Eeek! We have planned absolutely nothing for Halloween on the blog just yet so in case we don't here is an impromptu list (mostly off the top of my head) for discussion fun. Since horror is not my preferred genre, it was actually quite hard to come up with the male actors list but the female list was easy but for the difficulty of narrowing it down. Can you believe I had to leave the Exorcist women off the list?
10 Best Lead Actresses in a Horror Film
- Isabelle Adjani - Possession
- Toni Colette - Hereditary
- Bette Davis - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Shelley Duvall - The Shining
- Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby
- Jodie Foster - Silence of the Lambs
- Nicole Kidman - The Others
- Vanessa Redgrave - The Devils
- Sissy Spacek - Carrie
- Sigourney Weaver - Alien
More after the jump...
I had to leave so many great performances off this list. Sorry especially to Essie Davis in The Babadook and Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist. Actresses have excelled so often in this genre
10 Best Leading Actors in a Horror Film
- Antonio Banderas - The Skin I Live In
- Jeff Goldblum - The Fly
- Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
- Jeremy Irons -Dead Ringers
- Daniel Kaluyya - Get Out
- Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
- Jack Nicholson - The Shining
- Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
- Anthony Perkins - Psycho
- Oliver Reed - The Devils
I showed you mine, now you show me yours. Boo!