Be Frightened by Rob Zombie's Horror Favorites

Rob Zombie

"It's alive! It's alive!" Frankenstein
(Copyright Universal Pictures)

Linda Blair in The Exorcist
(Copyright Warner Bros.)

If there's anything musician and director Rob Zombie knows, it's horror movies. His latest film, Halloween – a re-imagining of the 1978 classic – was the highest grossing film to open on a Labor Day weekend and the biggest horror thriller opening of this year so far at $30.6 million. What can possibly spook him? Here are Zombie's five most memorably terrifying movie moments:

1. Frankenstein (1931):
When the monster first comes alive.

2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974):
When Leatherface hits the guy in the head, slams the metal door shut and puts the girl on the hook.

3. The Exorcist (1973):
The first time Regan's eyes roll back in her head. I remember watching that when I was really little, with my brother. That scene came on and we were just like, "Oh, sh**. Maybe we shouldn't watch this!"

4. Halloween (1978):
When Laurie looks out the window, and Michael's standing in the sheets blowing in the wind, and then he disappears.

5. Night of the Living Dead (1968):
When Barbara's in the car driving away from the cemetery, the zombie's trying to break the window and he's so in your face. I was like, "Holy f***, this movie's really going for it!"

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