Brad Dourif: Shit's Getting Real When They Pop The Headlights

brad dourif: shit's getting real when they pop the headlights

X-Files: the crown jewel shot of Brad leaning in through a sideways light source, both eyes gleaming impossibly, as though lit from within

While fawning over BD’s supernaturally gorgeous eyes, I had to pick just a few gifs to illustrate That Thing where directors highlight him from an off-angle so they seem to glow internally. You know something's about to go down when they bust out this trick.

Problem: The X-Files alone is chock-full of this effect, and there are a gajillion more from other media. So: a dedicated post!

Starting with the ole one-eye highlight — they usually pick the right one, which is a little lifted and turned (I'm calling it his cat-eye):

Tales from the Crypt: being shaken around by his brother after making several Very Bad calls

Death Machine: some close-up eeriness from our greasy hacker boy Jack Dante

Wildling: slowly peering up at you over his specs, through a tangle of eyebrows. The visual equivalent of the THX Deep Note

Hittin' em with that old-man eye in Death & Cremation

Fatal Beauty: some wide-eyed side eye. He appears to be "telling it like it is"

Sworn to Justice: heavy breathing and a defensive posture in his fancy little business outfit

Cue the lightning!!!

Charles Lee Ray, doing a occult, lightning flashing in his right eye

Urban Legend: ranting old damp man with a terrible warning that he can't seem to spill

Sometimes it makes an iridescent crescent shape. I know it's meant to be scary, but he's such a terribly pretty boy:

Istanbul: "You. Go out there and play." Such a little asshole

Graveyard Shift: some truly uncanny one-sided iris highlighting in a close-up, during his Vietnam rant

Hazing: just a slow zoom out from an older Dourif's eyeballs. A hint of moustache

Moonlighting: not scary, just a luckless priest in a layman's windowpane-striped shirt, confronting his future

Feral cat-eye in Fatal Beauty: a hunted look

Getting creative with some uplighting and a rare left eye (it's nice to see her getting some attention)...

Critters 4: Al Bert leans dramatically into some upward shafts of light

Brad in the 2024 Chucky TV show. One of the most intense examples, with bright white light shining onto him in a darkened room... still got it!

...And some more extreme angles. How does this even work?!

Mississippi Burning: in extremis, with Gene Hackman all up in his face and shakin' him, covered in shaving cream and regret, and where the hell is that light coming from, it's literally reverberating around in the lens somehow, how is that happening

It's just... captivating. I'm gonna go lie down now. (Think I actually stole all the gifs from @exdeputysonso this time. I'm basically a recycler for all their hard work and tbqh I'm fine with that)

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Eyes Brad Dourif big tragic eyes club braddourif my bradrot seriously surprised he hasn't ended up like that photo of the truck driver where they're all sun-wrinkled on one side of their face still staring at this man

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9 months ago

yesssssss, more memessss

brad meme generator

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8 months ago

love too queue up some new derangement at 2am and then guess whether i'll get any sleep before it goes out 😩👌

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hmmmm this is the ideal way to function you may not like it i may not like it yeah actually i think i might not like it if only there were some way to prevent this

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first-class-feral

8 months ago

someone is grabbing brad dourif by the lapels and he looks shocked and angry. Sparkly rainbowy text says "Listen here you little shit"

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colin mccammon being a rebellious little shit (just prior to the previous image), in a pinstripe blazer and VERY deep-v vest, gold cross necklace on a long chain, dark ponytail, in an opulent room challenging the Senator (out of frame). hunched forward and giving him the death glare. brittany looks on: "why are you like this"

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first-class-feral

8 months ago

Tucker Cleveland truck template

Tucker Cleveland (Brad Dourif) in Graveyard Shift, but his van says "Tucker Cleveland's Uterus Destruction" and "Babes 'R' Us" instead of whatever boring crap was on there before

Want to make your own stupid, thirsty memes featuring our favorite rat boy? Here ya go!

Tucker leaning against his truck; it says "Tucker Cleveland's", then a blank space over the crossbones, then "Rats 'R' Us"

Same, but with "Babes 'R' Us" at the bottom

Rats 'R' Us (original), Babes 'R' Us (mine), and Blank 'R' Us… for wherever your fancy takes you.

My beginner skills are much more obvious on these blanks; once you put text over the base, it looks a lot better. Everything was done in Procreate: I added most of the texture on clipping masks, then layered streaky black grime on top with the smudge tool. First time using the smudgerI It helped a lot with the worn paint texture as well.

Forgot which exact font I used, but this is close enough: https://www.dafont.com/lemon-milk.font

Please tag me if you use these — I would love to see!

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first-class-feral

7 months ago

double dog dare you to draw brad dourif in his outfit and hairstyle from dune '84

you almost make it sound as something i wouldnt like to draw but how can i say no to those brows

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dune piter de vries this is just wonderful Brad Dourif they really can do the whole spectrum from just a little guy (whose birthday it is) to awooga

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first-class-feral

2 months ago

anyone else get embarrassed when their self indulgent daydreams are like too self-indulgent? like oh jeez the telepaths are going to judge me

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this is not wrong though terrifyingly I read a thread once that claimed the author could smell when someone was horny sorry to everyone else on that plane for 3 hours that one time

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first-class-feral

6 months ago

Brad Dourif In Rage Of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)

Brad Dourif in Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)

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thank you thank you thank you Brad Dourif big tragic eyes club MORE PRETTIES all of these are top tier lean 80s brad a perfect complement to cherubic 90s brad them eyessss

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first-class-feral

3 weeks ago

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speaking of which Brad Dourif y they make rat man so sexy they just went and made up a whole brad dourif for the movie just because tucker cleveland graveyard shift graveyard shift movie

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first-class-feral

7 months ago