You may not know the name Richard Brake, but his face has probably featured in your nightmares for years. That's because the 57-year-old actor from Ystrad Mynach has been cropping up as monstrous baddies in scary movies for nearly three decades.
And his latest, Barbarian, has seen him terrify fans both on screen and off - at least in the case of the unfortunate film-goer who unwittingly found herself sitting behind the Welshman at a recent screening in LA. Dubbed by critics "the most frightening horror of the year", it's the tale of an Airbnb rental from hell, where the guests discover a dark secret hidden deep beneath the property.
In it Brake plays the evil right at the very heart of that subterranean world. Which is why it came as such a shock to the woman who suddenly found herself face-to-face with him in the cinema when the film finally ended and the house lights came back up.
