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THE BULLETIN • OCTOBER 21 - 27, 2021
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“Movie: Swimming for Gold”
From Down Under comes this 2020
drama that stars Peyton List (“Cobra
Kai”) as a U.S. Olympic swimmer who
suffers an injury that forces her to set aside
her dream and help the Australian men’s
team get ready for the Games. Martin
Dingle-Wall, Olivia Nardini, Ray Chong
Nee and Daniel Needs are also in the cast
for director Hayley MacFarlane (“Love
Island”). (ORIGINAL)
BY JAY BOBBIN
Lon Chaney Jr.
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
“Movie: I Am Durán”
“Movie: Madres”
From director Mat Hodgson (“The Four
Year Plan”) comes this 2019 documentary
about the Panamanian boxer who held
titles in four weight classes and helped
inspire his homeland’s people to rise up
against its CIA-funded dictator to achieve
independence. Fellow fighters Sugar Ray
Leonard, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis
offer their observations, as do Robert
De Niro, Sylvester Stallone and Larry
Merchant.
From horror mavens Blumhouse comes
this tale of a young Mexican-American
couple expecting their first child, who
move to a small Northern California
town where the husband has taken a
job managing a ranch. But when the
wife explores her new surroundings,
she discovers a grisly talisman, a box
containing the belongings of the previous
residents and a horror she could never
imagine.
“Maradona: Blessed Dream”
This 10-episode biographical drama
follows the life and prolific career of the
international soccer superstar, from his
humble beginnings in Argentina, to his
game-changing career with Barcelona and
Napoli to the instrumental role he played
in his national team winning the World
Cup in Mexico in 1986. Juan Palomino
(“Magnifica 70”) has the title role in the
U.S./Argentine production. (ORIGINAL)
BEST SCARY ACTORS
Lon Chaney The so-called “Man of a
Thousand Faces” made a particular face, that
of the Phantom of the Opera, one of the most
enduring images in horror.
Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s monster. ‘Nuff
said?
Bela Lugosi Like Boris Karloff, all it takes is
the mention of one role – Count Dracula – to
justify Lugosi’s place on this list.
Elsa Lanchester Her get-up in the role has
been much mocked ever since, but British acting
veteran Lanchester became an immediate icon
as the “Bride of Frankenstein.”
Lon Chaney Jr. Terror stayed in the family,
thanks to Junior’s portrayal of the Wolf Man,
a part that his natural appearance made him
ideally suited for.
Peter Lorre Lorre’s unusual look made him a
natural for the horror genre, but he even could
be scary on a more subtle level, evidenced by
his haunting portrayal of a child-killer in the
classic “M.”
Vincent Price He became a caricature of
himself in later years, as in “Theater of Blood”
... but in his prime (“House of Wax,” etc.), the
refined Price could be quite a frightening fellow.
He helps launch Halloween weekend with “The
Abominable Dr. Phibes” Friday, Oct. 29, on
Turner Classic Movies.
John Carradine Though he also made many
other types of films, the presence of the craggy-
faced father of fellow actors David, Keith and
Robert often signaled something scary was on
the way.
Anthony Perkins Here’s a case of an actor
whose horror cred comes down to one role (all
together, now) – Norman Bates in “Psycho.” If
the film’s very last shot doesn’t creep you out,
nothing will.
John Hurt While he wasn’t only a horror
actor, Hurt could lay claim to one of the knock-
your-socks-off scare sequences in all of movie
history, given what happens to him in the
pivotal scene of “Alien.”
Heather O’Rourke Sometimes innocents
can be terrifying, demonstrated by young
O’Rourke as the target of specters (“They’re he-
e-e-ere!”) in “Poltergeist.”
Robert Englund “A Nightmare on Elm
Street” might have yielded a few too many
chapters – even extending to the television
series “Freddy’s Nightmares” – but the sharp-
fingered Mr. Krueger was good for some solid
screams early on.
Tobin Bell So effective as the lethally clever
Jigsaw in the “Saw” movies that the series
wouldn’t let him die, though the character
technically is dead, Bell had a great run with the
franchise ... appropriately, right up to 2017’s
“Jigsaw.”