Horror Actors was Re: [UA] Lincoln's Yummy Son

[Stevens Dustin]

--- Kevin Mowery <kemowery at earthlink.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> Like the real Christopher Robin,
> A.A.
> > Milne's son is a hell of a person in his own right
> and
> > did some wild stuff in WWII.

You can't leave that hanging out there and not tell
us. Time to do an internet search.
> 
>     Getting further away from the topic of famous
> people eating their
> children, one of my old English teachers wrote a
> book on Peter Cushing and
> Christopher Lee.  The Peter Cushing bio stuff is
> suitably weird, but here's
> the thing: Christopher Lee has levels like you
> wouldn't believe!  He's
> Italian nobility.  He speaks over a dozen language. 
> He was an intelligence
> officer in WWII and did things that are still
> classified.  Then he did a
> bunch of B movies for Hammer.  Go fig.

And I always thought he was a boring stuck-up dolt.
Boy, am I mis-informed. And don't forget he's in Star
Wars Episode 2, (rounding out Pete's showing in the
first one), called Count, excuse me, Darth Dooka. What
a stupid name. Gotta be something UA-able about that.
And then again, maybe not.

ObUA: Obviously, you have an adventure made up of a
creepy old house where old horror actors; Cushing,
Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney (Sr. and Jr.), go when they
die to become zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. Or
at least go to be put in make up one last time. Maybe
PCs follow Lee to the house (an off-branch of the
House of Renunciation?), then see somebody putting in
Lee's plastic fangs and burying him in the nearby
cemetery. The atmosphere is to perfectly duplicate an
old B&W silent horror movie, including with the
obvious fake gnarled tree, and dark backdrop. The
capper is when they all come out of the shadows for
one last 'bite'.
 
Ok, maybe that's not such a great idea.

How about this:
 
Old horror movie actors always seemed to be the most
classy stand-up guys, like Vincent Price or Boris
Karloff, or complete drug addicts like Lugosi or
Chaney Jr.

So what does the new generation of horror get? Neve
Campbell and Jamie Lee Curtis, and creepy-ass Robert
Englund, something closer to porn. Was there a battle
somewhere over the creation of this new archetype?

Just call it the Horror Actor (ess?). The original
template was the mild mannered man behind the monster
mask, a kind of schizophrenia. Could also be attached
to the Quiet Man Who Can't Take It Anymore, and AK's
people down at the local McDonalds (although recently
it's become the Student WCTIA)

Eventually, the switch came to elevate the 'victims'
instead of the monsters, making the original Horror
Actors lose their power. 

I have no idea where I'm going with this. Probably
nowhere.

Anyway, take care,

Steve Dustin
zoom2baba at yahoo.com
   



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