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  • 13 Stars of the 1970s Who Are Still Going Strong

    13 Stars of the 1970s Who Are Still Going Strong


    Here are some stars of the 1970s are still going strong.

    Diane Keaton

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    After breaking out with The Godfather, Diane Keaton hit icon status with Annie Hall (above) and has never let it go.

    After a run of films including Reds, Baby Boom, the Father of the Bride films, and Something’s Gotta Give, she returned in 2023 with the sequel Book Club: The Next Chapter. She was terrific in Mack & Rita, too. She’s terrific in everything.

    Say, whatever happened to that guy who played her husband in The Godfather films? What was his name again?

    Al Pacino

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    Oh, that’s right. Al Pacino, one of the greatest actors of the 1970s and all time, broke out with 1971’s The Panic of Needle Park (still haunting) before beginning a run of ’70s hits that included not just the first two Godfather films but also Dog Day Afternoon (above), and Serpico.

    In the ’80s, he mostly chose his shots carefully, settling on an iconic turn in Scarface. His spectacular ’90s run included an Oscar-winning role in Scent of a Woman — he’s ridiculously only one once, out of nine nominations — followed by Heat, Donnie Brasco, Devil’s Advocate and more.

    Recent highlights include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, and a hilarious role in House of Gucci. Like others on this list, he has finally moved into television (OK, streaming) with Amazon’s Hunters.

    Pacino, 84, also appeared last year with Michael Keaton in Knox Goes Away, which Keaton directed, and in Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, directed by his Donnie Brasco co-star, Johnny Depp.

    He also just released a new autobiography, and has made so many great movies we can think of at least five you’ve likely never heard of.

    Robert De Niro

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    Robert De Niro, a man with whom Pacino has repeatedly co-starred and jousted for roles, may also be his best competition for best actor of the 1970s (and perhaps ever?).

    After breaking out in 1970s roles including The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (above) and Bang the Drum slowly, he became a film icon with Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II (for which he won his first Oscar), Taxi Driver, and The Deer Hunter. Next came 1980’s Raging Bull, which earned him his second Oscar.

    His too-many to list roles between then and now include Goodfellas, Casino, Awakenings, Silver Linings Playbook, Heat, Jackie Brown, Midnight Run, and the Meet the Parents franchise. He earned the most recent of his Oscar nominations for The Irishman, which again paired him with Pacino and Martin Scorsese, though the film marked the first time he worked with both.

    He was also up for an Oscar for best supporting actor last year for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon.

    Jamie Lee Curtis

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    The latest winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once may always be best known for her role as Laurie Strode in 1978’s Halloween (above), a role she has repeatedly revisited, including in the latest Halloween trilogy, before vowing that she will never play the character again.

    Her other career highlights have included widely varied roles in films from Trading Places to A Fish Called Wanda to True Lies to Knives Out.

    She earned raves for her latest, The Last Showgirl, alongside Pamela Anderson, and was one of the first stars to step up and pledge $1 million to support the recovery from the L.A. fires.

    Sylvester Stallone

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    Despite a breakout role in 1974’s The Lords of Flatbush, Stallone wasn’t happy with the roles he was being offered. So he blacked out his windows to focus and wrote several screenplays, one of which turned out to be Rocky. Then he insisted on playing the title role and became one of the breakout stars of the 1970s.

    In the process, he helped invite the modern blockbuster — and franchise — and did it again with the Rambo films. Rocky led to Creed, in which Stallone starred in the first two installments. This year he’s back with the fourth and perhaps final Expendables film.

    All that and he decided to give TV a try, playing an ex-con who goes West in Tulsa King (above). He’s remarkably never gotten an Oscar, though Rocky won Best Picture and Best Director for John G. Avildsen.

    He’s also the subject of a compelling recent Netflix documentary about his life and career called Sly, and was recently named one of President Trump’s “Special Ambassadors to Hollywood.”

    Sally Field

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    We like her, we really like her. Sally Field, a two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for 1979’s Norma Rae (above) and 1984’s Places in the Heart, is also a 1960s star, thanks to her appearances on Gidget, starting in 1965, and the The Flying Nun.

    In roles from Sybil to Smokey and the Bandit to Mrs. Doubtfire to Forrest Gump to Lincoln, she demonstrated exceptional range, and mastery of award-ceremony speeches — her “You like me, right now, you like me” speech for Places in the Heart still holds a place in the heart of anyone who’s seen it.

    Last year she stood out in 80 for Brady, proving she’s still got comic chops — and a love of hot wings that took everyone by surprise. We also loved her in HBO’s Winning Time as Jessie Buss.

    Meryl Streep

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    Perhaps the greatest actress, period, Meryl Streep was already highly respected when she earned the first of her 21 Oscar nominations for her role in 1978’s The Deer Hunter (above), alongside a stellar cast that included Robert De Niro, and established herself in the process as one of the most promising stars of the 1970s.

    She has won an Oscar three times, once for Best Supporting Actress in Kramer v. Kramer, and twice for Best Leading Actress in Sophie’s Choice and The Iron Lady.

    Her endless list of films includes Out of Africa, Sophie Choice, Doubt, The Hours, the Mamma Mia films, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Post, for which she received her most recent Oscar nomination. She stole the show as pitiless President Janie Orlean in Don’t Look Up, and appeared recently in the Apple TV+ drama Extrapolations and Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.

    Jodie Foster

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    One of our all-time favorite actors — and a two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for The Accused and Silence of the Lambs — Jodie Foster broke into the industry with a Coppertone ad at age three.

    She quickly established herself as a powerhouse with astonishing range, starring in Freaky Friday and Taxi Driver in 1976, when she was barely a teenager, making her one of the youngest stars of the 1970s.

    She was back in crime-solving last year as the star of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, and was up for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role Nyad. She also just won a Golden Globe for Night Country.

    As for her Silence of the Lambs co-star…

    Anthony Hopkins

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    Anthony Hopkins broke out in 1960s roles including The Lion in Winter (1968) and Hamlet (1969), then found success in the 1970s with films like A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Magic (1978). He entered the next decade with The Elephant Man (1980).

    But things really took off with Silence of the Lambs (1991) — for which he won a Best Actor Oscar with just 16 minutes of screen time. From there he went on to star in films liike Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997), Hannibal (2001), The Human Stain (2003), Alexander (2004) and Hitchcock (2012). Along the way he’s also dropped into the Thor, Transformers and Mission: Impossible Franchises.

    But perhaps his best work of all was for 2020’s The Father, in which he earned his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as an octogenarian losing his faculties. He does almost everything in a role that an actor can do. His long list of awards includes four BAFTA Awards and an Olivier Award, as well as being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

    Hopkins, 86, was also excellent as an immigrant grandfather in 2022’s underseen Armageddon Time. His latest work includes Freud’s Last Session, in which he plays Sigmund Freud, and he just starred in Netflix’s new film Mary as King Herod.

    Clint Eastwood

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    Remarkably, Clint Eastwood isn’t just a star of the 1970s who is still going strong — he was a star in the 1950s, when he broke out in 1950s films including Francis in the Navy, The First Traveling Saleslady and Ambush at Cimarron Pass.

    The 1960s brought a steady role on the TV show Rawhide, and he became one of the most iconic stars of the 1960s in Sergio Leone’s “Man With No Name” trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966).

    He loomed large in the 1970s with the Dirty Harry franchise, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and Escape from Alcatraz, but he also notably launched his directing career in 1970 with 1971’s Play Misty for Me, in which he also starred (above).

    His stunning filmmaking career includes two Oscars each for directing and producing The Unforgiven (1993) and Million Dollar Baby (2005). His other outstanding films include Mystic River (2003), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) and American Sniper (2014).

    Now 93, he continues to star in and direct films — his latest was 2021’s Cry Macho, and last year he released his latest film, Juror #2.

    Jane Fonda

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    Jane Fonda broke out in 1960s hits like Cat Ballou, and buoyed her reputation with films like Barefoot and the Park and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They before the decade was over. (She also ended up on a lot of dorm walls thanks to 1968’s Barbarella.)

    But she owned the next decade, becoming one of the leading stars of the 1970s — and most acclaimed.

    In 1971, she won her first Best Actress Oscar for a daring turn in Klute, and won her second for 1978’s Coming Home (above), in which Fonda, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken progressives, acted opposite Jon Voight, who in recent years has become one of Hollywood’s most outspoken conservatives. It gives the movie and added layer of curiosity.

    She was nominated for four additional Oscars in a stellar career that also included 9 to 5, On Golden Pond (in which she starred with her father, Henry Fonda), The Morning After, Stanley and Iris, and Luck.

    Jane Fonda seems somehow busier than ever: She recently starred with Sally Field in 80 for Brady and Diane Keaton in Book Club: The Next Chapter, and just wrapped up a long TV run on Grace and Frankie.

    Steve Martin

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    Steve Martin seems like he hasn’t aged since his hair turned prematurely grey — and because his frantic comic energy seems boundless.

    After years of struggle, Steve Martin scored a Saturday Night Live hosting gig in October 1976 that finally won mass audiences over to his absurdist comedy. From there he packed arenas and made his first film, 1979’s The Jerk (above), a huge hit despite many critics’ failure to recognize its brilliance.

    From there he went on a run of hits that continues to this day, including Three Amigos (1986), Roxanne and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (both 1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Parenthood (1989), Bowfinger (1999) the Father of the Bride films, the Pink Panther films, and It’s Complicated (2009).

    Now 79, he’s currently starring with his Three Amigos pal Martin Short on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, and will appear this weekend on NBC’s SNL 50: The Anniversary Special.

    Michael Caine

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    The 91-year-old winner of two Oscars, for 1986’s Hannah and Her Sisters and 1999’s The Cider House Rules, broke out in the 1960s with films including Zulu, Alfie, and The Italian Job, and kept in stride throughout the 1970s with classics including Get Carter and A Bridge Too Far. 

    Decades later, the dashing actor gained a new generation of film fans in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy — an experience he discusses in the new memoir Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life, on sale March 25 from Mobius. You can read an excerpt of it here.

    His most recent film was 2023’s The Great Escaper.

    Jacqueline Bisset

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    British star Jacqueline Bisset broke out in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. She spent the 1970s decade making good on that promise, starring in films including Airport — the second highest-grossing film of 1970 — as well as Murder on the Orient Express, St. Ives, and The Deep, one of the biggest hits of 1977, a crucial year for film.

    She also earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, and made the ageless masterpiece Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and feels as fresh today as it ever did.

    She has never stopped working, and thriving, in both film and television. Her latest film is the new Western Long Shadows, in which she stars with Dermot Mulroney.

    Harrison Ford

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    You knew this one was coming, right? After breaking out in The Conversation and American Graffiti (above), he wasn’t yet one of the biggest stars of the 1970s. But Harrison Ford legendarily snagged the role of Han Solo in Star Wars while agreeing to run lines with actors auditioning for the film.

    Soon he was starring in Blade Runner, Working Girl, two Jack Ryan movies and of course the Indiana Jones films, the latest of which, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, opened last year. Ford promises he’s done with the whip and fedora, but given his seemingly boundless energy, who can say?

    Ford also stars on the hit Yellowstone prequel 1923, and, as we mentioned, appears this week in Captain America: Brave New World, playing the president of the United States… who turns into a red Hulk.

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    You might also like this list of Classic Movies That Bombed at the Box Office, including the 1970s classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, above.

    Main image: Sally Field in Smokey and the Bandit. Universal Pictures.



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  • 13 Pathetic Horror Movie Villains Who Really Aren’t That Scary

    13 Pathetic Horror Movie Villains Who Really Aren’t That Scary


    These horror movie villains don’t pack much of a punch. Honestly, we’re surprised they can even hurt a fly, let alone people. Here are the 13 weakest, most pathetic horror movie villains we can think of. Spoilers follow.

    The Snowman in Jack Frost (1997)

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    In this 1997 straight-to-video slasher comedy, a serial killer on the way to his execution is exposed to chemicals that cause him to disintegrate and fuse with snow, turning him into a killer snowman.

    Although Jack Frost commits very brutal killings — like shoving an axe down one guy’s throat — his looks make him one of the least scary villains ever. Basically, the only difference between him and the beloved children’s character Frosty the Snowman are his arched eyebrows made of sticks and the fact that he’s missing a top hat.

    Plus, how easy would it be to kill Jack Frost? All you’d need is a hair dryer or something else hot to melt him away. He’s mostly able to pull off his crimes because he has the element of surprise, since people assume he’s a regular snowman and don’t suspect that he’ll kill them while their back is turned.

    The Old Woman in Devil (2010)

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    This 2010 horror movie was based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan. Directed by John Erick Dowdle, it revolves around everyone’s worst nightmare: getting stuck in an elevator. But it has a sickening twist — one of the elevator’s passengers is secretly the devil.

    Spoiler alert! The devil turns out to be the one you’d least expected: an old lady played by Jenny O’Hara.

    However, even though her voice gets super deep and demonic and her eyes turn black, there isn’t much really scary about her appearance. All of her heinous killings are done in the dark. And she’s ultimately foiled because her main target — the guy whose soul she wants to claim — confesses his sins, rendering her powerless. She vanishes, just like that.

    It’s obvious to point out, but something else worth noting here is that it would be super easy to overtake this character, known only as Old Woman. Her only power is the element of surprise and the fact that she’s possessed by the devil himself. Otherwise, she’s pretty toothless, and she’s not very scary looking at all. This is not the type of devil that would give anyone nightmares, making her a rather pathetic horror movie villain.

    Chucky in Child’s Play (1988)

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    While the idea of a children’s doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer is pretty unsettling, there’s an argument to be made that Chucky himself is not that scary. He’s arguably one of the more pathetic horror movie villains.

    He’s just a doll. And honestly, in the decades since the original Child’s Play was released in 1988, horror movie dolls have gotten a lot scarier (just look at Annabelle from The Conjuring universe). The scariest thing about Chucky is his piercing blue eyes that are frozen in a permanent stare.

    But although it takes multiple gun shots to finally take him down in the original film, it doesn’t seem that hard to subdue a little doll the size of a toddler. Just disarm him by taking his knife away and throw him in an incinerator or something. He doesn’t have any crazy abilities other than bleeding like a real human, which makes him relatively easy to kill.

    In the grand scheme of horror villains, Chucky is pretty gentle.

    Pearl and Howard in X (2022)

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    Nevermind that you could knock them both over with a feather — Pearl and Howard are both more creepy than they are actually scary in X, the first installment in Ti West’s trilogy starring Mia Goth.

    Sure, Pearl is deranged. She’s a vengeful old woman hell-bent on killing the porn actors who are renting out she and her husband Howard’s cabin. But she could easily be overpowered by anyone with an ounce of muscle. Same goes for Howard. He’s pretty much just Pearl’s minion anyway. Pearl obviously wears the pants in that relationship.

    Although Pearl is pretty dastardly and we wouldn’t want to encounter her in a dimly lit barn, the odds are good that most people could take her in a fight.

    The Rabbits in Night of the Lepus (1972)

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    They’re literally just rabbits. No special effects to be seen here — the terrifying creatures that taunt a small town and kill people are just actual bunny rabbits.

    This film is infamous for its failure to make these little guys seem scary. To shoot scenes like the one pictured above, they just let some bunnies lose on a miniature set to make them look giant. But even with the perspective, it’s pretty obvious that they’re just regular bunnies.

    For attack scenes, they had actors dress up in bunny costumes, which makes the whole thing even funnier. You can watch one bunny attack scene here — in the shots of the real bunnies, they’re actually really cute, even when their little bunny faces are smeared with blood.

    The Cookie in The GingerDead Man (2005)

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    This one requires little explanation as to why the GingerDead Man is a pretty pathetic horror movie villain. He’s just a cookie! He would literally crumble in a glass of milk.

    Look at his face in the picture above. Sure, it’s a face only a mother could love. But is it particularly scary? Not really.

    The weakness of this cookie villain is similar to the aforementioned Jack Frost above. It’s hard to believe why the protagonists of the film didn’t figure out a way to kill him faster. This particular cookie is, like Jack Frost, possessed by the spirit of a serial killer — but this time it’s because his ashes were mixed in with blood and cookie ingredients. A witch’s curse allows him to come back to life. But does he really have that much strength or power? We doubt it.

    The scariest thing about him is that the serial killer who the cookie embodies is played by Gary Busey.

    Karen in Honeydew (2020)

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    We won’t try to argue that the plot of this 2020 horror film is one of the most messed up and psychologically disturbing ones we’ve witnessed in a while. But we will argue that the main villain, an old woman named Karen (Barbra Kingsley), shouldn’t be so hard to conquer.

    With the help of an old man named Eulis, Karen lures a young couple into her home through deception. From there, she tricks them into eating her food and later drugs them in various ways, including with gas masks. From there, she lobotomizes her victims and eats their flesh, cannibal style… yeah.

    But Karen herself is arguably physically weak and could be overcome if everyone teamed up on her.

    The problem is that Karen does her work while her victims are knocked out, which is ultimately how she overcomes otherwise healthy adversaries like the protagonists Sam and Rylie. But if they had taken her out when they had a chance, before she drugged them, they could have easily gotten away. Fun fact, this movie also features Lena Dunham!

    Brahms in The Boy (2016)

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    In 2016’s The Boy, the villain is a porcelain doll named Brahms. His creepy parents are convinced that the doll is actually their late son. At first, he seems inanimate, but then it’s revealed that he’s actually alive, possessed by the spirit of their murderous little boy.

    But honestly, Brahms isn’t that scary. He somehow has the ability to overpower a grown man, but then when he tries to overpower his nanny, Greta (Lauren Cohan), she uses his own trick against him — invoking the rules by which he lives.

    So if Brahms can be subdued that easily, couldn’t Greta just smash him with a hammer or something? He’s just a little doll, much like Chucky. He doesn’t seem like he would realistically be that hard to kill.

    The Goblins in Troll 2 (1990)

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    In this hilariously bad movie, Troll 2, the villains are a pack of vegetarian goblins who turn people into vegetables so they can eat them.

    That premise is already pretty goofy. Why not have the goblins be carnivores? That would be scarier. Nope — these goblins eat vegetables only, please. But instead of eating veggies and calling it a day, they decide to trick people into drinking a potion that dissolves them into vegetables.

    Although they look pretty unsavory, their masks are so misshapen that they look like something you’d find for your hard in Spirit Halloween. They’re also tiny. And, again, they survive on vegetables. How hard could it be to kill them? Case in point (and spoiler ahead): simply eating a bologna sandwich renders a person’s body poisonous to the goblins. The fact that the goblins win out in the end is honestly so disappointing.

    The Clowns in Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

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    The clowns from this 1988 B-movie cult-classic are more funny looking than they are scary.

    True, one punch from an extraterrestrial clown’s boxing glove can knock a man’s head clean off. But still, these strange little alien men look more like demented fun house animatronics than horror villains.

    We must admire the artistry that went into the practical effects — the details of their lifelike, weird little clown faces are something to be admired. But these aren’t the kind of horror movie characters that inspire nightmares, unless you’re six years old. But to be fair, horror movie characters have gotten a LOT more sinister and disturbing since 1988, so maybe in their day, these clowns were a bit scarier in context.

    The Leprechaun in Leprechaun (1993)

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    Jennifer Aniston looks plenty scared in the 1993 horror film about an evil leprechaun who hunts down a family he believes has stolen his pot of gold. But in reality, this little Irish man has very few scares in him.

    We’d argue that the titular leprechaun is actually a pretty pathetic horror movie villain. Again, we admire the artistry of the practical effects — it’s actually a real actor in this little leprechaun suit, played by Warwick Davis. But he doesn’t really send shivers down our spine. Also, his Irish accent is not very Irish sounding.

    If you want a real scare, listen to some stories about the culturally-authentic supernatural folk of Ireland — the fairies. Leprechauns are mostly an American concept. In Ireland, the superstition around faeries, also called “the good people,” is no joke.

    The Bunnyman in Bunnyman (2011)

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    This 2011 horror film is based on Virginia’s urban legend of the Bunny Man — a man in a bunny suit who threatens people with an axe. In the movie, the Bunnyman in question wields a chainsaw instead.

    But really, he’s just a guy in a bunny suit. And the suit itself isn’t scary at all. It’s just a regular bunny costume not unlike one you might find at the mall when little kids take pictures with the Easter bunny.

    We’d actually argue that the bunny suit in Donnie Darko is much scarier in appearance. However, this Bunnyman eats people’s flesh after murdering and dismembering them, so that is pretty scary. He just doesn’t look like much.

    Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son (1993)

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    In this 1993 horror movie, Macaulay Culkin plays a sort of real-life version of Brahms from The Boy. He’s a nasty little boy who likes to hurt people on purpose.

    But he doesn’t have any supernatural abilities. He’s just a sociopathic, or perhaps psychopathic, little kid. He could easily be stopped if someone put him in a time-out — they just might have to keep an eye on him, because he’s really good at outsmarting adults who underestimate him.

    Overall, he’s got to be one of the all-time least intimidating horror movie characters. He’s basically just a little guy who really needs therapy.

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