Last night’s 92nd Academy Awards were full of surprise victories, including a deserved Best Picture win for Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite and a huge Best Actor victory for Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. Part of the show was also the Oscars’ traditional In Memoriam reel, featuring a cover of the Beatles’ Yesterday performed by Billie Eilish. Unfortunately, rock fans might have noticed a face missing from the reel: character actor Sid Haig, best known to many moviegoers as killer clown Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombie’s House Of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. Haig passed away on September 21, 2019, after a battle with pneumonia and a lung infection. His death made headlines not only in the world of rock and metal, but also in that of international c...
