Lil Wayne’s favourite horror movie of all time: “That shit is amazing”
Lil Wayne is a self-professed lover of horror movies, and he’s even considered trying to write his own script for one. The aspiration, so far, has not borne fruit.
“I got this scary idea I been thinking about lately,” he told GQ in 2009, speaking about his desire to pen a script. “I love scary movies. So I’m like, ‘Shit, why not?’”
Wayne went on to explain that, what tends to frighten him most in horror movies, are the understated things, the “most scariest normalest shit,” in his words. It’s the everyday stuff that’s so terrifying, because “it’s so normal that it could actually happen.”
But he’s not above a flight of fancy, either, as his favourite ever scary movie has a supernatural element to it. Out of all of them, it’s The Sixth Sense that he loves most, a film in which a young boy discovers that he can see dead people and is visited by a child psychologist played by Bruce Willis. It seems to get under Wayne’s skin more than most.
“I went to school for psychology,” Wayne explained, referring to an online course in psychology that he completed through the University of Phoenix in 2007. “So I like all that crazy shit.”
While he credited The Sixth Sense with making the viewer think, he also admitted that it had pissed him off when he first watched it. The famous twist had caught him by surprise, and he was annoyed that he hadn’t anticipated it.
“First time I saw it I was so pissed off,” he said. “Like, ‘Why the fuck I ain’t know this the whole time?’ I’m that type of dude. ‘How you not know that?’ That’s why it’s my favourite movie.”
He also shouted out another film, though he struggled to immediately recall the details. Describing it, first, as “the one with the little girl,” he highlighted Hide and Seek as a great scary movie, starring Robert De Niro and “what’s that little girl name? Darcy? Dakota? Dakota Fanning.”
Hide and Seek did, indeed, star a young Dakota Fanning alongside Robert De Niro, who, like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, played a psychologist. There’s also a big twist in the film, so it’s apparent that Wayne enjoys certain features within his scary films. A creepy atmosphere, a child who sees weird stuff, a psychologist protagonist, and a big ol’ twist.
“That shit is amazing, though, man,” Wayne said of Hide and Seek.