Metallica's Kirk Hammett Shares Go-To Horror Movies for Halloween

It’s probably the most great time of the yr for horror fanatic Kirk Hammett. Ahead of Halloween weekend, the Metallica guitarist is sharing his go-to films and extra in a brand new interview with Gibson TV’s “Metal and Monsters” collection (Oct. 26) the place he explains his love for all issues spooky.

Hammett admitted he was “totally and completely” a Halloween child, and fondly remembers his first costumes as being an try to duplicate Frankenstein (cardboard throughout his brow ultimately did the trick). “Even to this day I love Halloween,” he added. And in fact that extends to horror films.

When requested by the present’s host Count D (Matthew Montgomery aka Piggy D from Rob Zombie’s band and The Haxans) if there was one horror film that basically scared him when he was younger, Hammett shared that the unique model of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) “truly frightened” him. As he defined, “There hadn’t been a film like that up to that point that was so graphic and violent in its brutality.” He additionally remembers leaving the theater together with his buddies, questioning, “Did we just see that? … It was a real experience.”

The different film that freaked Hammett out as a toddler was none apart from the 1973 nice The Exorcist. As he shared, “I thought the perpetrators of that film were coming after me next … it was an honest fear when we were kids,” particularly, he mentioned, since he was a Catholic college child. “For the next four months I slept with the lights on every single night,” he admitted.

But, when Count D requested Hammett if he had one film he should watch yearly so “it feels like Halloween,” Hammett really had two responses, although they’re sort of linked.

The first is the 1922 basic Nosferatu. “I never get tired of watching that, it’s so moody, so atmospheric and I love it,” mentioned Hammett, including, “It seems like every two to three years a better print shows up and you can see more of it or a print shows up with tints … or with a full [orchestral] score.” He additionally touched on the lead actor Max Schreck, and mentioned, “Even his name sounds evil. You see pictures of that guy and it wasn’t that much of a stretch. All they had to do was put pointy ears on him and some fangs.”

An adjoining movie additionally obtained a nod from Hammett was the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire whereby actor Willem Dafoe takes on the function of Schrek in a dramatic telling of the making of Nosferatu. “I thought it was really great as well as a concept … that’s informative in its own way,” mentioned Hammett.

Later within the interview, Hammett additionally talked about the horror movies he as soon as watched with the late Cliff Burton and the monster affect in Metallica’s music in addition to revealing his Top 10 horror rock bands.

Watch the complete interview beneath.