My Favourite Horror Movie: Tiberius
Scottish prog metallers Tiberius are back with a killer new album, Singing For Company, out in March. The angular rockers have also just dropped their new single, Tip Of The Spear.
With the band on the rise, we caught up with Chris Foster (guitars) and asked him about his favourite horror movie and he duly obliged:
I’m a huge horror fan, and you’ll spot tons of those influences in the music videos I’ve made for our tracks, including for our latest single ‘Tip of the Spear’. There are plenty of references and homages in all our videos for fellow horror movie nerds, so I recommend checking them out! Picking one favourite horror movie is super hard though. As a genre, I predominantly favour folk horror, as I think there’s something super terrifying in the sort of banality of everyday rural life and the isolation of being an outsider in an existing community, as well as the unknown that lurks behind the local legends that creep up on those films. Obviously Wickerman, A Field in England, more recently I’ve loved Midsommar, The Witch and Enys Men.
Having said that, to choose what I think is the best horror movie of all time really comes down to the definition of the genre – a movie that aims to shock, frighten, or disgust – and nothing comes close to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in that regard. People have been throwing gore into movies to try and shock and disgust for decades, but I don’t think anyone has touched the grim feeling that TCM achieves – all while showing next to no blood. Every time I watch that movie I come out feeling dirty, and on every watch I appreciate something different. It feels gross, it feels real, and even if you were to look away from the screen, the sound alone is just a barrage of unpleasantness. There’s even a lack of any real score to remind you that it’s OK, you’re just watching a movie. Every single part of that film is out to make you feel uncomfortable, it’s totally uncompromising in achieving that goal. There’s something hard to replicate in the rawness of TCM that makes it hit harder, and I don’t think it can be touched by bigger budgets and flawless production – sorry Blumhouse.
