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Tobin Bell’s Five Favorite Horror Films Include ‘The Descent’
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.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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