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Eli Roth reveals favourite horror films of 2010

Published Sunday, Mar 27 2011, 22:41 BST | By Tom Ayres and Simon Reynolds

Eli Roth at the Hollywood Reporter Nominees Night Prelude to Oscar, Los Angeles

Hostel director Eli Roth has admitted that he was pleasantly surprised at the high quality of horror movies released over the course of last year.

The Inglourious Basterds actor cited the likes of Let Me In, Monsters and Paranormal Activity 2 as some of his 2010 highlights.

"Paranormal Activity 2 I really, really liked. That movie was really scary," Roth told DS at this weekend's Jameson Empire Movie Awards. "I actually saw it with Marilyn Manson and we were kind of cringing in each other's arms.

"We were jumping like school girls, it was fun. We've both seen everything so we don't think we're getting that scared, and then we see something that scares us," he added. "It's hard to scare us because we're pretty inured."

Watch Eli Roth discuss watching horror movies with Marilyn Manson below:

Additional reporting by Tom Mansell