Bella Thorne Owns a Life-Sized Babadook, Would Love to Direct “American Horror Story” [Boo Crew Podcast]

Brad Miska

Bella Thorne has become a big name amongst the horror crowd and it’s by design as the actress is also a huge fan herself.

After appearing in MTV’s “Scream” series, she went on to star in Keep Watching, Amityville: The Awakening, Assassination Nation, I Still See You, and of course, The Babysitter films.

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In speaking with Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast, Bella revealed that she’s a life-long horror fan who never watched Disney movies growing up. Sam Raimi’s The Grudge remake was the first movie to scare her: “It’s the first one that really, really stayed with me,” she explained, noting that she had to sleep with family members after.

“Horror is a way of life,” she adds. “Everything in horror movies that you feel – the physicality, the anxiety, the edge of your seat – all those emotions you feel in life.”

While she’s in the dark on the potential of a third Babysitter – “I don’t know maybe they’re cutting me out of it,” she jokes – Thorne reveals ambitions to get behind the camera on Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story”.

“I love Ryan Murphy and he was really, really, really pioneering, in general, horrific tv. Ryan Murphy changed the idea that horror can really be in tv – that you can watch it week after week, binge in a series, you can watch 20 hours of horror in one sitting and it be normal,” Thorne explains. “There were not a really lot of shows that did that…I think that really helped the horror genre in general.”

In regards to being a huge horror fan, she tells Boo Crew that The Strangers is one of her all-time favorites and also reveals that she has a life-sized Babadook in her house!

“I love The Babadook – I actually have a life-sized Babadook in my house,” explains Bella. “For a long time we had it in the bathroom and it was behind the door so that whenever anybody would open the door it would hit the Babadook, so then it would look like it was moving and shaking.” She continues, joking: “Everyone was so terrorized by that Babadook in the bathroom.”

Listen to the episode with the multi-award-winning actor, best-selling author, billboard charting singer, writer/director, entrepreneur and pop culture icon below!