The most evil villian in movies.

lionheart · Post by **lionheart** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:40 am

Paolo Bonacelli as the "Duke" in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salo".

lionheart · Post by **lionheart** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:49 am

"M" is a fantastic movie. Great pick - I always thought that Peter Lorre's role in "M" was sort of "tragically evil", and an example of true pathology.

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:45 am

How about Robert Mitchum in The Night Of The Hunter or Cape Fear...

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:54 am

Bill Wharton from "Green Mile" (both the book and the movie).

lennon211 · Post by **lennon211** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:55 am

What about Orson Welles in Touch of Evil? or Robert Ryan in Crossfire?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 am

Reminds me of Palance's line in "City Slickers" (a mostly one-joke movie without Jack).

He looks down at Billy Crystal, who's simultaneously cowering and trying not to look like he is and utters the immortal line:

"I SH*T bigger'n you!"

And a verse from a calypso bar tune, sung by an old guy who prefers young ladies to his own age-appropriate wife:

"You should see me woman, bruddah, she more den six-tee

And you know, without any doubt, she could be me gra-neee

Still she walk in bold at night with she face like Jack Palance

Go to France!

Step aside and give dee sparrow a chance!

You know I looking for youth, not experi-ance!"

(From Van Dyke Parks' "Discover America", 1972.)

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:50 am

How about Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence in The Shining?

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:54 am

Jack Palance keeps popping up..he was one scary vampire in The Night Stalker

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:34 am

The Bad Seed...

squirefan01 · Post by **squirefan01** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:42 am

The Kevin Spacey character in Se7en always freaked me out.

Hmmm...could have used post 600 for something more interesting than that!

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:46 am

Post 666 might have been better...

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:26 am

RE: M

A million years ago WNET showed a series of classic films. (I can’t remember the name of the series but the theme music was a section of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”)
“M” was one of the films. Also “Blue Angel,” “Alexander Nevsky,” “Grand Illusion,” etc. Great, great stuff.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:34 am

This guy was pretty evil.

35012 · Post by **35012** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:40 am

Jaws (the Shark, in this case) was a pretty diabolical villain. What could be scarier than a random giant shark?
A runner up would be The Mull from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (assuming gorilla suits and diving helmets are your idea of scary.)

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:01 am

1. Adolph Hitler as himself in "Triumph Of The Will"

2. Richard Nixon as himself in "All The President's Men"

3. Robert MacNamara as himself in "The Fog Of War"

4. Peter Sellers as Henry Kissinger in "Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)"