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18th October 2023
04:39pm BST

"For reasons I don't totally understand, I watched The Ring as if it were part of my chores. "I watched it a lot when it came out and I was terrified of it. It ruined drains and wells and girls combing their hair. "It just made a permanent impact and it was a favourite but it was also terrifying."Meanwhile, Scream franchise star Jenna Ortega named Child's Play as her favourite but said it was too scary for her, explaining:
"I was terrified of Chucky. He turned me off of horror films for a really long time actually. He made me a big scaredy cat so I don't have nice things to say about the doll."Ireland's own Lee Cronin - writer-director of Evil Dead Rise - singled out seeing The Blair Witch Project in the cinema as a pivotal horror experience for him. "I knew it wasn't real anymore but I wanted to believe the hype and I still struggle to watch that movie on my own," he told JOE. Other classics mentioned were the original Scream by Knock at the Cabin's Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff; The Shining by Infinity Pool star Mia Goth; and The Silence of the Lambs by Insidious: The Red Door's director and star Patrick Wilson. Last but not least, David Gordon Green - the co-writer and director of the currently in cinemas The Exorcist: Believer - said his favourite scary movie of all time was not a horror, choosing '70s thriller Deliverance. Speaking about it, he said: "It scares the crap out of me. I think about it every day since I saw it when I was 13 years old. "It's haunted me. It's haunted my dreams. It's haunted every camping trip and canoe trip I've taken in my life." You can watch a compilation of JOE interviewees talking about their favourite scary movies right here:
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