Danny McBride's Horror Show

The actor Danny McBride looked around the Jekyll & Hyde Club, in the West Village, and said, "This is where the New York bankers do all the big deals, huh?" It was shortly after noon, and the putatively scary horror-themed restaurant--skeletons in top hats, chattering mummies--was empty. "I worked in places like this in Los Angeles," the actor continued, "and I recognize that disgusting stale-beer stink." Unconcerned, McBride ordered a Caesar salad with chicken, then suggested that the menu was a missed opportunity: "The names should be more horror-infused, more'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' Wings." In Ridley Scott's new film, "Alien: Covenant," the latest installment of the actually scary horror franchise about aliens who burst from the bellies of spaceship crew members, McBride plays a jaunty Southerner named Tennessee.