Celebrity Picks: Bonnie Morgan (Samara from Ring 2 and Rings)
Hello my Grue-Lings,
Today I bring to you Bonnie Morgan for our Celebrity Pick of the week. Bonnie is a stunt woman, contortionist, and actress. Bonnie is best known for her role as Samara in Rings 2, the scene where she does that creepy spider crawl out of the well. Now she is back again as Samara in the movie that’s out now Rings. I saw the movie and I loved it. If you remember, she also played the possessed Rosa in The Devil Inside. She has been in countless other films and TV series. She is very talented and a really cool person. I am so happy and proud to bring to my Grue-Lings, Samara, Bonnie Morgan!! Here are her Favorite horror films:
Bonnie: Where to begin?
I don’t think I can do a top 10 only, I could do top 10 just in directors, or classics, or in a specific genre of horror…but here it is, in no particular order, but off the top of my head. My horror picks.
Todd Browning’s Freaks (1932):
MY PEOPLE!!
One of us!! A film so shocking it was banned for indecency. To see the greatest sideshow performers of their time performing their acts really did inspire me. As a “young budding” contortionist I used to look at their pictures and read their stories, but to actually get to see them perform, hear their voices, see a film that was wonderful and strange and dark and heroic…. what can I say? I’m a huge fan.
High Tension (2003):
French Horror at its finest. Like many films in its genre it has its flaws, however it is perfectly titled and the storytelling is so incredible that there really is no language barrier.
Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (1989):
Was one of the first movies that kept me up at night!! I was 9 when I saw it at a friends house with my sister, Molly. It was all the scarier because we actually HAD a pet cemetery at our house. Church the cat, Zelda dying in the attic, Fred Gwynne, (I must confess that even at 9 I thought Victor, the ghost with the hole in his head, was hilarious, but I digress). We watched up until Gage dies and his dad digs him up …at which point we HAD to turn it off screaming. I didn’t finish it till I was 23. I got up my courage and watched it to the end… turns out it got kind of funny after we turned it off… should’ve finished it… probably wouldn’t have lost years of sleep imagining how much worse it got.
Cujo (1983):
Apparently this was Stephen King’s favorite movie adaptation of his book, at the time.
Danny Pintaro was horrifyingly real, as was the simple reality of the situation. On a personal note my Dad, Gary Morgan, was in the St. Bernard dog suit doing all the attack scenes!
Misery (1990):
Kathy Bates and a sledgehammer…“I’m your biggest fan”
Stephen King’s IT (1990):
TIM CURRY. STEPHEN KING. EVIL CLOWN. These are a few of my favorite things.
Afterwards I checked street grates and, more importantly, my shower drain …almost as much as I did after watching “Psycho”.
The Ring (2002):
For me, the original is still the pinnacle of bleak PG-13 creepiness. Rick Baker’s creation of ‘Samara’ and her waterlogged victims, the subtle unnerving imagery on the tape, David Dorfman was impeccably spooky, Naomi Watts’ and her bone rattling scream, the imposing personification of the architecture, all under the meticulous masterful eye of Gore Verbinski.
The Exorcist (1973):
Come on! This was THE high water mark for horror for decades! It is brilliantly edited, and the sound engineering kept tension even in the quiet moments…then shattered them! Dick Smith created the spinning head that made even the strongest moviegoers shrink in their seats.
Psycho (1960):
Hitchcock should really have his own list, but Norman Bates is our original serial killer next door. The nicest guy you’d ever want to meet. Generations of ladies have not been capable of a relaxing shower since.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968):
Back to the Devil, watching Mia Farrow waste away, Ruth Gordon so sweetly spinning her web…Roman Polansky created such tension in how he lined up the shots. I was funny about eating rare meat for a while after this one.
Silence of the Lambs (1991):
Is there ANYTHING more delicious than Sir Anthony Hopkins’ ‘Hannibal Lecter’? Suave, collected, cold, vicious, yet polite and with a fine sense of underlying humor and control. Buffalo Bill in a Kimono, a chase in the dark, all this perfectly satiates the appetite.
