Best Film Villain or Mad Man

[Uncle Spielberg]

With Jigsaw frightening the shites out of people , he is rising up the ranks of best film villain/madman, who is the Daddy of the Psycho's or Bad Boys, or Bad Girls come to that.

Surely the undisputed Daddy is

Hannibal Lecter

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

clearly its jack black in ANCHORMAN.

as he is nasty man as he kicks dog over bridge

 

[Frutos]

Not sure about 'the best', but certainly my favourites are two Alan Rickman characters:

- Hans Gruber in 'Die Hard'
- Sheriff Of Nottingham in 'Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves'

For me, Rickman does the sneering, sarcastic bad guy thing (a style I very much enjoy) better than anyone.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Robert De Niro in Cape fear,
what a loon.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I used to be right scared of Christopher Lee when I was a kid so it's quite amusing as an adult to see how much he's actually camping it up.

The scariest movie character for me in recent times was Joe Pesci in Goodfellas - utterly psychotic and completely believable.

 

[CHAPPERS]

The kid next door in Toy Story.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Robert De Niro in Cape fear,
what a loon.

Him. [De Niro, not lozenge]

And the childcatcher in chitty chitty bang bang

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The deaf jalier in the life of Brian.

He's mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmad, sir!


Capone (The Untouchables).

 

[tinx]

Not sure about 'the best', but certainly my favourites are two Alan Rickman characters:

- Hans Gruber in 'Die Hard'
- Sheriff Of Nottingham in 'Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves'

For me, Rickman does the sneering, sarcastic bad guy thing (a style I very much enjoy) better than anyone.

I was about to post something similar.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Hopkins most chilling film is Magic. That's a fact.


As a child, though, i remember being most shocked by some of Tarzan's cruel-handed overly-carpeted cancerously-thin faced foes who want to sell land and trunks and horns. And rape his whitey wife.
Then Tarzan became the worst by calling his child Boy.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth - Schindler's List

 

[Meade's Ball]

Mitchum, in Night of the Hunter. Love and Hate as tombstones on his knuckles.

 

[watsongooal]

Norman Bates in Psycho

 

[The Large One]

Hans Gruber in 'Die Hard'

Sorry, I can't watch his performance in that without laughing - and I am quite a fan of Alan Rickman. 'We'll be sitting on a beach making terwenny percent...'. Camp in the extreme. He was scarier in Truly, Madly, Deeply.

My all-time villian is more of an anti-hero - Harry Lime in The Third Man.

 

[Icy Gull]

Robert De Niro in Cape fear,
what a loon.

Agree and he was believably scary , which most aren't.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Frank Booth in Blue Velvet.

Francis Begbie - Trainspotting.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Hopkins most chilling film is Magic. That's a fact.

How true that is - brilliant film. Directed by cuddly Uncle Dicky Attenborough too. Who also wasn't half a scary turn as a NECROPHILIAC in the grim but true 10 Rillington Place (a film I'd have on the national curriculum).

 

[Trufflehound]

Mini Me

 

[gwpdylan]

The scariest movie character for me in recent times was Joe Pesci in Goodfellas - utterly psychotic and completely believable. [/B][/QUOTE]

i can second that, too believable by half, and in the hammy stakes i also go with Rickman, made me larf in robin hood, class

 

[Trufflehound]

And the childcatcher in chitty chitty bang bang

Absolutely.

Mitchum, in Night of the Hunter. Love and Hate as tombstones on his knuckles.

Him too. And as the original Max Cady in the 1961 version of Cape Fear.