Gary Leonard Oldman

Thank you so much for sharing these clips and I apologise for how long it's taken me to respond! I finally watched both of them yesterday and the Candy one left me a little bit shaken. I've never even heard of that one before, but it reminded me in ways of the Willy Wonka myth. I also watched the Fear ep and I'm definitely no longer so blasé about the Wendigo. I've heard of it on and off before and also looked back to the Supernatural episode after I had a look at the one above; funnily enough, the one in Supernatural didn't scare me at all, but the one in Fear Itself was infinitely more terrifying. I think I have a genuine fear of certain mannerisms with horror themed shows and movies. A lot of my reasons for disliking E.T. so much stem from his little shuffle. I am also horrified by the idea of people crawling at me on all fours; I used to have nightmares about this sort of thing. After I watched that Fear episode I did go on to watch the Werewolf ep out of curiosity and I think, now, I'm going to go on and watch as many episodes of that show as I can 'cause I enjoyed those two. I think of everything I've ever read about or watched relating to folklore, hellhounds are probably the ones that frighten me the most, but now Wendigo's are right up there for me! I think overall, anything Japanese is usually what creeps me out the most, like the Teke Teke demon.

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I think my mention for an underrated actor would probably be Sam Rockwell, although not nearly as underrated as Doug, because I think people pay little mind to the actors behind a lot of make up an awful lot and it's so sad, because I was looking through a list of his movies and I recognise every character he has ever played, decked out in costume and make up, but I never knew it was him. I recognise the character of the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, Angel Of Death in Hellboy and Joey in Men In Black I had no idea that he was those characters at all, although looking at them now, the Angel of Death is the easiest to see.

As far as Rockwell goes, I think most people know him in The Green Mile and not much else. I revere his character in Moon and I think it's just as much an underrated movie as he is potentially an underrated actor, too. Wild Bill used to be my favourite character of his when it was one of the few I knew about but since I watched Moon a long while ago, Sam Bell is now my favourite. My other favourites of his include A Single Shot, Snow Angels, Joshua. Joshua, I think, was the movie I saw immediately after Moon, but growing up, Wild Bill was always known to me and I think it was because of that character that it upsets me he isn't thought of outside of that story.