Robin Williams in One Hour Photo. Kevin James in Becky. Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers. Hollywood isn't averse to casting funnymen as sociopaths. But even so, Seann William Scott as a guidance counselor by day, serial killer by night? As unlikely as it sounds, that really is the premise of horror movie stable Blumhouse Productions' 2018 picture, Bloodline.
Nearly 20 years after playing a particularly obnoxious student in the first American Pie, Scott returned to the high school hallways, only this time as a figure of authority. Although he seems relatively normal on the surface, Evan Cole isn't exactly the kind of man you want advising troubled teens. For after hearing their tales of abuse, he sets out to seek vengeance the only way he knows how: gutting their perpetrators like a fish. Scott received rave reviews for playing against type, with the Los Angeles Times praising his ability to walk that "fine line between sympathetic and sinister."
Of course, this wasn't the first time that Scott had tried to prove his serious actor credentials. In 2014, he appeared in Courteney Cox's directorial debut, Just Before I Go, as a jilted husband who tries to put his affairs in order for before committing suicide. Unfortunately for Scott, critics weren't so kind on this occasion, with Variety tepidly lauding him — "Scott convinces well enough" — and describing the overall film as a "dismal, tonally disastrous small-town farce."
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