Meg Foster was born on 10 May 1948.
I think it is fair to call Foster a psychotronic actor. She has been in so many films that qualify. I suppose her appearance is a big part of it. She’s very attractive. But there is something about those blue eyes! They don’t look quite right.
She first appeared on the psychotronic radar in the film Welcome to Arrow Beach, where she played a homeless woman who is taken in by a brother and sister who turn out to be cannibals. It seems that 1974 was a good year for screen cannibals.
But I never saw that. I first noticed her in the four-part TV mini-series, The Scarlet Letter. She’s a great actor but she is especially good in parts where she doesn’t talk a lot. She has the kind of face that can say a lot without words.
As an adult, I know her from many psychotronic classics. She played Rutger Hauer’s wife in The Osterman Weekend. She was a witch in Masters of the Universe. And, of course, she plays the duplicitous Holly in They Live.
But I most like her as the cyborg Stell Barr in Oblivion and Oblivion 2: Backlash.
Other 10 May Anniversaries
Filmmakers:
- Gina Philips (1970-): Actor known for Jeepers Creepers, The Sickhouse, and more.
- Corri English (1978-): Actor known for Unrest and House of Fears.
- Odette Annable (1985-): Actor known for Cloverfield.
Films:
- The Phantom Speaks (1945): An executed murderer takes over a doctor.
- Bedlam (1946): The cruel warden (Boris Karloff) of an 18th-century insane asylum loses control and gets what he deserves.
- The Invisible Monster (1950): Evil genius uses invisible army to conquer the world.
- Thunder Road (1958): Robert Mitchum fights to keep his moonshine business.
- It Lives Again (1978): Sequel to the Larry Cohen classic It’s Alive.
- Terminal Choice (1985): Hospital staff are betting on patient recovery but that’s the least of it.
- F/X 2 (1991): Sequel to the popular “wrong man” thriller.
- Dead Man (1996): An accountant (Johnny Depp) comes to the Old West for a job and everything goes wrong.
- Dog Soldiers (2002): Military mission interrupted by a werewolf.
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