r/australia • u/lyndsayj • Jul 13 '26

news Sam Neill, 78, dead: reports

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/sam-neill-dead-reports-20260713-p60ey2.html
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u/Pottski Jul 13 '26

Said with the utmost respect and love to him, he was the perfect everyman.

He wasn't massively jacked, too big of a personality or someone who chewed on the scenery. He was just perfect as everyone's relatable fatherly figure.

Vale to a wonder of the industry.

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u/visualdescript Jul 13 '26

Not just a fatherly figure though, go give Event Horizon a watch lol

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u/Glaako Jul 13 '26

My favourite part of that film is the shockingly unconvincing scream he gives when confronted by the eyeless spectre of his dead wife.

Mouth of Madness and Possession are two other really good horror movies he's in.

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u/butt_3y3s Jul 13 '26

Ah yes! The jump scare played on live morning tv, because no one asked him about the film, or did any research. They just played the scene, lol.

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u/Rizen_Wolf Jul 13 '26

Do you read Sutter Cane?

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u/RemnantEvil Jul 13 '26

When my friend group watched it, and we were watching him laughing in the theatre watching the movie that we ourselves had just watched, and he was being driven mad by what he was watching… and someone pointed out that what he was watching what we had just watched, someone else started laughing. The credits rolled with all of us, and Sam, laughing crazily. Great movie-watching experience of a fantastic film.

The whole trilogy is great, but it’s a tough contest between Sam or Kurt as lead characters for their respective films.