Movie Villains That Rock: 50-41

Posted By On 26 Aug 2009. Under Uncategorized    
50. Go-Go Yubari

Kill Bill Vol. 1

You call that begging? You can beg better than that.

Go-Go is a straight up killer.  Maybe only sixteen, but her instincts and skills are second to none.  When she finally squares off with the Bride, it’s one point we finally begin to worry about whether or not our heroine is going to make it because Go-Go is that formiddable.

49. Sheriff of Nottingham
nottingham
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

I’ll cut his heart out with a spoon!

Alan Rickman played the villain, The Sheriff Of Nottingham, with a maniacal wickedness that played both as evil and even the occasional humorous.

48. The Black Knight

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

“It’s only a mere flesh wound.”

Not every villain has to be frightening to be a great villain, and The Black Knight is my most keen example of such.  As he loses limb after limb and continues to taunt his assailiants it is absolutely hilarious, hence being #49 on this list.

47. The Headless Horseman

Sleepy Hollow

Chris Walken is the perfect part for this role and he is part of the reason the horsemens becomes so terrifying.  Yes, he is headless, but there are flashbacks that we get to see Walkens crazy eyes and frighening teeth.  The character is evil and malevolent, a vicious killer with no remorse.

46. Mola Ram

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

You are in a position unsuitable to give orders.

The guy pulls still beating hearts out of people while doing some crazy voodoo ritual making himself all powerful.  Not to mention he has at his hand evil minions and an army of vicious killers.  He almost gets the best of Indie, and though his demise is a violent one, his existence was pretty darn terrifying.
45. The Child Catcher

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
There are children here somewhere. I can smell them.

The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was terrifying as a kid.  Even if you could hide from him, he’d still use his extra large nose to smell you out.  Using trickery he catches his victims, but he remains a frightening villain not only for children but for parents as well.  And now he has a painful resemblance to Michael Jackson.
43. Alex Forrest

Fatal Attraction

Well, what am I supposed to do? You won’t answer my calls, you change your number. I mean, I’m not gonna be ignored, Dan!
If this wasn’t a warning to teach married men that cheating is going to get you in trouble I don’t know what is.  Alex was a woman who became obsessed and if she couldn’t have him no one could, and most importantly, she wouldn’t be ignored.
42. Nurse Ratched

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Your hand is staining my window.
The domineering and sadistic Nurse Ratched is the spoiler of all good, and represents all evil.  Louise Fletcher picked up this role after actresses like Angela Landsbury, Ellen Burnstyn, and Anne Bancroft turned it down.  It was her first film role and she was born to play it.  The cold and heartless Nurse Ratched will forever be imprinted on all those who have seen this film.
41. Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

“Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”

From the man who says, “Greed Is Good” Gordon Gekko is one of the nastiest character’s to ever grace the screen.  Michael Douglas in his absolute prime encapsulates what it is to personify cruelty and live for the glory of success, money, and power.  Gekko, the smooth talking slick as rain snake in the grass, is a painful representative of how money can corrupt the soul, the fixation on material things, and having them identify who you are as human being.  At the end when Bud says he realized he could only be Bud, and that there was only one Gordon Gekko, he was right.  This ruthless scoundrel is about as nasty and heartless as they come, but it’s a fun ride watching him operate.

4 Responses to “Movie Villains That Rock: 50-41”

  1. says:
    August 26, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Interesting collection of heels.

    You making this list up yourself, or is it coming from anywhere in particular?

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  2. Heather says:
    August 26, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    I’ve been working on it for a few days. The rest will be revealed throughout the week as I get it done. Glad you enjoyed the first group!

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  3. Fletch says:
    August 27, 2009 at 5:50 am

    The Black Knight – ha!!

    Excellent idea – I look forward to the rest of the list. I really need to do a similar style of multi-post countdown.

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  4. hagiblog says:
    August 27, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    Awesome that the Black Knight is in there! I haven’t seen that movie in years but used to watch it quite often. And Nurse Ratched, quite the bad gal there. Another great film that I haven’t seen in so long.

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