Horror Crush: Jessica McNamee

Hey, it's that time again! Time to add another talented beauty into the hallowed walls of this site's Horror Crush section! This time that honor is going to Australian actress Jessica McNamee!

McNamee was born in Sydney, Australia on June 16, 1988. Her sister, Penny McNamee, is also an actress, and they have two more sisters, as well, as a brother. Her niece Teagan Croft plays Rachel Roth on the DC/ HBO Max series Titans. Over in Australia in 2007, she gained fame for playing Lisa Duffy on a soap opera named Home and Away. In 2019 she married a property developer named Patrick Caruso. On February 2010, McNamee became an ambassador for The Hart Follows Foundation. They are dedicated to treating and preventing vision problems, including blindness.

Before that, though, in 2009, she starred in the phenomenal Australian horror movie, The Loved Ones. Writer/ director Sean Byrne's movie is the tale of a cute but utterly psychotic girl named Lola (Robin McLeavy) who is rejected by handsome heabanger Brent (Xavier Samuel) for the prom. With the help of her even more insane Daddy (John Brumpton) she kidnaps and tortures him. There is oh so much more to this absolute masterpiece. It's darkly funny, intense, disturbing, and graphically gory. It's also got great directing and a wonderful script by Byrne, who went to make the amazing The Devil's Candy. This is one of the best movies to come from the Land Down Under in many years.

The acting is phenomenal from everyone involved including McNamee, who plays goth babe Mia, a girl who our hero's friend Jamie (Richard Wilson) asks out on a date. This is the movie that made me a fan of hers (as well as of the lovely McLeavy would go on to star on AMC's wonderful western series Hell on Wheels). She is excellent here, being both sexy and sympathetic. Her character is kind of a dream girl, headbanging, drinking, smoking pot, and being very easy to like. 

I had shared my review of this excellent movie back when it finally got released in the US in 2012. I made a silly tweet (I admit I was considerably more immature back then), that I wanted her to have my babies. She actually RTed that. And, then a day later she RTed my review, and said she liked it! Even if I gotta admit some of my words on said review are definitely on the more immature side. But, all of this proved to me, that she is awesome and has a cool sense of humor. She made a fan of me for life! 

She wouldn't return to horror till the till 2018's admit ably underwhelming Jason Statham vs. giant prehistoric shark film, The Meg. She played Statham's character's ex-wife. I honestly forgot she was even in it. Then again, it is a completely forgettable, missed opportunity. All I recall is how disappointed I was (especially the more I thought about it), and how cute the little yorkie in it is!

In 2019, she appeared in Hulu's anthology horror series, Into the Dark. It was in an episode called "I'm Just Fucking with You". I never seen this show, much less this episode. Any thoughts from you guys who did see it? Let me know in the comments section below.

In 2020, she returned to killer water animal terror with Black Water: Abyss, which has a killer crocodile. This is apparently a sequel to Black Water, and I have never seen either or. Any thoughts on this one?

In 2021, she appeared in what might be her biggest flick yet, the awesome Mortal Kombat. In it, she played my second favorite character in that video game franchise, Sonya Blade (my favorite character is Kitana, if you must know). She was perfectly cast in this role and really embodied that character. I gotta say this is my favorite role of hers (that I have seen), since The Loved Ones. Now, I know this ain't horror, but it's got a shit load of gore and is a fucking total blast to watch. To me, it is hands down, the best live action movie take on any video game. She will be returning for the sequel. Fuck yeah!

 

Jessica McNamee is a fucking awesome actress who really brings her characters to life. She is also drop dead gorgeous! And, seems to be cool as hell in person. With at least one legitimate modern, classic horror film and everything else mentioned here, it is an easy decision to add her to Horror Crushes!

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Mezco Toyz at Toy Fair 2015

 

At Toy Fair 2015, Mezco Toyz had lots of awesome product that I feel would be of interest to my readers. As such, in this post, I'm gonna focus on the Mortal Kombat, horror, and Batman toys that will be putting out in the months to come.


The plush Mortal Kombat dolls of Sub-Zero and Scorpion at the top are sooo cute and cool! They will be out in Sept. Meanwhile, the Mortal Kombat figures to the right are in a smaller scale than the two below. The first batch below won't be out till Sept. While, the ones below that will be out sooner, in May.

Fellow fans of Chucky will have a lot to look forward from Mezco, who are going to be releasing a bunch of cool toys. It's kick ass to see that Tiffany is part of the very cool and cute minis boxset coming out in Sept.

The talking Chucky doll to the right says quotes directly from the sequel. We were not able to hear said quotes, but I am sure they are awesome. As I mentioned, they're from the sequels, as the first film is licensed under MGM not Universal, like the other films in the franchise. 

Horror fans should also be excited that we will be getting a bunch of Beetlejuice stuff in Oct, so just in time for Halloween! Based simply on the pics to the left, they look like they will be awesome!


Finally fans of Frank Miller's seminal The Dark Knight Returns have much to celebrate as they are releasing AMAZING action figures based on the classic graphic novel. These rank among some of the best looking and coolest Batman toys ever!!!!

 

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NYCC 2014- Sat Pt. 1

 

Saturday is always the biggest, busiest, and most packed day at NYCC. Being that this was THE most packed Comic Con, yet, that dear readers and friends, says a lot about just how many people there were in Javits Center! As such, I am once again breaking coverage of it into two parts. As the picture above, of an awesome Harley Quinn that managed to stick out in a sea of Harleys, represents there was a ton of cosplay to be enjoyed. And, as one would imagine on a Sat, the amount of it was enormous.  Here the first half of some of my favorites that I saw on that day:

 

OMFG how AWESOME (yes, I used that word on purpose, if you saw the highly enjoyable Lego Movie, you will get it) is this Lego Batman?! It's easily in my top 10 best cosplay of the con.

Another one in my top ten has to be this Agt. Smith and Trinity of The Matrix. Tell me that they do not look perfect!!

OK, so I say this a lot, but I really do LOVE Game of Thrones cosplay, especially when done by hotties!

Snake Plisken was a genuine badass cosplay! The dude is also a big Carpenter fan, as he has a Michael Myers tat. He also liked the Halloween baseball tee that I was wearing.

 Deadpool is headless thanks to a Sub-Zero!

I gotta say the Mortal Kombat group cosplay was pretty badass and lent itself to cool pics and poses.

 Apparently there is some crossover with Sailor Moon that I wasn't informed of! Or I am guessing neither were any of you! Just kidding!

 

 

 More Game of Thrones! Yay!!!

 Uhm, wow. Just wow!!

 Sexy Rocket Racoon!

This is a really badass Agent Venom, a character I have become a fan of thanks to the current The Thunderbolts comic. I know he's no longer on that team, but you get my drift. I love that Spidey was walking right passed him, BTW.

 

 

 I choose you sexy Polyvore!

 

It is a known fact that Deadpool gets all the hotties.

Now, hows about we hit some booths? After all, I spent a good portion of my time at them.

 What do you think I was telling ET, here?

Usually around this time of year the last thing I wanna do is think about Christmas, or the holidays in general. I mean it's Oct, for crissakes, so it should be Halloween, only, please! But, even I have to admit the Xmas ornaments and decorations that were on display at the Kurt S. Adler booth were freaking epic! There are so many awesome franchises like The Walking Dead, Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc that they do. I would LOVE to have a bunch of these in my house at the holidays. And, who knows maybe one of these days, I will!

 I think the Star Wars nutcrackers are some of the coolest things that I have ever seen!

 

Game of Thrones! Do you think that if I have this in my house one of the hotties doing GoT cosplay will come over?

 Of course, there has to be Hello Kitty stuff!

 THIS is the way a Christmas tree should look like!

There was a booth that promoted the Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 game that came out on the 14th of this month from Bandai Namco. As such this adorable little mascot was there! It's Inky! This guy was just too freakin cute! He bobbled up and down and bought much joy and smiles to the con!

This is the beautiful Farrah of Tread Water. My God is she gorgeous or what?! Those eyes!! Those lips! *swoon*

As I said in the earlier post, that would do, I went back to the Troma booth to get my blu-ray of Return to Nuke Em High Vol. 1 signed by Catherine Corcoran and Asta Paredes. At the moment I got there only Asta was there. I would end up getting Catherine to sign it, a little later in the day. But, more on that in part two! But, as a bonus I got to meet Mark Quinette who played Michelangelo, AKA the Cretin who keeps saying "Oh snap!" in the movie. He's a really cool and friendly dude in person.

NYCC 2014- Fri, Pt. 2

NYCC 2014- Friday, Pt. 1

NYCC 2014- Thurs 

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