If you want blood… Sissy Spacek in 1976’s Carrie.
ManyStephen King fans have a good anecdote about discovering him young, but Daphné Baiwir’s is a corker. ‘It was 2002 – I was 10 and I loved to read scary stories,’ she starts. ‘So I asked my father, “Could you recommend a really terrifying book?” He found The Shining. I read it in two days. The funny thing is, my father at the time worked night shifts in a hotel. I spent a lot of time walking in the hallways, on the different floors. It was like living The Shining.’