The thing about heroes is that they often need villains to make the story work. With boring villains, the hero might not even be able to handle the situation – so we really want our “bad guys” to be really bad.
Whether they’re demons, Nazis, or horror superfans kidnapping their favorite author, there are certain stories you want to have someone to object to. Of the stories you’ll see below, we’ve picked out the worst ones: the ones that are horrific and iconic, and that stick with you even after you turn off the TV. You know which ones we mean.
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Hannibal Lecter, this silence of the lambs (1991)
script: Thomas Harris and Ted Tully
Few people get as deep into the mind of a serial killer as a globally renowned actor. Even fewer can match the insane scene chemistry that Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster had as the notorious murderer Hannibal Lecter.
Lecter, an expert in psychology, negotiates with FBI newcomer Clarice Starling (Foster) in his cell to bring another murderer to justice, while using plenty of mind games to deal with his own. conspiracy.
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alien, alien (1979)
screenwriter: Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett
since bosunthese creatures have brought us countless nightmares. simply Dubbed an “alien” or “creature” in the first script, this bizarre and unsettling organism came straight from artist HR Giger’s body horror design brief, Necronomicon.
As Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her team soon learn in the first game alien In the movies, there’s nothing worse than encountering such an intruder and having nowhere to go but outside.
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pazuzu, The Exorcist (1973)
screenwriter: William Peter Blatty
In 1973, the dangers of the supernatural were on screen like never before. Regan (Linda Blair) attributes the strange happenings at the McNeil home to an entity she calls “Captain Hody.” But the creature soon possessed Regan, calling himself the Devil. The voice speaking through Regan turns out to be Pazuzu (Ron Faber), who is mentioned in the script and later in the film – although on screen, the terrifying demon remains a mystery to audiences atmosphere The Exorcist first.
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Norman Bates, mentally ill (1960)
screenwriter: Joseph Stefano and Robert Bloch
Movies’ most beloved mama’s boy (and one of the best villains of all time) Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is a motel owner whose place of business becomes Alfred H. The murder scene in Dickcock’s most famous and most frequently mentioned thriller. The invisible Mrs. Bates seems to be the culprit, but Norman’s residence holds other revelations becomes more disturbing. In other words, the ending twist: Norman has been playing “Norma,” who he believes is his identity as a killer own late mother.
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Dancing clown Pennywise, it (2017)
screenwriter: Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman
yes Is it a clown? Is this your imagination? Or is it an interdimensional alien form bent on destroying humanity and feeding on their fears? The answer is mostly “yes,” but especially when you consider how it works.
Taking the form of a clown, a spider, and many other forms, the creature has its own history in Stephen King’s hefty novel—but nonetheless, it preys on the people of Derry, Maine, and no one but the Losers’ Club Can deal with it.
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Sauron/Supreme Ring, Lord of the Rings (2001)
screenwriter: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Bones and JRR Tolkien
The twisted and terrifying language of the iconic dark lord Sauron (Sarah Baker) – a fallen angel and the embodiment of the corruption of power on Earth. The master of the Ring stood against Frodo (Elijah Wood) and his companions, pouring out “his cruelty, his malice” and He incorporates “the will to dominate all life” into the band, making the ring an obstacle and villain in the heroes’ long journey to Mount Doom.
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Anne Wilkes, suffering (1990)
screenwriter: William Goldman and Stephen King
Paul Sheldon (James Caan) crashes in a snowstorm, but he’s lucky! His fan Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) helps him get back to his place. Soon, however, this disturbing woman holds him hostage and demands that he rewrite his latest manuscript or be tortured or worse.
Annie depicts the everyday madness that can build evil – and it’s because of Bates’s role that the words “I’m your biggest fan” in today’s post will send shivers down anyone’s spine.suffering world.
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clown, dark knight (2008)
screenwriter: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
There have been many interpretations of the Joker from the Batman comics shown on TV and in movies over the years, and most of them had some merit or charm arrive them. But perhaps the creepiest of them all is a riff on the late Heath Ledger, whose Joker turns out to be a maniacal cult of chaos — the most dramatic foil to Christian Bale’s Batman. Despite his age, Ledger’s Joker may prove why the Joker is such a dangerous foe.
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Anton Chigurh, No place for old people (2007)
screenwriter: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Cormac McCarthy
This neo-western from the Coen brothers showcases one of the screen psychopaths who has become a darling of Hollywood: Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). This completely unstoppable killer machine has no conscience and plays by his own pre-set rules, making him even more alien and inhumane. The audience watches as he kills indiscriminately, with only fate itself—or indeed the flip of a coin—determining whose lives appear to be spared.
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Colonel Hans Landa, Inglourious Basterds (2009)
screenwriter: quentin tarantino
notorious jewish hunter Inglourious BasterdsHans Landa (Christoph Waltz) is a cunning and intuitive killer in the Nazi army in occupied France. In Quentin Tarantino’s alternative history novel, Landa’s terrifying, preternatural coolness and diabolical playfulness turn him into such an overt psychopath—a bastard, monstrous to anyone who crosses his path. It’s all dangerous.
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Darth Vader, this Star Wars SHowever
screenwriter: george lucas
Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) is the evil masked face we learned to fear in the original trilogy, esp. by the time Episode 5 Rolling around. But before he was the tortured dark warrior who made us tremble, he was Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), manipulated by Palpatine in “Palpatine.” Episode 3 Embrace the dark side of the Force. However, the fallen hero eventually chose to return to his old self one last time, even killing his evil master – making him one of the most interesting success stories in the history of movie villains.
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Emperor Palpatine, this Star Wars SHowever
screenwriter: george lucas
The mastermind of the series, Emperor Sheev Palpatine, Episode 6 and episode three,. As a politician (we should know), and as “behind the scenes” Darth Sidious, the space wizard conspirator quietly eluded detection by the entire Jedi Order.
He later launched genocide and built an empire with his apprentice Darth Vader. However, as we all know, his true end was when Vader came to his senses and killed Palpatine himself. Darth Xidi is really Then died, with no other sign.
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the wicked witch of the west, The Wizard of Oz (1939)
screenwriter: L. Frank Baum, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allen Woolf
Dorothy (Judy Garland) comes to Oz and accidentally kills a witch we’ve never met – the Wicked Witch of the East. But she’s not the only witch: the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) is on a mission to eliminate Dorothy on her way to the Emerald City. Fighting with animated trees and armies in the sky, this isn’t one you’d want to travel through – but luckily, she doesn’t mind too much getting wet.
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Demons, madmen, and space warriors with magical powers are all scary enough. But even more powerful is when a villain goes up against the right heroes, creating just the right amount of conflict to drive the story. Each of these villains has been carefully crafted—cheesy, classic, or creepy—to fit the story they belong to, and thanks to the power of story conflict, these iconic villains are a long time coming to watch their stories unfold. It remains in our minds afterwards.
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