Who (or what) are your favorite movie villains of all-time?

[ijustposthere]

So while it seems that Jack Torrence is winning in a landslide...I would argue that Jack is the protagonist of that story and all votes are null in void.

(It's his batshit crazy kid, Danny, that is the antagonist and true villain)

In no paticular order of the ones still not named.

1.) Frank Booth - Blue Velvet

2.) Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction

3.) Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

4.) Freddy Kruger - Nightmare on Elm Street Series

5.) Count Dracula - Dracula (any of them)

Big props to IJPH and Gus for the "Oliver Lang" noms.

(That is the Robbins' character)

Thanks bud, but I have to correct you. Darth Vader is the leader.

 

[Penny Traitor]

Thanks bud, but I have to correct you. Darth Vader is the leader.

No doubt. I just picked my top five from ones you guys did not already list.

 

[Adipost]

Sauron

 

[Aesopian]

The Jedi were the evil ones.

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[Sculpt]

So while it seems that Jack Torrence is winning in a landslide...I would argue that Jack is the protagonist of that story and all votes are null in void.

(It's his batshit crazy kid, Danny, that is the antagonist and true villain)

In no paticular order of the ones still not named.

1.) Frank Booth - Blue Velvet

2.) Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction

3.) Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

4.) Freddy Kruger - Nightmare on Elm Street Series

5.) Count Dracula - Dracula (any of them)

Big props to IJPH and Gus for the "Oliver Lang" noms.

(That is the Robbins' character)

Some excellent choices, particularly Nurse Ratched and Frank Booth.

Bela Lugosi in Dracula 1931 is on my short list, as he was spectacular, and I wanted more. I certainly wouldn't consider every performance of Dracula in a film an excellent villain, but Max Schreck did an great performance in Nosferatu 1922. I haven't seen Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire, but other than that I wouldn't consider any other performances tour de force Draculas.

I never really considered Alex as a villain in Fatal Attraction, although she eventually became 'the villain'.

 

[LordKOTL]

No love for Captain Hook McKracken from Slap Shot?

 

[brett05]

Would Joshua from Wargames count as the protagonist?

 

[AussieBear]

Would Joshua from Wargames count as the protagonist?

what about HAL from 2001... or this thing we call life that steals our soul and makes us into an image of them... citizen kane

 

[ClydeLee]

what about HAL from 2001... or this thing we call life that steals our soul and makes up into an image of them... citizen kane

Charles Kane's sled, top villain in cinema. All it had to do was speak up and all those reporters would have their answer

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[NCChiFan]

Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula
Sauron from Lotr or hobbit take your pick
Ramsey Bolton from Game of Thrones
Hillary Clinton from 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (she isn't specifically mentioned but every time I watch this movie I want to throttle her).
Harley Quinn from Suicide Sqad

 

[brett05]

OK, Let me add three for me
Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz
Beetlejuice
White Witch from Narnia


Honorable Kahn Star Trek II

 

[Monster]

Lucifer... Deniro... Angel Heart.

 

[Penny Traitor]

Bela Lugosi in Dracula 1931 is on my short list, as he was spectacular, and I wanted more. I certainly wouldn't consider every performance of Dracula in a film an excellent villain, but Max Schreck did an great performance in Nosferatu 1922. I haven't seen Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire, but other than that I wouldn't consider any other performances tour de force Draculas.

Lugosi will always top the list, but you have to dig pretty deep to find some bad ones. For sure check out Klaus Linski in the Herzog flick. Probably the most frightening version of the vampire.

I would say:

1. Bela Lugosi
2. Klaus Kinski
3. Gary Oldman
4. Chistopher Lee
5. Max Schreck

(Runner up: Frank Langella)

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

So while it seems that Jack Torrence is winning in a landslide...I would argue that Jack is the protagonist of that story and all votes are null in void.

(It's his batshit crazy kid, Danny, that is the antagonist and true villain)

I'm very interested in hearing more on this.

 

[NCChiFan]

Oh, can't believe I missed this, Honorable mention: Norman Bates from Psycho

 

[Penny Traitor]

I'm very interested in hearing more on this.

It is assumed throughout the film that the hotel is infected with these bad spirits that compel Jack to kill his family, but ignore the fact that Danny is the one with supernatural powers. He sets events into motion that are designed to drive his abusive father crazy.

His mind control over Jack even extends to Jack never striking Wendy. Jack goes down too easy during the scene with the bat and gives up too easy once he has Wendy trapped in the bathroom.

The one person Jack does kill quickly and easily is the cook Halloran.

Why?

Because he is the one that figures out what Danny is. So he dies as soon as he returns to the hotel.

Also...did you really think a ghost lets Jack out of that freezer?

Nope...Danny lets him out to play out the dark third act that is really just an elaborate way for Danny to make Jack commit suicide so Danny and Wendy are finally free of him.

 

[Urblock]

Crys and Scoot. No doubt. :yep:

 

[Penny Traitor]

Crys and Scoot. No doubt. :yep:

Soap opera villains belong in their own thread.

 

[Urblock]

Why would I follow the rules?

 

[brett05]

My fifth would be Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, USMC (Jack Nicholson) A Few Good Men