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Michael Rooker the creepiest performance in history

posted 12 years ago by andypaul_gill
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Gotta say, I never much warmed to Michael Rooker - Days of Thunder, The 6th Day, The Bone Collector, The Walking Dead, Cliffhanger - even when he's NOT playing a bad guy, there's something sinister and scary about him. You believe he could be the embodiment of all evil underneath it all.

Then I watched this movie, and I think if I was ever offered the chance to meet him, I'd run a mile. Creepy beyond belief! I mean, he totally owned the part, and kudos to him, but that's got to be one of the most unsettling performances ever.

Forget Hannibal Lecter, forget the twins in The Shining and the guy without eyebrows in Lost Highway - Michael Rooker as Grant Grant is definitely the creepiest performance in movie history.

[–] shadesofhades 12 years ago

It won't make you warm to him, but you should watch Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. He is terrifying in that.

[–] ransax 12 years ago

I was just about to suggest the same thing...

[–] erik-29-381626 11 years ago

He's a good actor but it seems he's never the good guy, that's just how it usually goes. :)

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[–] erik-29-381626 11 years ago

I hope he got paid a lot for those agonising long hours in uncomfortable suits that tore his scalp off etc. :)

[–] peter_t_2k3 10 years ago

Me to Henry Portrait of A Serial Killer is one of the few horror films that's really got to me me. It's the really Dark but realistic, almost documentary at times feeling with the coldness Michael Rooker brings that just makes it work so much

[–] audiokaleidoscope 10 years ago

I like him in Mallrats :) "would you like a chocolate covered pretzel??" lol

[–] mrannah 10 years ago

Strangely, the creepiest moment in his performance i don't remember from the actual print of the film but from an extended scene in the dvd..when he's in the grocery doing this massive shopping excursion, it carries on with him picking more and more from the butcher aisle, and starting to all but chant 'meat, meat..' then pauses and turns to the clerk helping him and says softly in a moment of revelation 'you're meat.'

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 10 years ago

Yeah, Rooker was definetely creepy in here, no doubt.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit me!"- Hudson in Aliens.

[–] godzillaprime 9 years ago

I think he was actually a nice guy before he got turned

[–] unicorn-30 8 years ago

Just as an FYI, we saw part of a panel that Michael Roker spoke in at a comic con and he seemed like a very nice person in real life.

[–] laplante-co-672-297856 8 years ago

Some people may remember him alongside Stallone in Cliffhanger which was a rare 'good guy' role for him.

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

no, just annoying and disgusting