Top 10 Movie Villains of All Time | A CineFix Movie List
If any story is only as good as the antagonist, does that mean a good villain is even more important than the hero? We tend to think so! So what are the elements that build up to a perfect big bad? Is it an air of inevitability? A great plan? Just plain scary? All of the above? Let’s hash it out with CineFix's Top 10 Movie Villains of All Time.
From horror movie slashers stalking the final girl to good guys doing bad guy things for good guy reasons, a villain's motives are of course unlimited. What sets the truly great ones apart from their mustache twirling counterparts is, our favorite thing here at CineFix, a complicated stew of characteristics. From a tragic backstory like Lotso Huggin’ Bear from Toy Story 3, to the unstoppable killing machine AI in The Terminator, to villains that are just SO hateable like Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator or Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life, to the charming and relatable wing of villainy with The Avengers Loki or Bodhi from Point Break.
The point is, what we love about villains is an evil and entertaining cocktail of traits that are ALL worth diving into.
This list was written by Clint Gage and edited by Justin Donaldson.
The Picks:
10 - Just Plain Scary - Michael Myers from Halloween (1978) dir. John Carpenter
9 - Hopelessly Unstoppable - Sauron from The Lord of the Rings (2001) dir. Peter Jackson
8 - Hateable - Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) dir. Milos Forman
7 - Chaotic - Li’l Ze from City of God (2003) dir. Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
6 - Goal Focused - Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction (1987) dir. Adrian Lyne
5 - Relatable - Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
4 - Are THEY the hero? - Roy Batty from Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
3 - Hero’s Foil - The Joker from The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
2 - Hiding in Plain Sight - The Armitage Family from Get Out (2017) dir. Jordan Peele
1 - Our Own Darkest Desires - Frank Booth from Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
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