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Favorite Psycho Killer Performances?


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Im tense and nervous and i cant relax
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Dont touch me im a real live wire!

Psycho Killer!!

Qu' est-ce que c'est!?!

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1. For a crazy pants guy i nominate Joe Spinellii in Maniac...he was chillingly insane in this horror classic!
*shoutout to Elijah Wood who did a fine job in the remake but im team Joe on this one

2. For a crazy pants gal i nominate Charlize Theron...how she could look so nuts and haggard and 'holy shit run away' is beyond me but she nailed the lunatic lady role!

Care to share a favorite scary killer performance you enjoyed?

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First one that pops into my mind mostly because I just watched it.

Kurt Russell in Death Proof.
He got his in the end but a great performance.

Also

Nao Ohmori in Ichi the Killer

For female

Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood
Not really a psycho but man did she kick ass.

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Kurt yes! My dude really had it coming

Dang I have not seen Ichi in ages...due for a rewatch but i DO recall squirming a LOT the first time i saw it lol!

I need to catch Lady Snowbird
A lot of people have said good things

Thx!

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I still say Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. That dude was psycho on steroids!



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Good one
Crazy weapon too!
Very original

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Yes, crazy and very creepy. If I see someone with one of those, I'm running.

That reminds me of the old saying: "If you see someone running, and the back of his T Shirt reads BOMB TECH,
follow him!"



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Oh yes

Good advice id reckon!

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Excellent advice I'd reckon.



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Loved him and that flick!!

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I did too. He's one of the all time creepiest villains of all time, especially when he was torturing that poor store clerk who had done him no harm. I was so glad and relieved when that guy won the toss.



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Absolutely! I was hoping there would be a sequel.

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Don't think that's gonna happen.



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Sorry.



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Anthony Perkins is too obvious

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Possibly so but the check in was much appreciated

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American Psycho, imo, is also obvious but also darkly comic to boot. For instance, the scene where he's prepping his rival for horrific murder, all the while cheerfully analyzing a Huey Lewis song. It just seemed to aptly capture the inexplicable, dual nature of a psychopath. And then there was the scene where he was running amok naked with a chain saw and he still managed to nail the fleeing hooker with it by dropping it down a deep stairwell.

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Patrick Bateman
Good one

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This is the finest psycho killer on film, no doubt, I also quite like Freddie Highmore's Norman Bates on Bates Motel

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Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
Kathy Bates - Misery
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train

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Oh Kathy!!
Cant forget her Mr. Man!

DeNiro was a sinister monster too๐Ÿ˜ณ

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Anthony hopkins

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Very good stuff indeed Croft

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And for a lady

I'll go with uma thurman - kill bill

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Min-sik Choi in I Saw the Devil, One of my favourite films.

Kathy Bates in Misery. Talk about psycho.. she was one crazy lady.

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LOVED I Saw the Devil
I have told everybody who loves violent thrillers about this beast of a movie!

S Korea really does thriller/horrors right

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Oh god, it would have to be Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.

I deeply regret ever seeing it, and a lot of the reason is because both he and Jodi Foster were too damned good. Plus the script and direction, of course.

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Pretty spot on perfect evil

The book is one of the scariest i have ever read and i dont say that lightly๐Ÿ˜–

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You mean Red Dragon? *shudders* I read that eons ago. But as scary as it was, Hopkin's bringing that character to live was much, much worse!

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I read both novels
Great, creepy stuff

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I read them both too. Regrets, regrets.

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I very much loved them
But i like creepy stories

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Too well done for me, and therefore too creepy by virtue of being too well done.

๐Ÿ”™ I want a time machine, dammit!

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4k sneaking up on you!

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Closer, and cloooser ...

Fava beans!

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Three come to mind...

Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter

Glenn Close as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining

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Three greats

But Noonan takes the cake!
He was terriying

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Yes, he picks Will Graham up and throws him with ease. He also takes takes two bullets to the arm without so much as flinching. Now that's a guy you don't want to cross! Ralph Fiennes was also effective but in a different way. I haven't read the novel but I want to at some stage.

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I prefer Noonan

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Me too.

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Noonan was DA BOMB in Manhunter.

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Agreed

Noonan is such a great 'that guy...'
A Non-household name that you like very much in everything

The House of the Devil, Heat, Wolfen...
He's got nearly 90 projects under his belt and he's a real fine supporting actor every time

I kind of love these supporting actors even more than the big splashy stars
Noonan is grand!

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You are so right. The character actors are multi- talented.

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