Barrington actor credits dad, Halloween for horror career

The upscale community of Barrington doesn't exactly come to mind as a spawning ground for sociopathic killers, flesh-eating zombies and characters with names such as Quilt Face and Chop-Top.

Actor Bill Moseley has been all those things while becoming a bona fide horror film icon.

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'They're coming to get you, Barbara!'

Barrington and Barrington Hills native Bill Moseley likes to make the most of his horror film roles, no matter if they're supports or leads.

Take his character Johnnie in the 1990 remake of the classic zombie movie Night of the Living Dead. He gets his skull crushed on a gravestone while trying to protect his sister Barbara from an undead cannibal. (Actually, a stunt dummy was used for the head-crushing part.)

I studied Boris Karloff's voice so I could do the line, he says, falling into Karloff's scary delivery, 'They're coming to get you, Barbara!'

Later in the story, Johnnie appears for a brief moment, but it's actually Moseley's stunt dummy.

They didn't have budget for me to come back for a second time, Moseley said. So the only time you see Johnnie again in 'Night of the Living Dead' is when they throw my dummy in the back of a pickup truck under a canvas. They pull it back and there's the dummy! So at least the dummy got some love.

Three of the Barrington native's terror tales have just been released on DVD: Rogue River, Exit Humanity and The Tortured. (Do we even need to go into the plots? Seriously?)

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Barrington actor credits dad, Halloween for horror career