He looks genuinely creepy in this. Definitely up there with ROTJ but in a more undead way.
Well, that’s one positive at least. How about Ian’s performance? In ROTJ it was a nice balance of real creepiness with schlock villain. Again, in ROTS in was too over the top into schlock.
More on the serious side, but without being dull. He has a few evil cackling moments, but overall he’s quite grim and dramatic. Again, he’s kinda ghostly and creepy, don’t know how else to describe it.
An embodiment of Das Nichtige?
Perhaps that’s too Barthian, though.