Have you seen Dance With the Devil (Perdita Durango)? It's a great, cheesy exploitation movie and he's AWESOME in it.

no, but i am definitely going to. i checked it out, and it looks really awesome.
thanks for the suggestion.

edit: and i just read that screamin' jay hawkins is in it! holy crap!

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead
Max Shrek in Nosferatu
Fredric March in Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde

I missed this one on the first go around...deserving of up bump for sure.

Here's my list, no order:

1. Boris Karloff - The Body Snatcher
2. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
3. Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
4. Vincent Price - TIE: The Song of Bernadette, Masque of the Red Death, House on Haunted Hill
5. Dwight Frye - Dracula (1931)
6. Micheal C. Hall - Dexter
7. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca

Damn it was hard to narrow that to 8....I could come up with a top 30 in a heartbeat.

Joe Spinell in Maniac
Bill Mosely in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club
Michael Beck in The Warriors
Emilo Estevez in Repo Man

Jimmy Stewart-It's a Wonderful Life
Peter Lorre-Mad Love
Boris Karloff-The Bride of Frankenstein
Vincent Price-the Abominable Dr. Phibes
Isabella Rossellini-Blue Velvet
Ben Kingsley-Gandhi
Robert Mitchum-Night of the Hunter
Charlie Chaplin-the Kid

Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
William Holden - The Wild Bunch
John Wayne - The Cowboys
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game
Joseph Cotten - Shadow of a Doubt

Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects
Jeremy Sisto in Requiem For A Dream
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream
Kevin Spacey in The Life of David Gale
Guy Pearce in Memento
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Pierce Brosnon in Shattered
Maria Bello in Shattered

I have so many more...

Heck yes.
One of the great, generally overlooked performances of all time.

01. Catherine Denevue in Repulsion
02. Max Von Sydow in The Virgin Spring
03. Anthony Perkins in Psycho
04. Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon
05. Al Pacino in Scarface