Eli Roth's History Of Horror – How Comedy Horror Influenced Quentin Tarantino

Yeah, so when I was a little kid – three, four or five – really just starting to watch movies in a real way, my two favourite genres were horror and old classic comedies. When I saw Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, I literally thought it was the greatest movie that has ever been made and that ever possibly will be made because it literally was my two favourite things in the world put together. It was horror and it was comedy but the thing that I noticed was the fact that, yes, there was t

he comedy stuff but then when the horror stuff happened and Abbott and Costello weren't in the scene, the horror stuff was played straight. Yes, it was a real monster. Yeah,, it was the mummy. And then the music got scary, the monsters never broke character. Yeah, the mummy... Even they weren't aware they were in an Abbott and Costello movie! The monsters never broke character and the people that they were going to kill never broke character. I even think Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein en

ded up having, to some degree or another, an effect on me as an artist, i.e. the fact that at five, I was able to make genre distinctions. This is the Abbott and Costello slapstick comedy part of the movie, this is the universal horror film part of the movie and this exists here and this exists here and then they combine them together so now they're combining my two favourite genres together. [CLICK SOUND FOR MORE]