
Opening to a ticking pocket-watch as it counts down to 11:55. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a link to this particular monologue, but you can watch the film on Shudder. Character Garrick Turrell’s (AJ Bowen) monologue is able to demonstrate a more human side to a man who is seen as a monster, as he violently kills and saves a life in one scene. Lessons are learned, but yet violence still brews under his skin.
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The tone of her voice is hypnotic as we’re drawn into this new and appealing world, where the unification of flesh, no matter how young, old or diseased, is brought about by being devoured sexually without judgement.ĪJ Bowen’s Monologue at the end in A Horrible Way To Die (2010)ĭirector Adam Wingard’s gritty flick comes together at the end with a speech by a serial killer which actually conjures sympathy. She lures the audience in with her tales of insatiability, wonder and compulsion. Nurse Forsythe ( Lynne Lowry) reveals the truth behind her newly found lust coursing both physically and mentally through her body due to a parasitic virus.

Lynn Lowry’s monologue about her erotic dream in Shivers (1975)įrom the master of body horror, David Cronenberg evokes passion and eroticism. Nancy Kilpatrick, David Britland, Kim Newman, Gareth Beverstock and David Campion. Thank you to fellow friends/writers/directors in the horror world for providing me with some great resources. With horror/sci-fi/thriller movies centred around the emotions of fear, desperation, love, hate, suffering and perseverance to survive or kill, I thought I’d collate some of my favorite monologues in horror/sci-fi/thriller movies.Īs I embark upon my own first feature film script, these particular monologues provide useful priming material into how actors can really bring to life dialogue and with it the narrative and exposition within a story. During rehearsals, my tutor would stop me midway and ask me to repeat the lines with stage directions, whether it was walking a few paces whilst changing the tone of my voice to reflect the dialogue and action, or a momentary silence before continuing within the emotiveness of the scene. It was nerve wracking and a lot harder than I expected. I remember studying for my LAMDA and having to perform a monologue as my final exam. Monologues have always been rather close to my heart.

0 Top Monologues in Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller Movies.
