‘The Bear’ Star Ayo Edebiri Forced Her Friends to Watch These Horror Movies
While I was in the middle of my graduate education, I remember catching that my local Regal cinema would be showing one of those Fathom Events screenings, this particular one honoring the anniversary of Mark Rosman’s The House on Sorority Row. Several friends from the program had already planned to take me to dinner so, no harm, no foul, why not add a movie? A group of horror-averse scholars and I went to watch one of the greatest, most surreal slashers of all time, and surprisingly, they didn’t hate it. Golden Globe winner and Letterboxd Maestro Ayo Edebiri and I have that in common. On Letterboxd, Edebiri has spotlighted the movies she forced her friends to watch from her 12 through 16th birthday, including two horror classics.
Check out what Edebiri said below:
From my 12 to 16th birthdays I would invite people to my house to watch a movie with me on my birthday and these were the movies I watched.
NOTE: people complained about the scary movie selections, so for my 14th birthday we picked a happy movie and the outcome was disastrous—people got bored, then it turned into an actual party with dancing and drinks—so I scaled back the following years and made everyone watch Candyman with me for every year after.
Included on the list are both the aforementioned Candyman and The Silence of the Lambs. Both are widely regarded as some of the greatest horror movies ever made. Candyman pioneered a new era of Black horror, one that unfortunately never took off as much as it should have. The Silence of the Lambs, like The Exorcist two decades before, solidified the horror genre as one warranting serious critical attention when it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture among several others.
Whether they’re the most appropriate for middle school birthday parties is up for debate. But I know myself well enough to know I’d have probably done the same thing. I used to make every new friend of mine watch Scream. Even in middle school, if you came over, we were going to watch Scream in the TV room.
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Ayo Edebiri, who recently won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy for her role in The Bear, was really just performing a public service. It’s fitting, too, since anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant will reasonably identify The Bear as a horror story at its core.
What do you think? Did you ever show your childhood friends scary movies? Which were your favorites? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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