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Benicio del Toro: Horror Flicks Will Always Be Popular

Actor Benicio Del Toro attends "The Wolfman" photocall at Villa Borghese on January 27, 2010 in Rome, Italy. (Getty Images)more pics »Benicio del Toro doesn't think horror movies are a passing trend. The 42-year-old actor, who plays a werewolf in new film The Wolfman alongside Emily Blunt, says the current popularity of occult movies is nothing new because horror is one of the classic film genres -- scary movies have been freaking people out for ages.

Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt star in The Wolfman. (Getty) He said: "My grandparents' generation had Bela Lugosi and Conrad Veidt movies like The Man Who Laughs or The Hands of Orlac - madness. Or they had Lon Chaney Senior, who played the Phantom of the Opera. Today you can do this easier and quicker maybe, with all the special effects. And maybe it looks much more realistic, but not really scarier. Horror was always in vogue - and always will be."

The actor believes people enjoy horror films because it is human nature to be fascinated with happens when we die. He added: "As long as we are not sure what will happen after we die we will paint it in the scariest colours. That's the point, isn't it? If we could know, if somebody would come back from the dead and could explain it to us, all the vampires and zombies and ghosts would lose a lot of their fascination."

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