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Best performances in horror, action, sci-fi?

posted 5 years ago by BurningSun (717)
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Robert Shaw in Jaws
James Woods in Vampires
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Toni Colette in Hereditary
Leo DeCaprio in Shutter Island

What are some others?

[–] dmac8 (5050) 5 years ago

Linda Blair
Mia Farrow
Sissy Spacek
Boris Karloff

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77369) 5 years ago

Sigourney Weaver in Alien
Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween
Bonny Bedelia in Die Hard

That's outstanding female in Sci-Fi, Horror and Action genre

I'll try to come up with a guy list👍

[–] sslssg (34211) 5 years ago

Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

[–] sslssg (34211) 5 years ago

I would also give James Woods for Videodrome.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77369) 5 years ago

Yes!
Woods was awesome in his prime

[–] BurningSun (717) 5 years ago

He was also the best thing by far in Cat’s Eye. He’s just a brilliant actor.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in the X-Files.
Summer Glau as Cameron Phillips in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Tatiana Maslany as multiple characters in Orphan Black.
Matt Damon in the Bourne Trilogy.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Lee J Cobb in The Exorcist.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Kevin McCarthy - Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Joe Spinell - Maniac (1980)
Michael Moriarty - Q (1982)
Joe Pilato - Day of the Dead (1985)
Michael Biehn - The Abyss (1989)