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October 2, 2009 | Comments (159)
Our unofficial official video editor for the site, hh (responsible for Wall-E: The Cannibal Years), has returned with another gem: A well-edited together montage of the best villains in cinematic history — or at least those of the human variety.
It’s something of a cinematic best of list, edited together for the YouTubers. It’s also kind of transfixing to watch. I appreciate even more than that villains themselves are not labeled, so the challenge goes out to y’all. How many of these movie villains can you identify? Me? I’m just tickled pixie that Drexl Spivey made the cut. By damn, it is white boy day.
Check out the video, I suspect that among you all, you’ll have no problem identifying all the flicks, and knowing our readers, I’m sure you’ll take pains to point out the omissions.
I haven't watched yet, but I hope the guy from Pan's Labrynth is in there. Wow.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 12:09 PM
Love the compilations, I am sure there are some names missing, like the crazy Cristian lady from The Myst. But can some one tell me the name of that song that he uses. please.
Posted by: 13thDuke at October 2, 2009 12:12 PM
SPD
He's there. And rightfully so.
Posted by: twig at October 2, 2009 12:13 PM
Absolutely compelling.
Posted by: TSF at October 2, 2009 12:14 PM
Seriously, no love for Khan?
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 2, 2009 12:15 PM
I just watched 28 Days Later on Wednesday, and now I want to watch it again thanks to that song. I absolutely love that beautiful piece of music.
1. Have to send this to the husband NOW. He will dig this so hard.
2. The dad from That 70s Show? What fuckery is this? What movie is that? Have to see it.
3. I'm not sure all these characters are JUST villians. The Charlize Theron character from Monster (title? saw it, can't remember) isn't completely a villian, right? She was also quite a victim.
4. Ditto Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, if that's him (I believe it is). Was he really a villian?
5. WHO the hell is the creepy looking Viking guy? I have to see that movie now, too.
6. YES, Pan's Labrynth motherfucker. God that scene is awful.
7. Is the song that goes along with this actually called "Heart of Darkness?" If so, awesome.
8. CLASSICS. YES. This could have been about 10 minutes longer if they had gone even more into the classic villians.
9. I agree with his inclusion, but too much time was spent on the Joker.
10. The final shot from A Clockwork Orange was awesome.
11. It struck me as I was watching this what great acting all these examples were.
12. Sorry I got so excited I did a numbered list. It happens to me sometimes.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 12:19 PM
That was pure creep. Especially with the music. Well done.
Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at October 2, 2009 12:21 PM
Well I'm just gonna have ta be patient and wait for the listings.
Cuz apparently, I've some serious Netflix'n to do.
Nicely done clip 'hh'. Is there anything wrong with me that I feel
slightly er, breathless? MMmmm.
I'd also be interested in a citation on the music.
"Marty. Y'know what we got here?
Motherfuckin' Charlie Bronson.
Mr. Majestyk."
Posted by: Ms MoMo at October 2, 2009 12:21 PM
Snuggiepants, Red Foreman is the villain in RoboCop.
It's a clip out of the... second, song I believe from Godspeed You Black Emperor, from an album title that isn't pronounceable. Or even typable for someone too apathetic to look up the symbol keys.
It's about the end of the world. And each of the three songs on the album are like, 20 minutes long.
Good companion album to Sigur Ros' also unpronouncable item that had a track featured in Dead Space.
Posted by: twig at October 2, 2009 12:25 PM
Can anyone tell me who the Norse looking dude with the helmet is at about 1:22ish? And in what film does he perform his villainous acts?
Posted by: danny at October 2, 2009 12:26 PM
That song choice is so epic, it makes me giddy.
(Snuggiepants, it's actually an excerpt from "East Hastings" by Godspeed You Black Emperor.)
Posted by: Lila Machiavelli at October 2, 2009 12:27 PM
album. album, not item.
where is my mind?
Posted by: twig at October 2, 2009 12:27 PM
Got a song name for that track. I think it's "In the House - In a Heartbeat," from the 28 Days Later soundtrack. If you've seen the movie, it's the song over the climactic scene at the mansion at the end.
@Snuggiepants: Wait, you don't know that Forman's Dad was the villain in Robocop? The guy who uttered the famous line "Bitches leave"? Trust me. Go see it. It blows minds if you only know Kurtwood Smith as Red.
And I was ready to uppercut a punkass if Alex wasn't in there. As for a few glaring omissions:
- Bela Lugosi's Dracula
- Darth Vader (I mean, honestly?)
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth (from Schindler's List)
Posted by: Fredo at October 2, 2009 12:30 PM
For snuggiepants and danny, norse looking dude is Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God. Saw it for the first time this year and was completely awed.
Great compilation, I got a little overexcited at seeing Snoop and let out a little whoop!
Posted by: Bumwee McGee at October 2, 2009 12:30 PM
1. Anton Chigurh
2. Don Logan
3. Max Cady
4. Bill the Butcher
5.
6. Mr. Orange
7.
8. Rutger Hauer don't know role
9. Col. Landa
Crap I have to go get hair done...can't finish.
Posted by: Cindy at October 2, 2009 12:37 PM
I'm sure this'll be pointed out plenty, but only humans (maybe dracula shouldn't count, no vader)
That's why so many bad characters were not shown.
Posted by: jay at October 2, 2009 12:38 PM
The song is definitely the second half of the song East Hastings. It's so damn good.
Seriously - leave that up for the rest of the month... Awesome. Everything about it was awesome. Music was spot-on. The shot of Anthony Perkins creeped me out the bestest.
I've got me a genuine horror boner...
Thanks.
Posted by: Skitz at October 2, 2009 12:39 PM
"3. I'm not sure all these characters are JUST villians. The Charlize Theron character from Monster (title? saw it, can't remember) isn't completely a villian, right? She was also quite a victim.
4. Ditto Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, if that's him (I believe it is). Was he really a villian? ..."
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Agreed on both counts, Charlize wasn't really a "villain" in my opinion just an extremely fucked-up individual. And Brando wasn't really a villain either. The true villain was Sheen's character.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 2, 2009 12:40 PM
BarbadoSlim,
Khan was some kind of genetically modified superhuman, right? So I think you could make a argument that he wouldn't belong on a strictly human villian list.
Posted by: giovanni at October 2, 2009 12:41 PM
Yeah, I looked up the song on YouTube too, faze, and I am completely wrong. Definitely "East Hastings." I kind of forgive myself for getting it wrong, though, because both songs were on 28 Days Later.
That would be "John Ryder" from 1986's The Hitcher.
Roy Batty from Bladerunner would have also been acceptable.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 2, 2009 12:47 PM
So I think you could make a argument that he wouldn't belong on a strictly human villian list.
Posted by: giovanni at October 2, 2009 12:41 PM
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Ah but you see "superhuman" is still human. That argument only flies if his genetic structure had morphed him into something different from human.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 2, 2009 12:50 PM
Isn't that song from Godspeed! Black Emperor?
In any case, a very interesting list but disappointed in the lack of Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). I thought he was easily the best part of Inglourious Basterds. Really, he was the only thing that made the movie watchable for me.
Also, I'm dismayed at how many of you DON'T KNOW WHO FUCKING AGUIRRE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shame.
Posted by: amanda marie at October 2, 2009 12:57 PM
The Viking is actually a conquistador-Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Posted by: Dave at October 2, 2009 1:00 PM
was that Snoop at 2:25? I mean, she's bad ass and all, but movie villain? Unless she was in a movie I don't know about -- in that case i need to know the name of it immediately.
and FYI, Villain is spelt wrong in the header. Not to be an asshole or anything...
Posted by: aidan at October 2, 2009 1:02 PM
I would've liked to see a little Pamela Voorhees lovin', but all in all a good compilation. I was a little taken back by the inclusion of Leatherface, because I wasn't expecting horror characters. But, he was a human.
Posted by: James at October 2, 2009 1:06 PM
Yeah, where the hell is Darth Vader? Or now that we know his backstory, he's a sympathetic character? Damn you George Lucas!
And how about at least one James Bond supervillan? Sure, they got cartoonish, but certainly Dr. No or Goldfinger makes the cut, especially if you include Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop. Who I love BTW, but still, he's just a henchman...and if you're going to inlcude him, then you have to include Richter from Total Recall (my other favorite balding baddie, Michael Ironside).
Posted by: Jacktrade at October 2, 2009 1:07 PM
awesome work HH! I'd say just that your compilation was far more entertaining than your average horror movie released in the past 5 years.
Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at October 2, 2009 1:11 PM
Vader seriously oughta' be on here.
Ernie McCracken from Kingpin.
Prince Humperdinck...
This list leaned toward seriously creepy dudes. But there's lots more classic villains worthy of a compilation like this.
Posted by: Napalm Clambake at October 2, 2009 1:14 PM
Roy Batty from Bladerunner would have also been acceptable.
I dunno...his character adds to the film's meditation on what it means to *be* human, but he's not strictly human. It's kinda like the cylon-human thing, really.
Wow, I just realized how askew my moral compass is; I was about to protest Aguirre being there, defending him as ambitious and insane, but, uh...quite a few villains are like that, huh? ALso that he's the main character of his film and the only one we really care that much about, but the same can be said about Norman Bates in a way.
Posted by: vic at October 2, 2009 1:18 PM
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast is terrifying...loved seeing Oldman in there, too. How about Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet?
Posted by: stryker1121 at October 2, 2009 1:23 PM
Oh, and in re Darth Vader, do you think it's because of his change of heart in Jedi that he wasn't included, maybe? Did the Star Wars universe even establish the main heroes' (save Chewie and the 'droids) species as human? Does it matter?
:goes back to bed:
Posted by: vic at October 2, 2009 1:23 PM
It's a testament to how terrifying Chigurh is that just his silhouette freaks me the fuck out.
This is an outstanding video. Beautifully done''all the characters looking straight at the camera, combined with the music? Terrifying. I also love that it included so many women--these things tend to ignore female villains who aren't the femme fatale type. Bravo!
OK, great video. Excellent selections. But they forgot Judge Elihu Smails. That dude was fucking evil.
Posted by: professor_love at October 2, 2009 1:28 PM
Vader should have been included and the same goes for Palpatine, cooler if the clip was of him in Senator "disguise."
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 2, 2009 1:28 PM
Not 100% sure on the numbers here, and putting the movie name instead of character so people can find them
1 No Country for old men
2 ahhh I know this one, but I forget the name
3
4
5
6
7 Robocop
8
9 Pan's Labyrinth
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 Apocalypse now
17
18 Psycho
19
20 American Psycho
21 Monster
22 The Wicker Man (original)
23 Is that Texas Chainsaw Massacre ? not sure
24
25
26 Night of the Hunter
27
28
29
30 Resevoir Dogs
31 Primal Fear (giving things away to say he's the villain though)
32 Scarface
33 Saw (blech)
34 Basic Instinct
35
36 Whatever happened to Baby Jane (?)
37
38 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
39 Dark Knight
40 Misery
41 Seven
42 The Silence of the Lambs
43 The Shining
44 A Clockwork Orange
Posted by: s. pisaster at October 2, 2009 1:37 PM
I absolutely LOVE this topic. I keep getting my work done faster today so I can come back to this thread.
Question: does a sympathetic backstory work as far as making a villian a bit LESS of a villian in your mind?
Or is a villian a villian a villian? (I'm not even talking about Charlize Theron character villian types with truly hugely messed up histories of being a victim, I mean just a straight up chink in the armor bit of backstory that makes you cock your head and go "oh...that explains some of this.")
I have new movies I need to see. Mr. Snuggiepants is truly gonna be snuggie in the pants when I tell him I HAVE to see Robocop now. No, seriously, he probably has it as a bootlegged copy, a regular copy and on Blu-Ray. Sigh. The man is going to squee. You'll be able to hear it from where ever you are.
But I've gotta see the Klaus Kinski flick now. I'm totally intrigued. Without saying too much, what exactly makes him a villian in it?
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 1:39 PM
I want to know the second, third and fourth.
The fifth is from Fargo. He is straight up demented, but I'm not sure he's really wicked enough to be on the greatest movie villians of all time list or anything.
Want to know the sixth.
#7 is General Asshole
Who is the old white guy villian right after that?
I MUST HAVE A NUMBERED LIST WITH TITLES. I'm going crazy.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 1:43 PM
Sorry I'm being such a commenting whore today.
My numbering was off above. Who is the guy punching himself? Must know.
Also, humans make the BEST villians. Non-human villians are just monsters or machines. Not even real. But human villians are what we're afraid of in all of us. (Shudder.)
And Nurse Ratched is one of the best villians ever. Completely evil and she doesn't even kill anyone physically. She just took already fragile people and destroyed their spirit and souls through her complete indifference to their well-being, her manipulation of their greatest insecurities, through toying with their illnesses. Add to it the fact that she's a nurse, someone we normally associate with compassion and help and succor...ay, I just totally creeped myself out.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 1:54 PM
That is a fantastic piece of work, hh! It hits all the freaky high points of their respective films.
The only character I was thinking of in particular that didn't make it on was Mola Ram from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
"Kali ma...Kali ma...Kali ma, shakthi deh!"
Posted by: branded at October 2, 2009 1:58 PM
Very nice.
Posted by: TB at October 2, 2009 2:01 PM
Did I miss the Wicked Witch of the West in there?
Posted by: Eep at October 2, 2009 2:08 PM
Isn't Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet in there, stryker1121? I swear I saw him huffing his junk.
Agree with Snuggiepants on Nurse Ratched...the character is extra affecting because to all of us, she's an all too realistic and real-world-possible (probable?) villain.
We've all run into petty, nasty people in positions of authority (go to any DMV), and it's not much of a stretch to imagine someone like Nurse Ratched in your own life, in a situation from which you can't easily escape.
And yeah, that's Frank Booth in there from Blue Velvet. I think of him everytime I hear Roy Orbison..."Don't you fucking look at me!!"
Posted by: Jacktrade at October 2, 2009 2:27 PM
1) No Country for Old Men
2) Sexy Beast
3) Cape Fear ?
4) Gangs of New York
5) True Romance
6) Fargo
7) RoboCop
8)
9) Pan's Labyrinth
10)
11) Training Day
12) Reservoir Dogs, or maybe Kill Me Again.
That's as far as I can get for now, have to actually do some work.
hh - that was absolutely artistic. LOVED it, and you chose really excellent scenes...
Posted by: replica at October 2, 2009 2:30 PM
C'mon! Is it safe? Dr. Christian Szell! I didn't see him, and you must include him.
Posted by: Sally at October 2, 2009 2:31 PM
1 No Country for old men
2 Sexy Beast
3 Cape Fear
4 Gangs of New York
5 True Romance
6 Fargo
7 Robocop
8 Hitcher (?)
9 Pan's Labyrinth
10
11 Training Day
12 Kill Me Again (?)
13 Apocalypse Now
14 Aguirre, Wrath of God
15 Apocalypto (?)
16 Psycho
17
18 American Psycho
19 Monster
20 The Wicker Man (original)
21 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
22 Blue Velvet
23
24 Night of the Hunter
25 The Wire
26 Death Proof
27 Die Hard
28 Resevoir Dogs
29 Primal Fear
30 Scarface
31 Saw
32 Basic Instinct
33 Casino
34 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
35
36 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
37 Dark Knight
38 Misery
39 Se7en
40 The Silence of the Lambs
41 The Shining
42 A Clockwork Orange
The ones I wasn't sure about have a (?). Also, after Apocalypto (?), there may have been one more, unless it too is from Apocalypto.
Posted by: MonkeyDrummer at October 2, 2009 2:31 PM
Sally, he's in there. Tight close up of Oliver, with those memorable glasses.
Is is safe?
Posted by: Jacktrade at October 2, 2009 2:33 PM
I mean, is IT safe?
Jeeze...I blow the best line from the movie. Sigh.
Posted by: Jacktrade at October 2, 2009 2:37 PM
Looks to me that right after Apocalypto was Sheen from, fittingly, Apocalypse Now.
Right after Psycho was Halloween.
Posted by: Shonda at October 2, 2009 2:44 PM
I'm missing John Huston...and Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man)...also Bob Hoskins was absolutely chilling in "Felicia's Journey" but I don't think many have seen that one...Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate? Was Alan Rickman in there?
Posted by: pugalug at October 2, 2009 2:58 PM
Thanks, MoneyDrummer, I thought I saw Hans Gruber in there but wasn't sure.
"Shoot ... the GLASS!"
Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 2, 2009 2:58 PM
Cheers for the generous comments!
Hans Beckert (M), Mrs. Carmody (The Mist) and Noah Cross (Chinatown) are not included, nor is Phyllis Dietrichson), any of the Bond Villains, a host of badguys from the western genre and plenty plenty more from the classics era. I would love to say it was due to some good reason generated from some sort of criteria I had, the truth is they were cut either because I didn't rate them as menacing enough (Mrs Carmody - more annoying then frightening), I found them too cartoonish (Bond villains) or I just didn't plain fancy them (Noah Cross).
The Villains included are more 'my favorite' of all time rather then the 'best'.
Which is also why I bent the rules to insert Snoop from The Wire. I know its a TV series but she's just too damn bad ass not to be in there somewhere, and with The Wire I feel you can always make an exception. Plus I wanted more females represented, and I also happen to agree with Stephen King when he said she's the most terrifying female villain there is. As I'm making my way home on a dark winters night and i have to head down that dimly lit-alleyway I would much rather bump into Annie Wilkes then have to face off against Snoop!
Oh Stansfield (Leon) should have probably made it too, I just didn't want Gary Oldman appearing twice, so it was a coin toss between him and Drexl, and Drexl won. I think it was the dreads what done it.
Posted by: hh at October 2, 2009 3:11 PM
The clip right after "Baby Jane" looks like Orson Welles...not sure what film that's from tho.
Posted by: klaus kinski at October 2, 2009 3:14 PM
Really, really good list. May I humbly suggest that Henry (actor Michael Rooker), from "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer" would look right at home on this list.
Posted by: alqbeck at October 2, 2009 3:25 PM
I'm amazed so many pajibans have never seen Aguierre, the Wrath of God. It's directed by Hertzog and stars Klaus Kinski for Jeebus' sake! And Darth Vader for best villian? Seriously? Watch The Shining, Aguierre, and Night of the Hunter and then tell me Darth is scarier than these guys.
Posted by: Inaras at October 2, 2009 3:28 PM
Everybody's entitled to their own lists, but I think leaving off Bridget from "The Last Seduction" (played by Linda Fiorentino) is a mistake. That bitch is ice cold (the character, not the actress). Truly a terrible, irredeemable person. Not insane, just completely amoral. And the movie is good. Netflix that shit, I don't think you'll be sorry (unless you're a man going through a difficult divorce, then maybe you won't enjoy it).
Serial killers in movies rarely strike me as frightening, mostly they're just drama queens and attention whores.
Posted by: Slash at October 2, 2009 3:31 PM
hh, that was amazing.
Posted by: minorblue at October 2, 2009 3:33 PM
yep snath, I missed hopper the first time thru the vid.
Posted by: stryker1121 at October 2, 2009 4:03 PM
That would be "John Ryder" from 1986's The Hitcher.
Funny, that's the only movie I remember seeing him in - and yet I didn't think that was right. It's been so long.
Posted by: Cindy at October 2, 2009 4:18 PM
That was fantastic. The one between Blue Velvet and Night of the Hunter is from Funny Games, I think. I never wanted to think of that movie again.
Posted by: Els at October 2, 2009 4:26 PM
I have to give major props for the inclusion of Annie Potts from Misery. That movie has terrified me for years. Kathy Bates was utterly phenomenal in that one.
Posted by: Melody at October 2, 2009 4:42 PM
I nominate Li'l Ze / Li'l Dice from City Of God. When I saw that film, he instantly catapulted into my list of top five memorable villains, human or otherwise.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 2, 2009 4:43 PM
Which is also why I bent the rules to insert Snoop from The Wire. is that who the black girl is? I've never seen the show, but damn, just the way she moves is f'in scary.
Posted by: s. pisaster at October 2, 2009 4:45 PM
That said, very nice job. :- )
Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 2, 2009 4:48 PM
Fatal Attraction not Basic Instinct
Posted by: MissNev at October 2, 2009 4:49 PM
Welles as harry Lime in The Third Man
Posted by: legaleagle at October 2, 2009 4:53 PM
Snuggiepants the Deathbringer: But I've gotta see the Klaus Kinski flick now. I'm totally intrigued. Without saying too much, what exactly makes him a villian in it?
Hoo! How to sum up Kinski's role in Aguirre without giving too much away...it helps if you know Werner Herzog, who directed it. He's a highly ambitious and driven man, a 16th-century conquistador in the jungles of South America who is not above destroying those around him and pushing them to insane, possibly inhuman things, all for the sake of him attaining his goal, which is (though I could say it more poetically, it would probably ruin the film for you) batshit insane.
I just recommend that you see Aguirre, Wrath of God post-haste! It's an absolutely incredible film, one which I'm surprised has not gotten a review here yet. If I could really write, I'd try and rectify that myself!
Posted by: vic at October 2, 2009 5:00 PM
Well, hell, there he is! Good call.
Posted by: Sally at October 2, 2009 5:09 PM
Aguirre, Wrath Of God is an outstanding film. I can think of few other films that made me feel so palpably immersed in the world it created in such a way that I felt what the characters were feeling. Given the circumstances of the film, that does not necessarily make for a fun or comfortable viewing experience, but it is an impressive and memorable one.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 2, 2009 5:26 PM
Ok thank you, got some movie watchin' to do this weekend!
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 5:36 PM
Great. Great. Great list.
But, no American History X? Ed Norton is a bad Mofo in that flick.
And Snoop was bad character but from the TV show The Wire.
DarthCorleone - Ah shit, forgot about Lil Zi, I loved that film and his performance too, so I definitely would have included him. Oh well!
s.pisaster - yep thats Snoop, swaying in and out of the shadows around the 2:25 mark, sandwiched between Night of the Hunter and Deathproof.
Balerman - As intimidating as Norton was as a villain (the jaw scene in particular), he ultimately gets redemption and sees the error of his ways, so that automatically disqualifies him. Shame really, as a snarling Derek Vineyard would have been right at home here.
I also echoe the Aguirre love. Truly amazing film. It's all in the eyes.
Posted by: hh at October 2, 2009 5:59 PM
No one knows the ones right before and after Pan's Labrynth?
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 6:14 PM
Snuggie, I believe the one after Pan's Labyrinth is Laurence Olivier as Szell in Marathon Man.
Posted by: Els at October 2, 2009 6:30 PM
No one knows the ones right before and after Pan's Labrynth?
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 6:14 PM
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Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher) before and Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man?)after
Posted by: Laura at October 2, 2009 6:39 PM
Laura Thank you! Mr. Snuggie and I are actually headed to our favorite little DVD store in a sec for a few of these films.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 6:49 PM
Y'all I told the husband on the phone just now that I need to watch Robocop tonight and he just yelled "BITCHES LEAVE!" I never knew where he got that line from. Now I do.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 6:53 PM
Els Thank you to you, too.
(Again, sorry to Pajiba for being a commenting whore today.)
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 2, 2009 6:54 PM
I ask as I'm feeling *really* lazy and didn't want to make my own. Hee.
Posted by: Ms MoMo at October 2, 2009 7:14 PM
I'm so happy! I knew that I had had some Godspeed You! Black Emperor on my computer at one point, added by a friend, and I wanted to see if it was still there. I found out I've had "East Hastings" on this damn computer for years and didn't even know it. Huzzah!
1. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men)
2. Don Logan (Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast)
3. Max Cady (Robert De Niro in Cape Fear)
4. Bill 'the butcher' (Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York)
5. Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman in True Romance)
6. Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare in Fargo)
7. Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith in Robocop)
8. John Ryder (Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher)
9. Captain Vidal (Sergi López in Pan's Labyrinth)
10. Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man)
11. Detective Alonzo (Denzel Washington in Training Day)
12. Vince Miller (Michael Madsen in Kill Me Again)
13. Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now)
14. Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God)
15. (Apocalypto)
16. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now)
17. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins in Psycho)
18. Michael Myers (Halloween)
19. Goddamn-if-I-remember-his-name (Funny Games)
20. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in American Psycho)
21. Aileen Wuornos(Charlize Theron in Monster)
22. Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man)
23. Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
24. Franck Booth (Dennis Hooper in Blue Velvet)
25.
26. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter)
27. Snoop (Felicia Pearson in The Wire)
28. Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell in Death Proof)
29. Hans Grueber (Alan Rickman in Die Hard)
30. Mr Orange (Michael Madsen in Resevoir Dogs)
31. Aaron (Edward Norton in Primal Fear)
32. Tony Montana (Al Pacino in Scarface)
33. Jigsaw (Saw)
34. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction)
35. Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci in Casino)
36. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?)
37. Harry Lime (Orson Welles in The Third Man)
39. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
40. The Joker (Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight)
41. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates in Misery)
42. John Doe (Kevin Spacey in Seven)
43. Hannibal 'the cannibal' Lecter (Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs)
44. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson in The Shining)
45. Alex (Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange)
Again, bravo to hh!
Now I'm up to perform a hara-kiri, for not finding out number 23.
Adieu.
Posted by: rg at October 2, 2009 7:33 PM
Robocop has one of the funniest TV-edit versions of any movie. Instead of "bitches leave," they have him saying "ladies leave."
Almost as funny is the edit when Robocop raids the drug factory. He tells all the crooks: "Come quietly, or there will be trouble."
One of Boddicker's gang cocks his shotgun and replies, "Ahhhh...fuck you!" The TV-edit has him saying, "Yeah...for you!"
Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 2, 2009 7:33 PM
I think rg should win some kind of prize for that. Movie of choice from the list? :}
Posted by: MM at October 2, 2009 7:38 PM
DarthCorleone I grew up on the TV edit and always considered Robocop to be a slightly goofy 80s action flick. I didn't see the full thing until a few years ago and....wow...I was not prepared at all for the level of violence and gore. I have no idea how they managed to edit that thing for TV at all.
Posted by: s. pisaster at October 2, 2009 7:40 PM
Wow... very cool. Would have liked to have seen the Wicked Witch... perhaps not in her witch form, but maybe in her human form? Mrs. Gultch? She was pretty villainous. What about Darryl Hannah's Kill Bill character? Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest? She was scary as hell.
Also Buffalo Bill from Silence in the Lambs? He was so scary and creepy to me.
Posted by: petalfrog at October 2, 2009 7:51 PM
thanks for the vote of confidence, MM, but I would have to kill myself again for Mr Orange, since it's Mr Blonde (which is way more stylish for a bad guy's name)
Adieu
Posted by: rg at October 2, 2009 7:55 PM
s.pisaster >> My dad let me watch virtually everything unedited, and I developed a very high tolerance for movie violence and gore as a result. I remember when he rented Robocop, though, and I was flat out disturbed by that scene where they torture Murphy. I think I'm at least a few years older than you; the tv-edit came later for me and was the subject of a lot of laughs.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 2, 2009 8:17 PM
Oh, rg, if you made that list (as is) without even consulting the almighty IMDB, then you are a god(dess) among men(humans). Clearly you are immortal and your attempts at hara-kiri will be unsuccessful.
Posted by: MM at October 2, 2009 8:30 PM
I was only helped by pajibans for some of the caracter names (Don Logan et Max Cady) Other than that, I'm just a freaky movie geek.
That's why I deserve to die for the Mr Blonde Thing, also for the missing space between 'Wuornos' and the parenthesis.
Posted by: rg at October 2, 2009 8:42 PM
The Murphy scene done me in as a wee boy too, Darth, so I feel your pain. Robocop getting an ass-drilling in the 2nd film also hurt!
Stellar work rg, i think you only missed 3. Props. Also made the final list that much easier for me to make, so cheers! To the scoreboard....
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12 - Is in fact the first of two Mr. Blonde clips, not Kill Me Again.
16 - Is actually Martin Sheen's 'Kit' from Badlands rather then Captain Willard. I put it so close to the Kurtz clip just to put some confusion in there. Glad it worked!
19 - Is not Funny Games (which is your missing 25) but Ray Winstone from Nil by Mouth. Winston is absolutely vile in this, and delivers one of the most stomach-inducing-beatdowns ever seen!
You missed out a number '38' as well, so it won't tally with the end of the definitive list, which is here......
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1. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men)
2. Don Logan (Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast)
3. Max Cady (Robert De Niro in Cape Fear)
4. Bill 'the butcher' (Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York)
5. Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman in True Romance)
6. Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare in Fargo)
7. Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith in Robocop)
8. John Ryder (Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher)
9. Captain Vidal (Sergi López in Pan's Labyrinth)
10. Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man)
11. Detective Alonzo (Denzel Washington in Training Day)
12. Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen in Resevoir Dogs)
13. Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now)
14. Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God)
15. Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo, in Apocalypto)
16. Kit (Martin Sheen in Badlands
17. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins in Psycho)
18. Michael Myers (Halloween)
19. Ray (Ray Winstone in Nil by Mouth)
20. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in American Psycho)
21. Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron in Monster)
22. Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man)
23. Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
24. Frank Booth (Dennis Hooper in Blue Velvet)
25. Paul (Arno Frisch in Funny Games)
26. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter)
27. Snoop (Felicia Pearson in The Wire)
28. Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell in Death Proof)
29. Hans Grueber (Alan Rickman in Die Hard)
30. **** Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen in Resevoir Dogs)
31. Aaron (Edward Norton in Primal Fear)
32. Tony Montana (Al Pacino in Scarface)
33. Jigsaw (Saw)
34. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction)
35. Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci in Casino)
36. Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?)
37. Harry Lime (Orson Welles in The Third Man)
38. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
39. The Joker (Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight)
40. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates in Misery)
41. John Doe (Kevin Spacey in Seven)
42. Hannibal 'the cannibal' Lecter (Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs)
43. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson in The Shining)
44. Alex (Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange)
**** Poor from from me here, as this is Mr, Blonde's 2nd belated appearance, rather then two separate Madsen films. This was inserted into the video late in the game as a replacement for a Jesse James clip (despite it being a very cool 'coming out of the darkness' shot) due to him not really qualifying as a proper villain. Mr, Blonde's swinging hips seemed to work better with the shift in music tone, and is a lovely build-up image to what we all know is about to happen.
Looking back, I should have just removed Madsen's first appearance and chucked in a different bad-guy, like one of the numerous ones listed above.
Posted by: hh at October 2, 2009 8:50 PM
As I put down the sword, I am relieved to finally know that it was Ray Winstone punching his face (I didn't even recognized him) so it's all good.
How conniving of you to put Martin Sheen in a fiery light as he is when he murders Kurtz. Since I never saw Badlands - never was able to, actually, kind of like a curse (missed it on tv several times, then accidently erased the vhs, never asked a friend who owned it on dvd...)
Posted by: rg at October 2, 2009 9:15 PM
As for .38, it was a typo, as for the .19 and .25 thing, I must have fucked up a 'copy and paste' somewhere in the process of re-placing Funny Games. Errors occured when I was perfecting the presentation.
Anyway, kudos to you again, and kudos to Raoul Trujillo, who is totally worthy of this list - and as far as the Mel Gibson hating go - he was remarkable in Apocalypto.
Posted by: rg at October 2, 2009 9:26 PM
great compilation ...
would add 2 more to the list
amon goth in schindler's list
and
magua from last of the mohicans
"When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."
Posted by: Soylent Green is Sheeple at October 2, 2009 10:12 PM
Well, that just gave me the jibblies. I liked the song though. Notable ommission, Ray Wise as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. *jibblies*
Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at October 2, 2009 10:49 PM
I think the real question on every pajibian's lips is whether Dr.Heiter will eventually make the cut?
Posted by: hh at October 2, 2009 11:16 PM
Hopkins? Really?
Brian Cox was so much more chilling as Lecktor in Manhunter. Hopkins camped it up way too much.
Ray Winston in "Nil By Mouth" really deserves a place on this list.
Posted by: lovemunkey187 at October 3, 2009 12:18 AM
Ok so I finished watching Robocop for the first time because of this video. I'm this person: why do they keep shooting at him when they can see it doesn't work? Why does he eat if he's just a cyborg? Why is this so cheesy?
However, it was also GREAT. So it's great-cheesy, my favorite type of movie.
We found The Hitcher for $4.99 at the DVD place tonight. I searched in vain for Aguirre, Wrath of God and Marathon Man (I'm going to order them online) and because of hh, Mr. Snuggiepants had to go out and get an itunes card so he could buy the entire Godspeed You Black Emperor album that I can't even type the title of because it has an infinity symbol at the end.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 3, 2009 12:40 AM
Ok y'all this is SO freaky. I was reading the Wiki entry for Klaus Kinski out of curiosity, knew nothing about him.
Says his daughter is Nastassja Kinski, now I do remember her.
So I check out HER wiki page. Here's what I find: At 15 Kinski's romantic relationship with director Roman Polanski began.
Whut the whut? How many teenage girls did this guy get with anyway???
So it's like two degrees of Roman Polanski. AND she lived with Quincy Jones for several years. So she was Rashida Jones' stepmother for a while there.
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 3, 2009 12:52 AM
Alex wins. I have yet to see a more truly evil character caught on film. He is like an evil onion where every layer you peal back only shows how he is more fucked up than you thought. He simply gets off on being a horrible person.
A Clockwork Orange is brilliant in that it is one of the few movies that has no protagonist. Alex is the perfect villain with no hero to kick his ass.
Nurse Ratchet is a nice choice as well. Snugglepants thanks for such a great summary of why Nurse Ratchet is so bad.
"And Nurse Ratched is one of the best villians ever. Completely evil and she doesn't even kill anyone physically. She just took already fragile people and destroyed their spirit and souls through her complete indifference to their well-being, her manipulation of their greatest insecurities, through toying with their illnesses. Add to it the fact that she's a nurse, someone we normally associate with compassion and help and succor...ay, I just totally creeped myself out."
Nicely done.
Posted by: Mebe at October 3, 2009 1:16 AM
I think the real question on every pajibian's lips is whether Dr. Heiter will eventually make the cut?
I'm watching you. Don't think I didn't see you there! Human Centipede FTW.
Posted by: MM at October 3, 2009 1:27 AM
nothing much to say but fantastic compilation, loved it. Looking for Godspeed... now
Posted by: Squirrelgripper at October 3, 2009 1:43 AM
What about the child molesting father from the movie Happiness? I can't see that guy in anything anymore without picturing him as a child molester.
Fucked up montage idea (and I'm only suggesting this cause it's 1:41am and my brain is shot) use the same freaky music, or maybe that ending song from Requiem for a Dream, and show all the characters that have been rapists/child molesters/wife beaters. I'd want to watch because I'd be curious to see how many movies used those plots, but then I'd need massive therapy.
Posted by: scorzi at October 3, 2009 1:43 AM
Dude, where the hell's Toht (Ronald Lacey) from Raiders of the Lost Ark? The stuttering, sadistic gestapo agent who looked vaguely like Peter Lorre? Dude creeped me out for an entire year after that movie came out.
Posted by: Irving Washington at October 3, 2009 1:43 AM
On Robocop: what I've found out years after is all the sly social commentary that Verhoeven chucked in there. I specially love watching the "ads" where you get a doctor selling you replacement hearts and how they take Medicare while telling you they care for your health or the 6000 SUX, which gets 8.2 MPG.
On villains from Raiders: I'd go with Bellocq over Toht just on account of how he's the guy selling himself to the Nazis to get what he's after.
A few more additions for the next video clip:
- Kjell Nilsson's Lord Humungus AKA the guy in the hockey mask (from The Road Warrior)
- Gary Busey's Mr. Joshua (from Lethal Weapon)
- Stephen Boyd's Messala (from Ben-Hur)
- Yul Brynner's Rameses (from The Ten Commandments)
- Lee Van Cleef's Angel Eyes (from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
Posted by: Fredo at October 3, 2009 3:06 AM
from "The Wire" I'd have picked Marlo Stanfield, evil-looking little fucker. Maybe even Stringer Bell, who was a cold, almost reptilian character.
"Deadwood": Garrett Dillahunt as Francis Wolcott.
John Huston as Noah Cross from "Chinatown"
Michael Rooker played a nasty psycho redneck in "Mississippi Burning"
the Nazi Major Todt from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
& as a poster above said: Angel Eyes from "Good Bad & Ugly".
Overall an excellent vid. There are always going to be some omissions.
Thank you most of all for the inclusion of Lord Summerisle: "we confer upon you a great gift: a martyr's death"
Posted by: oskar at October 3, 2009 5:15 AM
Right up with you oskar.
Also, to the pretentious dude (don't take it bad) who says that Brian Cox is a better Lecter than Anthony Hopkins in the adaptation of Red Dragon, well of course he is... in the adaptation of Red Dragon. But then again, the movie isn't really about Lecter now is it, so Hopkins is, and always will be, the creepy motherfucker who traumatized me either he casually chat with Foster, or beat up the living shit out of a guard and bite off the tongue of another one.
The chilliest thing from Manhunter isn't Cox, it's Tom fucking Noonan!
He's not in the list, but he should be.
Posted by: rg at October 3, 2009 9:32 AM
Ooh, Angel Eyes reminded me of another one from a Leone western, Frank from Once Upon a Time in the West
Nothing like having Henry Fonda play an ice-cold killer who shoots a child in cold blood in his first scene.
Morton: Not bad. Congratulations. Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.
Frank: People scare better when they're dying.
Posted by: Soylent Green is Sheeple at October 3, 2009 12:25 PM
Hot dayum, I love me some human villains. I just squeed in my pants a little.
Yeah, I agree with the above. Hans Landa, Amon Gothe, Todt, are all Champion Villians. Nazis make the best villains. I even hated the monkey from Raiders. But what about Goebels from Downfall? Hitler I could almost stomach, but Goebels, doing what he did at the end...
Late in the game but loving it!
I 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th...) Angela Lansbury from the ORIGINAL Manchurian Candidate. She played a mother role when she at the time was only 2 or 3 years older than the actor who played her son. BRILLIANT WORK from a classy dame.
Posted by: vllach at October 3, 2009 1:57 PM
No Voldemort?
Posted by: irina at October 3, 2009 2:51 PM
Ambrose: I'm with you on Goebells from Downfall. As soon as I hit post on my Toht nomination, I immediately thought of him. But seriously, do you nominate him or his wife, because by the end of the movie I though she was even more sinister.
Posted by: Irving Washington at October 3, 2009 5:34 PM
Fredo: you're right, he really crammed in a lot of social commentary. Did you also catch how quickly and easily everyone could be hypnotized by that stupid comedy TV show the characters kept watching?
Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at October 3, 2009 6:42 PM
Great great video. I'd also add Rebecca DeMornay from Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Danny Glover in The Color Purple. And I was just reminded of what a badass Louise Fletcher also was in Flowers In The Attic. She's fantastic at playing an ice cold bitch.
Posted by: little ya at October 3, 2009 10:25 PM
Awesome topic, great video + music!
My 2 cents: Raymond Lemorne, played by Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu in The Vanishing (ORIGINAL DUTCH VERSION, not crappy American remake.) This movie will freak your shit out. Dude is evil personified.
Posted by: Ray Ray at October 3, 2009 10:56 PM
"John Huston as Noah Cross from "Chinatown"
Good one Oskar: Noah Cross is that all to real evil rich douche, that knows he is above the law. Truly terrifying.
Clancy Brown is great in Highlander, he scares me. I was just looking at his imdb and not only is he in the new Nightmare on Elm Street, but he's in the new Conan!?! That's kinda awesome, even if I don't think Conan needs a remake.
Also did you know that Clancy Brown is the voice for Mr. Krabs on Sponge Bob!?!?!? Consider my mind blown.
Posted by: Mebe at October 3, 2009 11:25 PM
no mickey and mallory knox???
Posted by: maxpurr9 at October 4, 2009 1:11 AM
i've been lookng for the music from 28 days later since it came out, so thanks to the folks above who identified the godspeed you black emporer track from ths clip. does anyone know who does the song from the beginning of the movie? the scene when cillian murphy is wondering around deserted london and he realizes that everyone is dead? any help would be appreciated.
Posted by: butters at October 4, 2009 12:42 PM
I'm shocked to learn that Clancy Brown is Mr. Krabs.
Because of this list I watched Aguirre, Wrath of God on Netflix last night. Good movie. I'd say the character deserves to be on the list of best villians. However, I'd like to point out that Klaus Kinski was a goblin. Not the character he played, the man himself.
Posted by: Viking at October 5, 2009 8:03 AM
and Ralph Phiennes character in "schindler's list"?
and Christian "dick cheney" Bale in " public enemies"?
Posted by: carrie at October 5, 2009 10:43 AM
Mr. Spica from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Posted by: Reeseman at October 5, 2009 4:09 PM
Thats awsome!...but no vader?
Posted by: Rorzaroc at October 7, 2009 4:47 AM
Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes in the original Oliver - Nasty piece of work , he was.
Great List
Posted by: Swe.Ge at October 9, 2009 6:31 AM
Sooooo...apparently "cinematic history" is pretty much the 70's to now (though apparently not really coming into its own until the past decade or so)? (Okay, yeah, you dipped into the 60's for Psycho and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and the late 50's for Touch of Evil...big whoop...).
Posted by: YogaforCynics at October 19, 2009 12:42 AM
No Stansfield from The Professional(Leon)....?
Posted by: mike at October 20, 2009 11:22 AM
I thought Rutger Hauer is from Night Hawks? where he plays a terrorist not the Hitcher
Posted by: Patrick at October 22, 2009 10:52 PM
Where is Frank (Henry Fonda) from "Once Upon a Time in the West"? Easily one of the most thoroughly evil characters in movie history (and not in the cartoonish way of many in this clip).
Posted by: Bender at October 22, 2009 11:37 PM
I see that Soylent Green mentioned Frank. But the even more evil scene is the complete joy he displays in hanging Harmonica's brother (which was totally ripped on in The Quick and the Dead).
Oh, and what about Keyser Soze?
Posted by: Bender at October 22, 2009 11:57 PM
Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth) in Rob Roy
Posted by: skinbad at October 23, 2009 12:37 AM
Just a few ommissions that popped into my head after watching;
1)Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliet Lewis- -Natural Born Killers)
Posted by: SthrnYankee at October 23, 2009 7:52 AM
WHAT!!??
No mention of Jamal from Slumdog Millionaire!? That kid was such a cruel, heartless bastard. And what about "Angela" from the profoundly evil Sleepaway Camp movies?
And lastly, did NO ONE have the courage of flashing a quick shot of some garbed, brightly robed Jews from Passion of the Christ? I mean, really...They killed Jesus!!!
/
Posted by: ECW at October 23, 2009 8:50 AM
Umm, no Sho'Nuff from The Last Dragon?!? The meanest, prettiest, baddest mo-fo is left off the list?!? That's a ridiculous omission.
Posted by: LouDogg at October 23, 2009 9:35 AM
Red was the villain in Robocop.
Posted by: HAL at October 23, 2009 10:49 AM
Great stuff!
I would add the warden from Shawshank Redemption.
The guard captain in Midnight Express
Mr. Glass in Unbreakable
Bill in Kill Bill
Posted by: DLew at October 23, 2009 11:34 AM
Where's KAISER SOZE?!
Posted by: DLew at October 23, 2009 11:38 AM
Sorry to break the mood, guys, but #14 Don Lope de Aguirre reminds me of nothing else but Terry Gilliam of Monty Python - maybe "And the Holy Grail", maybe "The meaning of life" (?)
That expression on his face! I was expecting the Killer Bunny to jump out any moment (let's face it, that particular cut lingered rather long in this video.)
Other than that, brilliant work! Got to rent a bunch of movies this weekend!
Posted by: MrJimm at October 23, 2009 12:36 PM
5. Klaus Kinske, "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"
Posted by: DARLEK at October 23, 2009 1:28 PM
I meant Terry Gilliam of Monty Python - for some reason, my browser is cutting off the right hand side of all the comments posted here.
BTW you should all thank the Ace of Spades for all the links...
Posted by: MrJimm at October 23, 2009 1:30 PM
Who cares!!! My boyfriend also agrees with me. He is 10 years older than me, lol. We met online at age-gap club -- http://AgelessOnly.COM/. Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
Realize you had limited space and were sticking with Film Noir ("villains" can cover comedy or "dramedy", as well). In the latter categories I'd venture that F. Murray Abraham as Salieri in Amadeus was one of the great screen villains.
The Ladies need some representation:
Katherine Turner in Body Heat.
Theresa Russell in Black Widow.
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.
Brian Cox was definitely creepier as the original Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter, if only because he wasn't over-exposed.
Gary Cole in A Simple Plan -- the man oozed menace in Office Space and the Brandy Bunch, fer chrissake.
Billy Bob Thornton in One False Move -- somehow the ponytail made him that much more sinister.
M. Emmett Walsh in Blood Simple -- a laid-back redneck Anton Chigurh.
Christopher Walken in, well, anything, but At Close Range -- ordered a hit on his own sons.
John Malkovich in, well, anything, too, but especially as the taunting assassin in In the Line of Fire.
Willem DaFoe as the counterfeiter in To Live and Die in LA.
Tom Berenger as Sgt Barnes in Platoon.
Lee Marvin as the homicidal furrier in Gorky Park.
Just suggestions. I'll be sure to check Pan's Labyrinth, and kudos for the Klaus Kinski selection...furious
No mention of one of the most chilling...
Magua of Last of the Mohicans.
Evil personified..especially when he tears out the
heart of Col Monroe...I defy anyone who disputes
this at least in the top ten.
Posted by: Scott Gorman at December 16, 2009 8:08 PM
Good list, but needs another dose of Gary Oldman as DEA Agent Norman Stansfield from Luc Besson's Leon.
Posted by: Scott at March 31, 2010 5:24 PM
Amazing list, but again some omissions
1. Cap.Hank Quinlan From Touch Of Evil.
2. HAL from 2001: A space odyssey
3. Nurse Ratchet - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
4. Frank - Once upon a time in the west
5. Smith - Matrix
6. Gordon Gekko - Wall Sreet
7. Little Bill Dagget - Unforgiven
Posted by: Sandip at April 1, 2010 10:00 AM
Truly great video and amazing editing job! HH really
inpired me, therefore I made my own "youtube" top
45 villains without of course including the obvious baddies.
Let me know what you think and also try to guess them
all (might be a good challenge).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLwkyaa8hg)
Posted by: Matt at April 20, 2010 9:13 PM
where the FUCK was Darth Vader? Is it just me or isn't he THE movie villain?
What the hell kind of list is this?? No Vader, No Simon Phoenix, No Tyler Derden, No Miguel Bain, No Castor Troy, No Frank White, No Nino Brown, No Terminator, No Jet Li from LW4, No Lucy Lui from Kill Bill, No T1000, No Colonel Miles Quaritch from Avatar, and most of all where the hell is Raul Julia as General M. Bison from Street Fighter lol.
Posted by: David at September 2, 2010 1:28 AM
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I haven't watched yet, but I hope the guy from Pan's Labrynth is in there. Wow.