And Now This: Pruitt Taylor Vince Creeps Me Out
“His irises tremble violently as the camera fixes on his glassy gaze, and before you know it, you've once again been entranced by the character with whom you're unsure if you should fear or sympathize.”— Actor Bio on Blockbuster Onlin e I just got finished watching Captivity , one of the After Dark Horrorfest films starring Elisha Cuthbert as a kidnapped supermodel with Daniel Gillies and Pruitt Taylor Vince as her captors. Vince gives an unsettling performance as the psychotic Ben Dexter, who owns his own catering business to finance his and his brother's hobby of capturing young women and keeping them in the basement. Vince’s roles always leave me with a feeling of lingering creepiness, so I thought I’d do a brief review of the weirdos he’s played in the past. Monster (2003) Vince plays Gene the stuttering "John" in Monster, one of the many victims of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute from Daytona Beach who became a serial killer. Identity (2003) Malcolm Rivers is
Monster Scholar: I am loving this Dorian Gray poster theme, and every post pounds the stake a little deeper into the new version. I have not seen the Helmet Berger version (and after your endorsement went searching for it on Amazon), but am dying to. The Berger poster, I think, is my favorite. Now that displays an udnerstanding of the source material, what with skulls and dead cats composing the coperal being of the doomed Dorian.
ReplyDeleteAs for the latest verson, what can one say? It looks completely boring and generic. Why do all the children now feel they have to glare into the camera with that exact same look! And with the poster's eurotrash, goth trappings, could they have made it seem more like nothing special?-- Mykal
Mykal,
ReplyDeleteIt's called the Zoolander effect. Haha