Most haunting film characters/performances of all time

I’ll start:

Sandrine Bonnaire-La Ceremonie, Vagabond
Michel Piccoli-Vincent, Francois, Paul, et Les Autres, Dillinger Is Dead

I’ll bite. Hideko Takamine in Yearning.

Needs no introduction….

I’d have to agree with Robert.

@Robert – Whatever.

Max Schreck

ménilmontant

Ruby knows!

i watched it last night! i cried :’(

I didn’t cry, but I immediately rewound so I could look (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) at Takamine’s terrified face as she saw that piece of string tied around his dead finger. “Damn!”, I said to myself.

Here’s a newer one…

Zoe Saldana in Burning Palms.

i like her.

Every lead female character in a Lars von Trier film
Liz and Dick as George and Martha
Carl Boehm in Peeping Tom
Anthony Perkins in Psycho

Ruan Lingyu (The Goddess)

Leonor Silveira (Abraham Valley)

Kinuyo Tanaka (The Life of Oharu)

Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly)

Nora Aunor (Himala)

Manfred Zapatka (Utopia)

Georgi Taratorkin (Crime and Punishment)

Innokenti Smoktunovsky (Hamlet)

Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day)

Gunnar Björnstrand (Winter Light)

Man I love Winter Light. Only seen it once, gonna be a nice second viewing.

Can’t mess with David Thewlis in Naked though, seriously.

Jack Nicholson’s devastating performance in The Pledge. The ending still haunts me.

Jürgen Vogel – The Free Will

Philippe Nahon – I Stand Alone

Paddy Considine – Dead Man’s Shoes

Claude Laydu – Diary of a Country Priest.

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