Elija Price (Unbreakable)
This guy wrecked a train, killing hundreds of people for the sole purpose of casting himself as a comic book super villain. Talk about narcissistic, boy howdy!
Rufus T Firefly (Duck Soup)
What, Groucho Marx a villain? Look at what the character actually did. In his inaugural address, he sang "If you think this country's bad off now, just wait till I get through with it." Then he proceeded to directly and purposely run the country into a war for absolutely no other reason than personal interest, ie preventing the other country's ambassador from moving in on Mrs. Teasdale - the source of his power.
Mickey and Mallory Knox (Natural Born Killers)
For starters, that picture of Mickey on the DVD box alone should make your blood run cold. Killing a bunch of people just to get famous ranks as about the most directly evil line you could take. Seeming so cool just compounds their evil.
Bob Roberts (Bob Roberts)
Whoa boy, his lust for power entailed such direct wickedness as faking an assassination attempt, and then murdering a reporter who was on to his long history of drug running and ripping off S&Ls. Plus, he's a Republican. What more need be said?
Dr Yen Lo (The Manchurian Candidate)
Evil often has a charming face. That seductive quality contributes greatly to making it really nasty. Good humor invites you to join in the evil. "I've allowed my people to have a little fun in the selection of bizarre tobacco substitutes... Yak dung! ...Oh, tastes good — like a cigarette should!"
Mr. Scratch (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
How much more evil can you get than the frickin' devil himself- and a far more subtle and nuanced Prince of Darkness than, for example, Al Pacino.
Rev. Harry Powell (Night of the Hunter)
This guy is the boogeyman of my nightmares, not some horribly contrived Freddy Kreuger.
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Article comments
1 - Frank Giovinazzi
And let me add Jack Palance, who played the all-black clad baddie, Jack Wilson in Shane.
2 - CleoJones
I'll add "Mister" from The Color Purple and "Wild Bill" from The Green Mile.
3 - Hybrid
Rufus T. Firefly a villan? Where's Johnny Udo when you need him.
4 - Shaine
What about Annie Wilkes from Misery? She deserves a rank for the sledgehammer-foot thing!
5 - Dr Dreadful
You put in Baby Jane Hudson and Norma Desmond but leave out the worst of the film noir bad girls, Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity? C'm on, Barger, just because you wrote this five years ago is no reason to let you off the hook...
6 - Al Barger
Dreadful- You may have me there. I've only watched Double Indemnity in chunks. I think I've seen the whole thing in pieces, but never properly watched and considered it. I need to.
Looking back to Cleo's note from 03, if I were going to add a villain from The Green Mile, it might be Percy over Wild Bill.
Then there's the villain Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth and Imaginationland. Less seemingly evil on the face than Marcellus Wallace, say, but in fact far more ultimately destructive.