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Best Tv or Movie Bad Guy/Psycho/Villain

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange, is a great performance, it inspired Heath Ledger's Joker
    Wow, somehow I never twigged, that Alex in A Clockwork Orange, is this guy - who I know from a ton of other stuff:
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000532/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    One I always thought gave off a real slimy bad guy vibe was Jeffrey Jones' character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Just looked him up, turns out it wasn't an act.:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    The asteroid in Armageddon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Well, Norman Bates is pretty great.

    Nurse Ratchett from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a pretty sadistic character.

    Daniel Plainview is a pretty detestable protagonist in There Will Be Blood - greedy, paranoid, lacking in any real empathy. Completely compelling to watch though.

    Also, not exactly a movie or television show, but Lady Macbeth is a great character. Very manipulative.


  • Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dukat from DS9.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Cornwall in King Lear plucking out your mans eyes.

    'Out vile jelly':eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Ricardo Montalban as Khan in Star Trek 2, quoting the sh1t out of Moby Dick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Greg Sumner in Knotts landing - epic bad-guy. I reckon Michael O'Leary ripped him off.....also, my mums a Sumner IRL, so there's a link, which is good..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Tokarev


    Gary Busey in Lethal Weapon, ( him and Riggs, the showdown)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭rwg


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Marlo from The Wire.

    Omar - "Money ain't got no owners, only spenders"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Nickolas Grace as Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin of Sherwood or Bob in Twin Peaks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,365 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Commodus in Gladiator. Vile character brilliantly played by Joaquin Phoenix who I generally wouldn't like at all.

    The final scene is just perfect!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭rwg


    Silas - Angels and Demons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Best bad guy - Cyrus the virus in con air

    Best psycho - Garland Greene in Con air. :)

    Best villain - Ralph Ciforetto - The Sopranos


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Jules in pulp fiction. He was cold blooded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,964 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Cornwall in King Lear plucking out your mans eyes.

    'Out vile jelly':eek:

    Patrick Magee played a great Cornwall in the 1971 film version.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Chiwetel Ejiofor as the "villian" in Serenity

    Spoilers:

    David Fincher's Zodiac
    where Jake Gyllenhaal realises in the basement after many years that he is standing next to the serial killer he has obssessed about for years (or at least he thinks, it could be multiple killers working together) and backs up the stairs. He then goes to the store to just look at him again to see if it is real for his own peace of mind, just to stare at him, to know





    Spoilers:

    Cavill in BSG (Dean Stockwell)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭The Th!ng


    Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    The Th!ng wrote: »
    Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West.
    "he's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling, when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Greg Sumner in Knotts landing - epic bad-guy. I reckon Michael O'Leary ripped him off.....also, my mums a Sumner IRL, so there's a link, which is good..

    Greg Sumner was fantastic. He had a great s**t-eating smile...

    Also, where's Richard Hillman when you need him? Thought he'd be all over this thread...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Lou.m


    Patrick Bateman would be my pick

    Now please excuse me, I have to return some videotapes

    Great performance ..but has to be the campest psycho killer ever. The Adam West of psychos. It was a black comedy.

    But the best is sort of hard to qualify. There are different types of villain in some genres hammy really works.

    I think I would pick a variety of performances.

    Mark Lewis played by Carl Boehm in Peeping Tom.

    An absolute brilliant performance by Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers. And then again in Lolita and again Claus von Bülow in reversal of fortune. And Scar in The Lion King.

    Pinhead in Hellraiser!

    Bridget Gregory.... Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction.


    Chucky!!!!

    Jack Wilson... Jack Palance in Shane.

    Catherine Tramell Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.

    Jesus Quintana John Turturro in The Big Lebowski. One of my fav actors. It is not that this character kills a lot of people. He is a peado and Turturro nails it ...the guy looks pathetic and sexually speaking makes you want to vomit. He nails the weird sleaze angle. He is not scary you know you could kick this guys ass he is a complete knob. As John Goodman says...'Eight year olds dude'. ???

    Noah Cross Chinatown rapes an impregnates his daughter.

    Henrietta in Evil Dead 2.

    Laurence Olivier in Marathon man.

    Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner. The most human character in the film. Sexy too. A very compassionate villain and deeply in love.

    Buffalo Bill Ted Levine in The Silence Of The Lambs yeah Hannibal is great...this guy though ..wow...

    KHAAAAAAN...manages to make Kirk scream his name with epic drama.

    HAL-9000
    Douglas Rain in 2001: A Space Odyssey .

    Also I know we are talking movies BUT YOU MUST CHECK OUT HARLAN ELLISSON'S SHORT STORY' I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM'!!! AM THE COMPUTER IS AN AMAZING VILLAIN AND THE REASON REVEALED FOR WHY IS SIMPLY PHILOSOPHICAL GOLD!! GREAT WRITER!! The computer was invented by humans to be intellectually perfect but it cannot feel nor daydream...and the closest thing to feeling it has is to feel it is tortured by not being able to create and daydream. It is so brilliant ! MUST READ go read it now its short!


    Pinkie Brown Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock.


    Count Orlock in Nosforatu.

    Leatherface.... the Texas chainsaw massacre

    Keyser Soze

    Max Cady Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear.


    Hans Beckert played BRILLIANTLY by Peter Lorre in M. If you thought people only understood pedophilia and child murders recently you should watch this



    Watch..from a time when all actors had theater training and German theater was amazing!

    There is no joy or pleasure in what he does only relief from the torture of it when he actually does it. And he is terrified in being discovered. He begs for his life.

    Peter Lorre in real life was a sweet charming man which is what makes it so amazing to me.



    Great actor. Obviously he used his physical appearance to his advantage. He was not attractive at all.



    He is totally defeated at this point ..captured ...he explanation and Peter Lorre emoting of it is great acting.

    Amon Goeth in Life and in Schindlers list what else can you say.

    Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
    Baby Jane Hudson ....Bette Davis in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Bitch is just ****ed up.

    Reverend Harry Powell The Night of the Hunter

    Asami Yamazaki in Audition. BRILLIANT FILM



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭livemusic4life


    Gotta be Hannibal Lecter for me. He's my ultimate dude!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    Begby all the way


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Patrick Bateman would be my pick

    Anyone else read that as prick ?

    Given the topic of the thread it would have fitted in just nicely. :pac:







    Hmmm, just reading that now and making a mental note never to use the words 'prick' and 'fitted in just nicely' in the same post again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    'Dodge' in Home and Away.
    Mrs Mangle in Neighbours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    @ Lou.m


    I wouldn't really say he is camp, more vain than anything. Now if it was Bateman from the novel I'm sure you would have something different to say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Eric Bana as Chopper Reed.
    Walter White
    Omar
    Tony Soprano


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Tony Soprano. At times you even like him and root for him even though he is a sociopathic
    career criminal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Tyler Durden in Fight Club


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭Ould Mr Brennan


    Simon Adebisi from Oz is surely one of them...?


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