top ten most evil villians in movie history.....

[Derf]

I would agree with most of the selections here, but I would add Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) from the 1956 version of The Bad Seed. That is one creepy little girl!

[Shadowphile]

Damn!  John Doe form Se7en was at the top of my list.  When I cut and pasted it, I must have missed it.

[SaintMort]

Is it wrong that I hardly consider J.D. a Villian? Then again isn't that the whole point of Anti-Hero/Black Comedy make you cheer for the villian.

Anyway The Marbles and Divine in Pink Flamingos were both amazing villians!

[Zapranoth]

Yes, you're wrong, SaintMort.  People who impale hookers on barbed lances, and kill men by stuffing them with spaghetti, and who give


(spoilers)


a policeman his wife's severed head to prove a point...

?!?

[odinn7]

Uh, yeah...remind me not to p**s off Mort.

[Susan]

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

[daveblackeye15]

I don't  about being evil but Darth Vader is one of my favorites.

The charistmatic Belloq from Raiders of the lost Ark.

And there is something rather evil about Richard Guyot from the Guyver series.

[Zapranoth]

Scary Gary Oldman isn't quite "classic" yet to fit in this list, but he should, someday.  That clear, blue-eyed foaming madness he can generate...

[Scottie]

No mention of Noah Cross from Chinatown? He's pretty f**ked up. By the end of the movie and when everything was divulged, I felt pretty sick by his person. By the by, I vote Chinatown as the best story of a Jack Nicholson movie. I don't know of another story where city water and power, murder, and city expansion are even combined. Great movie.

[ulthar]

Kurtz from Apocalypse Now?

[Georgie Boy]

Travis Bickel
Jason
Michael Myers (slasher not Canadian)
Neno Brown (New Jack City)
Chuckie
Damien (evil incarnate)
Jame Gumm from SotLambs
Norman Bates
Michael Corleaone
Alien

Just some that I didn't see listed.  Lord Vader will always be number 1 to me.

[raj]

I gotta say that Alex is a villian, assaults, rapes and murder aren't really simply anti-hero stuff.  The problem is that there are no good guys in that movie, outside, perhaps, of his probation officer.

Another villian is the leader of the gang in Mad Max.

[odinn7]

raj wrote:
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> Another villian is the leader of the gang in Mad Max.


Toecutter. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

[raj]

Thanks, forgot the name.

[Shadowphile]

Slasher movie villians are not evil, they're just slashers.  Evil requires more of a lack of humanity.  Wearing a mask and chopping people up makes you a slasher, not a villian.

I think that is a distinction that needs to be made.  The Alien isn't evil either.  It is a life form trying to survive, which does not make it evil, just lethal.  There is no malice in it's actions, just instinct.  

Norman Bates wasn't evil.  He was creepy and psychotic but not evil.  Insanity takes the choice away.  Jack, in The Shining isn't evil, he's just insane.