20 Most Intense Movie Performances Of All Time

19. Ezra Miller - We Need To Talk About Kevin

After some good TV work, Ezra Miller announced himself to the film-making world with a hell of a breakout role for Lynne Ramsay. His haunting, alien turn as Kevin Khatchadourian in We Need To Talk About Kevin is unsettling, difficult and important and he brought incredible maturity to it.

Opposite him, Tilda Swinton is a picture of fraught tension and disbelief at what her son has become, but it's Miller's cold-as-ice malevolence and his so-obvious sociopathy and psychopathy that is the most mesmerising thing about the entire film.

He is evil incarnate, removed from normal human behaviour and absolutely defined by contempt, and by the time he commits the chilling school massacre (as well as killing his father and sister), he's fully realised as a horror movie monster.