Favourite Film Villain

[elmqueen]

So many to choose from but the winner has to be Darth Vader for me.

What does everyone else think?

[andrews]

I think there are too many villains, elmqueen. I remember being terrified of the Queen in Snow White and the seven Dwarfs when I was five years old.
More recently, I think Hannibal Lecter was pretty awful in The Silence of The Lambs.
Also Mr Potter in 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Then there was that awful Gestapo character played by Ralph Fiennes in 'Schindler's List'. Tough to come up with one, isn't it? You say Darth Vader, but I felt the Emperor was far more menacing.

[jupe17]

My personal favorities are
- Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob
- The Joker (played by Heath Ledger)
- Jack Torrance (The Shining)
- Kiefer Sutherland (Phone Booth)

[nintendo]

Has to be 'verbal' kint, i.e kevin spacey in usual suspects

[Cortone]

There are favourites who I adore - like Johnny Depp as Jack Dillinger in Public Enemy .

And then there are those who I hate, but they are hypnotic, like Mesrine.....

I hated everything about him, but I had to watch, and now I will have to watch the second Mesrine film too!

[M&M]

The Wicked Queen in Snow White (the disney version) - was anyone else traumatized as a child?

[anakin]

So many to choose from but the winner has to be Darth Vader for me.

What does everyone else think?

I'd have to agree, for obvious reasons!
Anakin

[sarahjc78]

Sticking with the Disney theme.. I have to go with Cruella De Ville ... how could anyone try to hurt those cute puppies.


On a grown up theme it has to go to Heath Ledger doing the Joker...

[AYBG]

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood has got to be a favourite. Next to his horrifyingly human performance Heath Ledger's necrohyped work looked distinctly average.

Also, Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West. Superb casting.

[TheyCallMeMrGlass]

Cant really top your top villain list, AYBG. Darth Vader, Daniel Plainview, Ledger's joker, and great call on Fonda in the greatest western of all time IMO.

I think there are 3 types of villains, the ones that entertain, ones that make you justifiable hate, and others that are cold and terrifying.

Entertaining villains: Batty (Rutger Heuer) in Blade Runner (my number 1 fav villain), Gollum in Lord of the Rings, Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) and oh have to add the Wicked Witch of the West!

Hateful villains: the main baddy in Ghost, and the treacherous mission advisor in Aliens.

Purely terrifying: HAL in 2001, Mike Myers (Halloween), (I am sure I would have added Ralph Fiennes in Schindlers list but I am still too terrified to watch the film!)