“I want you to be big”: Stanley Kubrick, Vincent D’Onofrio, and a silent horror iconIt took the immortal presence of silent horror’s most iconic denizen of the dark to inspire an almost supernatural meeting of minds between Vincent D’Onofrio and filmmaking titan Stanley Kubrick. Modine urged D’Onofrio to audition, subsequently submitting a video audition of his performing an off-Broadway play monologue, before Kubrick later requested a read of specific lines from Full Metal Jacket. Such a remote directing style was broken one memorable night, before the planned shoot of Full Metal Jacket’s most chilling scene. The night before the scene was due to be filmed, Kubrick made a highly unusual remark to D’Onofrio regarding his creative reference for Full Metal Jacket’s most frightening chapter. Both during the shoot and immortalised on screen, Chaney’s creeping presence across horror cinema plays a foundational part.