TORONTO — Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash credits his parents for inspiring his passion for horror films.
“My parents were both really enthusiastic horror zealots,” the musician said, “and they took me right along for that ride.”
Slash is now helping to make horror films instead of only watching them.
His production company Slasher Films is behind the new release Nothing Left to Fear, which stars Clancy Brown (Sleepy Hollow), Anne Heche (Hung) and Nova Scotia native James Tupper (Men in Trees)
Slash is credited as one of 17 producers of the film and also co-wrote its music.
Appearing on Global’s The Morning Show, the 48-year-old British rocker explained why he chose to get involved with Nothing Left to Fear.
He recalled growing up seeing actors like Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on the big screen.
His father Anthony Hudson — an artist who created album covers for Canadian singers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell — introduced him to the works of Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe and his mother Ola shared her favourite scary cinematic moments with him, including Night of the Living Dead.
“I saw that in the backseat of a Volkswagen at a drive-in with my mom and her girlfriend,” he recalled. “That had me hiding behind the seats.”
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