As it turns out, this horror icon has great taste in horror.
Part of an ongoing series for the month of October, Rotten Tomatoes just asked Saw franchise star Tobin Bell to list off his five favorite horror films of all time.
“Obviously, people go to horror films to be scared and to have a visceral experience and to be thrown back into their seats and clutching the person next to them and all of those kind of simple things. The same things come into play with a horror film as with anything else,” Bell responded, when asked what makes horror work for him. “For me, I mean, I’m subjective, but for me, it’s character and relationship. It’s not necessarily always about plot, but plot helps. For me, as an actor, I want to care about the people, and then whatever happens to them happens.”
Bell’s five favorite horror films? Diabolique (1955), Psycho (1960), The Exorcist (1973), The Descent (2006) and Wolf Creek (2005).
“What I liked about that was the fact that you spent the first half hour of the film developing the characters,” Bell said in praise of The Descent, echoing his overall thoughts on what makes good horror, well, good horror. “You cared about the people. By the time they went into the cave, you were involved.”
Head over to Rotten Tomatoes for Bell’s full thoughts on each movie.
