50 Most Vile Movie Villains: Parts 1 & 2
Entertainment Weekly put out a list of the 50 Most Vile Movie Villains.
This is part 1.
1. Darth Vader -- Star Wars (Hayden Christensen/James Earl Jones/David Prowse)
2. Leather Face -- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -1974 (Gunnar Hansen)
3. Phillip Vandamm -- North by Northwest (James Mason)
4. Hedy Carlson -- Single White Female (Hedy Carlson)
5. Annie Wilkes -- Misery (Kathy Bates)
6. Maleficent -- Sleeping Beauty (Eleanor Audley)
7. Commodus -- Gladiator ( Joaquin Phoenix)
8. Hans Gruber -- Die Hard (Alan Rickman)
9. Noah Cross -- Chinatown (john Huston)
10. Captain Vidal -- Pan’s Labyrinth (Sergi lopez)
11. John Doe -- Se7en (Kevin Spacey)
12. Norman Bates -- Psycho (Anthony Perkins)
13. Frank Booth -- Blue Velvet (Dennis Hoppers)
14. Max Cady -- Cape Fear (Robert De Niro)
15. Hannibal Lecter/Buffalo Bill -- The Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins/Ted Levine)
16. Khan Noonien Singh -- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Ricardo Montelban)
17. Little Bill Dagget -- Unforgiven (Gene Hackman)
18. Bill -- Kill Bill (David Carradine)
19. The Child Catcher -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Robert Helpmann)
20. Harry Powell -- Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum)
21. Harry Lime -- The Third Man (Orson Welles)
22. Amon Goeth -- Schindler’s List (Ralph Fiennes)
23. Cruella De Vil -- 101 Dalmatians (Betty Lou Gerson)
24. Daniel Plainview -- There Will Be Blood (Danie Day-Lewis)
25. Dr. Christian Szell -- Marathon Man (Laurence Olivier)
Tell me what you think! I haven't seen enough of these to make a definitive choice Plus there's more to come from EW, so let me know your guesses about what will be on the rest of the list.
They give their reasonings Here
Well here they are. Some you called for, some you didn’t. What’s left?
50 Most Vile Movie Villains: Part 2
1. Anton Chigurh -- No Country for Old Men (Javier Bardem)
2. Doc Ock -- Spider Man 2 (Alfred Molina)
3. Mitch Leary -- In the Line of Fire (John Malkovich)
4. Liberty Valance -- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin)
5. Archibald Cunningham -- Rob Roy (Tim Roth)
6. Sgt. Bob Barnes -- Platoon (Tom Berenger)
7. Freddy Kruger -- A Nightmare on Elm Street (Robert Englund)
8. Vincent --Collateral (Tom Cruise)
9. Frank -- Once Upon A Time In the West (henry Fonda)
10. Hal --2001: A Space Odyssey (Douglas Rain)
11. Ming the Merciless -- Flash Gordon (Max Von Sydow)
12. Keyser Soze -- The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey)
13. Gollum -- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Andy Serkis)
14. T-1000 -- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Robert Patrick)
15. Damien -- The Omen (1976) (Harvey Stephens)
16. Peyton Flanders -- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Rebecca de Mornay)
17. Nurse Ratched -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Louise Fletcher)
18. Scar -- The Lion King (Jeremy Irons)
19. Mrs. Iseline -- The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury)
20. Henry F. Potter -- It’s a Wonderful Life (Lionel Barrymore)
21. Johnny Friendly -- On the Waterfront (Lee J. Cobb)
22. Jack Torrance -- The Shining (Jack Nicholson)
23. Wicked Witch of the West --The Wizard of Oz (Margaret Hamilton)
24. Shere Khan -- The Jungle Book (George Sanders)
25. John Ryder -- The Hitcher (1986) (Rutger Hauer)
The ones their readers said they missed. I dunno about some of these, but I think we can come up with some other ones.
1. Glenn Close as Marquise Merteull in ‘Dangerous Liaisons’
2. Ian McDiarmid as Darth Sidius/Emperor Palpatine in ‘Star Wars’
3. Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
4. Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes in ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’
5. Richard Kiel as Jaws in ‘James Bond - The Spy Who Love Me’
6. Christopher Lee as Saruman in ‘The Lord of the Rings’
7. Mary Tyler Moore as Beth Jarrett in ‘Ordinary People’
8. Bob Gunton as Warden Norton and Clancy Brown as Byron Hadley in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’
9. Raymond Burr as Mr. Thorwald in ‘Rear Window’
10. Gary Cole as Lumbergh in ‘Office Space’
11. Michael Myers in ‘Halloween’
12. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street’
13. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ movies.
14. Kathleen Turner as Beverly R. Sutphin in ‘Serial Mom’
15. Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in ‘Apocalypse Now’
16. Patty McCormick as Rhoda Penmark in ‘The Bad Seed’
17. Ralph Fiennes as Voldermort in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies
18. Leandro Firmino as Li’l Ze in ‘City of God’
19. Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington in ‘All About Eve’
20. Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrickson in ‘Double Indemnity’
21. Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’
22. Mercedes McCambridge as Emma ‘Small in Johnny Guitar’
23. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns
And you can forget about me putting in links, i have class in an hour
This is part 1.
1. Darth Vader -- Star Wars (Hayden Christensen/James Earl Jones/David Prowse)
2. Leather Face -- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -1974 (Gunnar Hansen)
3. Phillip Vandamm -- North by Northwest (James Mason)
4. Hedy Carlson -- Single White Female (Hedy Carlson)
5. Annie Wilkes -- Misery (Kathy Bates)
6. Maleficent -- Sleeping Beauty (Eleanor Audley)
7. Commodus -- Gladiator ( Joaquin Phoenix)
8. Hans Gruber -- Die Hard (Alan Rickman)
9. Noah Cross -- Chinatown (john Huston)
10. Captain Vidal -- Pan’s Labyrinth (Sergi lopez)
11. John Doe -- Se7en (Kevin Spacey)
12. Norman Bates -- Psycho (Anthony Perkins)
13. Frank Booth -- Blue Velvet (Dennis Hoppers)
14. Max Cady -- Cape Fear (Robert De Niro)
15. Hannibal Lecter/Buffalo Bill -- The Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins/Ted Levine)
16. Khan Noonien Singh -- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Ricardo Montelban)
17. Little Bill Dagget -- Unforgiven (Gene Hackman)
18. Bill -- Kill Bill (David Carradine)
19. The Child Catcher -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Robert Helpmann)
20. Harry Powell -- Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum)
21. Harry Lime -- The Third Man (Orson Welles)
22. Amon Goeth -- Schindler’s List (Ralph Fiennes)
23. Cruella De Vil -- 101 Dalmatians (Betty Lou Gerson)
24. Daniel Plainview -- There Will Be Blood (Danie Day-Lewis)
25. Dr. Christian Szell -- Marathon Man (Laurence Olivier)
Tell me what you think! I haven't seen enough of these to make a definitive choice Plus there's more to come from EW, so let me know your guesses about what will be on the rest of the list.
They give their reasonings Here
Well here they are. Some you called for, some you didn’t. What’s left?
50 Most Vile Movie Villains: Part 2
1. Anton Chigurh -- No Country for Old Men (Javier Bardem)
2. Doc Ock -- Spider Man 2 (Alfred Molina)
3. Mitch Leary -- In the Line of Fire (John Malkovich)
4. Liberty Valance -- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin)
5. Archibald Cunningham -- Rob Roy (Tim Roth)
6. Sgt. Bob Barnes -- Platoon (Tom Berenger)
7. Freddy Kruger -- A Nightmare on Elm Street (Robert Englund)
8. Vincent --Collateral (Tom Cruise)
9. Frank -- Once Upon A Time In the West (henry Fonda)
10. Hal --2001: A Space Odyssey (Douglas Rain)
11. Ming the Merciless -- Flash Gordon (Max Von Sydow)
12. Keyser Soze -- The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey)
13. Gollum -- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Andy Serkis)
14. T-1000 -- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Robert Patrick)
15. Damien -- The Omen (1976) (Harvey Stephens)
16. Peyton Flanders -- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Rebecca de Mornay)
17. Nurse Ratched -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Louise Fletcher)
18. Scar -- The Lion King (Jeremy Irons)
19. Mrs. Iseline -- The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury)
20. Henry F. Potter -- It’s a Wonderful Life (Lionel Barrymore)
21. Johnny Friendly -- On the Waterfront (Lee J. Cobb)
22. Jack Torrance -- The Shining (Jack Nicholson)
23. Wicked Witch of the West --The Wizard of Oz (Margaret Hamilton)
24. Shere Khan -- The Jungle Book (George Sanders)
25. John Ryder -- The Hitcher (1986) (Rutger Hauer)
The ones their readers said they missed. I dunno about some of these, but I think we can come up with some other ones.
1. Glenn Close as Marquise Merteull in ‘Dangerous Liaisons’
2. Ian McDiarmid as Darth Sidius/Emperor Palpatine in ‘Star Wars’
3. Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
4. Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes in ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’
5. Richard Kiel as Jaws in ‘James Bond - The Spy Who Love Me’
6. Christopher Lee as Saruman in ‘The Lord of the Rings’
7. Mary Tyler Moore as Beth Jarrett in ‘Ordinary People’
8. Bob Gunton as Warden Norton and Clancy Brown as Byron Hadley in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’
9. Raymond Burr as Mr. Thorwald in ‘Rear Window’
10. Gary Cole as Lumbergh in ‘Office Space’
11. Michael Myers in ‘Halloween’
12. Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street’
13. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ movies.
14. Kathleen Turner as Beverly R. Sutphin in ‘Serial Mom’
15. Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in ‘Apocalypse Now’
16. Patty McCormick as Rhoda Penmark in ‘The Bad Seed’
17. Ralph Fiennes as Voldermort in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies
18. Leandro Firmino as Li’l Ze in ‘City of God’
19. Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington in ‘All About Eve’
20. Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrickson in ‘Double Indemnity’
21. Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’
22. Mercedes McCambridge as Emma ‘Small in Johnny Guitar’
23. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns
And you can forget about me putting in links, i have class in an hour
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by photo heathen on -
Commodus is far too high on that list. Hannibal Lecter needs to be much, much higher.
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Permalink Reply by Jo17ie on -
yeah, I'm not sure about their listing practices; whether it is best to worst, or maybe the next list will be the top 25. We shall have to wait and find out.
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Permalink Reply by photo heathen on
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I know someone here might also take issue with the placement of Mitchum's Harry Powell :)
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Permalink Reply by Whatchawatchin on -
Great list, but I always felt sorry for Annie Wilkes and Norman Bates..lol.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Zajac on -
Oh man, that dude was vile, I mean vy-YULL!
[:-)] Mark
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Permalink Reply by Mark Zajac on
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This might sound sappy, but was ol' Darth truly vile? I mean, he had goodness within him that emerged at the end, right?
Khan would torture people for information, without compunction, which is admittedly vile but Amon Goeth, would torture people just for amusement and was therefore WAY more vile, in my opinion.
[:-)] Mark
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Permalink Reply by Scott P on -
How about Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) from Leon? One of my most memorable, at least.
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Permalink Reply by Bruce on -
19. The Child Catcher -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Robert Helpmann)
About the only thing I remember from Chitty Bang. A very odd creepy character, and when Michael Jackson's mug shot from a few years ago was published he was the first thing I thought of.
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Permalink Reply by Headcheese on -
I agree with a lot of these picks but now they need to add Javier Bardem for No Country For Old Men to this list! Chigurh was an extremely vile villain! lol
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Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on -
I second the inclusion of Chigurh! That was one bad dude... and he used one of the most sadistic weapons ever on film.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on -
Noah Cross from Chinatown kinda surprised me on this list. True he was a creep, but not in the same category as Hannibal Lector or Leatherface IMO. Maybe he should've been farther down on the list...
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