Halloween Grab Bag 09 - Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee scares the shit out of me. That rhymes, but its also true. There's no other actor I can think of who is so good @ conveying such menace. For years he portrayed Dracula in movies & in most of them he had little dialogue -- but he was incredibly scary. Even today, he still has a frightening presence on screen. Just watch him as Sauruman in the Lord of the Rings films or Count Dooku in the uber-shitty new Star Wars films. His performance in the latter is one of the few reasons to sit & watch those awful films. They are otherwise plagued by giddy production design & cardboard-ish acting by some very fine actors. The only other standout in those films is Ewan MacGregor, but that's another subject. I had heard that in the original Star Wars films, Christopher Lee was considered to play the Emperor (Darth Vader's boss). He would have been a much better choice for that character as the actor who did play the part was not as horrifying as I expected him to be.