Best Bad guy in films

I saw bits of that when i was in my late teens early 20s at my mates house(Including said scene) and is still pretty much the rankest thing i have ever seen in movie/tv in my entire life.
 
now i change my mind. the best villian has got to be dick dastardly from whacky races/catch the pidgeon.

no other villian has the skills to build mutiple dumb contraptions (yes, most did not work and had some ...slight design flaws) and he never gives up. and look at the cool sinister moustache

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Nitefly said:
The Wolf in Puss in Boots 2.

Pretty sure that is going to go down as a classic.

Yup, I’ll never stop going on about it.
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Genuinely looking forward to seeing it when it hits streaming sites.

You could get all morally complicated about it, but for me when someone says 'villain' I was always think Leatherface from the original TCM. Nothing has or likely ever will scare me as much as that final shot. It stayed with me for months after.

The Gemini Killer in Exorcist III. Brad Dourifs performance in that movie is one of the best and I'm so glad that movie's getting the praise it deserves these days. One of my favorite movies of all time. Again, so much of it stayed with me after that first watch.

 
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Most excellent thread.

Hate the way modern movies try to explain why the bad guy is bad and to see things from his view.

Most have already been said but here’s a few from some of my favourite movies


Bavmorda
Lord of Darkness
Thusla Doom
Prince Humperdinck hah
 
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Depending on your viewpoint - Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen - On one side he's an evil man whose taken the law into his own hands, murdering "innocents" so must be stopped whilst on the other he's a man who sees a broken system fail him and decides that the system needs to be replaced with something different and the only way to do that is to tear it down, irrespective of the cost.

I think the film plays those two ideas off against each other extremely well and Butler's character has the right level of charm and civility to mask just how horrible his actions are, such as killing the cell mate - not becuase he wanted to from anger etc, but because he needed to as part of a larger plan, irrespective of who that cell-mate ended up being.
 
EVH5150 said:
Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner
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Personally Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher (1986) was on another level. I had some sympathy for Hauer's actions in Bladerunner. Whereas in The Hitcher, plays a convincing nutjob.

Hauer played another bad guy role, Night Hawks (1981) with Stallone and Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian).
 
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Another one - Patrick McGoohan as King Edward "Longshanks".

Plays such a great baddie, I think one of the few actors who repeatedly appeared on Colombo! :cool:
 
Christoph Waltz - Inglorious B's. The opening scene was a work of art, i was literally holding my breath and not making a sound, just like the family in the basement.

Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List.

Freddy Kruger - original Elm St, the rest got progressively worse. But when the movie first dropped in the 80's, terrifying.

Nurse Ratched - as with Fiennes, the actor made you hate the character so much, that's talent.

Anton Chigurh - No Country for Old Men. Watched this recently, a cold, relentless, psychotic individual.

Heath Ledger - Joker. Amazing performance.

Lector/Buffalo Bill, Silence of the Lambs

Norman Stansfield, Leon. Fantastic performance from Oldman.

Alan Rickman, Die Hard. Really fun watching him play this character.

Original Predator/Terminator.

The Thing alien - terrified me as a kid.

The Xenomorph

Pennywise

Vader

Alex Forrest - Fatal Attraction. Glenn Close was bat **** crazy. Really put me off trying to get my end wet for a little while. Don't put your dick in crazy.

Shark, Jaws. Put me off swimming in the open sea for life :(

Annie Wilkes, Misery - holy cow!

Emperor Commodus - Gladiator.

Amy Dunne in Gone Girl was very good. The first time reveal was, "wow!"
 
Ninco! said:
Personally Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher (1986) was on another level. I had some sympathy for Hauer's actions in Bladerunner. Whereas in The Hitcher, plays a convincing nutjob.
Hauer played another bad guy role, Night Hawks (1981) with Stallone and Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian).
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Great film, so much better than the remake with Sean Bean (in the mid 2000's I want to say). Played another baddy in Ladyhawke with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick as the hero (of all people).
 
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