{"id":62260,"date":"2025-08-12T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62260\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:00:08","slug":"martin-scorsese-names-the-two-scariest-movies-hes-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/62260\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese names the two scariest movies he’s ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Martin<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Tue 12 August 2025 15:45, UK <\/p>\n

Martin Scorsese<\/a> has never made an outright horror film, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not a huge fan of scary movies. <\/p>\n

The filmmaker has come closest to the genre with various psychological thrillers, like Cape Fear and Shutter Island, but we\u2019re yet to see Scorsese explore the world of monsters, ghosts and ghouls. Perhaps in the future he\u2019ll tackle a proper scary movie, but for now, he prefers watching them, and he cites two horror films as some of the most terrifying pieces of cinema he has ever seen.<\/p>\n

What makes a horror film truly scary?<\/a> This is a question that depends on who you ask, because we\u2019ve all got different triggers that make us tick. Perhaps for some, it\u2019s haunted mansions and ghostly presences that scare them the most. For others, it\u2019s a masked killer wielding a knife \u2013\u00a0something that poses much more of a realistic threat than a spectre gliding through your walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Scorsese, it\u2019s two vintage horror films that have scared him the most, including House of Wax by Andre de Toth. Released in 1953, the classic film follows a ruthless murderer as he creates a wax museum full of real corpses. Discussing his love for the movie, the director told Film Comment, \u201cIt\u2019s the best 3D film ever made\u2014and Andre de Toth had one eye! Throughout the first third of the film, the camera keeps tracking around Vincent Price, and around the wax figures, who look very much like real people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cAnd every time somebody comes into a frame, you don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s a dummy or a real person. When the wax museum burns, and the eyes start to fall out of the dummies\u2019 eye sockets, it\u2019s tremendously effective. The whole movie is so outlandish, so outrageous. And I like that it takes place on Mulberry Street\u2014my old neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

By blurring the lines between what\u2019s real and what\u2019s not, House of Wax becomes incredibly unnerving, and it\u2019s no wonder it has endured as a classic for years \u2013 even if it did initially receive bad reviews. Several remakes have emerged since it was released<\/a>, however, and the general consensus is now a lot more positive. It\u2019s an undeniably haunting movie, revelling in one of the things that makes all humans feel on edge \u2013 the uncanny.<\/p>\n

Scorsese also finds The Uninvited, released in 1944, a terrifying movie, calling it \u201ceven scarier than House of Wax.\u201d The director went as far as to call Lewis Allen\u2019s film \u201cthe best ghost story ever made,\u201d explaining, \u201cIt\u2019s so frightening that Ray Milland has to crack a few jokes now and then, just to keep everybody in the theatre.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The movie was a huge success, becoming one of the highest-grossing titles of the year and noted for its exquisite black-and-white cinematography. It\u2019s a classic tale of people moving into a house, only to discover that they might not be the only inhabitants. Scorsese thinks it\u2019s genius \u2013\u00a0even if it is rather tame compared to today\u2019s scary movie standards. <\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s not hard to imagine how unsettling The Uninvited would\u2019ve been decades ago, with its brooding atmosphere, which suggests that we can never be quite sure if we\u2019re alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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