Robert Pattinson Says He's "Too Sensitive" to Watch Horror Movies Anymore & One Made Him Take Two Knives To Bed

Actor Robert Pattinson says he is just too sensitive to watch horror movies these days. The actor sat down with his Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho for a chat about films via GQ, and when they got on the subject of serial killer movies (right around the 16 minute mark), Pattinson pondered on the fact that he didn’t used to be so afraid of scary movies as a kid. He explained:

"I used to watch a lot of dark stuff when I was younger and think, 'Yeah, this is cool.' And now I’m too sensitive. It’s strange, you’d think it would go the other way round. As you get older, you become less frightened of these [movies]. I can’t watch horror movies anymore."

He went on to recall: “I did get very frightened. I had to do a meeting with [a] director, and he’d done this horror movie, and I watched it, and I kept thinking that someone was breaking into my house.

“And so I was sitting on my sofa with two kitchen knives, waiting for the person to come in. And then I fell asleep with them basically in my neck on the couch. It was probably a squirrel."

Oddly enough, I have had the exact same experience with scary movies. They just didn’t bother me as a teenager, but as an adult, I really get much more anxious and my sleep really is disrupted by anything too graphic or haunting.

I think many of us do get to be a little more sensitive as we get older, maybe relating to people more, or becoming parents who have a lot of responsibility for others. Who knows the exact cause, but that’s my theory. Has this been the case for you?

Pattinson can be seen in Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, in theatres now. He will next be seen in the dark comedy thriller Die, My Love, opposite Jennifer Lawrence; and he is gearing up to appear in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, as well as Matt Reeves’ sequel The Batman Part II, in which he will return to play Bruce Wayne/Batman.