Musicians Doing Movies

Elvis Presley... Not exactly some one who did horror, but the King Of Rock did a have a pretty solid movie career!

I don't know about you guys... But for me, the movies that I have seen in which a famous Musician has made the transfer in to doing movies as well are actually pretty good!

Now I can't say that about all of them, because well, I haven't seen all of them, but the ones that I have seen, well I have to say that they pretty well rock! Now I am not necessarily talking about musicals, although those are pretty good as well.

Now why is it that they seem to do pretty good? Well I am going to say that there are a few reasons for this:

1. Obviously at least some of the movies that these musicians have been in tended to involve music in some way...

2. Well besides what was mentioned above, I also think it is because these guys are already in the public spotlight, and so they almost always seem to project a certain kind of veneer when the paparazzi are snapping photos. I think that, that false veneer generally tends to lend itself to helping musicians play believable roles.

Musician/Actor, 'Justin Timberlake' with fellow, 'Social Network' cast mates, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield!

Ultimately though, I think that the reason this seems to work so well is the fact that it seems like, (well to me anyway,) that at least to some extent that most of the mediums (i,e... Writing, Making Movies, Or Making Music,) generally have a certain element of creating something out of nothing, and well I think that the artist can use this pretty well to help them, no matter if they are writing, or making music, or making movies...

A great example of this from the world of music, is when Alice Cooper played, 'Freddy's Dad' in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)... Now this guy does a great job of making some truly scary music, but when he played Freddy's dad... Forget about it! The guy scared me the first time I saw the movie!

Now there are a bunch of Musicians that do have a resume of films under the belt... Not all of them are Horror, or Science Fiction movies, but I thought that you guys would be interested to know that some of the more scary musicians from the world of, 'Hard Rock' and, ' Heavy Metal' have made their way in to scaring the hell out of people on the big screen!