Horror Favourites – Jason Trost

Jason Trost’s film about a legendary family of rhythm game warriors is out now and we grabbed the man himself for a chat about horror.

WELCOME TO THE POST-POST-POST APOCALYPSE FP- 4EVZ sees these master gamers battle their way deep into the future to save what remains of a booze fueled humanity from a horrific calamity that threatens to turn them all stone cold sober 4 EVZ.

Below Jason Trost waxes lyrical about the horror movie he loves the best:

“Favourites are always hard to define for me when it comes to movies. Because to me, there is a clear difference between “favourite” and “best”. “Best” is something that I respect is the most excellently crafted film, but the film I’ve watched the most, or could put on and watch any night of the week, that is my “favourite”.

So going off that, my favourite horror movie has to be Event Horizon (1997) by Paul W.S. Anderson, I would have been 11 years old back when I saw it in the theatre, and I remember being like, “the guy who made Mortal Kombat made a space horror movie?! Awesome!”

The movie has stuck with me for most of my life, not because it’s a “perfect” film (I find a lot of those pretty boring anyway), but because it’s such a fantastically haunting horror setting that I’ve never seen before, and I’ve realised over the years, that my favourite part about horror films is the setting. The setup of Sam Neil explaining how the folding of space time works is so simple and awesome, it’s been copied countless times over the years in movies and even got used in the most recent Thor movie to try and explain their plot.

My favourite scary movies transport me to horrifying places and stick me there. And with Event Horizon, what’s a scarier place to be stuck on an abandoned space ship that vanished on the edge of our solar system through a black hole 7 years ago that mysteriously reappears as a debatably sentient being from hell?”

FP- 4EVZ is out now.