Jessica Alba on Horror Movies

Jessica Alba is not only in the business of acting in horror movies but also likes to sit at home and watch them, the really really scary ones…

Jessica gave an interview to British television channel for the release of THE EYE in England and opened up about her love to Western horror films and why she wouldn’t act in an Eastern one.

“A lot of horror movies that are made have girls running away from a guy who is torturing them or kidnapping them,” said the star, whose latest film The Eye is out this week. “There’s always much more a victim stance when it comes to the female character and it usually involves crying and screaming.

“Playing a blind violinist basically losing her mind was much more interesting to play for me than crying and screaming.”

Jessica revealed that she loves Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby and The Ring, and said that the first horror film she ever saw was Wes Craven’s Nightmare On Elm Street when she was about four and-a-half years old.

“It gave me nightmares until I was 13,” she said. “My parents didn’t know, nor did they approve, obviously.

“I was a sneaky child, I hid behind the couch and watched the whole thing.

“I insisted on sleeping in bed with them, if I was going to be sucked into the bed I was going to be with them.”

That’s funny, I remember that my little brother watched Nightmare on Elm Street and could not sleep for a couple of months afterwards. What was your “scariest film” growing up?