Eternal horror fan Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro doesn’t think the current trend for vampire and werewolf movies is new because horror is universally popular.
10 February 2010
Benicio del Toro thinks horror has always been in vogue.
The 42-year-old actor, who plays a werewolf in new film ‘The Wolfman’ alongside British star Emily Blunt, says the current deluge of occult movies is nothing new because horror is one of the classic cinema genres.
He said: “My grandparents’ generation had Bela Lugosi and Conrad Veidt movies like ‘The Man Who Laughs’ or ‘The Hands of Orlac’ - madness. Or they had Lon Chaney Senior, who played the ‘Phantom of the Opera’.
“Today you can do this easier and quicker maybe, with all the special effects. And maybe it looks much more realistic, but not really scarier. Horror was always in vogue – and always will be.”
The actor believes people enjoy horror films because it is human nature to be fascinated with happens when we die.
He added: “As long as we are not sure what will happen after we die we will paint it in the scariest colours. That’s the point, isn’t it?
“If we could know, if somebody would come back from the dead and could explain it to us, all the vampires and zombies and ghosts would lose a lot of their fascination.
© 2010 NZCity, Bang Showbiz
