When John Jarratt was growing up, Psycho was the movie that made his blood turn cold. Ironic, considering he now plays a knife-wielding murderer of his own.
Jarratt is famous for his turn as serial killer Mick Taylor and is pulled up "every five feet" on the street by fans of the horror flick Wolf Creek.
He says their appetite for gore and being scared will be well-satiated by the sequel.
However, in terms of horror movies, Jarratt says there's not much that frightens him.
"I'm not a big fan of horror movies - not because they scare me," he says. He just prefers films like The Railway Man or works by Martin Scorsese.
Even when co-star Ryan Corr explains how The Exorcist terrified him growing up, Jarratt interjects.
"That was hilarious," he says, much to Corr's disbelief.
"When she did the 360 and then spewed the pea soup, I was in the aisle. I thought it was hysterical."
However, not even Jarratt could escape the terror of Alfred Hitchcock's creation.
"Psycho was the one that really got me. That was made in the early 60s, so that was my first scary movie," he says.
His strong stomach for horror and creepy happenings came in handy on the set of Wolf Creek 2.
The underground brewery tunnels in South Australia were lined with realistic looking corpses ("it's just foam rubber") and the location was reported by locals to be incredibly haunted.
Not that he cared. In fact, it was more exciting than anything to hear about the miner's cottages, where doors slammed at night for no reason.
"I'm all up for haunted," Jarratt says.
"Someone says `that's haunted' and I'll go sleep in a room. I'm open for it. I'd love to meet a ghost.
"You don't read in the paper, `another person scared to death in haunted house on weekend' so they obviously can't kill you. If they exist, I want to see one."
One figure that does seem to follow Jarratt is that of Mick Taylor. Although there was an eight-year break between the first film and the sequel, Jarratt says Mick was always around.
When director Greg Mclean was banging out the screenplay with Aaron Sterns, Jarratt was called on to add his "two bob's worth".
Then on his first day back, in full costume, Jarratt said he was straight back in character.
Corr found it strange to see the transformation.
"It was weird for me, seeing him come in with his leather jacket, and Ray Bans and whatever he was wearing at the time and watching him come out of make-up with mutton chops and then the arm tattoo, this slow step into like `woah, there's the guy that really freaked me out in the first film'," Corr says.
And while Jarratt didn't need to constantly stay in character as he infamously did on the first film, this time around, odd things still happened.
"It'd be a freezing cold night and I'd just be in the Mick outfit," he says.
"I wouldn't feel cold until they said wrap. Mick's tougher than me."
He's not the only one who changes.
"Even Greg turns into a mischievous little evil bastard. We're like Beavis and Butthead," Jarratt says.
"But in that regard it's kind of fun in a naughty-boy kind of way."
* Wolf Creek 2 is released in Australian cinemas on February 20.
