Gary Oldman is Terrifying

Ain't It Cool News is reporting that there's a new horror flick with Gary Oldman attached called Backwoods being greenlighted.

"Get this... the flick also stars Paddy Considine and is about 2 young couples on vacation (Basque Country) in 1978 when they stumble across a deformed girl in a log cabin. They try to help her and that angers the villagers. The violence mounts..."

While I'll be the first to be in line to see this - there isn't anything in the world approaching "stumbling over backwoods deformed girl w/ angry villagers" in sheer hilarity - is there anyone really surprised at Gary Oldman being cast as the freaky guy? It's not like he's spending his career redefining the romantic comedy or anything. He always plays the weird, oddball villain that has to endure thirty-seven hours of make-up every morning so he can stalk around like a sketchball and impress the three critics who know who he is. I'm starting to think it's not really acting so much as it's just Gary bein' Gary.

Honestly, if you saw Gary Oldman on the street in a medieval knight costume, drinking goblets of blood and breathing fire, you'd just shake your head and laugh, "Oh, Gary. You scamp!"