The Long Walk, Stephen King’s upcoming American dystopian thriller, premieres on September 12 in theaters in the US with a jaw-dropping screening.
Fans hoping to see Stephen’s King’s new flick have a tough task ahead of them next month. Dystopian horror, The Long Walk, is out on September 12 in America, and producers are doing all they can to make its launch as epic as possible.
The film is set in a totalitarian ruled-regime in the US in which a group of young men entering an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.
The film’s special screening will feature a treadmill that the audience must walk on for more than 3 mph for the duration of the movie in order to be kicked out of the theater.
Lionsgate shared a screengrab of the movie with an unsettling treadmill after announcing the strict instructions.
According to the captions in the post, “Lionsgate is holding a screening of “THE LONG WALK,” where attendees must walk on a treadmill at a speed of 3MPH for the entire film. You’ll be led out of the movie theater if you stop.
One fan joked, “You’ll be escorted out the movie theater and you’ll be shot.” That’s what they don’t tell you, exactly”!
Another teased that “you’ll be grateful you were shot after 70-80 minutes of holding in your bladder.”
Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson are the stars of the movie, whose UK release has yet to be confirmed.
One hundred boys are chosen to enter an annual contest where the winner will receive whatever he wants for the rest of his life, according to the blurb from King’s 1979 book of the same name. Maintain a steady four-mile per hour walking pace without stopping, which is the game. Three warnings, and you’re permanently expelled.
The new adaptation, which will be released in theaters next month, has been so intense that it’s been making people’s heart rates go up to ‘hazard’ levels.
A “biometrics screening” of the movie was recently conducted in a different special preview, and the outcomes were jaw-dropping.
The heart rates of viewers more than doubled within the first 20 minutes of the movie despite the average human heart rate being between 70 and 80 beats per minute.
Rates exceeding 200 beats per minute, which is considered “hazardous” when used outside of intense exercise, were at their highest.
Cinemagoers’ heart rates were comparable to those of a fighter pilot’s body under 9 grams of force, according to a screening promotional video.
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Source: Mirror
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