20 Beautiful Celebs Who Played Scary Movie Roles

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4. Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd

Helena Bonham Carter has given audiences a surmountable amount of eccentrically odd and disturbing performances. Amidst all of the dark, sinister roles that the Oscar nominee has played, such as The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland to Bellatrix Lestrange throughout the Harry Potter franchise, no other roles performed by Helena Bonham Carter have been as disturbing as her performance as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Manipulating Sweeney Todd (played by Johnny Depp) into killing his former lover might be one of the more twisted things for someone to do in a movie, but what really takes the cake is her suggestion and actual enacting of her plan to kill and cook Mr. Todd’s victims, whom he kills upstairs in his barber shop. Through the power of cannibalism, Mrs. Lovett manages to restore the wealth of her restaurant in the London depression, all the while (nearly) managing to capture the heart of a raging musical serial killer. This was definitely one of Bonham Carter’s more disturbing roles.

3. Tilda Swinton – Okja

Probably one of the most diverse and versatile A-list celebrities in Hollywood, Tilda Swinton (Swilda) is distinguished for her binary-like appearance and her renaissance-woman demeanor, in which she has left her mark in realms such as live-performance art to humanitarian activism. Although truly mystifying and remarkably photogenic in appearance and on camera, Swinton has still portrayed some rather nasty and disgusting characters in movies. One of her more recently acclaimed roles as the C.E.O. Lucy Mirando in the critically-acclaimed feature Okja was truly retched. Tying in modern-day themes surrounding the cruelty of the meat and cattle farming industry, Swinton exhibits a perfect CEO-psychopath mentality, caring only about her business, power, and profit. Completely psychopathic and driven by success, Lucy Mirando shows that not even the pure heart of an innocent child can sway her from her lust for glory and recognition above that of her sister’s, Nancy Mirando, who is also played by Tilda Swinton. This is definitely one of the more sinister and disturbing roles played by the gorgeous Swilda.

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