of a supercut,” Muschietti said to Cinema Blend. “Which is basically the two movies told one after the other, adding everything that was lifted from them for length purposes. Great scenes that are more character moments, or things that we had to lift for other reasons. I’m also very excited about shooting extra material.” 

He added that the supercut version would probably be about six and a half hours long. 

“This is only an expression of desire, of course,” he said. “The supercut is something that is not yet out as an idea. We have to talk about it. But I definitely want to make a supercut with material that nobody has seen because it was lifted from Chapter Two. But also new stuff, new material.” 

He clarified that the films wouldn’t be blended together, but played one after the other. 

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Now, Muschietti is teasing us even more in a recent interview with Consequence of Sound. 

He revealed that reshoots are currently “under discussion” but they’re “not there yet.” 

He also talked about one essential scene that will be included in the supercut featuring Maturin the Turtle, which plays a big forced in the novel and is referenced in both films. However, the turtle never makes an appearance in the movies, but a scene with Bill Denborough (James McAvoy) was shot and scrapped from Chapter 2 featuring the character. Muschietti revealed that he would like to include the (spoiler-filled) scene in the supercut. 

It Chapter 2 spoiler ahead

“When you see McAvoy confronting his fear in the flooded basement,” Muschietti began. “Snd he kills the notion of guilt by killing himself as a kid, he jumps back in the water. He’s lost, there is no way out, and suddenly, the eyes of Pennywise — Pennywise Bill, the kid — come out of the dark. But it’s not Pennywise, it’s the turtle that is swimming by him. And he views the turtle and he’s sort of fascinated, like, ‘What is this thing?’, and very soon after, the kids are swimming after it. So, McAvoy follows them toward the light, and he emerges back in the cavern.”

He continued, explaining that the scene is heavily connected to the first film. 

“When you see the kids in the quarry, and they’re splashing around, and one of them says, ‘There’s something in the water.’ ‘What is it?’ ‘A turtle!’ And they all go into the water,” he said. “So, this is a continuation of that scene. It’s a beautiful scene, but I had to leave it out over pacing reasons. It was very emotional, but it was not in the right moment, where things had to move faster.” 

He said the scene was cut to focus on “human drama” and to avoid the risk of making it a “fantasy movie”. 

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He also discussed the possibility of more of Pennywise’s origin story to be included in the film, included a deleted scene that takes place in the 1600s. 

“I decided not to put it in the film because it was a little confusing. You know, the problem is that people sometimes want to know a little more, but if you give them too much, then they’re disappointed. It’s like a magic trick in a way,” he said. 

He said that if you reference the book, that “magic trick” happens in a way. 

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“Stephen King remains very cryptic about the other side, the origin of Pennywise, and he teases you with Robert Gray, and this, and that, and the turtle,” he continued. “And at the end, he opens the curtains, and shows you a lot about the other side, you know, the Macroverse? But I learned from that, that sometimes it’s better to keep things cryptic and generate mystery. It’s a balance… So yeah, that’s a scene that I love, but I will have to see how it can be re-orchestrated into the big cut if it happens.”

While he’d like to include that scene, he said it’s “too soon to tell” if it will be included for sure. 

When It: Chapter Two dropped it had the second-highest horror movie opening with $91 million, with the first It film beating it out for the No. 1 spot. You can see the creepy trailer for it below. 

What do you think of the Stephen King binge-watching job? Sound off in the comments down below!

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