Hollywood’s Top Villains

By Alex in Film on Oct 12, 2009 at 2:51 am

Forget heroes. I find villains much more interesting. Here’s a wonderful montage titled: Heart of Darkness, a Montage, Cinema’s Top Human Villains, by YouTube user hh, listing 45 of the best (worst?) Hollywood baddies.

The music, East Hastings by Goodpseed You! Black Emperor, certainly contributed much to the awesomeness of the clip.

I’m glad that Kathy Bates’ character Annie Wilkes from the movie Misery made the list. Who do you think is the best Hollywood villain?

Link [embedded YouTube clip]

Tags: Goodspeed You! Black Emperor, hollywood, villain

Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:

JimRL
Oct 12th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Awesome…indeed!

28 Days later inspired me to look up GSYBE and have been listening to their limited collection of music ever since. However the amount of bands that formed because of them is incredible.
Dax
Oct 12th, 2009 at 5:06 am
I’m glad you had Nurse Ratched in there, as well as the Robert Mitchum character from “Night of the hunter”. These are two of my favorites.
TeaFizz
Oct 12th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I always thought Warden Norton from “The Shawshank Redemption” was a really good villain.

…or am I being obtuse?
Skipweasel
Oct 12th, 2009 at 6:47 am
Alex deLarge may have started out as a criminal, but by the end he was most definitly a victim of the state. If anyone missed that they might need to go back and read/watch it again.
Sammy
Oct 12th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Great video! I love how the song was all instrumental.
Johnny Cat
Oct 12th, 2009 at 11:35 am
There’s a lot of debate going around about the snubbing of Darth Vader and Khan. Still, a near-perfect grouping.
Johnny Cat
Oct 12th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Oh, and here’s a list of all the villains/actors/movies.
mutterhals
Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Just a slight disagreement, Alexander De Large was no victim of anything, especially in the movie. I mean, that was the entire point of the movie, that you can’t change someone’s inherent nature. He was evil through and through. The book, on the other hand, offered a more sympathetic version of Alex thanks to the excised last chapter.
tripleX
Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Some memorable evil, cinema bastards I love to hate:
Gary Oldman in Leon/The Professional,
John Lithgow in Ricochet and Cliffhanger,
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas,
Henry Fonda in Once upon a time in the West.

Only two villains literally gave me a sick feeling in my stomach, many years ago:
Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man and
Mark Rydell in The Long Goodbye.
Noelegy
Oct 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I was glad to see Dr. Hannibal Lecter on that list, but I think Jame Gumb (“Buffalo Bill” from the same movie) would have been a fair selection in addition to the good Doctor.
diggi
Mar 26th, 2010 at 3:17 am
Agreed.
But gotta link here, satiating the list of bad boys.
http://www.topyaps.com/top-10-hollywood-movie-villains/
cteve
Apr 22nd, 2010 at 7:32 am
How about those villains in this video montage?

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLwkyaa8hg)

Keep track of the comments with

Comment RSS

Lijit Search

The latest from NeatoBambino: