100 Most Evil Characters In All Of Cinema?

[Gulftastic]

Dandy Dan in Bugsy Malone.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Dandy Dan in Bugsy Malone.

No, I think Fat Sam was worse. Remember that scene where he has one of his gang offed by the others for a slip-up - or was it actually Dandy Dan who did that and I've just made myself look a plonker!?

[Lord Mandrake]

Bill

[kngen]

40 (???). Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek. Thinking about it, that might be the last proper horror film I watched. Lost my appetite for that kind of stuff almost immediately. So fucking grim.

[Dusty Substance]

41. The prison warden in The Shawshank Redemption

42. The redneck rapists in Deliverance

43. Toht in Raiders Of The Lost Ark

44. Carter Burke in Aliens

45. Michael Elphick in The Elephant Man

[Sebastian Cobb]

Bobby Peru

[Sebastian Cobb]

Don Logan

[Brundle-Fly]

48. Dr. Carl Stoner from Sssssss (1973)

[Brundle-Fly]

Regrettable, yes. Racist and sexist. Different times. That's a great album cover, though.

Let's cut Mitchem a bit of slack here. It's a cover from his 1957 calypso tribute album of a Trinidadian comedy song written by Roaring Lion in 1935. 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

48. Dr. Carl Stoner from Sssssss (1973)

Quite a good film for much of its length, ruined by a shit ending.

[Dusty Substance]

Let's cut Mitchem a bit of slack here.

Sorry for derailing the thread a little with the Mitchum calypso link. I think he was, like most of weed-smoking Hollywood, probably more progressive than the rest the USA was in the 50s and 60s. He was certainly not like John Wayne who was a genuinely nasty guy.

Like Ballard Berkley said, it was a different time.

[Keebleman]

Not including supernatural ne'erdowells like Draclia or the Devil.

1. Nurse Ratchett - One Flew Over The Cuckoos Next

Nurse Ratchett is not evil.  She is misguided and ineffectual.  It could be argued that McMurphy is even more wicked as he willfully uses his fellow patients as pawns in his battle with her, never taking into account what is best for them.  I once saw an am-dram production of the play where she was portrayed as 100% wicked stepmother evil, and it took all the tension and drama out of the story.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Nurse Ratchett is not evil.  She is misguided and ineffectual.  It could be argued that McMurphy is even more wicked as he willfully uses his fellow patients as pawns in his battle with her, never taking into account what is best for them.  I once saw an am-dram production of the play where she was portrayed as 100% wicked stepmother evil, and it took all the tension and drama out of the story.

She's probably not intentionally or wilfully evil but I think she's an example of the 'banality of evil' in the sense she's kind of a cog in a system.

[Dr Rock]

Ratchet is debatably evil, but I put her in as an example that it's a broad category.I think everyone go that already. I'll add the car Christine from the movie Christine.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

N+1. Captain Browning, in '71. There are plenty of characters in that movie who would have a decent shout at inclusion on this list, but this one really stuck with me: callous, threatening to blow a father's head off to get his daughter to speak, double-dealing. Just a terrible[nb]by which I mean very effective[/nb] portrait of the utmost cynicism and ends justifying the means.

[chveik]

- Overlook hotel

- HAL

[the ouch cube]

52. Noah Cross, Chinatown

53. Mr Sands, Scum (really really hate this guy)

[Phoenix Lazarus]

The killer in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972)

[badaids]

54. Joffrey in Game of Thrones, which I'm pretending is a film.

[kalowski]

Norman Bates.

[holyzombiejesus]

45. Michael Elphick in The Elephant Man

Weird thinking that Elphick worked with both Lars Von Trier and David Lynch.

Anyway, I was going to say Mr Bytes, Freddie Jones' character from The Elephant Man. Don't think I've ever hated someone as much as I did him when I watched the film aged 12.

[holyzombiejesus]

Jaws

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I've already nominated Jaws, aka Bruce, from Jaws (Shark Film).

Oh, unless you mean the big lad with metal teeth out of James Bond. In which case, carry on.

[paddy72]

John (Daniel Henshall) in Snowtown.

[mothman]

52. Noah Cross, Chinatown

Good one!

[greenman]

Kevin in Home Alone 2.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

The leader of the pair of young men who terrorise the family in Funny Games (2007).

[Dr Rock]

Luther

[Johnboy]

Henry  portrait of a serial killer

Quite disturbing

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

#?? Jigsaw from the Saw films. He is definitely a murderer - and a particularly nasty one, too - regardless of what paper-thin rationalistion he tries to peddle.