Steven Spielberg has directed a variety of movies in his career, but the EGOT-winning filmmaker has now expressed his desire to helm a horror film in the future. Although he has previously provided audiences with jump scares in critically acclaimed films like Jaws (1975), Jurassic Park (1993) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), among others, he now wants to work on a pure horror film as it is a genre he has never fully explored.
"I haven’t directed a horror film yet, and I’ve always wanted to, and someday I may," he told Empire magazine, while sharing his doubts on whether he could draft a story that would truly terrify him satisfy him as a viewer.
The director recently praised Zach Cregger's Weapons as one of the best horror films of the past decade. "There have been some great horror films out already that satisfy that itch. When I see a great horror film like Weapons, I don’t have an itch I need to scratch. I see Weapons, and it doesn’t make me want to make a horror film that’s as scary or scarier than Weapons. It satisfies me so completely, it actually arrests my desire to someday make a really, really scary movie," he said.
Spielberg has co-written and produced Poltergeist (1982), but gave away directing duties to Tobe Hooper of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre-fame.
Up next, the noted filmmaker is awaiting the release of the sci-fi film Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Wyatt Russell and Colman Domingo, among others. It seemingly follows the appearance of aliens becoming a world wide event after a TV anchor, is possessed by them. The involvement of a tech businessman and people fighting to let the truth out into the world will are also part of the plotline. The film hits theatres on June 12.
