![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim Curry has played the devil with 18 inch horns, but this at last is the bridge even he almost cannot cross. It’s like he didn’t know the line was coming and as soon as he realized what he was about to say he couldn’t handle it.ĪNTHONY OLIVEIRA (author and critic): I think the pleasure of it is that Tim Curry is the master of camp and the master of menace and in the clip we finally witness something that is finally too ridiculous, finally too outre, finally too much even for him. Here, for the first time, is the story of that scene, and its legacy.ĬHRIS PERSON (creator, Highlight Reel ): I remember seeing that clip forever ago on YouTube, it usually came up in the same rotation as Anything Can Happen On Halloween from The Worst Witch.ĪLEX NAVARRO (writer, Nextlander, Giant Bomb ): The little flutter toward the end where Curry pauses and looks like he’s recomposing himself before belching up “SPAAAAAACE” in his half-a-Russian accent is just magical. By now, it is absolutely best known out of context, a meme fully detached from its source material, locked in elliptical orbit around the internet. Did he basically blow that take, or make an interesting, interesting choice? Either way, why did they use that take-and who are “they?” This clip was already from an obscure enough entry in Curry’s filmography. ![]() Maybe it’s not Curry’s “best” performance, or the campiest, or the funniest, but it is surely the most enigmatic. ![]()
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