20 Actors About To Give AMAZING Performances In Horror Movies

20. Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Werwulf

Robert Eggers is one of the greatest horror directors working today, and a big part of his success rests on his typically note-perfect casting choices.

And so there are likely to be few folk taking umbrage with the casting of Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the cursed farmer-turned-lycanthrope in Eggers' new film Werwulf.

Taylor-Johnson, who previously appeared memorably in Eggers' Nosferatu, certainly harbours the inner intensity to do full justice to a man struggling to retain his sense of humanity, not to ignore how physically well-suited he is to the part of a man-beast.

Though Taylor-Johnson has had a few leading-man wobbles in recent years - most infamously Kraven the Hunter - his talent has shone through in innumerable roles over the past decade-plus, and it takes precious little imagination to see him knocking this one way out of the park.

And his presence here will surely cement him as an Eggers mainstay moving forward.