So, the wife and I just got around to watching Robert Zemeckis’ 2007 adaptation of Beowulf last night, and in addition to the film’s soulless video game versions of a vagina-less Angelina Jolie, a buff Ray Winstone and a naked Anthony Hopkins, one of the creepiest parts of the movie was Crispin Hellion Glover’s scarily believable crazy person screaming as the mushy-headed monster, Grendel.
Yet, even as Glover’s weirdly accented ululations scared the piss out of our cat Zuzu, I found myself harkening back to my OWN sadly neglected turn as the screaming voice of doomed wild boy Tommy (and his demonic doppelganger) in the 1994 Soleil Moon Frye horror classic Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings.
True, the roles of Tommy the Wild Boy and Mr. Head were officially played by J.P. Manoux and Mark McCracken, respectively, but for reasons I can’t quite remember now (and probably having to do with the fact I just happened to be at the post-production facility at the time), I was nevertheless called upon to sweeten the dying/rage-filled screams of the aforementioned two characters in the P2 sound mix with my own shrieky talents.
So who’s the better screamer in a side-by-side comparison?
YOU decide!
Screamer #1: Crispin Hellion Glover, Beowulf
Screamer #2: Andrew Hellion Osborne, Pumpkinhead 2
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