OK, if you were going to cast a movie and try to fill it with the creepiest/most disturbing actors/actresses out there, who would you pick? My choices:
Actors: Willem Dafoe
Christopher Waken
James Woods
Jeff Goldblum (I don’t know why, he just freaks me out)
Actresses: That midget from “Poltergeist”
Ruth Buzzi
Anne Ramsey, Momma from “Let’s Throw Momma from the Train.”
Christopher Lloyd.
Porky pudster Ron Jeremy.
And a famous face but obscure name: Michael Berryman, the tall, bulgy-eyed, bulletheaded bald guy from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Weird Science” (“Let’s do lunch”), and “The Hills Have Eyes.”
Max Schreck (?), the way creepy vampire from the old silent film “Nosferatu.” Played, coincidentally enough, by another creepy actor, Willem Dafoe, in the new movie “Shadow of the Vampire.”
He scares the hell out of me and seems to have an uncanny gift for playing psychos. He was in an episode of Cracker and was a complete nutcase. It’s the eyes I think.
One vote for James Caan. In his more violent movies he gets this wonderfully bug-eyed look on his face just before he blows up and kicks the crap out of someone.
I had a chance to watch Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator this weekend and was once again blown away by how perfectly Combs can play a mad scientist. He’s cute too, but that doesn’t take away from the crrepiness.
I’ve noticed so far that only two creepy women have been named: Ruth Buzzi (who I don’t think is creepy per se) and Zelda Rubinstein (who I think probably does meet the criteria).
I guess creepy women just don’t do as well in Hollywood as creepy men. The only other creepy woman I can think of is Grace Jones.
Maxine Bahns, who was Ed Burns’ GF for his first two movies, and thusly, got the leads. Not only is her acting talent on par with my doorknob’s, she just looks creepy to me. Heather Graham. Yeah, she’s gorgeous, but her eyes are twice as big as they should be for her head. She looks like a cross between an alien and some Dondi character to me. Love Swingers, but whenever she was having her scenes I just wanted to scream, “Stop looking at me! For the love of all that’s good and holy, woman, take your voodoo elsewhere!” Melanie Griffith. Whatever she USED to have, she ain’t got it no more. She reminds me of those 50-year old women that hang out at hotel lobby bars in pleather miniskirts.
Okay, none of these are standardly creepy, but they always make ME feel funny.
Anybody remember Crispin Glover. He palyed a speed freak in The River’s Edge a little too convincingly. And he scared the bejesus out of David Lettermen on his show a few times.