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Director David Bruckner specifically structured the movie around Hall’s performance, saying the film became much more centered on a single actor than anything he had previously made. She absolutely shines, her terror and heartache drip off the screen! This would surely still be a fine movie had another actress taken the lead, but Rebecca made it a top tier horror ride, how can she transfer her feelings into our brains with her acting skills?!
I'M YOUR MOTHER! Collette said she was immediately drawn to the script because of how emotionally brutal Annie’s grief was, even though the character could be extremely difficult to like. Her performance was built around playing grief as something ugly and uncontrolled rather than trying to make Annie conventionally sympathetic. People will note that she was not nominated for an Oscar (which she absolutely should have been), BUT I'm here to tell you people that one must submit THEMSELVES to be considered for an Oscar. Many worthy horror performances aren't submitted due to the lack of recognition of the horror genre.
Mia Goth supremacy, this is a monologue and scene and role I personally as an actress would die to score, but surely wouldn't be able to deliver nearly as powerfully. Goth co-wrote the scene with director Ti West, making the character’s emotional breakdown partly her own creation of stream-of-thought consciousness. The production originally wasn't certain the eight-minute monologue could be completed in one take - but she nailed it ~*~* Or, axed it ~*~*
Um, unspoken of powerhouse performance? The fear in her eyes and on her face specifically in the scene where she tries to open her kids door and the weird spidery ghost roars at her and she screams back with tears glittering her eyes should pay rent for how well they it has stuck in my memory since I was 5 years old. OG scream queen deserves way more credit. Poor Jobeth wasn’t told that the skeletons floating around her in the infamous swimming-pool scene were real human skeletons, and I would love to know how she reacted when she found out later. The scene took five days to shoot, by the way.
Love or hate Midsommar, but all hail the queen whose acting skills we cannot deny. One of her first breakout roles, by the way, no big deal. Florence has said that the emotional material in Midsommar was extremely draining and that she had to find ways to separate herself from Dani after filming. Ari Aster wrote her character specifically as someone whose grief and emotional dependence would drive the entire story, making Pugh's performance the center of the movie. I highly recommend watching the deleted scenes where Christian is even MORE emotionally abusive to her, and Pugh's reactions are SO spot on and heartbreaking. The way she understands emotional pains and can express them, wow. No wonder girlfriend needed therapy after this!
The Edwin dance scene should have been Oscar nom material on its own. McAvoy had to prepare nine times the amount of material he normally would for a single character because he was playing multiple distinct personalities. Shyamalan tried to schedule him so he would generally play one personality for an entire day, allowing him to stay physically and psychologically focused on that character. He even recorded video material for all 23 personalities listed in Kevin's character system, even though only some appear directly in the finished movie.
This is a similar situation to Anthony Hopkins's role as Hannibal Lecter- he barely has screen time but is clearly the centerpiece and longest lasting fright from the entire movie. Thats what Nic Cage as Longlegs was to me, brief but severely impacting. Cage and director Osgood Perkins worked together on the character's prosthetics, deliberately making the face look like the aftermath of extremely bad plastic surgery. His co-star Maika Monroe's actual heart rate reached 170 beats per minute when she first saw Cage in costume, and that reaction was captured on camera and used in the movie.
One of the first big wins for horror recognition all thanks to the queen herself. Bates won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress for Annie, making Misery the only Stephen King adaptation to date to produce an Oscar-winning acting performance.
The first thing I said when I watched Nope was that Keke Palmer's performance was incredible and award worthy. Hilarious, smart, and extremely endearing, she feels like someone I've met in real life and actively want to be friends with. Jordan Peele wrote Emerald Haywood specifically with Palmer in mind, who approached her character as someone who talks constantly and fills silence because she is uncomfortable with it - a major part of the character's energy.The performance was deliberately allowed to be much more improvisational and had such a broad range of depth. I love at the end when she's so emotional with proud she can barely speak!
Victoria Pedretti — The Haunting of Hill House
Victoria Pedretti — The Haunting of Hill House
Pedretti absolutely makes this entire show, which by the way is fantastic on its own and I absolutely love, but I know is a lot to do with her performance. Absolutely captivating. I put this show on randomly having never heard of it with zero expectations and she drew me in hard and fast, I couldn't look away and love how she leans into the pain and ugliness of horror, never trying to be a pretty scream queen. Hill House was her major screen breakthrough; she had only a handful of credits before being cast as Nell. Mike Flanagan initially cast Pedretti after seeing her audition and was particularly impressed by her ability to make Nell's emotional vulnerability feel genuine.
Bad. Fucking. Ass. Say her name, Amber Midthunder. She went through a four-week training camp before filming that included weapons, archery, tomahawks, stunt work, and physical conditioning. Oh and by the way, super chill, her audition required her to perform the same scene three different ways: in English, in Comanche, and completely without dialogue.
Gorgeous, talented, lethal. The hand scene... she *really* helps you feel her pain, I can barely watch it and love showing it to people for the first time. Gugino spent roughly three weeks actually working in the real handcuffs used for the movie rather than comfortable stunt cuffs. Director Mike Flanagan tried the handcuffs himself and lasted less than five minutes. Gugino preferred to film the confident, free-moving Jessie first thing in the morning before spending the rest of the day playing the exhausted Jessie chained to the bed.
SAMARA WEAVING - READY OR NOT
Best scream of our generation, I say with confidence. Weaving deliberately wanted Grace's reactions to evolve throughout the movie instead of having her play the same terrified note for the entire film. She improvised a stream of profanity during the scene where Grace is standing in the road and a car drives past — and the filmmakers kept it in the movie. For the nail in the hand scene, directors planned to rely more on visuals and special effects, but her scream was so visceral and real that her performance nixed the need for them. Queen. Diva selllllls that shit.
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