Wrestling and cinema have always been connected – John Cena has just released heads of state at Amazon Prime Video– and Today we serve fear movies. We have to make a note: the list that we find below contains those that are probably the most popular works made by fighters within this genre. We understand that many of our readers will know them but it is a good way to start with a first chapter and later enter the quadrilaterals and filming sets with more surprising proposals.
Chris Jericho y Terrifier
Terrifier is an unexpected phenomenon within the horror cinema of recent years. So to speak, the smallest film reached the greatest fame. But Chris Jericho He did not take part in the brutal sensation that was the first installment of the saga. In fact, almost either the second since it only appears in the credit titles. However, thanks to that brief appearance he won a hole in the third and became One of the few characters that appears in two films.
«You are going to keep your mouth open, just like my character Burke. If you know it, you know it. This film is crazy in the best sense of the word. I am very proud to be part of this franchise«, Jericho presumed in Dread Central.
It was not Jericho's debut in terror since he had done before (without such success) Albino Farm (2009) Or, although this franchise has its own category, Sharknado 3 (2015). In addition, it has a preproduction Self Storage.
Batista and knock on the door
Batistaor Dave Bautista (how is it more famous today “The Animal”? Nor did his first appearance in the genre with call the door. He had already released Riddick: The master of darkness (2013)which has touches of horror, L.A. Slasher (2015) y The Army of the Dead (2021). In addition, the animated series will premiere Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas.
In Knock at the Cabin (2023)the member of the Hall of Fame of the WWE Share cast with recognized actors such as Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) o Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter) and acts under the orders of the iconic filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (The sixth sense). It also interprets one of the main characters in the story.
The director and screenwriter of the film told him at the time Movieweb that remained surprised by Bautista's performance at Blade Runner 2049 And that was when he met him and later hired:
«It seemed like a very unusual person for being who he is and for his large size. At that moment I did not know who I was, and I was recorded. So when the script arrived, I thought: It seems that there is someone capable of interpreting this giant human being and achieving that stillness (you are not doing anything and you are doing everything, Shyamalan explained). So I asked Dave ».
Kane y See No Evil
See No Evil (2006) It is the first horror movie with a fighter that a server saw. Again we have the WWE Hall of Famer, in this case Kanewho is also Mayor Glenn Jacobs from Knoxville County in Tennessee (United States), and we entered into WWE Filmsthe film producer of the largest company in the pro wrestling.
“The Big Red Machine” is the absolute antagonist of is slasher in which group of young people from a correctional are sent to a hotel to work in its restoration during the weekend. What they do not suspect is that there lives a serial killer who will make his stay a hell … It was the debut in the genre and in Kane's cinema.
Some time later I would do the sequel, See No Evil 2 (2014). He has not had a great career as an actor but also made the animated Scooby-Doo! Mystery in Lucha Lucha (2014) y Countdown (2016).
«Yes, the biggest challenge is to hurry and then wait, and also the repetition. Sometimes it can become monotonous, because you are doing the same scene again and again, and in terms of performance, I think one of the challenges of acting – especially when you make films instead of live presentations – is to maintain energy during the different shots of the same scene, ”said the then fighter to IGN.
CM Punk y The Girl on the Third Floor
It could be said that Cm punk has terror as its favorite genre in his career as an actor. Before the movie at hand, whose title in Spanish is Curse on the third floor (2019)those Rabid (2019)and later Jakob’s Wife (2021). He is also preparing Night Patrolwho has touches of fear.
The “best in the world” is also THE VILLAN OF THE PLOT playing Don Koch, a man who tries to renew a house in ruins for a new family when it is discovered that the house itself has its own plans. During an interview to promote the tape, Punk told Inverse:
«I think horror movies can help people. They are the only genre that addresses social problems in front. Look at the Night of the Living Dead. That movie was released in the 60s and can still be seen today. It has a lot of echo ».
Roddy Piper and survive
Of all the aforementioned fighters, «Rowdy» Roddy Piper It is undoubtedly the one who made the most films. They Live (1988)as titled in English, it was not the first but the one that gave him his first main role and the one that everyone knows of the legend of the embedded. Piper acts next to Keith Davidamong others, and under the script and direction of the legendary John Carpenter.
«They survive needed a working guy, someone who was not a middle class, a lower class worker, someone who struggles to get ahead. Some real, like those that exist – and still exist – in this country. I thought he had that quality. Not the personality you see in the fight or interviews, not that exaggerated type, but another type. A little rude, you know, and it was fantastic. He really did a great job for me, ”Carpenter explained why he chose the fighter to Exiles TV.
And Piper reasoned like this Why people like their character so much, nothing:
«It is nothing, he is each of you, it is not blue or white collar. It's you, and that's why you don't know anything about him, because he depends on who you are; That is what defines it. It is supposed to represent everyone, not only America, but everyone. And that is why, as an audience, you fill that 'nothing' with the values and ethics for which you are fighting at that time.»
