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Procrastination time!! Rat man doodle!!!!!
my first fic! (nsfw)
Pretty vanilla, but very gratuitously smutty: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59867257/chapters/152722858
I couldn't help but write nasty things about Colin McCammon, Brad Dourif's weaselly guy from 1999 C-movie Cypress Edge. (This little shit.) Enjoy.
That little straw boater will be the death of me
- Pics grabbed from this amazing collection from @tallaxia 🫡
- no offense to the dvd rippers, I'm pretty sure they released this one in 480p...
Brad Dourif movie bingo! For your thirstwatch Halloween marathon.
Don't remember whether I came up with "Dourisms" or saw it somewhere else, but there are SO MANY and so few squares on a bingo board! Reducing them to tiny phrases is another challenge; I might do some follow-up posts with gifs illustrating each column. (Surely not an excuse to dig through the media pile again...)
What are your favorite little Brad flourishes?
** Updated: Now with more bondage!
readme
I've been on a Brad Dourif hyperfixation for like six months now. The restorative power of staring at this one hot guy has somehow pulled me through a profound creative burnout.... and here are the results! (See #my bradrot for the latest)
🎧 prettyboy music videos
Supercut of hottie moments (Boys)
The X-Files (Shinigami Eyes)
Spontaneous Combustion (You Spin Me)
Death Machine (Wrecking Ball)
✍️ unstable gif essays
Scrungly feature analysis: Brad Dourif's eyes
Popping the headlights (a certain way directors light his eyes)
🎨 BD characters as classical art
Saint Sebastian | Le génie du mal | Perseus with the Head of Medusa
🧰 meme templates
Drake yes/no meme generator | Tucker Cleveland's truck templates
🤨 other shitposts, drawings, stuff
Brad Dourif movie bingo!
BDE (Brad Dourif Energy) memes
Rotoscoped Miami Vice intimidation gif
Listen here u little shit (Cypress Edge)
Brad Dourif mlem cam (Progeny interview)
i sleep / real shit, Dourif vamp edition
And maybe some fics... someday? 🫣
P.S.: I don't repost fundraisers and stuff here because this is my fun stupid side account. I do those things on main; this is more of a release valve. Big love to those doing the work on here, though.
Tucker Cleveland truck template
Want to make your own stupid, thirsty memes featuring our favorite rat boy? Here ya go!
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!
Bahahahaha
...I put the protagonist guy in and it's so much better.
Ouf, I had to actually draw someone I'm not attracted to... is this what they meant about suffering for one's art 😔
\/ More stills below \/
when bae is so beautiful you have to immediately TKO them on the pool table 🥵
slimeball bbgirl (rotoscope gif)
Still wringing every drop of creative energy from this Dourif fixation 💞
Tried my hand at rotoscoping this mesmerizing Miami Vice gif (from this set by @exdeputysonso):
The scornful, slouchy staredown here really gets me thinking some special thoughts. And he's doing the thing where he gets all up in someone's face, eyes drilling into theirs from inches away — which by all reports is very truly menacing, but even so...
Then there's that beautifully sleazy little outfit with the shirt and chains... I'm so weak for a well-formed neck and décolletage. (The clothes they put him in really are second to none, including ridiculous loungewear and an iconic courtroom ensemble; see this other gifset for more)
There's an added air of threat from the tiny pupils, which really brings out the cold blue in his eyes, amped up by the matching shirt.
Dropping a few individual frames below the cut...
(He looks a bit cross-eyed because he's focusing on the guy's face like 6 inches away)
slimeball bbgirl (rotoscope gif)
Still wringing every drop of creative energy from this Dourif fixation 💞
Tried my hand at rotoscoping this mesmerizing Miami Vice gif (from this set by @exdeputysonso):
The scornful, slouchy staredown here really gets me thinking some special thoughts. And he's doing the thing where he gets all up in someone's face, eyes drilling into theirs from inches away — which by all reports is very truly menacing, but even so...
Then there's that beautifully sleazy little outfit with the shirt and chains... I'm so weak for a well-formed neck and décolletage. (The clothes they put him in really are second to none, including ridiculous loungewear and an iconic courtroom ensemble; see this other gifset for more)
There's an added air of threat from the tiny pupils, which really brings out the cold blue in his eyes, amped up by the matching shirt.
Dropping a few individual frames below the cut...
(He looks a bit cross-eyed because he's focusing on the guy's face like 6 inches away)
BDE
that's what it stands for. i dont make the rules
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...oh god i have so many more of these. pt 2 later maybe
rat king
Back on my bullshit 🐀
Another practice piece with a Brad Dourif character (Graveyard Shift exterminator Tucker Cleveland) by way of classical art (Perseus with the Head of Medusa, yeah I know, but it's still kind of a hot statue).
I love his look so much in this movie, and especially this saucy little pirouette he does in Warwick's office.
The leaning pose brings out an androgyny in the character that I find maddeningly attractive. The hair, the loose collar, the play of light on the dangly earring — all highlight the slender lines of his neck, and the pretty divot at the bottom, picked out by the backlighting. The character's chewing tobacco habit shapes his mouth in a distinctive way that, with those downcast eyelashes, make me wish I were Warwick sitting on that desk. (At least, until the spitting...)
Sweet Jesus, get the spray bottle.
Previously in this series: X-Files x Saint Sebastian and Spontaneous Combustion x Hot Satan! I've made some updates, so maybe they'll all return together soon.
Cypress Edge is a bad movie and you should watch it. They tie him up too 😉
he's very anime boy
smolder
Woof, what a hottie... Brad Dourif's character, Sam Kramer aka David Bell, from Spontaneous Combustion (1990). Aka, little orphan boy.
WIP: I have a bunch more ideas for this, but I'm happy with this stopping point. Probably because I've already drawn all the fun nakey bits
Loosely based on Hot Satan, aka Guillaume Geefs' Le génie du mal: that thing where the church commissioned a guy to sculpt Satan, but he was too hot! So they got his brother to sculpt a second Satan, but it was EVEN HOTTER 😩🔥
I also did this Spontaneous Combustion music video you might enjoy
Some choice quotes from the sculpture's Wikipedia page:
-> Geefs' work replaces an earlier sculpture created for the space by his younger brother Joseph Geefs, L'ange du mal, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and "unhealthy beauty".
-> (About the first one) The cathedral administration declared that "this devil is too sublime." The local press intimated that the work was distracting the "pretty penitent girls" who should have been listening to the sermons. ... A languid scarf skims the groin, the hips are bared, and the open thighs form an avenue that leads to shadow ... L'ange du mal has been called "one of the most disturbing works of its time."
-> Whether Guillaume succeeded in removing the "seductive" elements may be a matter of individual perception.
i made a brad dourif drake meme generator
has this been done
The soul of Luther Boggs drowns in hell's sea of fire...
Couldn't resist sketching this awful X-Files prettyboy as Saint Sebastian! The pose reference is from Yukio Mishima posing for Kishin Shinoyama, plus bits from this photoset.
(you may also enjoy my Boggs music video)
death machine x wrecking ball (SPOILERS)
Have to put this down now or I'll never stop futzing with it... I do enjoy watching his slimy little ass get beat over and over though
brad dourif: shit's getting real when they pop the headlights
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):
Cue the lightning!!!
Sometimes it makes an iridescent crescent shape. I know it's meant to be scary, but he's such a terribly pretty boy:
Getting creative with some uplighting and a rare left eye (it's nice to see her getting some attention)...
...And some more extreme angles. How does this even work?!
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)
brad dourif scrungly feature analysis: eyes
from the “Boys” dourif-hottie supercut music video:
I’d love to see an artist break this down!
For now, let me write you a novel about Brad's spectacular eyes...
The Strangeness
(Skip if you want to preserve the mystery.) BD's right eye is placed a little higher, and turned up as if tugged from the outer corner. I think it's part of that subtle something that immediately sets him apart. This unique, catlike, romantic asymmetry snatches your attention.
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The glow
His striking, chameleonic blues capture light — even in B&W — which directors loooooove to exploit by lighting him obliquely:
It's a great way to crank up the eerie vibe of any scene, and I respect Star Trek for trashing that option outright with all-black contacts. (Of course, he still served an incredibly compelling outsider.)
(Edit: I put up a post just about this effect because they seriously do it all the damn time) (...because it's awesome)
Set in shadows
He has hooded eyes, deep-set and accentuated by heavy eye bags. The shadows and textures draw you in toward those luminescent irises, like picture frames that amplify each motion of his eyes.
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Contrast
Sometimes he pops them wide open, creating these huge, expressive magnets...
...Or squints lopsidedly...
...Or interrogates, challenges, threatens — alert but defensive, like a prey animal on the edge of lashing out.
He’s said he chooses roles that "turn him on" (pretty clearly in an artistic sense); many of these blend menace and vulnerability, and our boy dumps emotion into every. single. line. This can manifest as an intense, wary, combative look, with eyes wide under neutral or furrowed brows:
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Cry, baby
...And that's all before we mention the tears. He cries, of course, at will and liberally, and his eyes go red-rimmed and wet, highlighting them even more as he pins someone's soul to the wall with his gaze.
When he hovers right on the edge, they seem to shine in the dark.
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Bared
At times, his fair eyelashes almost vanish, compounding his unusual look with a birdlike or reptilian tinge.
Obviously, the shaved brows in LOTR add to this effect.
A couple more things you'll notice here: he'll hold his eyes wide open for much longer than normal, drawing out these moments and making him seem even more alien.
And when he gets up-close in someone's face (which is often), he's constantly switching his gaze between their eyes — totally fixated, as if scanning for emotional feedback. In my opinion, it adds to that vulnerability: to the object of his attention, he must seem like a predator freezing them in place... but it's also desperate, like a prey animal trying to decipher the other person's intent, all senses tuned to pick up their slightest signal. (Gríma Wormtongue and Jack Dante especially have this pathetic air about them: grasping at sources of warmth while lashing out at the harsh, unintelligible world around them, allying themselves with uncontrollable destructive forces in an attempt to establish a place for themselves........)
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TL;DR
The eyes — and how he uses them — are the standout scrungly feature, the main reason we can’t look away from this unforgettable weirdo.
The cat-eye asymmetry pulls focus;
His ice-blue irises are light traps, framed in textured shadow;
His full-bore emotional commitment ramps up the anguish and torment to an aching crescendo that's impossible to ignore.
Eventually I'll follow up on other contributing factors, but for now, I'll leave you with a couple of article snippets about The Eyes:
Imagi-Movies: Vol 1 No 2 — Winter 1993/94. Pages 11-13: "Traumatic - Brad Dourif". Link
SoHo News: November-December 1981. "Tension and mercy - Brad Dourif glowers for our sins" (an article all about his eyes! But they don't mention the asymmetry.)
[Gifs were mostly stolen from the GOAT, @exdeputysonso — with some of my own, mostly the square ones. Shout-out to @dragonsbloodsnowcone for inspiring this word vomit.]
Thanks for reading!
Whoever is responsible for BD's silvery curls in Best Men, I salute you 🫡
There's like a two-toned thing going on: frizzy brown tendrils in the front and well-defined metallic lushness in the back. Possibly a rare sighting of the molting phase? Young Brad's hair is more fluffy and light brown, Elder Brad's is more black and silver. In other stuff from 1997-ish, it's usually brushed back so harder to tell. (Discuss.)
In this movie, he did a weird croaky voice the whole time and had lots of sexual tension with this other ex-soldier guy. A+
Boyssss
I'm a simple critter... all I need is a continuous feed of Brad Dourif being a prettyboy
-> you may enjoy my other Dourif vids
-> if you only know him from Chucky, Lord of the Rings, or Dune, here is an introductory smorgasbord of Brad being a total hottie
...Clip sources under the cut! As requested by @for-there-is-phantasmagoria
(Many of these were trimmed from supercuts by @exdeputysonso , who also has a ton of gifsets you can scroll through to figure out which Brad you're looking at! Seriously they are driving the fandom)
Listed in order of appearance. Some are repeats, so I've added hints.
Trauma (frame narrative)
Cypress Edge (ponytail and deep Vs)
Moonlighting (priest)
Best Men (frizzy but compelling veteran)
Spontaneous Combustion (glitter)
The Equalizer (puffy vest)
Amos and Andrew (5-0)
Istanbul (all the prettiest shots)
Star Trek: Voyager
Death Machine (hair extensions)
London Kills Me (red suit)
Tales of the Unexpected, "Number Eight" (blond fluff)
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
The X-Files, "Beyond the Sea" (prison CCTV)
Miami Vice (pool table)
Silicon Towers (finger bite)
Graveyard Shift (drinky)
Ragtime (boater)
Escape to Witch Mountain (chauffeur)
The Exorcist III (nose bandage)
Senseless (horn rims)
Wild Palms (VR dance)
Medium Rare (brain fry)
Nightwatch (pill bottle)
Alien: Resurrection
Another excuse to stitch together all his pretty shots with zero regard for plot :v
(Mad props to @exdeputysonso for putting together the supercut I trimmed down for this)
dizzy...
This was gonna be a multi-movie montage but I started putting it together and he and the camera are just constantly spinning around in Spontaneous Combustion
I could have put in more flame clips for DRAMA, since that's the actual theme of the movie, but lbr it's just an excuse to cut together all my fave clips of BD being pretty 💕