0s | I'm not that scared of Jason, you know, I'm |
3s | scared of like the spindly dude. |
8s | Hey, what's up? I'm Jordan Peele and I'm about |
9s | to nerd out on horror movies. Let's go. |
12s | The first horror movie that really got |
16s | me was The Fly. So, so scary, so |
21s | inappropriate for how old I was, and yet |
25s | I was able to watch it and understand it |
28s | and by the end I felt less scared than I |
31s | did before watching it, so that's how I |
33s | knew the power of horror. So many good |
35s | horror soundtracks and themes. Nightmare |
39s | on Elm Street theme is just - it just gets |
42s | |
49s | It's like - oh! Just perfect, uh - note choice |
54s | progression. The B horror movie, |
58s | Critters, in - in retrospect, fairly bad, |
61s | but again, it gave me a wrong sort of |
64s | feeling. Those little things or so |
67s | mischievous and so evil. They had the |
70s | evil-ass faces. The scariest villain? I'm |
74s | gonna say... I'm gonna say Michael Myers. |
77s | He's not even evil, he's just curious. You |
80s | know you can't talk him out of whatever |
83s | he wants to do and he always did that - |
85s | that thing where he'd stab somebody and |
88s | he'd sort of turn his head like that, |
89s | which is the, you know, the international |
92s | symbol for, "Fascinating." If I were |
96s | assembling an Avengers-style motley crew, |
99s | I'd get Freddy in there, I get Candyman |
103s | in there, one of the little balls - |
105s | silver balls from Phantasm. You gotta |
107s | throw Chucky in there so you get like, |
109s | you know, the shapes, and then one of the |
112s | Graboids from Tremors. They would all |
115s | ride it. The visual tropes that I'm not |
120s | into? Dark, scuzzy houses. Like, I like - |
126s | I like when when horror movies take place |
127s | in my idyllic places. There's something |
130s | like the Overlook Hotel. Should be good. |
134s | This is - it's welcoming, it's nice, it's |
137s | beautiful, it's extravagant. That's |
138s | what really scares me. My favorite horror |
142s | movie trope is everyday objects used as |
144s | weapons . You pick up a nail gun or a |
147s | hammer or a pitchfork like it's - it's |
153s | improvised weapons. There's something |
155s | about that that's a perfect horror |
158s | trope. The "final girl" I most identify |
161s | with has got to be Jada Pinkett in |
164s | Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. She's |
167s | black. She's like - like the first black |
172s | final girl that I can remember. |
175s | All-time touchstone horror movie |
178s | performance? Shelly Duvall, |
181s | The Shining. Perfect. The scariest person in |
184s | the movie is the good guy. She did a |
188s | perfect job of committing to the fear |
191s | and from that brought the - the horror to |
195s | the movie. Shelley Duvall, shoutout. |
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