Top-5 A-List Actors Taking a Turn in Horror | CateGORY

Everyone knows many Actors cut their teeth in horror. Brad Pitt in Cutting Class. John Travolta in Carrie, Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun. But we're talking about established, bonafide, A-List stars who change lanes from the roles we know to something, much darker. Hugh Grant in Heretic is the best example. 

The guys list their top-5 in a number of ways. Analyzing the best actors to make the switch, the actors in roles they enjoyed them in, and even the most "what the f*** are you doing here" roles. 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

The man and the cop.

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SPEAKER_02 0:18

Welcome to the All Guts Gory podcast. My name is Mike, joined as always by Justin and Charlie. This mini episode, we're going to talk about A-list actors who later in their career took a turn to horror. And this episode was spawned after doing Heretic, which starred Hugh Grant, which was odd to see Hugh Grant move out of the rom-com lane and into the dark side, if you will, into the bloody horror realm, which he did early in his career do like one horror film, but he's not like someone that is known for horror. He's known for the rom-com roles. He is that guy. And so this episode kind of was spawned based on that idea, where the guys, Justin and Charlie and I, we're going to come up with our top five lists of other actors that have done the same, that have been established movie stars for drama, for action, for comedy. And then they delve into this horror lane later. So we're not going to talk about John Travolta and Carrie. We're not going to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio and Kidder's Critters 3. We're not going to talk about Jennifer Anderson and Leprechaun. We're not going to talk about Brad Pitt in Cutting Class. So this is non-horror A-list actors, maybe some Oscar winners, even that later in their career took a turn to the dark side. So we're we each made a top five list, and then maybe we'll do some honorable mentions after. How do you feel about your list, guys? Justin, I'll start with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

I am super happy with my list. I have some backups. Now, are is this five as far as least likely to be in the movie, or is it in like favorite movies where somebody strange that you weren't expecting appears?

SPEAKER_00 2:15

I I I don't know. I think we it I don't know. I I feel like it has to be like somebody that you know their name. Like of course you like everybody knows their name.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Of course, but what I'm saying is this like are we going for like, oh my gosh, I can't believe so and so was in this, or are we going for a movie I really liked that had uh an actor that was like, I'm going more for oh my god, I can't believe that person is in this.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Yeah, I didn't know that. I did a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

Yeah, okay. I did a little bit of both where it's like, wow, like can't believe this guy showed up in here, which is kind of the basis of it. Like, can't believe Hugh Grant moved, like, did this horror role, but also like enjoying the role too, or we're like, wow, they actually pulled they did that and they pulled and they pulled it off, right? Good in it, sure. So, like, if you didn't think Jim Carrey and the number 23 was good, you would not put it on your list, even though he was I looked at that one and that was in IMDB, it is not listed as a horror movie.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Oh no, uh I counted it as a horror, but it's on my list, but not my top five.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

It doesn't count because that would have been a you know, he's done nothing but comedy. His entire that's true. And if 23 with Google, if 23 had been on the IMDB like listed as horror, I would have definitely picked that one because that's no, he doesn't have like Oscars and Golden Globes out the ass, but I mean it's Jim Ferry, right? Jim fucking comedy carry. Yeah. Which is another person, a different person, similar situation on my top five.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Yeah. So we'll we'll talk about it more. I say we just get into our top five guys. Yeah, let's start with number five, and I asked just on the first question. So, Charlie, why don't you go first with your number five?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Okay, so total disclosure here. I thought we were gonna do like a draft. Sure, you have the first pick straight to top five. Draft your fifth one, but I I'm gonna do one on the second part where I'm like, this fucking guy all comedy, and he's in a horror movie, Bill Murray, Zombieland, and the Dead Don't Die. Okay, yeah, Dead Don't Die, not that great. No, at the end, Zombieland, also very much a comedy, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

He fits in there, but he still surprised us, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

Right, not a horror movie guy. True, he's he did more drama than he's done horror.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Yep. Ghostbusters, does that count?

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Oh no, it's the dead is a horror movie, no. That's straight comedy, straight gold, is what it is. It is what it is. All right, Mike, you gonna go next?

SPEAKER_02 5:26

I'll I'll go next. I'm I'm super in the present with this one. I picked Michael B. Jordan for sinners. Wasn't surprised surprising, you know. You see him grow up from being Wallace in the projects and the wire to being Vince slinging the football around in Friday Night Lights. Grows up as an adult, he becomes a like Paulo Creed's son, a grown man, a fighter. The next logical step for him was to do some Oscar bait, which Sinners became. And yeah, but he won best actor for playing Twin Brothers, Smoke and Stack in Sinners. So not only did he take the Oscar Bait lane, it happened to also be horror. I mean, he did a great job playing the these this twin vampire and loved it. Great performance. It'll be interesting to see where he goes from here. Does he fall into the Marvel Universe trap? Like he was in Black Panther, are they gonna make more of those and put him in other adjacent Marvel movies? Does he take on even more mature dramatic parts as he's going on 40? Like, you know, playing the too old for this shit detective type or leading role in a biopic of famous figures or something like that. Like he can do anything. So it'll be interesting if he keeps doing like other horror things or stays uh broad. I hopefully, hopefully he doesn't get just you know crammed in the box of Marvel.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Right.

SPEAKER_02 6:54

But really enjoy Michael B. Jordan and Sinners. He's having too.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

All right. So Boston, your number five. For my for my number five pick, I'm gonna go with a I think it was a straight to Netflix original, Netflix original series. I'm gonna go with Sander Bullock and Bird Box. Obviously, was as it's another rom-com slash comedy, miscongeniality type role heat. This was a fun, no, well, it wasn't a fun movie, but it was a I liked it. And it was a it was a change for her to do this this kind of horror. Obviously, she we we know her as like one of those American sweethearts, like a Julie Roberts kind of person, and uh, and in this one she's you know being terrified by these monsters. That uh, you know. Did anybody else have her on their list? I did not have her on my list. I did not either. Because you guys are sexist.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Uh nope, not the only thing.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Not for that reason. We're racist against white people.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

All right. With that, Charlie, I think it's your pick again. Not your pick, but let's get let's hear your number four pick. And if anybody has the same pick, just say, like, oh, I got that too, and you both can talk about it. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

So this falls in the vein of Bill Murray. Like, holy shit, he's in a horror movie. Betty White, late classic.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Yeah, I thought about her.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

She's a golden girl. I mean, like, she has not done any, and the profanity that she spits out during this movie is awesome. The movie's solid, it's re-watchable. I used to like it more you know, 10, 15 years ago than I like it now, but I still enjoy it, and her performance is great. Another what is this comedian actor doing in a horror movie?

SPEAKER_02 8:55

And pulling out, absolutely, real good, nice, nice one, Justin, number four. Are you wait? You're next. Oh, wait, I'm next. Yeah, you're right. You are next. I am next. All right, so my next one is someone else that's known for comedy, and that my whole life I always thought was this funny guy, and I really didn't. I thought he was a funny family guy, and then later I realized he's a funny, dirty guy, and also can play a wide variety of stuff. Robin Williams in one hour photo. Yeah, I didn't know he could be serious. It's on my list. I it's on your list too. Yep, that's a good one. Like I knew him as a movie star, and from Mork and Mindy was on Nick at Night when I was a kid, before I even knew that he did stand-up. I remember Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Jack, Flubber, Patch Adams. I was 12 when Goodwill Hunting came out, so I wasn't into that yet. And Dead Poet Society was before my time. I didn't get into that yet either till I was older. But then my mom rented one hour photo one night, one weekend, and I was like, he's this funny guy. I'm like, why is how is he not funny? Like, what the hell? And he was it was scary, man. He was like weird that he could just do this, it just blew my mind. And then it was like in 20 in 2003, I saw Robin Williams' HBO special live on Broadway, and I've never laughed so hard in my fucking life. Like to this day, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard for so long at anything, like like 40 minutes straight of just crying tears, because that's so the funniest thing I've ever seen. But yeah, so Robin Williams being that funny, and then to do something like one-hour photo, and then later on I realized, you know, oh, he was nominated for Oscars for the you know, all these other works and won an Oscar eventually. So realizing he's was so widely talented and played all these diverse roles was enlightening to me.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Good pick. Good pick. Thanks, man. My next movie. Actually, I'll start with the actor. My next uh actor was known for, you know, he's he's often been a cop, he's often done a lot of drama films. This is the incredible actor Denzel Washington in the movie Fallen. Love the movie. It's my top five, though. Oh, I mean, it's it's that's why I was asking. This is like I made the list. I'm like, ah, that's one of my favorite movies, right? So I have to. Actually, I take it back.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

I take it back. He's my number three. He's your number three, okay. Because the first my first two picks I was going with holy shit, that person's doing a horror movie, and my next three are racking up the Oscars.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Right. That's yeah, that's the typically the role. It's like you're he's either going to be competing for an Oscar where he won his supporting in glory, and then after following one is lead actor, and uh what was it, Hurricane or was it training deck?

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Uh training deck, and he's got seven other nominations.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Yeah, but yeah, it's it was one of those. What are you doing here? You're supposed to be a cop, or you know, or sorry. Um yeah, that's uh that's my pick. Have you seen that one, Mike? I haven't seen that one actually. No. That's pretty good. Go watch it. We'll come back. Okay, pause.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Go watch it.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Yeah, Denzel in it.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Oh, yeah, I know. He's great. All right, Charlie.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Charlie, you're up. Well, that was my number three. So do we want to skip me and speak on it more if you want to? Yeah, like Denzel Washington, but the next like I said, the next three people I have are Oscar nominated, highly Oscar-nominated, Oscar wins. Great actors, obviously, if they have that many nominations and that many wins. Denzel pulls off this horror movie. I mean, he can fucking do anything. I mean, he's one of those actors like he's kind of doing the same character. By now he is, for sure. Yeah, he has a a lot of mannerisms that once you watch a lot of his movies, you can pick up. So he's I mean, he's being himself doing these different roles of people who are not that great, and then sometimes they are, but I mean, he's a solid, solid, solid actor. So he was my number three in Fallen with seven nominations, not including the nominations he got when he won. So two Oscars in there as well. I mean, that's the mental piece.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Absolutely, no doubt about it. All right, well to my number three. Unless Charlie wanted to jump his, and then we'll just do some. Oh no, all right, all right. We'll keep in the yeah, okay. My number three is someone we already mentioned, Hugh Grant for Heretic. Uh, we just we just covered it on the pod. He's he's he's a you know, charming guy in all of his movies, including Heretic. A movie where he's luring two Mormon girls into his house and then deeper into the house, playing mind games with them to try to teach them about one true religion. Other we talked about it on the pod that, like, well, like maybe some other guys could have done this, you know, done this too, and come off as charming, and like, and I really think some other actors may have come off as too sinister, and you wouldn't buy that the girls would just follow along and listen to his rhetoric and play his games. Like, that's why Hugh Grant was perfect for this. You know, didn't come off as as sinister at all, was just kind of like being charming ass Hugh Grant the whole time, and still was scary without him having to not be, you know, some completely different character than we're used to him seeing. And he made those screenwriters look like a million bucks with the way he he read the lines and delivered the lines. That's what made part of what made the movie so great.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Yeah, agreed a hundred percent. Like, I I really can't think of anybody like like you said that could pull that off. And he did have moments where you're like you you would get a glimpse of a sinister look, but there were really very few, like even when he was slashing next and trying to, you know, cutting off he was still charming. And like you could go the other way, but with I I can't even think of any, but you know, somebody more like grandpa, Santa Clausy, and it would like not be believable, right? But perfect this movie can't be remade just because they can't redo Hugh Grand. It's one of those in those movies.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Yeah. All right. Anyone else have that one on their list?

SPEAKER_01 16:23

I did not have to do this. No, because we could use it as an example.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

Yeah. Okay. Well, it's okay. All right.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

All right, Justin, you're number three then. All right. My next pick. This guy is often known as being a jollier character. Uh he was America's dad for a little bit of time. He is sully in the movie's Monster Monster Inc. It is John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane. He played this. There wasn't 12 Cloverfield Lane. It it was 12 Cloverfield Lane when he moved. A little callback to a mistake, I mean. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

But yeah, now a movie about the neighbors.

unknown 17:04

Right.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

It's the neighbors just like, what is he doing over there? What? Why does he have a bunker? But yeah, it it was he played it way more sinister than Hugh Grant in Heretic, but you kind of get this vibe that he's looking out for the two people that are down there with him. He's, you know, caring. It just this is out of character for him to do this type of role where he is, you know, somebody's captor and puppet master type thing. But I really enjoyed his role in that one as it was surprised that he pulled it off so well.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

Yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

I do like that one. Yeah. Totally believable character. Like everything that you knew about John Goodman before you see him in this movie. It's like within two minutes, within one minute, it's out the window, and you're like, this John Goodman is an evil, evil person. And he does it so well.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Yep. Yeah, he was really good in this. Alright, Charlie, you're number two.

SPEAKER_00 18:09

We're up to our top two.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

My number two, racking up the numbers. I'm gonna go with and so the the first thought would be The Shining. But I'm gonna go with Jack Nicholson. In his later movie, Wolf, where he's at a point in his career he doesn't have to do he doesn't have to do horror. Like he he did The Shining in 1980. Not not his first movie, not the one that got a bit started. Like that was Easy Rider, right? So Wolf, which is not a I would I mean, if you're out of horror movies, go try the Wolf. Not a great movie, but at that point in his career where he was, you know, still Jack Bucking Nicholson. I mean, he's still Jack Bucking Nicholson, and he does wolf and blows it away. So that brings that would bring me to where's the act shit. I don't think I have him on here.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

But is that like because he'd already done the shining? Like, is that does that like qualifying?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

But maybe it's the fact that it was 20 plus years later.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

But there was so much he did before the shiny, you use the shining as the example, you know. Yeah, he did a lot before.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Easy rider. Yeah, right, right. Then he does the shiny. Then he goes 18 years. I can't remember when Wolf came out, it was like late 90s, and then does some horror movie, which wasn't that great, but I that's what I'm going with. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Yeah. It's also in Little Shop of Horrors 1960.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

I really don't count that as oh yeah, the 60s version.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

The 60s version was was like uh like a bee horror, right? It was a it wasn't campy, it was campy, but it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Jack Nicholson did a lot of horror. The Raven, the Terror, Backdoor to Hell. Whoa, that's not a horror. Hell's angels.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

That's not what he's known for.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

No. Rebel Rebels.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Does he count?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

I think Mike's trying to just gatekeep. We want to throw a backup.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

I got a backup.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Oh, you got a backup? We're gonna take Jack Nicholson. Does he count? We'll leave it in. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Jack Nicholson is fine. He did a lot.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

That brings me to 16 Academy Award nominations and five wins. And I'm gonna keep the best for last.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Okay. All right. My number two. Yes. My number two, I have John Krasinski. I mean, this guy was Jim Halpert our entire lives until a certain point. I mean, he's bedhead halving, top button, unbutton, loose tie wearing, prank playing Jim Halpert, right? And then he grows into like a mature guy before our very eyes, over nine years on the office. And he's appearing off the success of the office. He's in a lot of rom-coms. Something called Leatherheads with George Plooney, and he's in like four or five other ones. He's in like four or five other rom-coms throughout that time while he's on the office. And then the same year that A Quiet Place comes out, he's also his debuts as Jack Ryan, very famous character that takes a certain type to play, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck. But then you know, he not only stars in a quiet place. Place, but directs a straight up horror movie and not a thriller, not a fringe sci-fi, like a straight-up creature feature with incredibly wrenching emotional hard to get out of a creature feature, but does it perfectly and to see John Krasinski go from like Jim Halpert to like this guy that has to do whatever it takes to save his family and keep his family safe, and he's wearing a scruffy beard, and it's survival of the fittest kind of thing, and just like by the way, does the dumbest thing by getting his wife pregnant, but we won't talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Except his wife. But it's Emily Blunt, so yeah, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

But if you can't make noise, maybe you know, get your wife pregnant. But anyway, to see him in this was incredible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Anyone else have that one? No notes. No, I did.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

I actually had John Kay and Emily Blunt from Quiet Place on a like honorable mentions kind of category because both of them were not known for horror yet. No, of course not.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

All right. Justin, you're number two. Which way do I want to go with this? Here. I'm gonna go with, to my knowledge, this was the first time I'd seen him in a role like this. This was the thriller slash paranormal horror film, What Lies Beneath and Harrison Ford as a bad guy in this one, as a murderer in the Who Done It slash Paranormal Ghost Story kind of thing. And you're used to seeing him as Han Solos and Indiana Jones and you know, all these. He's the hero, he's the one you can trust in. Put your faith in this guy. Yeah, no, it was a it was a good heel turn for him.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Yeah, he was on my honorable mission just because he's Harrison fucking Ford. Right. No, no Oscars, but he's Harrison fucking Ford.

SPEAKER_03 24:10

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

I looked for horror movies with John Wayne. He didn't do any, but could you imagine if I could have found one fucking movie with John Wayne that was a horror movie? He's been dead for like 50 years.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

I think your dad could have picked one for you.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

He would probably have slapped me across the face. John Wayne doesn't do horror.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Right. All right. Do we want to do any honorable mentions before we do our number ones or just do our number ones? That way none of the honorable mentions accidentally get it.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

I don't know. It depends. Yeah, I don't want anybody to steal any of the number ones.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

That's yeah, what if I didn't let's do the number ones and then we'll talk honorable mentions. So Charlie, you're your number one.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

All right, so my number one is a lady who has been nominated the most nominated for Oscars actor. Not the most wins that would go to Katherine Hepburn with four, but Meryl Streep has been nominated for 19 Academy Awards, has won three, and she was in Death becomes her. Which was a comedy, but for an IMDB. Meryl Street. Meryl Fucking Street in a horror movie. Yeah. She can play. She does a comedy horror. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

Doesn't she play the devil in another movie?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Yes, the Devil Wears Prada?

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Yes. That that horror movie. One and two?

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Yeah. It was on the tip of my toe. This time it's personal. That's my job every time. The Devil Wears Prada too. Electric Boogaloo. Devil Wears Nada, is that what you said? Yeah, it's uh pod with Merrill Strip. Mmm. Nice one. Yeah, you like that? It's like we set each other up. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

All right. Meryl Street. Merrill Street. My number one. Just gonna say it, Nicholas Fucking Cage. A whole long career in acting in drama roles, and then it takes a turn to the action star Nick Cage that we know. And lost Oscar Winning actor. And then he he delves into he was in the Wicker Man remake, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. Which I didn't watch, but you know, I know the original is a pretty good flick, but I also am like that's not horror enough, but whatever. Different conversations. You're wrong, but go ahead. Mandy. Mandy, I couldn't get into, but then long legs, man. Nicholas Cage's long legs is fucking incredible. And I'm stoked we're getting into the Wonderland. Yeah, what about Willie's Wonderland? Yeah, I don't know. What about it? I'm talking about Arcadian. Yeah, he's gonna be around.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

What about Renfield doing a lot of these? Yeah, I don't want to see Renfield.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

But yeah, he tells, but he goes into this long legs is the is the fucking the big one. Right, right. I think that's the one most people are gonna be like, dude, Nicholas Cage did this? Because he could do a lot of stuff, as we know, but it was like, holy shit, this was a side of Nicholas Cage we hadn't done seen before.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Should have got an Oscar for Best Reporting Actor. Yeah. He got a Chainsaw Award. It doesn't carry the same weight. I mean, he's close, but yeah, yeah, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

But yeah, Nicolas Cage, man. What an incredible spanning career that he is now in like this horror lane, and I love it so much.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

He was my honorable dimension. Just for all the reasons he said.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Oh, okay. Well he has one of the Oscar. That's how Charlie's doing it. He's like, what are you doing here? You're too good for this kind of stuff, is what he's going with, I think. No, King is in jujitsu.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

No, that's why he's your honorable moment. But he was my number six on my list.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

See, I understood the assignment a little differently, and that's why my last one, my number one, is going to be a little different than everybody else's. It's going to be Kevin James and Becky. You're watching this movie. The ultimate, like, what the fuck are you doing here? Exactly. It's like you are you're like in Paul Blart. You're in the zookeeper. This is who you are. And now you are a bald neo-Nazi guy that's chasing after this kid to you know, I think there was money involved. I don't even remember the what they were after, but something mustache. Something mustache. It turns out to be right.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Bad guys.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

At work or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

But it's like for before I saw this movie, I saw like things that were like little ads and stuff or little clips. I'm like, is this a bit? Is this like some kind of skit where he's like doing like a funnier die type of thing or whatever? But no, this was it was real, and he wasn't bad in it. It was a what the hell are you doing again? But he's wasn't bad in it.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Becky was a beautiful movie. It's one of those, it's like it got Kevin James in it, it's got the female protagonist. I never heard of her before. She was good. It's got a lot of actors. I mean, it's low budget, it's thin premise, but it is a fucking joy ride. A joy ride.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

And Mike, you watched post of Becky's recently, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 30:06

No, I haven't actually. I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

We need to send this guy to away to school for a while. We need to send him to horror movies.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

I think I was just kind of like, Kevin James, uh pass. No, it's good. It's good.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

It's very rewarding.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

One of the I'll check it out. All right. So throw out some honorable mentions, guys. Any anybody else that uh didn't make the list yet? We want to do one each or a couple each? I'll throw one out. Okay. How about Carrie Elwis and Saul?

SPEAKER_02 30:44

I do it. He was in Brahm Stoker's Dracula like 12 years before Saul, but he's still playing like a debonair kind of role. Like his you know, Princess Bride and Robin Hood and you know, and Days of Thunder and Twister and Liar Liar. And then he shows up in Saul. He's never been like the guy in peril, and now he's in peril. Being manipulated. He goes, he goes dark in in a great way. It was definitely a different different side of him. Good performance. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Definitely. Charlie, you got a uh one honorable mention? I I I have a just do one.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

We'll do we'll take turns here. So my Nick Hage was my number six pick. Sure. My honorable mention because I love Nick Cage. But I'm gonna throw out De Niro in Hide and Seek. Right. Robert Fucking De Niro in Hide and Seek.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

He was in a Frankenstein movie as well. I don't remember which first, and then Cape Fear as well, which I was thinking. Cape Fear is more like a thriller type of movie. Yeah, Max Katie is scary. There's such a thin line between thriller and horror sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

There is. It is, it is, but yeah, rep to now.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

I'm gonna throw one out here. It will be the the stoner from SNL, Pete Davidson, and bodies, bodies, bodies. I was like, oh it's like the third movie he's been in. Right, but that's true, but you know him from SNL. Yeah, whatever. So it's it was kind of he's like a comedy guy. Yeah, he's definitely a comedy guy.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

That's going horror. I this I don't know if this one counts, but to me more for the substance. I mean, it's not her first time in horror, but those other ones she did like were not good, like Paris Parasite 3D was one of like her first movie, I think, her second movie. Yeah, the seventh sign with with my guy Michael Bean. That's just it's just not good. Mr. Brooks was not good. Oh, yeah, but Mr.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Brooks was probably good.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

It was fine. But I mean, so she's been in some horror, but the substance was like a body horror, like disgusting, gross performance, and she was Oscar winning for believe she won an Oscar for it, or was nominated at least for it, if she didn't win the Oscar. Now I gotta double check, I should know this. But I mean that's kind of like her uh revolted Pulp Fiction, right?

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Yeah, or her or her Robert De Niro. No, who did you mention earlier, Charlie? Jack Nicholson coming back for Wolf. It's coming back, you know. He might have done some other ones, but he's coming back.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I mean, uh, he liked the script, yeah. Who am I to say?

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Who am I to question Jack's right? Jack Nicholson. Speaking of you, did is it your turn to throw one out there? One of your honorable mentions. Is it my turn? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Well, sure, I'll do it. Al Pacino. Devil's absolutely ritual. Oh, okay. Al fucking Pacino. Okay. In a horror movie. He's still Al Pacino. Like we can we could go 20, 30 years. He's still Al Pacino. He's like a John Wayne of actor. Like most of the people who know who John Wayne is at this point were not born until John Wayne died. Right?

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Fair.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

So Al Pacino.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

All right. Circle back to the Saw. Oh, sorry. No, I was just gonna point out Demi Moore won a chainsaw award for her performance in The Substance and was nominated for an Oscar for The Substance, but did not win.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

Yeah. I'm gonna circle back to something. I'm gonna circle back to the Saw franchise and say Chris Rock in Spiral. You're like Chris Rock in a Saw movie? What the hell? Interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:03

That's that's everybody hates Chris, you know? He wasn't in Tales from the Hood.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

Oh, that's fair. That was that's that was what in the night. No, he was in he was in one of those, right?

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Yeah, it doesn't matter because I mean Twitch Rock. Nobody can prompt anything he did back then.

unknown 35:24

Right.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Then he does a Saw movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Any rapid fires for anybody? Uh Christian Gregory for American Psycho.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

It seems early in his adult career, but he'd been acting since he was a child. Maybe different if he'd been Batman first, but then we get American Psycho.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

But yeah, but I think it counts.

unknown 35:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Gregory Peck, the Omen. Omen, that's a good one. Morning Brando, The Island of Dr. Moreau, George Scott, The Changeling, Samuel L. Jackson and Deep Blue City. Who saw that coming? Who saw it? Um Morgan Freeman, Dreamcatchers. We'll see Jody Foster, Sounds of the Lamb, Julianne Moore in the Horrible Terry remake, Jennifer Lawrence and Mother. Ben Affleck Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

John Ston Stewart and the faculty. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Bradley Cooper and Midnight Metrichne. Midnight Metry.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

That was really early yet, though. No, we didn't know. Oh, he was Bradley Cooper. He was Bradley Cooper. Was he like Wedding Crashers, Bradley Cooper? I think he'd done Wedding Crashers before.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

And Hangover? I think this no, this was way before Hangover. I'm pretty sure before Wedding Crashers. Was it? It was way before Hangover.

SPEAKER_01 36:52

Rose Byrne and Insidious, or is that the same case as Bradley Cooper? I don't know. She was a neighbors and some other stuff where it was more like funny. What about Dustin Hoffman? In the Labyrinth.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

In the Labyrinth?

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Yeah. What's the labyrinth?

SPEAKER_00 37:12

I don't know if I've seen it. I have never seen it, but it's Into the Labyrinth. Oh, in the Labyrinth. Or the movie. Adrian Brody, Predators. Or even Village Before. We already had two Oscars under his belt at that point. He did. Julia Roberts and Mary Riley.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

Sleeping with the Enemy is pretty close to Darn Hart.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

It doesn't count, though. It's a thriller.

SPEAKER_01 37:36

And that was like one of our first ones, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Yeah. James Earl Jones, Exorcist 2, and Grim Prairie Tales.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Yeah, he was established by then for sure. Yeah. I'm done. That's all I got. I got a couple movies. Dana McBride in Alien Covenant.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

Sure. Yeah, sure. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

Okay. That's all I got.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Russell Crowe. He definitely went from being one type of actor to delving into horror a little bit. He was in 2017's The Mummy. He was in The Pope's Exorcist. He's in The Exorcism. Not bad. Yeah. So he's in the horror lane kind of right now. And then um Justin Long is another comedy guy that we love who quietly started making a turn towards horror. Now he's in all the horror.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

Yeah, he was in Cheapers Creepers a while back. So he was that was like one of his very first.

SPEAKER_02 38:41

I always just remember him as like the guy in Dodgeball, the guy. Yeah. You know, the guy in a bunch of other stuff just like that. Waiting, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Waiting. And then that's fair.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

But Brad Pitt. His first speech role was in a horror movie. And then he goes, it becomes Brad Pitt, and he does World War Z. And well, it's seven, too, right?

SPEAKER_01 39:09

I know. That's another thriller.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Another thriller. More thriller. Well, yeah, World War Z is straight up zombie horror.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

So you're straight up zombie horror.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Your mom's straight up zombie horror.

SPEAKER_02 39:22

And um last one I have is Ethan Hawk. Like, I mean, he's in all the before movies, before sunset, before sunrise, training day, pretty much put him on the map. And you know, he kind of does like some action, some drama, and then you know, he ends up doing Sinister. Now he's in the Blackphone series.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Uh he was in Daybreakers as well, which was well that was pretty early on, right? Yeah. Well, it was it's kind of in the middle, yeah. Yeah, Willem. It was after the before and afters and all this. Right. Oh, I didn't even think about Willem DeFoe. He's too scary to not consider like right out as the baby, they're like, he's gonna be in horror movies. Like he's scary too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

He's a bit of a scientist himself. There was a firefight.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Was that was that platoon? No, that was Boondock Saints. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, I think this has been a fun exercise.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

Yes, that's all I got. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

How about I I've I've heard, but I don't know. But I heard Tom Hanks was in a horror movie early in his career. But you know, who would we like to see? Who would we like to see?

SPEAKER_00 40:42

I would like to see Tom Hanks do a horror movie.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Okay. I could see him in like a definitely like a conjuring style horror movie.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Where it's like with AI, we could see John Wayne in a horror movie.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

We could, you're right. You're you're right.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

And by us, I mean somebody else who can actually make a horror movie.

SPEAKER_01 41:01

Yeah, well, they'll throw him out one day. Here's here's here's the title of it. John Slay. Like just S L A Y and you know, maybe apostrophe in there. Willie's Wonderland 2. There you go. He could be Willie.

SPEAKER_02 41:20

Do we want to recap our top five picks before we get out of here?

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Yeah, well, just yeah, do your whole list, maybe. Yeah, or do you want to do you have them all written down? I wrote them all down. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 41:33

Go for it. Charlie, Bill Murray for Zombieland, Betty White, Lake Placid, Denzel Washington in Fallen, Jack Nicholson in The Shining or the Wolf, and Meryl Street in Death Becomes Her. I went with Michael B. Jordan in Sinners, Robin Williams in One Hour Photo, Hugh Grant in Heretic, John Krasinski in A Quiet Place, and Nicholas Cage in Mandy slash long legs, and then Justin, Sandra Bullock in Bird Box, Denzel Washington in Fallen, John Goodman for 10 Cloverfield Lane, Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath, and Kevin James in Becky for our top five. What the fuck are you doing here? Performances. Alright, guys. Well, thank you for listening to the All Guts So Gory podcast. If you like what we do here, best thing you can do for us is please leave us a rating and a review wherever you get your pods. If you listen to us on Spotify, make sure you follow us there so you don't miss your favorite horror movies being broken down by us. Follow us on Instagram at all gut so gorypod, and please drop us some fan mail. There's a link in all of our show notes. Or if you have a movie request or something you want us to talk about, or just an opinion you want us to hear, let us know about it. Let's see. Not sure what movie we have coming up next at this point. I forgot to look at the schedule, but no be surprised.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

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SPEAKER_02 43:24

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