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]]>The film took five years to make and although sources offer mixed reports, filming likely took the best part of a year. At the time he was cast, Danny Lloyd was just five-years-old. To protect him from psychological trauma, Kubrick did not tell Lloyd the storyline of the film. He told Danny that the film he was making was a drama and hid all of the horrific and frightening scenes from him. In the scene where his on-screen mother runs with Danny in his arms, it is actually a dummy. Lloyd was sixteen when he saw the movie for the first time.
Unfortunately, life on set was less pleasant for Shelly Duvall, who played Jack’s wife. There have many reports that Kubrick was exceptionally hard on her during filming. In the infamous “Here’s Johnny” scene where Wendy swings a bat at Jack, it took 127 takes to get right. In the scene that made the final cut, Duvall’s exhaustion and horror are genuine. She once said: “From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I’ve ever been pushed before. It’s the most difficult role I’ve ever had to play.”
And do you remember child actresses Lisa and Louise Burns who played the creepy twins? They were never meant to be cast, but Kubrick decided that twins were way creepier than one young girl. For their birthday, the director gave the twins vials of fake blood. It was the same fake blood that they had to lie in following their brutal on-screen murder.
Unfortunately, despite all of the effort that went into making sure the entire cast gave it their all, Stephen King was not happy with the movie. He describes it as a “disappointment” and thinks that Jack Nicholson was all wrong for the role. Ironically, King may be one of the only horror fanatics who didn’t like the movie.
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]]>Carolyn Fry and Riddick spent the whole movie fighting blood-thirsty monsters on a deserted planet. When they are just about to escape, she gets killed by one of the creatures.
When you see Julian Moore, you’d expect her to be the leading role incapable of dying. But in this movie, she dies with minimal effort during an ambush.
Brad Pitt is one of the best actors in Hollywood and no stranger to dying in movies. But the character of Chad Felheimer will be forever remembered for being shot in the face by George Clooney.
When John Travolta and his fellow hitman, Samuel L. Jackson, are feuding about divine intervention, Travolta’s character, Vega, accidentally gets killed. Of course, it is a shock, considering he is the lead role, but it is a Tarantino movie after all.
Steven Seagal always plays the ultimate, undefeatable and immortal character. But in this movie, he dies during opening scenes in order to save his crew.
Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson are known for action hero roles. Seeing them in the movie got everyone pumped up. But they died some 5 minutes into the movie by jumping off the building.
The whole movie is one big roller-coaster ride about an undercover cop, played by DiCaprio, who infiltrates deeply into the Irish mob. When you finally think he is going to make it out alive, he dies to everyone’s shock and disappointment.
Without Hallorann, no one would even know what “the shining” actually means. On top of that, during one scene he looks like he’s going to save the day from the ax-murdering Danny Torrance. But alas, it didn’t bode well for Dick.
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]]>A laughing dummy on a tricycle doesn’t sound all that creepy… oh wait, it does. And it is.
Dracula
There have been hundreds of vampires in movie history, but Dracula will always be the most infamous and the most iconic.
Chucky
Chucky from Child’s Play is not a doll you want in your toy box. Though, if it’s a choice between Chucky and The Conjuring‘s Annabelle, we choose Chucky every time.
Pennywise
Pennywise from IT is terrifying in both the original and the remake. He’s also responsible for a growing epidemic of coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
Michael Myers
A slasher franchise like Halloween doesn’t get to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time without one killer villain. That villain is Michael Myers.
Freddy Krueger
His horrific appearance and the fact he kills you in your sleep makes Freddy terrifying. His witty banter and brilliant one-liners is what makes him iconic.
Samara
Samara from The Ring is so creepy, we don’t even want to share a picture.
Kayako
AKA that seriously creepy kid with long hair from The Grudge.
Jason
Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees is another masked slasher villain that you definitely don’t want to encounter.
Jack Torrance
Jack Torrance from The Shining might have the appearance of an ordinary man, but his unpredictable mood swings and the ax he swings about makes him one hell of a villain.
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]]>Doctor Sleep is King’s sequel to the terrifying story of the Torrance family, The Shining. The sequel will be based on the grownup version of traumatized Danny Torrance, who is to be played by Ewan McGregor.
Stephen King is the master of fictional horror and after the huge success of The Haunting of Hill House, it’s fair to say that director Michael Flannagan is a master of the genre too. Putting King’s story together with Flannagan’s directional skills is a recipe for genius.
Still, the director is treading carefully when it comes to making the adaptation. He has expressed his concerns about protecting The Shining.
“There is no version of the world where I am trying not to acknowledge one of the greatest films ever made. There’s no upside in shying away from that reality,” he said.
“At the same time, this is not The Shining. It’s its own story and in a very specific way,” he continued. “If you’ve read the book, you know exactly why it’s so different, but it’s quite a tightrope that we’re walking, I think.”
“I’m having a great time doing it. I’m just going to get the movie out and then turn off the internet for two weeks and see how it all goes.”
Stephen King is presumably pleased to learn that the task of bringing his novel Doctor Sleep is in the hands of Mike Flannagan. He recently praised the director on Twitter.
King tweeted: “THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, revised and remodelled by Mike Flanagan. I don’t usually care for this kind of revisionism, but this is great. Close to a work of genius, really. I think Shirley Jackson would approve, but who knows for sure.”
The movie adaptation of Doctor Sleep will be in cinemas January 2020.
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]]>Played by Jack Nicholson, Jack Torrance is a suburban husband and father, but also The Overlook Hotel’s winter caretaker. Another side of his personality is that he is a psycho and murder and the king of creepy.
At first glance, he seems like a nice motelier, mama’s boy, but once the mask is pulled away we can see that it’s only madness beneath it. The famous Psycho scene of the shower curtain ripping, screeching sound and a knife lurching is iconic and it’s all thanks to Hitchcock’s brilliant creation of this man – Norman Bates (played by Anthony Perkins).
The iconic performance of Anthony Hopkins showed how effective a villain can be when presented as calm, intelligent but terrifying. Hannibal is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he is a charming man of high taste. Too bad that taste is in the human brains.
Black suit, dark sunglasses and an emotionless face on this man have the one and only purpose: to stop the rebellion. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is just an Al program in a virtual reality, designed as a human-hating weapon in the ultimate Man vs. Machines war.
Portrayed by Tobin Bell, Jigsaw is a cruel character who tests the other’s willingness to live through a psychopathic set of games. His victims seem like they don’t appreciate the life as much as they should, so he puts them into traps where they need to fight for their bare life. Do you want to play a game?
This supervillain has it all: a life story where he was kidnapped and raised by the god, he feels betrayed and he thinks he is doing good. While his brother Thor got the muscles and strength, Loki (Thomas Hiddleston) got the brains. He is charismatic, exciting, witty and keeps Marvel fans to want only more of him on the big screen.
Erik Magnus Lehnsherr (played by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender) is cruel, violent and dangerous, but if you know the story of how his parents were killed in the holocaust and he had to survive by himself as a mutant chased by humans, maybe his idea of how two sapient species can’t live in the same world doesn’t sound so bad. He is so persuasive that you can hardly help yourself not to stand on his side.
Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) was born as Tom Marvolo Riddle and he is the most powerful Dark Wizard, so powerful that he was just one step away from conquering the wizarding world before Harry Potter stopped him. From the beginning to the end of the franchise, Voldemort embodied the perfect evil, he is so cruel that no-one dares to say his name, except his biggest enemy – Harry Potter.
This iconic villain is the face of Star Wars. He was born in slavery, he joined the Jedi Order that made him one of the most powerful Jedi ever, but turned to the dark side of the force. He was supposed to be the chosen one, but he used his powers to destroy every Jedi alive. Among the fans of the franchise, he became even more popular than the heroes in the Star Wars universe, so there is no wonder he is one of the best movie villains ever.
Casting Heath Ledger as one of the biggest Batman’s enemy got so much disapproval from the fans, but Ledger proved them wrong. He brought a new life to the Joker, making him maniacal and twisted psychopath, purely cruel, dangerous supervillain. Ledger’s performance was the only one ever to bring an Oscar to a superhero movie character, and got etched into our mid forever and got him at the top of our list of best movie villains.
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]]>The film took five years to make and although sources offer mixed reports, filming likely took the best part of a year. At the time he was cast, Danny Lloyd was just five-years-old. To protect him from psychological trauma, Kubrick did not tell Lloyd the storyline of the film. He told Danny that the film he was making was a drama and hid all of the horrific and frightening scenes from him. In the scene where his on-screen mother runs with Danny in his arms, it is actually a dummy. Lloyd was sixteen when he saw the movie for the first time.
Unfortunately, life on set was less pleasant for Shelly Duvall, who played Jack’s wife. There have many reports that Kubrick was exceptionally hard on her during filming. In the infamous “Here’s Johnny” scene where Wendy swings a bat at Jack, it took 127 takes to get right. In the scene that made the final cut, Duvall’s exhaustion and horror are genuine. She once said: “From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I’ve ever been pushed before. It’s the most difficult role I’ve ever had to play.”
And do you remember child actresses Lisa and Louise Burns who played the creepy twins? They were never meant to be cast, but Kubrick decided that twins were way creepier than one young girl. For their birthday, the director gave the twins vials of fake blood. It was the same fake blood that they had to lie in following their brutal on-screen murder.
Unfortunately, despite all of the effort that went into making sure the entire cast gave it their all, Stephen King was not happy with the movie. He describes it as a “disappointment” and thinks that Jack Nicholson was all wrong for the role. Ironically, King may be one of the only horror fanatics who didn’t like the movie.
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]]>Carolyn Fry and Riddick spent the whole movie fighting blood-thirsty monsters on a deserted planet. When they are just about to escape, she gets killed by one of the creatures.
When you see Julian Moore, you’d expect her to be the leading role incapable of dying. But in this movie, she dies with minimal effort during an ambush.
Brad Pitt is one of the best actors in Hollywood and no stranger to dying in movies. But the character of Chad Felheimer will be forever remembered for being shot in the face by George Clooney.
When John Travolta and his fellow hitman, Samuel L. Jackson, are feuding about divine intervention, Travolta’s character, Vega, accidentally gets killed. Of course, it is a shock, considering he is the lead role, but it is a Tarantino movie after all.
Steven Seagal always plays the ultimate, undefeatable and immortal character. But in this movie, he dies during opening scenes in order to save his crew.
Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson are known for action hero roles. Seeing them in the movie got everyone pumped up. But they died some 5 minutes into the movie by jumping off the building.
The whole movie is one big roller-coaster ride about an undercover cop, played by DiCaprio, who infiltrates deeply into the Irish mob. When you finally think he is going to make it out alive, he dies to everyone’s shock and disappointment.
Without Hallorann, no one would even know what “the shining” actually means. On top of that, during one scene he looks like he’s going to save the day from the ax-murdering Danny Torrance. But alas, it didn’t bode well for Dick.
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]]>The post 10 Most Iconic Horror Movie Villains of All Time appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>A laughing dummy on a tricycle doesn’t sound all that creepy… oh wait, it does. And it is.
Dracula
There have been hundreds of vampires in movie history, but Dracula will always be the most infamous and the most iconic.
Chucky
Chucky from Child’s Play is not a doll you want in your toy box. Though, if it’s a choice between Chucky and The Conjuring‘s Annabelle, we choose Chucky every time.
Pennywise
Pennywise from IT is terrifying in both the original and the remake. He’s also responsible for a growing epidemic of coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
Michael Myers
A slasher franchise like Halloween doesn’t get to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time without one killer villain. That villain is Michael Myers.
Freddy Krueger
His horrific appearance and the fact he kills you in your sleep makes Freddy terrifying. His witty banter and brilliant one-liners is what makes him iconic.
Samara
Samara from The Ring is so creepy, we don’t even want to share a picture.
Kayako
AKA that seriously creepy kid with long hair from The Grudge.
Jason
Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees is another masked slasher villain that you definitely don’t want to encounter.
Jack Torrance
Jack Torrance from The Shining might have the appearance of an ordinary man, but his unpredictable mood swings and the ax he swings about makes him one hell of a villain.
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]]>Doctor Sleep is King’s sequel to the terrifying story of the Torrance family, The Shining. The sequel will be based on the grownup version of traumatized Danny Torrance, who is to be played by Ewan McGregor.
Stephen King is the master of fictional horror and after the huge success of The Haunting of Hill House, it’s fair to say that director Michael Flannagan is a master of the genre too. Putting King’s story together with Flannagan’s directional skills is a recipe for genius.
Still, the director is treading carefully when it comes to making the adaptation. He has expressed his concerns about protecting The Shining.
“There is no version of the world where I am trying not to acknowledge one of the greatest films ever made. There’s no upside in shying away from that reality,” he said.
“At the same time, this is not The Shining. It’s its own story and in a very specific way,” he continued. “If you’ve read the book, you know exactly why it’s so different, but it’s quite a tightrope that we’re walking, I think.”
“I’m having a great time doing it. I’m just going to get the movie out and then turn off the internet for two weeks and see how it all goes.”
Stephen King is presumably pleased to learn that the task of bringing his novel Doctor Sleep is in the hands of Mike Flannagan. He recently praised the director on Twitter.
King tweeted: “THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, revised and remodelled by Mike Flanagan. I don’t usually care for this kind of revisionism, but this is great. Close to a work of genius, really. I think Shirley Jackson would approve, but who knows for sure.”
The movie adaptation of Doctor Sleep will be in cinemas January 2020.
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]]>Played by Jack Nicholson, Jack Torrance is a suburban husband and father, but also The Overlook Hotel’s winter caretaker. Another side of his personality is that he is a psycho and murder and the king of creepy.
At first glance, he seems like a nice motelier, mama’s boy, but once the mask is pulled away we can see that it’s only madness beneath it. The famous Psycho scene of the shower curtain ripping, screeching sound and a knife lurching is iconic and it’s all thanks to Hitchcock’s brilliant creation of this man – Norman Bates (played by Anthony Perkins).
The iconic performance of Anthony Hopkins showed how effective a villain can be when presented as calm, intelligent but terrifying. Hannibal is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he is a charming man of high taste. Too bad that taste is in the human brains.
Black suit, dark sunglasses and an emotionless face on this man have the one and only purpose: to stop the rebellion. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is just an Al program in a virtual reality, designed as a human-hating weapon in the ultimate Man vs. Machines war.
Portrayed by Tobin Bell, Jigsaw is a cruel character who tests the other’s willingness to live through a psychopathic set of games. His victims seem like they don’t appreciate the life as much as they should, so he puts them into traps where they need to fight for their bare life. Do you want to play a game?
This supervillain has it all: a life story where he was kidnapped and raised by the god, he feels betrayed and he thinks he is doing good. While his brother Thor got the muscles and strength, Loki (Thomas Hiddleston) got the brains. He is charismatic, exciting, witty and keeps Marvel fans to want only more of him on the big screen.
Erik Magnus Lehnsherr (played by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender) is cruel, violent and dangerous, but if you know the story of how his parents were killed in the holocaust and he had to survive by himself as a mutant chased by humans, maybe his idea of how two sapient species can’t live in the same world doesn’t sound so bad. He is so persuasive that you can hardly help yourself not to stand on his side.
Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) was born as Tom Marvolo Riddle and he is the most powerful Dark Wizard, so powerful that he was just one step away from conquering the wizarding world before Harry Potter stopped him. From the beginning to the end of the franchise, Voldemort embodied the perfect evil, he is so cruel that no-one dares to say his name, except his biggest enemy – Harry Potter.
This iconic villain is the face of Star Wars. He was born in slavery, he joined the Jedi Order that made him one of the most powerful Jedi ever, but turned to the dark side of the force. He was supposed to be the chosen one, but he used his powers to destroy every Jedi alive. Among the fans of the franchise, he became even more popular than the heroes in the Star Wars universe, so there is no wonder he is one of the best movie villains ever.
Casting Heath Ledger as one of the biggest Batman’s enemy got so much disapproval from the fans, but Ledger proved them wrong. He brought a new life to the Joker, making him maniacal and twisted psychopath, purely cruel, dangerous supervillain. Ledger’s performance was the only one ever to bring an Oscar to a superhero movie character, and got etched into our mid forever and got him at the top of our list of best movie villains.
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