Your favorite performance you’d describe as “campy”?

I love camp because the enemy of acting is "naturalism" (it's also the hero of it ) so camp is a friend to all of us.

It's often misunderstood imo as merely big or OTT which it's more than just that,

The best camp performances are the ones written as camp though to start with......if the actor goes against the grain and is campy it usually is just bad ......sometimes that can work - Joan Crawford in Straight-Jacket (1964) is one....but that happens less often.


All of these have camp on the page and are great performances, not merely great camp ......but I'd describe them as great camp too.

Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood
Isabelle Huppert in Greta
Kathy Bates in Misery
Al Pacino in Devils Advocate

The entire cast of The Wizard of Oz.

Fuck yeah ! Can't believe I didn't mention them !

Vincent Price in any of his campy roles.

And no matter what you say about "Batman & Robin", I think Uma Thurman is delightfully entertaining in it.

Genuinely one of my favorite performances ever.

Samantha Robinson in The Love Witch

Fiona Shaw took hagsploitation to a whole 'nother level in The Black Dahlia and it is endlessly delightful to me. Bette and Joan and Faye could fucking never.

I don't think (?) it gets campier than Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood but campy in a way that's 100% in on the joke and pushing it to its freaking limits. Slaughtering the critics who snub you for their critics circle award is the definition of extra, especially when you do it in such creative ways and in such dramatic outfits!

Legendary performance.

“You! You better keep your whore self away from this married man. You better not even look in his direction or I’ll have your legs broken. Is that clear?”

Vanessa Paradis's performance of her life in Knife + Heart