Best Campy Performances?- Page 2

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:38pm

Anyone in Myra Breckenridge

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:40pm

I definitely mean it in an adoring way, n69n. I'm a big fan of fun, over-the-top performances.

Some may challenge me on whether some of these performances are campy or not, but they're entertaining nonetheless. Most of them reach a certain level of brilliance.

Edy Williams in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom
Anthony Perkins in Crimes of Passion
Patty McCormack and Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed
Ornella Muti in Flash Gordon
Sean Young in Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Jaime Pressly in Poor White Trash
Traci Lords in Cry-Baby
Elizabeth Taylor in Boom
Joey Heatherton in Bluebeard
Richard Burton in The Taming of the Shrew
Oliver Reed & Samantha Eggar in The Brood
Amanda Donohoe in Lair of the White Worm
Maggie Smith & Diana Rigg in Evil Under the Sun
Angela Lansbury & Mia Farrow in Death on the Nile
Dennis Quaid in Great Balls of Fire
Monica Keena in Freddy vs. Jason
Cassandra Peterson in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Pia Zadora in Butterfly
Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun
Finola Hughes in Stayin' Alive
Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th
Joan Collins in Making of a Male Model
Jamie Luner in Confessions of Sorority Girls
Erika Christensen in Swimfan
Sherilyn Fenn & Julian Sands in Boxing Helena
Linnea Quigley in Sorority Babes in the Slime-bowl-o-rama
Susan Lucci in Invitation to Hell
Susan Tyrell in Night Warning
Kristy McNichol in The Pirate Movie
Clare Higgins in Hellraiser
Sadie Frost in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Pamela Springsteen in Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3
Kelli Maroney & Catherine Mary Stewart in Night of the Comet
Julie Strain & Brinke Stevens in Delta Delta Die
Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, and Michelle Bauer in Nightmare Sisters
Meryl Streep & Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her
Lauren Bacall in The Mirror Has Two Faces
Bette Midler in Outrageous Fortune
Diane Ladd in Wild at Heart
James Woods in John Carpenter's Vampires
Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Annette Bening in Postcards from the Edge
Barbara Hershey in Stay the Night
Tuesday Weld in Lord Love a Duck
Eartha Kitt in The Emperor's New Groove
Rosie Perez in It Could Happen to You
Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married
Bebe Neuwirth in The Faculty
Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry
Gloria Grahame in Oklahoma!
Betsy Russell in Private School & Avenging Angel
Irene Cara & Tatum O'Neal in Certain Fury
Margot Kidder in Black Christmas & Sisters
Eileen Davidson in The House on Sorority Row
Anjelica Huston in The Witches
Keifer Sutherland in The Lost Boys
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet
Christine Ebersole in Gypsy
Simone Simon in Cat People
Gena Rowlands in Skeleton Key
Edward G. Robinson in The Red House
Karen Black in House of 1,000 Corpses
Jennifer Rubin in Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Carroll Baker in Bad
Alice Krige in Sleepwalkers
Adrienne Barbeau in Creepshow
Helen Mirren in Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Shelley Winters in What's the Matter with Helen?
Geraldine Page & Ruth Gordon in Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Joanna Cassidy in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
Sigourney Weaver in Heartbreakers
Stephen Dorff in Blade
Bridget Fonda in Scandal
Brittany Murphy in Clueless
Laura San Giacomo in Pretty Woman
Christina Ricci in The Opposite of Sex
Fred Ward in Secret Admirer & Big Business
Mary Woronov in Rock n Roll High School
Lena Olin in Romeo is Bleeding
Melanie Griffith in Body Double
Graces Jones in Vamp
Mimi Rogers in Ginger Snaps
Jane Fonda in Barbarella
Angela Bettis in May
Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils
Gina Mari, Jennifer Meyers, & Debra Deliso in Slumber Party Massacre
Zsa Zsa Gabor in Queen of Outer Space
Jennifer Tilly in the Chucky movies
Tori Spelling in most things

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 01:40 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:44pm

Wow. What a list

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 6:09pm

I <3 your avatar, mejust. Looking good!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 6:23pm

Also add most of the actors in the films from Warhol (Sylvia Miles, Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis) and John Waters (Divine, Edith Massey).

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 6:26pm

Reading Midwest's entire list would be headache-inducing, but one name that stood out as I skimmed for a moment was Susan Lucci. Isn't she camp in every role she plays?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 6:26pm

Reading Midwest's entire list would be headache-inducing, but one name that stood out as I skimmed for a moment was Susan Lucci. Isn't she camp in every role she plays?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 6:30pm

Pretty much. I like that one the best, though.

[TonyaFanatic]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:53pm

"Laura San Giacomo in Pretty Woman"

SH*T, Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Everyone in Valley of the Dolls. Everyone in Sister Act 2.(especially Frankie the white rapper) Everyone in A Chorus Line: the movie

[soapguy17]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:21pm

I love Susan Lucci, she's my hero.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:29pm

"Everyone in A Chorus Line: the movie"

LOL, Tonya! Ain't it the truth??

n69n--I know what you mean. I think of "campy" in a very endearing way, but it does carry a negative connotation for many.


...Just not for ME.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:36pm

*bitchslaps SG2*

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:02pm

George Hamilton in Love at First Bite.

"Children of the night, shut up!"


"I'm going to go out for a bite to drink."

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:24pm

Speaking of Elizabeth Berkley, anyone else think it was intentional on Verhoeven's part to cast Berkley in a role about a desperate woman who would do anything to become famous?

I don't know, I always saw that movie as Verhoeven winking to the audience and showing people how some people in Hollywood are so tragically desperate for fame that they'll do whatever it takes. Berkely humiliated herself in that role and will never be taken seriously. Gershon, on the other hand, seemed like she was in on the game and made the most of it.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 10:46am

Kim Basinger in Nadine

Rip Torn in Freddy Got Fingered

Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula


It's funny to see Gershon talk about Showgirls in hindsight:

LS: How do you attribute rising from the ashes of Showgirls, with that being the film that sort of catapulted you even though you were in the industry for many years prior. What about that particular performance made it critical to your launch?


GG: It was the first big-budget film that I did. I just thought it allowed me to do Bound, which was important to me. If you do a certain sort of film, then all of a sudden you can get something else financed. That film actually helped to finance some independent films, which is obviously where my heart is. So that helped that way. And I learned a lot on that movie, because you can only imagine the set of that film (laughs). It really made me focus in a certain way that made me realize, `I have to really do my job here or else I'm going to be slaughtered.' There was a lot of stuff going on in that movie, psychologically and everything. And I just thought, `If I can get through this, I can get through anything.' It was like you had to have a warrior mentality to get through that alive.


I should write a book on Showgirls! I got that part and I was really excited because I was a huge fan of Paul's (Verhoeven) Dutch films - Spetters, Soldier of Orange - which were really incredible and very dark. And I thought, `Wow. Showgirls. My character is as dark as they get.' To me she was full of envy and greed, and there's all this dark energy that was around her. And I thought it was going to be really intense and gnarly, until I got to the set the first day, and I was like, `Oh, my God. Oh, my God!' I've never… Literally, I had to do a one-eighty. I had to flip-flop my character around, just because it was like going in when you think you're going to have a heavy steak dinner, and you show up and it's like macaroni and cheese. It's not a great analogy. It's not like one is better than the other, but I do think you have to be very realistic and say, `Wait a second. This is not what everyone thinks it's going to be.' And it just became really apparent to me very early on. And so I had to quickly change my attitude with the character. In my head I thought, `Okay, I'll just make a character that the drag queens will dress up as on Halloween.' That was my thought - just to go camp and have a great time. You couldn't take yourself too seriously in that movie or else you'd end up shot in the head.


And I thought it was kind of fun until they started doing the press. My idea was to do a billboard and have, `Ninety-nine days, ninety-eight days,' and you see the dress go up and up, which I thought was the most genius billboard ever. But they were like, `No, we're going with this.' And they had that sort of body, the serious shot. And I saw that and I went, `Wow, we're taking this really seriously.' Everyone took it as such a serious film, and they started to have this whole NC-17 thing about it. That's where we got into trouble. We should not have made it such a big deal, and not taken it so seriously, and I think it would have been huge. Critically it just got slaughtered. I went into Bound immediately, and everyone said, `Showgirls is going to be huge.' And I said, `Trust me. It's not going to be what you think it is.'


LS: Could you get a sense of that each day when you'd go home from work, just from seeing the dailies?


GG: I didn't really see the dailies. It was a very strange and overwhelming experience. Some days we worked eighteen hours. And we were in Vegas, so you never leave it, really. I remember we were in the middle of one scene and I was looking at Elizabeth (Berkley) and I thought, `Who is this girl and what am I doing? Where am I?' I completely blanked out. Every time I watch the film I look at myself and I just have this look on my face. So I think we were all just trying to stay alive during that one.

http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/20037q/id1964.htm

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:21pm

lol thanks MrMidwest.

Liz Taylor in Boom! is awesome. As soon as I get a new harddrive that is going straight to DVD and I will post some clips on Youtube.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 1:40pm

*Hold face in pain*

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 2:02pm

my favorite susan lucci moment was when erica kane faced down the bear in the 80s.

"I AM ERICA KANE!!!"

& then cut to stock footage of a bear running away.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/1/06 at 2:04pm

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 1:03am

it was the 80s.
she was wearing an argyle sweater with a polo shirt underneeth, collar flipped up.
she was stranded in the woods (possibly from an airplane crashlanding?) & thats when she encountered the bear. the bear was all stock footage spliced in, they were never in the frame together.

@ first, she was panicking, but then she remembered that she is Erica Kane, so she threw her shoulders back, stood tall & declared, "I AM ERICA KANE!"

cut to: the bear running away.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:36am

Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven
Talia Shire & Elizabeth Ashley in Windows
Talia Shire in The Landlady
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
Gena Rowlands in Taking Lives
Natalie Wood in This Property is Condemned (love that drunk scene: "I want you to marry me, JJ..")
Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science
Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors
Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick
Joan, Debbie, Shirley, & Liz in These Old Broads
Kathy Baker in Edward Scissorshands
Shirley MacLaine in Mrs. Winterbourne
Treat Williams in The Ritz
Anne Bancroft in The Point of No Return
Suzanne Pleshette in Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
Alexis Smith in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer

Updated On: 10/2/06 at 11:36 AM