Scary Movies With Your Fave SW Stars!
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lazypadawanWith a few exceptions, just about all of the major players in the SW films have appeared in at least one horror movie over their illustrious careers.
Unfortunately, most horror movies are bad and most of these movies are thusly bad too. But it's always amusing to see your favorite SW star run from a hatchet-bearing psycho or a ghost or something. Here's the Hall of Horrors:
Nightwatch (1997): Ewan McGregor plays a hapless law student taking a night job as a watchman at a morgue. You just know that won't end well at all, particularly since somebody starts um, messing with the female corpses :O. A little more on the thriller end, it also has horror elements.
She's Back (1989): Carrie Fisher plays the ghost of a murdered woman who henpecks her husband into taking revenge for her death. I hear it is really, really awful. Somebody I knew once found it on VHS for 99 cents.
In The Mouth Of Madness (1994): Starring Sam Neill, this wacko film from John Carpenter features a cameo by a 12-13-year-old Hayden Christensen, his feature film debut. Look for a bicycle-riding paper boy a little more than halfway through the film. The young cutie's voice hadn't even changed yet but oddly enough, his long thin legs kinda look the same as they do now.
What Lies Beneath (2000): Harrison Ford's big Hollywood horror flick with Michelle Pfeiffer. Ford turns out to be the bad guy and the ghost Pfeiffer experiences is that of his murdered young mistress. Infamous for a t.v. ad/trailer that gave away The Big Plot Twist as well as the fact that Ford turned out to be a bad guy.
The Haunting (1999): Poor Liam Neeson is trapped in a crazy house haunted by overdone special effects loosely based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting Of Hill House. Jackson's book is great, by the way.
The Exorcist III (1990): I think I saw this a zillion years ago and it wasn't until I looked through Samuel L. Jackson's 59,000 films on imbd that I realized he had a small part in it! How 'bout that?
Mark Hamill: Mark deserves some kind of award or medal of honor or something for the sheer number of horror flicks and t.v. shows he's done over his career: Sleepwalkers, a remake of Village Of The Damned, and the infamous butt-exposing Body Bags for starters. The only SW alum who have done more horror than he has are Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974): Peter Cushing and David Prowse (as the titled monster) team up pre-ANH in Hammer's last Frankenstein flick.
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973): Two SW villains duke it out in yet another Hammer horror movie, with Cushing playing the good guy and Lee playing everyone's favorite bloodsucker.
Unfortunately, most horror movies are bad and most of these movies are thusly bad too. But it's always amusing to see your favorite SW star run from a hatchet-bearing psycho or a ghost or something. Here's the Hall of Horrors:
Nightwatch (1997): Ewan McGregor plays a hapless law student taking a night job as a watchman at a morgue. You just know that won't end well at all, particularly since somebody starts um, messing with the female corpses :O. A little more on the thriller end, it also has horror elements.
She's Back (1989): Carrie Fisher plays the ghost of a murdered woman who henpecks her husband into taking revenge for her death. I hear it is really, really awful. Somebody I knew once found it on VHS for 99 cents.
In The Mouth Of Madness (1994): Starring Sam Neill, this wacko film from John Carpenter features a cameo by a 12-13-year-old Hayden Christensen, his feature film debut. Look for a bicycle-riding paper boy a little more than halfway through the film. The young cutie's voice hadn't even changed yet but oddly enough, his long thin legs kinda look the same as they do now.
What Lies Beneath (2000): Harrison Ford's big Hollywood horror flick with Michelle Pfeiffer. Ford turns out to be the bad guy and the ghost Pfeiffer experiences is that of his murdered young mistress. Infamous for a t.v. ad/trailer that gave away The Big Plot Twist as well as the fact that Ford turned out to be a bad guy.
The Haunting (1999): Poor Liam Neeson is trapped in a crazy house haunted by overdone special effects loosely based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting Of Hill House. Jackson's book is great, by the way.
The Exorcist III (1990): I think I saw this a zillion years ago and it wasn't until I looked through Samuel L. Jackson's 59,000 films on imbd that I realized he had a small part in it! How 'bout that?
Mark Hamill: Mark deserves some kind of award or medal of honor or something for the sheer number of horror flicks and t.v. shows he's done over his career: Sleepwalkers, a remake of Village Of The Damned, and the infamous butt-exposing Body Bags for starters. The only SW alum who have done more horror than he has are Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974): Peter Cushing and David Prowse (as the titled monster) team up pre-ANH in Hammer's last Frankenstein flick.
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973): Two SW villains duke it out in yet another Hammer horror movie, with Cushing playing the good guy and Lee playing everyone's favorite bloodsucker.
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Date: 2008-10-27 07:05 pm (UTC)What Lies Beneath wasn't as horrific, but on the other hand, I'm not exactly rushing out to see it again. Ford as a bad guy just... didn't work for me.
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Date: 2008-10-27 09:06 pm (UTC)