Tonight, the ghouls, goblins, and eager trick-or-treaters will be out as they celebrate the 2024 Halloween holiday. In the same spirit, WrestleZone’s Ella Jay recently spoke with independent wrestling standouts Blair Onyx and Katie Arquette about their favorite scary films.
With a persona reminiscent of a spider, “The Arachnoid” Blair Onyx casts spooky vibes each time she steps into a ring. And for “The Queen of the Silver Screen” Katie Arquette, “spooky season” is a much-enjoyed time of the year, that also comes paired with a wide collection of movies.
For Blair Onyx, the 2007 neo-noir thriller Disturbia remains a staple in her personal scary movie collection. In it, Shia LaBeouf potrays Kale Brecht, a spying 17-year-old convinced that one of his neighbors is a serial killer.
“It’s scary, it’s Disturbia with Shia LaBeouf, where a serial killer is living across the street. He’s on house arrest, so he always looks at the binoculars. I saw it in movie theaters; I was young when it came out. And when I was young, if I liked a movie, I would try to ask to go see it in movie theaters like three times.”
In addition to Disturbia, Onyx also finds herself captivated by the 2016 slasher Hush, which originally released on Netflix, and a pair of classic supernatural horrors.
“I love the movie Hush from Netflix where she can’t see. There’s someone in her house. I love the idea. That’s one of my biggest fears, [someone being in] my house. Sometimes in my head, I’m like, ‘They wouldn’t want to mess with a pro wrestler,’ but people are insane sometimes.”
“.. I love The Ring, I love that. I think I get inspo from that too; I like the idea of that. And I have to say The Exorcist. I like the [1973] original.”
From an audio standpoint, Blair is especially a fan of true crime podcasts, though they’re admittedly sometimes unsettling to listen to during a late-night drive.
Katie Arquette Loves ‘Scream’
For Katie Arquette, her scary favorites include a pair of slasher franchises, one of which features a main actor with the same surname.
“Scream [starring David Arquette]. I’m not biased. It’s naturally my favorite horror, the main trilogy,” Katie Arquette said. “The fourth one we don’t talk about, even the fifth one mocks it. The fifth and sixth one are pretty cool too, but Scream definitely.”
“Then I really love Child’s Play. Chucky is hard. He’s one of the OG horror villains, and that might be an oxymoron, horror villain. Chucky has always been in my house, too. My dad had the Chucky doll ever since I was little, so he’s always been around. And I remember the one day my dad told my sister, ‘I think I’m going to throw Chucky out.’ ‘We’re like, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ And he goes, ‘Why? You hate him?’ I’m like, ‘If you throw him away, he’ll come back. Have you not seen the movie?'”
Elsewhere in the horror genre, Arquette enjoys the Saw franchise, which began with the original Saw film in 2004.
“I think Saw is one of the best horror franchises. I get it, if you’re not too big into gore and blood and guts because there’s a lot, but it has such amazing storytelling and it really brings it full circle. So if you’ve never watched it, you need to all of them, even though some of them aren’t the best,” Arquette said.
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