100 Movie Madmen

AndyC · August 25, 2008, 12:38:58 PM

Rather than limit this to b-movies, I'm just going to say movies in general. However, the criteria here are fairly specific. What I'm looking for are insane characters, male or female. Not just a little delusional, obsessive, power-mad or quirky, mind you, but insane. Full-bore barking mad.

I'm going to start the list off with one of my favourites.

1 - Jack Torrance - One of Jack Nicholson's best performances as the Overlook Hotel's homicidal winter caretaker.

1. Jack Torrance
2. Rev. Harry Powell
3. Rhoda Penmark
4. Henry Lee Lucas
5. Hannibal Lecter
6. The Joker (Ledger)
7. Ace Ventura
8. Niles/Holland Perry
9. Norman Bates
10. Bozo (Toxic Avenger)
11. Frank Booth
12. Mickey Knox
13. Baby Jane Hudson
14. Aguirre (Kinski)
15. Dr. Joseph Javorski
16. Renfield
17. Dr. Frank N. Furter
18. Alex (Clockwork Orange)
19. Dr. Richard Vollin
20. The Invisible Man
21. Evil Ed
22. The Crimson Executioner
23. Max Cady (deNiro)
24. Dr. Gogol
25. Howard Beale
26. Bill Foster/D-FENS
27. Santo (Kinski)
28. The Toolbox Murderer
29. The Hollow Man
30. Anton Chigurh
31. Billy Chapman
32. Drake Sab***h
33. The Irishman (Braveheart)
34. Farmer Vincent
35. Jay Porter
36. Kevin Spacey (Seven)
37. Don Maxwell (Maniac)
38. The Maniac (Joe Spinell)
39. Krug (Last House on the Left)
40. Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall)
41. Cody Jarrett
42. George Harvey Bone
43. Johnny Barrett (Shock Corridor)
44. The Sadist (Arch Hall Jr.)
45. Matthew (Scream Bloody Murder)
46. Ray Sinclair (Something Wild)
47. Caligula
48. Kevin (Sin City)
49. Leatherface
50. Gene Tierney (Leave Her to Heaven)
51. Jill Banner (Spider Baby)
52. Bennett (Commando)
53. Herbert West
54. Mother Firefly (Devil's Rejects)
55. Kesslee (Tank Girl)
56. Mad (Jubilee)
57. Evelyn Draper
58. Nora Desmond
59. J. Frank Parnell
60. Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway)
61. The Night Rider
62. Vic Vega, "Mr. Blonde"
63. Dr. Tolian Soren
64.

Allhallowsday · August 25, 2008, 12:43:29 PM

2. Reverend Harry Powell as played by ROBERT MITCHUM in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.

Derf · August 25, 2008, 01:10:54 PM

3. Patty McCormack's Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed

AnubisVonMojo · August 25, 2008, 01:31:25 PM

No.4 - Henry Lee Lucas as portrayed chillingly by the underrated Michael Rooker!

Cthulhu · August 25, 2008, 02:39:49 PM

5. Hannibal Lecter
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

He is the greatest cannibalistic psychiatrist ever.

Psycho Circus · August 25, 2008, 04:17:08 PM

No.6 The Joker (played by the late Heath Ledger)

Patient7 · August 25, 2008, 04:19:31 PM

You know who's really crazy?

Patient7.

Don't count that, I just like to make dumb quips.

Psycho Circus · August 25, 2008, 04:26:55 PM

No.7 Ace Ventura

AndyC · August 25, 2008, 04:38:03 PM

8 - Niles/Holland from The Other.

RCMerchant · August 25, 2008, 04:39:20 PM

"We all go a little crazy sometimes...haven't you?"

9. NORMAN BATES!!!!

Nuff Sed!

Psycho Circus · August 25, 2008, 04:45:59 PM

10. Bozo (Toxic Avenger)

AndyC · August 25, 2008, 06:55:44 PM

11 - Frank Booth - Dennis Hopper turns in a performance that is disturbing on one level, funny as hell on another as the psychopathic, maniacal, sadistic, homicidal, obsessive, Pabst-drinking, gas-huffing villain in Lynch's Blue Velvet.

Ash · August 25, 2008, 08:14:50 PM

Mickey Knox

"It's just murder. All God's creatures do it. You look in the forests and you see species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forests, and we just call it industry, not murder."

Raffine · August 25, 2008, 08:26:21 PM

13. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis)

Ryantherebel · August 25, 2008, 08:32:05 PM

Klaus Kinski in any one of his films.