Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of rap duo Insane Clown Posse have always been happy to shine a light on the world's mysteries, as evidenced by their probing of how magnets work, via their smash-hit single "Miracles." But as it turns out, the pair are just as tireless and uncompromising in their pursuit of the world's most underrated horror movies. A few days shy of the upcoming Gathering Of The Juggalos, we gave those friendly clowns a call to chat about some of the best scary movies you've never heard of -- until now!

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Motel Hell (1980)

Shaggy 2 Dope: It's, like, from the early '80s or late '70s, where a guy runs around with a hollowed-out pig head and he buries people up to their necks. It's just crazy scary. I haven't seen it in a long time, and I dunno if the shock factor was that I was younger, and it scared the s*** out of me, or if I [saw] it now I think it'd be corny, but a lot of the movies I watch on the road will be B-horror flicks and I'll watch it for the pure comedy aspects. The cheesiness, you know what I'm saying. [Laughs.]

Motel Hell Trailer (Rated R)

The last one I can think of watching on our last tour, the Happy Days Tour, was this movie called Black Sheep, and it wasn't the Chris Farley-comedy one. [Laughs.] It was in the Netherlands, and there was a sheepherder guy, a family comes back, and there's mutant sheep that drive cars and punch people in the face. It was so corny it was ridiculous.

Black Sheep Trailer

Violent J: I remember Motel Hell with the pig head. That movie was the s***, man. That's a sweet-ass movie. I was gonna say, you know, I admit it. I'm a fan of s*** that everyone's a fan of, but that's because it's good. I'm talking about The Exorcist, I think that movie can't be f***ed with.

Shaggy 2 Dope: And then they came in with that extra footage, when she climbs down backwards down the stairs with her head on backwards?

Violent J: How could they have left that out of the original?

Shaggy 2 Dope: It made me poop my pants.

Wrong Turn (2003)

Violent J: Another movie I like, but I dunno how it went with the critics, but I think it shoulda been way more popular. I find f***ing hillbillies piss-creepy.

Shaggy 2 Dope: Horrifying.

Violent J: I remember when my brother was down in North Carolina, and we used to drive down to see him through those mountains of Georgia, that s*** was the real-deal horror. You go to a gas station, and it'd be just like that movie Deliverance. Some barefoot f***ing kid with three ears playing a banjo. That s***'s real to me. Growing up in the city? Inbred hillbillies -- that's real horror.

Wrong Turn Trailer (Rated R)

Shaggy 2 Dope: You know what the crazy part is? That s*** really exists. I watch a lot of National Geographic and stuff like that. You see tribesmen in Indonesia who have never seen civilization. There's people in America like that. High in the hills, like Pumpkinhead.

Violent J: S***, I've seen documentaries of people up in the mountains of Virginia, who just never come down. I remember I was dating this one bitch, and I went for a walk at night, and I seen a genuine mountain man coming off the f***ing mountain, and he had a big-ass backpack full of furs and skins that he was gonna sell. Like he came into town, crack of dawn.

Shaggy 2 Dope: Bartering.

Violent J: Right. To sell his furs and s***. And you know how he got those furs? With a f***ing rock, man. He had a whole backpack, a homemade animal-skin backpack, a mattress-shell backpack, full of f***ing furs and skins, and he came down to sell that s*** in the city and was probably halfway up that mountain by 10 a.m.

Shaggy 2 Dope: Or what you could call a city.

Violent J: Yeah, Asheville, North Carolina, that's the city to him. But I find that s*** terrifying.

Shaggy 2 Dope: You could end up missing in that situation. No one's going to tell on their cousin-slash-uncle to the sheriff.

In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)

Shaggy 2 Dope: Jamie Madrox from Twiztid turned me onto this. It's scary. The same guy, I dunno his name, he was in the movie Event Horizon and it's a sci-fi scary movie, but it's not really sci-fi like Star Wars. It's like a horror sci-fi. It's really scary, you know what I'm saying? You watch it, and you get chills in your bones.

In the Mouth of Madness Trailer (Rated R)

Violent J: I like some of these movies that probably cost $2,000 to make, but to me, they're genius. I'm talking about Open Water.

Shaggy 2 Dope: Yeah, that's great.

Violent J: All they had to do was go out into the water and shoot the same f***ing scene every f***ing day, and the guy acts like he got bit by the shark, but the concept of the movie was terrifying, man. Stuck out in the water like that for three days while sharks are nibbling your f***ing legs off? That was the s*** to me.

“Stuck out in the water like that for three days while sharks are nibbling your f***ing legs off?”

Open Water was great, and then they did another version of it where these guys were skiing, and they were stuck up on a ski slope. The same thing. There were wolves gathering underneath them and s***, and the whole park was shut down, and they were stuck up on the lift. It was a holiday, so it was closed down for five days. They were up there freezing, and finally the guy was like, "I’m dropping down." And the girl was like, "Don't do it! The fall will break your legs!" And he's like, "If I don't jump down and get help, we're not gonna live." So he jumped down and he broke both his f***ing legs, that was terrifying. He laid there paralyzed, and something from the woods came by and ate his ass up in the middle of the night. You know, what's it cost for a movie like that? Nothing, but it's genius all the same.

Frozen Trailer (Rated R)

You mentioned the mountain man coming down, and being stuck at sea, or in the woods, and it makes you think about how much of horror is about fear of the unknown. It makes sense that as city dwellers we'd be afraid of the water and such, but do you ever think about, like, what are the Amish are afraid of?

Shaggy 2 Dope: They're scared of us.

Violent J: I think you could do a sweet-ass Amish-people horror movie. I'm sure there's been some.

“I think you could do a sweet-ass Amish-people horror movie. I'm sure there's been some.”

Shaggy 2 Dope: Then you get to movies like The Others, which, to me, are awesome to watch the first time. But you watch them again, and you know all the surprises at the end. So where do you go? All right, I've seen it. Like in The Sixth Sense. I still think it was awesome, but the second time around, you know what's coming up, that's what blows your wig the first time. You're like, "Holy s***."

You mention that, which makes me think of Unbreakable, which is also a pretty underrated thriller.

Violent J: Unbreakable was devastating. With Bruce Willis? Yeah, man. That was great. I was just talking about that movie a week ago, telling somebody about it. That f***ing movie was awesome. What an awesome, awesome spin on a superhero movie. A dark drama superhero movie that you've never seen? I loved it, I loved it. It was f***ing genius. Awesome movie.

Poltergeist (1982)

Violent J: And as far as all-time favorite horror movies? There was a movie I saw when I was a kid. It affected me for the rest of my life. Every time we had a thunderstorm here in Michigan, you know, the lightning would go and I would count to when the thunder would go. The dad taught the kid to count to see if the storm was coming or going, and that one scene where the kid's in his bedroom and the lightning goes off and he counts a four-count, a three-count for thunder, the storm's getting closer and closer and the tree reaches right into his f***ing bedroom and pulls the kid out? Poltergeist was awesome, man.

Poltergeist Trailer

Shaggy 2 Dope: I remember when I was super-duper young, when drive-ins were the big thing. I was probably like four or five years old, still at that day they had double features. The early show would be for kids and the later one would be for adults. It was Bambi for the kids, and the kids were supposed to fall asleep, and then ZOMBIES. Slow-motion, splinters of wood going through eyes. I didn't go to sleep, I watched it. It scared the s*** out of me.

Violent J: Speaking of zombies: 28 Days. Awesome.

Shaggy 2 Dope: And 28 Weeks Later.

Violent J: But not as awesome as 28 Days. The first time a movie did the fast-moving zombies? That was f***ing great, man. Anybody that's brave enough to think on their own, take a concept like zombies, and actually make 'em fast? That s*** is great, man. It put a whole new perspective on the whole f***ing movie. I'm a big fan of zombies, man. I love the concept. I love the whole scene. Think of how much our music is about that, man. We even got a song about being a zombie. Remember, it was left off Bang! Pow! Boom!, "If I Ate Your Brains." It was about being a zombie and hanging out with zombies.

Shaggy 2 Dope: The whole concept is just scary.

Violent J: My partner here, Shaggy? Anything scares him. He gets scared by Scooby-Doo.

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