The Holdovers’ Paul Giamatti Wants to Do More Horror Movies

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The Holdovers’ Paul Giamatti Wants to Do More Horror Movies

The Holdovers star Paul Giamatti expressed an interest in doing more horror in future, and revealed his favorite horror movie.

Speaking to Variety on the red carpet for the Golden Globes, Giamatti was asked if there was a genre he’d still like to do more of having spanned multiple genres over his career. His answer was emphatically, ”Horror. I love horror”.

The interviewer seemed taken aback by his enthusiasm for the genre, but pressed on and asked what Giamatti’s favorite horror movie was, and Giamatti responded swiftly and confidently with ”The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”.

Once again, the interviewer showed some disbelief, and asked if Giamatti would be playing the killer in a hypothetical Texas Chain Saw movie, to which he responded that he didn’t think he could be the killer in that specifically, but would be keen to get back into the genre in general.

I did instantly think, ”Was Paul Giamatti in a horror movie before?” and he was in the horror comedy John Dies at the End by Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep director Don Coscarelli, as well as the 2026 sci-fi horror The Congress. So, it’s not a particularly prominent genre in Giamatti’s career.

Given how swiftly he responded to those questions, perhaps Giamatti already has something cooking in the horror genre.