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Aug 19, 2022 · Movie villains are essential pieces to great movies. And some — like the Joker, Anton Chigurh, and Annie Wilkes — have become iconic. Here are the best movie villains of all time, ranked.
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- Darth Vader. The Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005), Rogue One (2016) And so we come to the villain you voted as the best of all time.
- The Joker. Batman (1966), Batman (1989), The Dark Knight (2008), Joker (2019) From his comicbook roots as a maniac, through the campy incarnation brought to movie and TV screens by Cesar Romero, The Joker was always a figure of fun (shout out also to Mark Hamill's cartoon take).
- Loki. The Thor films (2011-2017), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Loki (TV, 2021) Even in the MCU, a place overflowing with memorable, witty heroes, there's a chance for a villain to make more of an impact.
- Hans Gruber. Die Hard (1988) “I’m going to count to three. There will not be a four.” Possibly the most perfect combination of voice and face put to screen for a villain, Alan Rickman brought something so very special to Hans Gruber.
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- The Alien. 'Alien' (1979) As far as unnamed antagonists go, none are better than the titular alien from 1979's Alien. This acclaimed Ridley Scott movie has a premise that's about as direct as sci-fi/horror movies come, given it follows a crew on board a spaceship trying to survive a deadly alien life form that's roaming around the craft, deadset on taking out every human being in the vicinity one by one.
- Hans Landa. 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) Quentin Tarantino has made several great crime/thriller movies, but with 2009's Inglourious Basterds, he proved he could also make an all-time great war movie.
- Nurse Ratched. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) Jack Nicholson might be well known for playing villains, but in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he got to be the film's central protagonist.
- HAL 9000. '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) An influential science-fiction classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a film without a traditional villain, at least for the first two of its four main sections.
Mr. Joshua. 2. All About Eve. 1950 2h 18m Approved. 8.2 (140K) Rate. 98 Metascore. Seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingenue Eve Harrington insinuates herself into the lives of aging Broadway star Margo Channing and her circle of theater friends in this Oscar-winning story.
- The Invisible Man
- The Animals from 'You're Next'
- The Mad Doctors: Dr. Giggles, Dr. Heiter, Dr. Phibes and 'The Dentist'
- The Jokers: Leprechaun and The Collector from 'Demon Knight'
- The Old School Creeps: M and Peeping Tom
- The Hitcher
- The Child Killers: Rose The Hat and La Femme from 'Inside'
- Lecter's Contemporaries: Buffalo Bill and The Tooth Fairy
- The Sexual Predators: Max Cady and Krug from 'The Last House on The Left'
- Bad Moms: Red from 'Us' and Mrs. White from 'Carrie'
Spoiler Alert: This is the only one of Universal's "classic monsters" that is on this list. I understand why each and every one of those monsters would be deemed iconic, but as a troglodyte who can appreciate only a handful of movies made before I was born, I've never felt a close kinship with Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy...
You're Nextis easily one of the best horror movies of the past decade, and The Animals are some of the creepiest villains I've seen in some time. First of all, they're methodical. This isn't some random home invasion, but a day that seems to have been planned for a long time, as there's at least one killer in the house before anyone even arrives. N...
Growing up, I can't remember what I hated more -- going to the doctor, or going to the dentist. Either way, both freaked me out, and as such, had to be represented on this list. Dr. Giggles was an early favorite, and he had some genuinely unsettling (if a bit cartoonish) kill scenes, as well as his own seriously disturbing backstory. I also loved C...
Laugh all you want, but I think that's the point. Leprechaun was one of my favorite horror franchises as a teenager, and though it's the original 1993 movie that gets remembered due to the pre-Friends presence of Jennifer Aniston, it's the sequel that I'll never forget thanks to its bait-and-switch lawnmower kill. Warwick Davisis a devilish delight...
Fritz Lang's M may be more of a crime movie or a psychological thriller than an outright horror movie, but it's about a serial killer who preys on children, so yeah, I made an exception. Peter Lorre stars as Hans Beckert, who can't seem to control the evil inside of him -- "the fire, the voices, the torment!" Though other criminals seem to be able ...
The Hitcher is another film that may be more of a thriller than a proper horror movie, but that doesn't make its titular villain any less iconic. As played by Rutger Hauer, the vicious hitchhiker John Ryder is all the more terrifying because we don't know his motive. Why is he going on this brutal rampage, and why does he want young Jim Halsey (C. ...
I didn't much care for Doctor Sleep, but it was immediately clear that Rebecca Ferguson's character Rose the Hat would be a new horror icon, not just for her taste in headwear, but because of that early scene in which she kills Jacob Tremblay, aka Baseball Boy. Rose is the leader of the True Knot, a cult that feeds on people with psychic powers, an...
Ted Levine's Buffalo Bill may not be remembered the same way as his Silence of the Lambs co-star Hannibal Lecter, but he's nearly as iconic, albeit in a different way. For starters, it's easier to explain his psychology, as Buffalo Bill is a transvestite who has never felt comfortable in his own body, and was rejected for sexual reassignment surger...
Of all the iconic villains on this list, these two guys are among those who scare me the most, largely because of the sexual violence they're both capable of. The Last House on the Left put Wes Craven on the map, and follows two teenage girls who are taken into the woods and tortured by a gang of thugs. A major part of its success is the performanc...
I didn't even love Jordan Peele's Us, but I have to give credit where it's due, and Lupita Nyong'o's dual performance is due -- in particular, her raspy-voiced turn as Red, the leader of the Tethered. She seems able to command an entire army of ghouls in red jumpsuits, and she's particularly hands with a pair of scissors. As a mom, she's willing to...
Aug 1, 2024 · Movie villains play a crucial role in the success of many classic movies. These malicious characters bring out the best in their heroic counterparts. This clash of personalities elevates storylines, allowing viewers to become fully immersed within the world depicted on screen.
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Jun 19, 2018 · A great movie hero needs a great villain, who are often more popular (cough, Joker) than the film's "good guys." From Hannibal Lecter to Kylo Ren, here are 50 of the best.
