The Halloween party is approaching and the classic question: "
Do you know a good horror movie?"
Good news, Quentin Tarantino yes.
On October 24, during
Eli Roth's History of Horror
at PaleyFest, the annual Paley Center for Media event in New York City, the filmmaker revealed that
Devil Times Five
was his horrific crush, according to comments gathered by
Entertainment Weekly.
.
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Devil Times Five
, also known as
People Toys
, is a slasher, i.e. a sub-genre of the horror film about the murders of a psychopathic killer, directed in 1974 by Sean MacGregor.
The feature film tells how five mentally disturbed children traveling by bus for a psychiatric transfer find themselves after an accident in a mountain chalet, a vacation spot for a family.
When adults take children under their protection, they quickly realize that the deadliest are not the ones you think.
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Discovered recently,
Devil Times Five
marked Quentin Tarantino in particular for the performance of actor Leif Garrett, then 13 years old at the time.
"
He is the leader of these young murderers and gives an incredible performance
," says the director.
The film is extraordinary and at the same time quite quirky, but that's what makes it great
.
It blew me away
.
I had heard about it for a long time, because it was screened for years in drive-ins during the second half of the evening.
Finally, I looked at it, and I was like,
“Wow, that's great!” ”
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