NSFW – Horror History: 8 A-Listers Who Bared it All in a Horror Film
Matt Molgaard
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Sissy Spacek – Carrie: There was nothing sexy about this scene, which seems like an absolute impossibility. 20-somethings playing high school chicks in a locker room, buck naked? What could go wrong? Everything. But the scene was important beyond words. It set the tone and established Carrie as a film that you absolutely had to see. After all, if Brian De Palma’s approach to that opener was any indication, viewers were in for a very extreme journey into the mind of a gifted but troubled teen. De Palma didn’t disappoint.
Charlize Theron – The Devil’s Advocate: I’m still on the fence about this film. On one hand I thought Charlize Theron was excellent, and I thought the overall mood of the film was excellent. On the other hand I was surprisingly disappointed by Al Pacino’s work. It felt extremely standard, for lack of a more accurate term. Let’s say this; we didn’t see much from the man that we haven’t already, many times. Just the same, Keanu Reeves did turn in a fair performance (he proved surprisingly well suited for the role of Kevin Lomax), the writing is strong, and the idea of Satan spawning a kick-ass lawyer who goes on to inadvertently destroy a number of lives, including his own wife’s, as a result over ambition and a lust for power, is pretty damn engaging.
