Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in Nosferatu. I swear that movie is a documentary on vampires, and Schreck is really undead.
Game, set, match to DKAZ.
The most despicable villian I have ever seen in a movie is Noah Cross from Chinatown. His lack of any regret for what he did to his daughter and his greed make him one of the greatest movies villains. But, then again he might not be a “villain” in the traditional sense, eh, he still fits the profile to me.
I would have to say Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) from ‘No Country For Old Men.’ He was so coldblooded that made him invincible or at least made us believe he is.
invincible until the very ending, were he’s shown as fragile and human as the rest of us mortals…
Daniel Plainview, I’d love to be as crazy as that bastard.
Joe Dallesandro in Blood for Dracula as the servant, Mario Balato.
You think Little Joe is the villain, Juan? He rapes that little girl for her own protection AND kills Dracula.
He’s a dirty commie. Dracula is a melancholic aristocrat. Little Joe MUST be the villain.
Damn the Reds!
No doubt, Dracula is the victim in that film!
I’ve been approaching that movie the wrong way for all these years…
Gordon Gekko in Wall Street!
Me too, Baylor. Perhaps it’s because Little Joe is my hero.
harvey keitel in bad liutenat
Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York!
Or….the White Witch in the Narnia movies. I loved those books as a kid and she’s delightfully evil.
Oh yeah Bill the Butcher! I want to dress up as him for Halloween one of these years…now I just need to find a shop that sells 2-foot high stovepipe hats…
Daryl Hanna in Blade Runner.
She was crazy crazy crazy.
and… let’s not forget about our friend Alex, from A Clockwork Orange
Dkaz- A friend of mine who is a reenactor said he could get me the hat! I want to be him for Halloween one of these years too!! :D
Mickey Knox from Natural Born Killers
Harry Powell in the Night of the Hunter (1955) by Charles Laughton is the most memorable villain for me.
Evil to the core:
Mona Demarkov from Romeo is Bleeding
Kevin from Sin City
Damien from The Omen
Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Margaret White from Carrie
Bill Maplewood from Happiness
Bartholomew from Rollerball
Mountain men from Deliverance
Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas
Freddie Clegg from The Collector
Bill Sikes from Oliver
Bad but you would want them on your side if the sh^t hit the fan:
Lono Veccio from Suicide Kings
Aaron Hallam from The Hunted
Big Chris from Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Wilson from The Limey
Leon from The Professional
Through no fault of their own:
Reagan from The Exorcist
Hal9000 from 2001
Bad decision making / circumstance corrupts absolutely:
Hank Mitchell from A Simple Plan
Darth Vader (retcon the early years)
Humbert Humbert from Lolita (although could also be evil to the core)
Michael Corleone from the Godfather 1-3
…
Damien from The Omen, YES!!!
Reminds me of the brief apparition of the twin sisters in The Shining,
and Maculay Culkin in that film he plays an evil mofo opposite Frodo Baggins… The Good Son?
Frank (Henry Fonda) from Once Upon a Time in the West and the afore-mentioned Bill the Butcher are probably my two favorite villains.
Scorpio from ‘Dirty Harry’ is one crazy son-bitch of a villian, even pays 2 get the hell kicked out of him in an attempt 2 implicate inspector callaghan of brutality – also shots a school kid 4 practise. not the best villian really, maybe one of the craziest?
Gene Hackman’s corrupt cop in ‘cisco pike’ takes some beating he is mad as a bag of spiders and wired 2. Big villian in a way as his protrayal strikes similarities of nixon-like paranoia/corruption. I would not,under any circumstances deal weed with this man.
Toecutter from Mad Max! Or Humungus from Mad Max 2!
sir john gielgud’s nazi in marathon man spooked me as a youngster. ‘is it safe…..?’ teeth pulling ’is it safe…..? Obvious childhood trauma ensued……………..
Juan C.P.
Hello people,
I’m not sure if this is “topic” material or not,
but here it goes.
If I were a villain,
I’d like to be Sergi Lopez in WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY.
Damn! He’s a mean mofo…
-What about you?
I bet you can’t beat my Harry.