Exclusive: Celebrities share their first horror movie experiences

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Throughout the year, we have been asking celebrities about their first experiences with the horror genre and which scary movies have had the greatest impact on them. We’ve been able to assemble some great answers from a whole lot of familiar faces, and as part of our Halloween celebration we have compiled the answers together to share with you in the video below.

Classics are mentioned, and there are also some surprises in there. It’s interesting to hear what some of the interviewees considered to be horror elements in films that aren’t necessarily, or definitely aren’t at all, labeled as horror.

Featured in the video are Bruce Campbell, Keanu Reeves, Bryce Dallas Howard, Guillermo del Toro, Jessica Chastain, Lucy Lawless, Jack Black, Hailee Steinfeld, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and more, including a fun extended chat with Elijah Wood. I’m very happy to see that he’s continuing to promote Tim Ritter’s 1986 shot-on-video classic TRUTH OR DARE?: A CRITICAL MADNESS, a movie he often talks about when horror is brought up. 

To see it all, just press play: 

Source: Arrow in the Head

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Favorite Movies: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of read more George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

Likes: Movies, horror, '80s slashers, podcasts, animals, traveling, Brazil (the country), the read more Cinema Wasteland convention, classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, James Bond, Tom Cruise, Marvel comics, the grindhouse/drive-in era

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