Every Karen Gillan Horror Movie, Ranked

Gunpowder Milkshake’s Karen Gillan may be best known for her action movies nowadays, but how do the star’s trio of horror efforts rank in comparison?

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Gunpowder Milkshake star Karen Gillan has appeared in her fair share of horror movies, but how do the actor’s outings in the genre rank in comparison to each other? Horror movies are a staple of most actor’s early screen CVs, with even major stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney cropping up in cheap genre efforts. Usually, young actors want to get credits to their name and the famously cheap, quick-to-produce horror genre can often offer a project to fit this need.

Some more fortunate actors appear in stellar genre outings and go on to have great mainstream careers, while other stars are left with some embarrassing early horror movies (like Bradley Cooper’s) to their name when the big time comes calling. Gunpowder Milkshake star Karen Gillan, however, does not fall in either camp when it comes to her horror efforts.

With only three horror movies in her two-decade screen career, it would be fair to guess that Gillan only picks the best projects in the genre, or that she has avoided horror for good reason after appearing in some lesser horror efforts. However, her horror outings are split between a critically-acclaimed hit, an indie outing that received middling reception, and an appearance in an anthology that was less than well-received upon release. So, how do the actor’s horror movies rank in comparison with each other?

3. Fun Size Horror: Volume Two (2015)

It is unfortunate that the horror anthology Fun Size Horror: Volume Two is the weakest of Gillan’s outings in the genre as the fault is not with Gillan, who wrote, directed, and starred in the segment “Conventional.” Mostly consisting of a monologue delivered to a fan convention but with a devilishly dark twist ending, “Conventional” is a creepy slow-burn short, and a first-rate bit of horror short filmmaking. Unfortunately, it is also the highlight of the short film collection Fun Size Horror: Volume Two, whose surrounding shorts drag the movie down as they are disposable at best and amateurish at worst.

2. Outcast (2010)

Melding the British tradition of kitchen-sink realism with the gory delights of slasher horror movies sounds like a recipe for disaster, and yet 2010’s Scottish horror Outcast ends up being an underrated indie triumph thanks to this daring mashup. This 2010 movie mixes witches and monsters with a story of a spurned lover trying to track down his old flame and uses its Edinburgh setting to conjure some truly inventive sequences and surprisingly compelling character drama. Gillan is under-utilized (the screen belongs to Red Road’s Kate Dickie and James Nesbitt, both superb), but this is nonetheless an under-seen fusion of Gothic horror and Ken Loach-style character study that genre fans should seek out.

1. Oculus (2013)

Mike Flanagan may have proven that he can’t match Outcast’s commentary of social class in Britain with his underwritten The Haunting of Bly Manor, but one thing the director can do is helm a moving, terrifying family horror story. Pioneering the time-shifting techniques he would later master in the extraordinary The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan relies on Gillan’s central turn to ground the potentially confusing story of 2013’s Oculus. Given that it is the story of a woman determined to prove her family were killed by a possessed mirror, Gillan’s performance is under serious pressure to sell a ludicrous conceit, but the actor makes Oculus scarier, sadder, and more memorable than its bizarre premise implies. Memorably creepy as well as moving, Oculus is an early calling card for Flanagan and remains Gunpowder Milkshake star Karen Gillan’s best horror to date.

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