10 Most Unlikely Horror Movie Leads

2. Keith Chegwin - Kill Keith

TV presenter Keith Chegwin hadn't done any acting for donkey's years when director Andy Thompson approached him to make Kill Keith, a blood-spattered romp that saw the nation's favourite cheeky chappie play himself. The plot, such as it was, concerned a psychopath out to nail the Saturday Superstore host, but the point of it was to create a unique horror film around a deeply unusual subject. "Chegger"'s unlikeliness as a screen hero was exactly the point, but the gamble didn't pay off. Whether the problem lay in the casting, the execution (and the film certainly rated highly on executions!) or the simple fact people didn't want to see a horror film starring Keith Chegwin... the project came and went like a chainsaw through a midriff! To this day, punters go into charity shops, see the name on the DVD spine and pick it up, staring wide-eyed at the image of the jolly central performer in tight yellow spandex, sprayed with human claret. In a funny sort of way maybe the movie did go down in the annals of screen infamy...