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GQ’s Scariest Horror Movies Ever

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GQ asked our favorite horror fans and practitioners—including Eli Roth, Mel Brooks, and Guillermo Del Toro—to compile the most terrifying movies you should see….

“I showed Who Can Kill a Child? (a.k.a. Island of the Damned; 1976) to Quentin Tarantino, and he said it was the best horror movie that he hadn’t seen before. It’s like a Hitchcock movie—brilliant and so simple. A guy and his pregnant wife go on vacation to this island off the coast of Spain; they get there, and the adults are gone. Just very, very creepy kids. They realize that something infected the kids and they all went crazy, killed the adults. So he’s got to defend himself, but how do you kill a 3-year-old kid? Like, you can’t. It’s your instinct to protect children, but these are amazing killer kids. There’s a scene where they’re trapped in a jail cell, and they look up, and there’s a 3-year-old, and he’s got a gun and starts pointing it at the couple in the jail cell. And the kid’s just smiling. Totally nuts.” —ELI ROTH

“The reason I made Young Frankenstein (1974) was because when I was 5 or 6 years old, I was scared out of my wits by James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931). I could not get images of Boris Karloff’s face out of my head. I would see him in every alley and around every dark corner. One very hot night in July, I asked my mother to close my bedroom window. In Brooklyn in 1931, there was no such thing as air-conditioning. I explained that Frankenstein (that is what we mistakenly called The Monster) was out to get me! And since my bedroom window was on the fire escape, it would be easy for him to climb up and crush me like a bug. My mother patiently explained that he would have to crawl out of his burning cellar in Transylvania and find the money to buy a railway ticket to get a train to take him to Hamburg. He would then have to raise the money to buy a boat ticket to get from Hamburg to New York City. When he landed in New York, he would have to find the right subway train to take him to Brooklyn. He would have to ask a lot of people to find out where I lived, and she was sure nobody would tell him. I said, “Okay, leave the window open!” And that’s why I’m alive today.” —MEL BROOKS

For the full list, check out gq.com: www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201411/scariest-horror-movies-ever

Mitchell Wells

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!!

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