The best/worse baddy in a movie?

AndyGT

A lot of great movies have:
.  A Hero
.  A Love Interest
.  A Baddy

Quite often it is the bad guy or girl that makes a particular movie.  The question is who is the best baddy EVER in a movie?  Questions like this are a matter of opinion but what do you think?
In my opinion the estate and most evil has to be 'The Child Catcher' from 'Chitty Chitty  Bang Bang'....

Over to you  

Hannah_Alumni

I had nightmares about that Child Catcher! 

I would say the best 'baddy' when I was growing up with films, was Voldemort. 

Now, keeping in season with Halloween approaching, I'd say Pennywise is one of the most evil baddies. 

surfygoose

I like Megamind!

The Other Mother in Coraline terrifies me.

Rosie_Scope

The Child Catcher is definitely one of the worst!

Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame used to terrify me growing up. I think he was one of the first evil characters I remember being scared of that was human rather than a witch or some other fantastical being.

Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is pretty horrible too. I love a psychological villain! 

C_J

Alan rickman has played the role of the bad guy in a few movies such as Die Hard (one of my favourite movies) and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

How about Robert Englund in The Nightmare on Elm Street Series.

Or Antony Hopkins in the silence of the Lambs 

Rosie_Scope

Oh yes, @C_J Hannibal Lecter! That's a good one.

WelshBlue

Annie Wilkes in Misery.  One of the best book to film baddies for me

surfygoose

Yes Misery is a good choice. What a film.

rebel11

When your young, the baddies are really bad, when you are older, they are less bad.

All of the above, but add the Daleks to that list.

A lot of script writing is really bad, simply because, how often has a victim hit the villain once then ran off, only to be caught. Human nature says that the victim would make sure the villain couldn't attack them again.

I suppose it would make for a short movie.  

If you get a chance, watch Red Eye (2005).

Albus_Scope

As a kid I used to be utterly terrified of Gremlins.  My dad bought me the audiobook when I was ill.  Unfortunately I have a very vivid imagination and I created something a load worse than what the gremlins actually looked like.   

Now I'd say Alan Rickman in Die Hard or Prince of thieves.  I love it when they're smooth talkers, not outwardly evil looking, just evil because they can be. 

Or going the other way and it'd be Michael Myers.  Just an unstoppable, silent force of evil. 

rebel11

Albus_Scope said:

As a kid I used to be utterly terrified of Gremlins.  My dad bought me the audiobook when I was ill.  Unfortunately I have a very vivid imagination and I created something a load worse than what the gremlins actually looked like.   

Now I'd say Alan Rickman in Die Hard or Prince of thieves.  I love it when they're smooth talkers, not outwardly evil looking, just evil because they can be. 

Or going the other way and it'd be Michael Myers.  Just an unstoppable, silent force of evil. 

Prince of thieves - 'coldblooded' when he stabs his cousin then comments on the quality of the steel, walks away without a blink of an eye.

Jimm_Scope

The way Alan Rickman acted Hans Gruber, now that was a bad guy.

rebel11

Liam Neeson in Taken, I'm actually a big fan in that there is a certain 'menace', 

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you."

Albus_Scope

The xenomorphs from the Alien films are amazing.  I'm not sure if they're villains as such?  They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time... and hungry. 

rebel11

Eli Wallach in The Good, the bad and the Ugly. He's excellent in that, everything you want in a villain, evil, charm comedy etc. 

Lottie1732

Gary Oldman as Dracula. Such charisma and screen presence. Such a sad and heartbroken baddie. I was a bit conflicted when I saw it at the cinema because the character scared me so much but the actor I fancied like mad. (I still would  )