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Creepiest movie roles that still give fans goosebumps
Roles that transformed stars into nightmares
The best kind of horror films portray the best performances that last long after the credits have ended. From these, there are the most entertaining, and at the same time, spine-chilling portrayals that have haunted the audiences.
Let us have a glimpse of five of such celebrity roles and the goosebumps they are bound to deliver.
Heath Ledger - The Joker
The Joker, played by Heath Ledger, is not the most typical of roles for a horror actor. Yet in Ledger’s The Dark Knight, he remains one of the most unsettling villains ever. The Joker’s genius is one that is animated by a laugh that is distant and mannerisms and philosophies that are unpredictable and chaotic.
The difference between genius and madness is thin and Ledger’s performance in the movie was chilling and awarded him a Post-Mortem Oscar that still sets today’s fans on edge.
Linda Blair - Regan
Regan, played by Linda Blair, is considered as one of the best possessed teenagers in cinema history and a nightmare on screen. If demonically possessed, such visions as Shannon’s voice, spine chilling sounds, voice, profanity, and demon like movements full of contortions will absolutely scare the fans of horror cinema in as much as they terrified viewers in the year 1973.
It’s a performance that horror was redefined for and would go on to define horror for the upcoming generations.
Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance
Nicholson shocked audiences with his petrifying performance in the movie The Shining from Stanley Kubrick. His frantic madness with jagged teeth visuals and the chilling utterance of ‘Here’s Johnny!’ froze the viewer to the point of no return.
Toni Collette - Annie
In the movie Hereditary, together with the brilliant cinematography, Collette managed to leave the audience with a stomach knotting performance, in which she personified the role of the grieving mother in a surviving scream.
The performance ripped the viewer into a multitude of pieces, proving torture in a most delicate way possible.
Bill Skarsgard - Pennywise
Pennywise, the clown in Stephen King’s Most, viciously came to life through the bone chilling and hair raising performance of Skarsgard. His swift change from a harmless, playful character to a full fledged, malicious demon and his dripping with horror smile added the cherry to the cake.
He created a masterpiece of a Pennywise and officially bagged one of the most terrifying titles in today’s cinema.
