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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 21, 2018 16:35:19 GMT
I don't mean so much a single great performance IN a horror movie though you can vote for that too. I mean it more among Price, Cushing, Lee, Karloff, etc.
I often talk about how if you put any respected actor in the roles Price aced and they would flop hard - they would drown in that dialog - particularly his wildly romantic ones like Dr. Phibes or something where he is pining for a lost love. On the other hand Lee has a full range across his stuff - scary and other times slyly malevolent (Wicker Man).
So now that it's that time of the year, let's let the bats out of the belfrey and see who left their (teeth) marks (on your neck). Some oddball picks would be most welcome as well.....
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Post by stephen on Oct 21, 2018 16:40:50 GMT
Veronica Cartwright. Made her stamp on Hitchcockian horror as a child (she could've easily played Rhoda Penmark if she'd been born a decade earlier; I don't think she was really given enough of an opportunity to play to her strengths as a young actress), gave one of my all-time favorite portrayals of scared-shitless horror in Alien (my Supporting Actress win that year), and even played demented puritanical psychosis in a satirical bent in The Witches of Eastwick (garnering her another Supporting Actress win from me). She's a horror staple, one who deserves to be in something truly twisted like a cult horror in the vein of The Sacrament and allowed to let loose.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 22, 2018 21:04:00 GMT
Tbh I just haven't seen enough from those guys to really compare them. But I always enjoy Vincent Price's stuff - I go back to The Black Cat just to watch him in that hilarious wine tasting contest scene. There's a lot of great classics to pick out from Karloff's filmography - my favs being Bride of Frankenstein and the meta Targets.
Another one associated with horror: Donald Pleasence. Btwn the Halloween franchise, Prince of Darkness, Phenomena, Raw Meat, etc. But otherwise I always find him an interesting talent, other stuff like Culdesac and especially Wake in Fright.
And someone really not in the same league, but there's only one actor who's in three or more films in my Top 50 fav horrors, and that's John Saxon. Black Christmas, Tenebre, Nightmare on Elm St...
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 22, 2018 21:56:14 GMT
I just watched Tenebrae again with a friend who had never seen it and of course it's an all time favorite of mine - afterwards we spent about an hour just in awe about the Saxon in the town square scene. He sees the past of Neal's life and then lives it as his own death - there's a fight in the background (violence), a lovers quarrel (sex), a child playing (innocence). The "red" shoes are present too.....it's so great. I guess we should mention the modern American guys too - not that they made a career of it like Lee/Price/Karloff but Depp, Cage, Bruce Campbell are well represented in this genre also.....Donald Pleasance was a great mention - Wake in Fright has genuinely unsettling moments indeed. Cul De Sac has that strange very creepy and alternately very funny vibe - I never thought of it as a comedy at all until a subsequent watch. |
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Post by skyfallen on Oct 22, 2018 21:59:09 GMT
Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, Hereditary)
Hands down.
I'd also mention Jamie Lee Curtis.
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Post by stephen on Oct 22, 2018 22:29:48 GMT
Another undersung presence in American horror: Tom Noonan. Yes, he gets due praise for Manhunter, but it's remarkable how Noonan's almost ethereal presence (something very few male actors can achieve) casts a long shadow over any project he's in, regardless of screentime. Like Cartwright, Noonan is scarcely used to the fullest possible effect (and unlike Cartwright, he nets no wins from me), but I think if someone at Blumhouse decided to build a demented version of First Reformed with Noonan as the conflicted priest, it'd be something to behold.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Oct 23, 2018 8:19:52 GMT
I'd like to add Neve Campbell and Vera Farmiga.
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