Best Tv or Movie Bad Guy/Psycho/Villain

KyussBishop · 17-05-2014 12:05AM

the blunder years wrote: »

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/

The Backwards Man · 17-05-2014 12:08AM

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:

osarusan · 17-05-2014 12:18AM

The asteroid in Armageddon.

Da Shins Kelly · 17-05-2014 12:30AM

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.

17-05-2014 12:34AM

Dukat from DS9.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 17-05-2014 12:40AM

Cornwall in King Lear plucking out your mans eyes.

'Out vile jelly':eek:

RikkFlair · 17-05-2014 12:55AM

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

Tail Docker · 17-05-2014 01:02AM

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..

Tokarev · 17-05-2014 01:03AM

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

rwg · 17-05-2014 01:06AM

Mardy Bum wrote: »

Marlo from The Wire.

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

Ruu · 17-05-2014 01:06AM

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

callaway92 · 17-05-2014 01:10AM

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

The final scene is just perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbuTeAuJWA

rwg · 17-05-2014 01:16AM

Silas - Angels and Demons

mojesius · 17-05-2014 01:23AM

Best bad guy - Cyrus the virus in con air

Best psycho - Garland Greene in Con air.

Best villain - Ralph Ciforetto - The Sopranos

pragmatic1 · 17-05-2014 01:41AM

Jules in pulp fiction. He was cold blooded.

Tony EH · 17-05-2014 01:44AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Cornwall in King Lear plucking out your mans eyes.

'Out vile jelly':eek:

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

Adamantium · 17-05-2014 01:44AM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIy-X8-pEoU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFN4Bb7wcog

Spoilers:

Cavill in BSG (Dean Stockwell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIvZq-zgXkQ

The Th!ng · 17-05-2014 01:44AM

Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West.

osarusan · 17-05-2014 02:02AM

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."

mrsdewinter · 17-05-2014 02:19AM

Tail Docker wrote: »

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...

Lou.m · 17-05-2014 03:03AM

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

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 .

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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

livemusic4life · 17-05-2014 04:02AM

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

PeteEd · 17-05-2014 04:17AM

Begby all the way

Lapin · 17-05-2014 04:20AM

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

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.

RayM · 17-05-2014 04:57AM

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

Lucifer MorningStar · 17-05-2014 08:07AM

@ 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.