Spike ,'Selfless'
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Or maybe it's because he played a creep.
He always plays creeps, now. He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep. (Not usually a morbid freak creep, but sometimes.)
Poor guy. I am sure he would like to play more heroes, but Donnie Pfaster is kind of a signature role.
He shows up on Law & Order every now and then, invariably as a creep.
Yeah. He showed up on Without A Trace a few weeks ago as a seemingly nice guy at the beginning, and I was all, "Donnie Pfaster! No way that he doesn't have some creeptastic agenda!" and I was totally right.
I've caught him on TV playing a genuinely nice character couple of times, but each time, my brain was unable to overcome the cognitive dissonance. Poor guy indeed.
He's got nothing on Doug Hutchison or Brad Dourif for having the X Files establish a creep that I can't get past.
Curiously enough, I don't have that problem with Brad Dourif, since he's played plenty of memorable and interesting characters after the X-Files, and not all of them creepy. I credit this mostly to his sterling work as Doc Cochran in Deadwood though. He's brilliant in the role, cynical and compassionate and very human.
I don't think I have seen enough of Doug Hutchison post TXF to say if his creepiness outlasts Chinlund's. Lemme see... oh, he was in The Green Mile. I remember him! Yeah, creepy.
I haven't seen Deadwood, and Mr. Dourif went onto being Wormtongue, so it's a sealed deal for me.
Doug Hutchison was also a psychotic robot on Space: Above and Beyond. *shudder*
Brad Dourif really is terrific on Deadwood (as is just about everyone on that show). Well worth watching.
Doug Hutchison I'll give you, but I think Brad Dourif's creep factor was established well before, and probably led to his casting on, the X-Files.
Though you used an "I" statement, so I would guess you were just speaking from your own experience.
The plot description makes it sound pretty much identical to Underworld -- hot vampire chick in tight pants torn between her vampireness and whatever the other option is gets caught up in a very silly plot and blows a lot of shit up for some reason.
Yes, but Underworld Evolution at least had Scott Speedman shirtless (a lot of the time).
Underworld Evolution at least had Scott Speedman shirtless (a lot of the time).
Repeatedly shirtless as opposed to continually, which just added. I mean, it was somehow more shirtless than if he'd just taken it off once and stayed that way.
Brad Dourif's creep factor
But, but... He was Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest! I mean, he can play the creep, but.... I think Billy is so far burned into my brain that it's hard not to see the damage underneath any of his characters. I never watched X-Files, though.