6 days till Halloween!

My last post was all about the Scream Queens I adore. I've never heard the term "Scream Kings," but that's basically what this will be. The men who've made a mark in the genre or otherwise caught my attention in a horror movie in some way or another .

• Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) 

• Christopher Lee (Dracula - Hammer)

• Peter Cushing (Dracula  - Hammer)

• Lon Chaney Sr. (The Phantom of the Opera)

• Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man)

• Bela Lugosi (Dracula - Universal)

• Vincent Price (The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Masque of Red Death, Edward Scissorhands (not horror, but still...), the voice and maniacal laugh in Michael Jackson's "Thriller," and so, so, so much more!)

And now, for a few more "recent" ones.....

• Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness, Bubba Ho-Tep)

• Jackson Rathbone (and I don't mean for the Twilight Saga; he's also been in Pray For Morning, S. Darko, Hurt, and Dread - the latter two are actually decent and underrated thriller-types.)

• Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood.  Not horror to some of you, and certainly not a movie - but he stays!)

• Skeet Ulrich (Scream)

• Brandon Lee (The Crow)

And my favorite, not only in his horror movies, but in all his other movies as well:

Johnny Depp.  Most already know that he got his start as a Freddy Krueger victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street.  But he's also been in other horror and/or atmospherically dark films such as Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, The Astronaut's Wife, Sleepy Hollow, The Secret Window, Edward Scissorhands, From Hell, Corpse Bride,  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and The Ninth Gate.

That's a LOT of horror/thriller stuff for a pretty mainstream actor.  And on top of all that, he'll be playing Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton's upcoming Dark Shadows.  My favorite actor is playing the main characer in the movie version of one of my favorite childhood tv shows, and with Tim Burton directing, you know it'll be visually stunning. 

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9 Days till Halloween!

And I figured it was a great day to give you more Johnny Depp (but really, when is it not a good day for Johnny Depp?) In The Secret Window, he plays a writer who retreats to his rural cabin in an attempt to deal with his writer's block and depression. And, as you might have guessed....he's keeping a pretty big secret.

Stephen King wrote the novella upon which this movie is based, and the movie definitely has King's creepy touch. You'll probably like this if you're a fan of Depp, King, or horror that isn't that scary.

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