Love Quote by Famke Janssen

A horror preference can read like a throwaway interview beat, but Janssen’s name-checking does real cultural work. Saying she loves “scary movies” is light, accessible, almost disarming; pairing that with The Shining and Don’t Look Now quietly upgrades the claim from casual fandom to taste declaration. These aren’t “boo!”-scares. They’re prestige dread: slow, architectural, psychologically corrosive films where the fear lingers because it’s tied to grief, isolation, and the sense that reality itself has a crack in it.

The specific intent feels twofold: to signal enthusiasm (she’s not above genre) and to align herself with a particular kind of genre intelligence. For an actress, that’s not trivial. Both films are master classes in performance under pressure - Shelley Duvall’s frayed nerves, Julie Christie’s devastated restraint - where terror is less about screaming than about the body registering an unbearable truth a beat before the mind can. Janssen’s subtext: I’m drawn to material that lets atmosphere and interiority do the heavy lifting.

Context matters, too. When actors cite influences, they’re also sketching their creative self-image. Kubrick and Roeg represent directors who treat actors like instruments in an emotional experiment, pushing tone, rhythm, and ambiguity. By picking these titles, Janssen positions “scary” as sophisticated: not a guilty pleasure, but a cinema of adult fears - the horror of marriage, of parenting, of loss - dressed in genre clothing and taken seriously.