10 Horror Movie Actors Who HATED Their Own Performances

1. Anya Taylor-Joy - The Witch

The Witch
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From director Robert Eggers, 2015's The Witch is a movie that stands out as somewhat of a modern classic.

A 1630s-set supernatural horror picture about a Puritan family engulfed by a looming-large evil presence, Eggers' directorial feature debut won plentiful praise from fans and critics alike, picking up numerous awards, and managing to take home a cool $40 million box office haul against its $4 million budget.

For star Anya Taylor-Joy - in what was her movie debut - she was left "devastated" after watching The Witch for the first time.

As the actress told Indiewire, her first watch of The Witch took place shortly before the film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in January 2015.

"Rob [Eggers] showed us the film maybe two hours before the audience screening, and I was devastated. I thought I'd never work again. I still get shivers thinking about it. It was just the worst feeling of, 'I have let down the people I love most in the world. I didn't do it right'. And I'm quite verbose; I like to talk, I like to communicate. I did not talk, I just cried."

Of course, since The Witch, Anya Taylor-Joy has starred in the likes of Split, Glass, Peaky Blinders, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Emma, The New Mutants (you can't win 'em all) and picked up a Golden Globe Award for her role as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit.

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