You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
I never play without my cape.
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.