Hip-Hop Icon Ice-T Loves These Disturbing Horror Films—Including This Rob Zombie Classic [Exclusive]
Rapper, actor, and overall badass Ice-T is a legend. Between an incredible music career and iconic acting roles, Ice-T has solidified his place as pop culture royalty. But did you know he’s also an extreme horror fan??
In a recent interview about Merciless, the upcoming album for his heavy metal band Body Count, Ice-T shared that he and his wife Coco love to watch disturbing movies. And he has a few recommendations for those of you with stronger stomachs.
Check out the video below:
Right out the gate, Ice-T recommends Koji Shiraishi’s stomach-churning film Grotesque. The film follows a doctor with extreme and depraved needs who kidnaps a couple and forces them to compete in a game of torment that slowly erodes their hopes of survival. Shiraishi is known for his found footage classic Noroi: The Curse, a much tamer film in comparison to Grotesque. If you’re curious to see just how disturbing it is, it’s streaming now on Tubi.
He then goes on to discuss A Serbian Film (and warns viewers against ever seeing it), Audition, Irreversible, The Evil Dead II, and The Devil’s Rejects.
Ice-T and Coco are clearly horror experts and know their way around horror, especially when it comes to the nastier genre offerings out there. They aren’t afraid of anything, it seems, especially if they can brave A Serbian Film… But they also seem to embrace international horror and that’s something we can get behind.
Ice-T formed the heavy metal band Body Count in 1991 when they made debuted at Lollapalooza. He said of the band,
“I think Body Count is a band that turned the corner for a whole new style of metal. When I started listening to metal, no disrespect, but Pantera was wearing spandex! We came out and said, we’re gonna look the way we look, L.A. cats in khakis but we’re gonna play metal. When we hit the first Lollapalooza stage in 1991, nobody had ever seen that.
“This is pre-Rage, this is pre-Limp Bizkit, a lot of the bands that came behind us that looked like skaters than heavy metal artists. Korn, all of them. When I did Body Count, I was intentionally trying not to do the thing they called rap-rock. I didn’t need to do rap-rock because I’m a rapper. I’m listening to New York hardcore, Sick of It All, Biohazard type shit. They weren’t singing, they were barking the lyrics. We broke the mold 30 years ago for what metal looked like and I think we brought together a lot of people. Metal, at that point, was pure white. We came out and said, ‘Fuck that.’”
Since their inception, the band has released seven albums (with Merciless being their eighth) and won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2020.
Pre-order Merciless here and listen to Ice-T this Halloween: Don’t watch A Serbian Film.
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