Watch Jordan Peele Figure Out His Favorite Horror Movie Ever

If there’s 1 happening folks connected the net emotion doing, it’s tournaments and trying to determine what “the best” of thing is. And since we’re entering October, that  means it’s clip to widen that to horror movies. But alternatively of holding a ballot oregon making a station for radical to reason astir successful the comments, Jordan Peele’s taking a somewhat antithetic attack to things…after which, radical tin reason astir successful the comments.

On Friday, Peele released a video wherever helium broke determined his favourite fearfulness movie ever. The twist? It’s done successful a tourney bracket similar successful sports, with 16 movies going head-to-head earlier the apical 2 quadrate disconnected successful the end. Those movies mostly see a scope of 80s and 90s classics (like Friday the 13th and Scream), much caller fare from the 2000s to astir present (The Babadook and It Follows), portion the oldest of the clump is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 movie The Birds. Naturally, immoderate of the match-ups get a spot silly—It Follows squaring disconnected against Jaws is conscionable comic to deliberation astir successful a much authoritative capacity—but successful the end, the victor is…

We were each contiguous years aged erstwhile we learned #JordanPeele’s apical fearfulness prime 😂 Argue successful the comments if you disagree ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/MUrGE8d77e

— Monkeypaw Productions (@Monkeypaw) September 27, 2024

A Nightmare connected Elm Street, which Peele says has the top fearfulness villain of each clip successful Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger. Too atrocious the video’s lone a infinitesimal long, due to the fact that a longer 1 would’ve allowed him to interruption down why he chose the movies helium did and what astir them helium likes. Actors interviewed by Letterboxd get the accidental to bash that with their Four Favorites, and it tin pb to immoderate absorbing insights, adjacent for the movies radical whitethorn cognize similar the backmost of their ain hand.

Agree with Jordan Peele’s pick, disagree? Think this tells america thing astir his earlier movies oregon his next one owed successful 2026? Let america cognize successful the comments.

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