As an added perk, he begins romancing a TV journalist who just so happens to be single mum to a highly suggestible 12-year-old boy. On the surface, of course, he’s a sophisticated young businessman who’s just been appointed the U.S. One of Neill’s earliest genre roles had him playing one of horror’s most iconic characters: Damien Thorn, the mini-Antichrist, now grown up (but sporting a not-dissimilar hairstyle), running his late father’s multinational corporation and embracing his sinister place in the world. Also, bragging rights: Bromley’s horrifying, head-ripping death scene is by far the best in the movie.Ħ) Damien Thorn, Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) Neill plays Bromley, the CEO of a company that farms humans while urgently trying to engineer an acceptable blood substitute”but he also really loves being a vampire and is not willing to give up the genuine article, which he prefers to sip from a wine glass like a true member of the ghoul one per cent.ĭaybreakers chiefly follows Ethan Hawke‘s character”a scientist working for Bromley, who discovers a miracle cure for vampirism”but Neill does get some decently meaty scenes, ordering his daughter, a human holdout, to be “turned” against her will, and later undergoing his own unwanted reverse transformation. Consequently, the human blood supply has nearly dried up”and deprived vampires are rapidly mutating into snarling, bat-like feral creatures.
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In the near future (the movie is actually set in 2019, but whatever), the human race is almost extinct thanks to a vampire plague that’s transformed most everyone on Earth into an immortal bloodsucker. He also dotes on his wife (Kathleen Turner, speaking of rad voice cameos) as only someone who’s mastered “the true power of superior intimacy” can”at least until they have a big fight at the end of the episode.īonus fun fact: Animation fans will also recall that Neill guest-starred as Molloy, the cat burglar who steals Lisa’s saxophone, among other things, in the fifth-season Simpsons episode “Homer the Vigilante.”
His boss, the Monogatron leader (Neill), sneers over humankind’s inability to form functional relationships while revealing the app is actually just a distraction while the Monogatrons steal the planet’s water supply. But Neill pops up with a fun cameo in the other plotline, after Morty and Jerry chase after a four-eyed alien (voiced by Taika Waititi, who directed Neill, a fellow New Zealander, in 2006’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, as well as another movie we’ll get to in a moment) who’s allowed a destructive dating app to run wild on Earth. Most of this season-four episode concerns Rick Sanchez’s revenge plot after he discovers someone’s been pooping in his private toilet. (Image: Adult Swim) 11) Monogatron leader, “The Old Man and the Seat,” Rick and Morty (2019) Neill is a snooty alien in Rick and Morty. Though he’s the character everyone is fighting over, Neill doesn’t get a ton of screen time”but his quiet presence helps ground some of the film’s more operatic moments. When his daughter (Monica Keena) is a small child, he decides to remarry, unfortunately putting in motion a scenario that will eventually see him dangling from an upside-down cross while his second wife drains his blood, believing that’s the only way to resurrect her stillborn son. Neill plays the Snow White character’s father, a wealthy landowner whose beloved first wife dies in childbirth. This spin on the classic fairy tale injects more horror than the average interpretation, mostly thanks to Sigourney Weaver‘s commanding performance as the stepmother, whose “evil” qualities are shown to have some agonizingly human motivations (though that damn haunted mirror also does its part).
(Image: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Interscope Communications) 13) Frederick Hoffman, Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) Neill does noble in Snow White: A Tale of Terror.
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