Quentin Tarantino is a name you’d probably see at least once on literally anyone’s list of the 20 best films of the 21st century, but which non-Tarantino films does Tarantino think are the best to come along in the past 25 years? The Kill Bill filmmaker has been running down his top 20 picks over on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, and the full list is now available!

Six horror movies made the cut for Quentin Tarantino’s own personal list of the Top 20 Best Films of the 21st Century, including films from Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, and Rob Zombie.

It’s interesting to note that all three filmmakers made faux trailers for the Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez collaboration Grindhouse, and all three were likely selected by the duo because they were such big fans of the movies that have now made it onto Tarantino’s list.

The best horror movies of the 21st century, according to Quentin Tarantino?

Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever just made the cut at #19, with Rob Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy installment The Devil’s Rejects at #16, and Edgar Wright’s zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead in the #9 spot. Other genre movies on the list are Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves at #12, Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale at #11, and David Fincher’s Zodiac at #6.

Here’s the full list from Quentin Tarantino…

1) Black Hawk Down
2) Toy Story 3
3) Lost in Translation
4) Dunkirk
5) There Will Be Blood
6) Zodiac
7) Unstoppable
8) Mad Max: Fury Road
9) Shaun of the Dead
10) Midnight in Paris
11) Battle Royale
12) Big Bad Wolves
13) Jackass: The Movie
14) School of Rock
15) The Passion of the Christ
16) The Devil’s Rejects
17) Chocolate
18) Moneyball
19) Cabin Fever
20) West Side Story

‘Shaun of the Dead’

And here’s what Tarantino had to say about his horror picks…

Cabin Fever: “Eli’s sense of humor, sense of gore — it just really, really works. People kind of forget how tense it is in the first half because it gets so genuinely funny in the last 20 minutes. Hostel might be his best movie, but this is my favorite.”

The Devil’s Rejects: “This rough Peckinpah–cowboy–Manson thing— that voice didn’t really exist before, and he refined that voice with this movie. Peckinpah wasn’t part of horror before this. He melded it with sick hillbillies, and it’s become a thing now. You can recognize it across the street, but that didn’t exist before.”

Battle Royale: “I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns.”

Shaun of the Dead: “My favorite directorial debut even though he did a cheapie debut movie he doesn’t like to talk about. I loved how much he loved the Romero universe he recreated. The script is really terrific, it’s one of the most quotable films on this list, I still quote the line ‘the dogs don’t look up.’ It’s not a spoof of zombie movies, it’s a real zombie movie, and I appreciate the distinction.”

Zodiac: “When I first watched Zodiac, I wasn’t that into it, and then it started playing the movie channels, and first thing I knew, watching 20 minutes of it, 40 minutes of it, and I realized this is a lot more engaging than I remember it being, and it kept grabbing me in different sections. So I decided to watch this goddamn thing again, and it was a whole different experience from that point on. I found myself, every six or seven years, watching it again, and it’s a luxurious experience that I give myself over to […] mesmerizing masterwork.”

Listen to Tarantino on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast for more on each of his picks.

‘Cabin Fever’