Vote up the villains that are honestly terrifying.
"Which villain genuinely disturbed you?"
Fans of scary movies, horror films, and all sorts of celluloid thrills and chills discuss the villains they find truly, deepy, and utterly disturbing. This is beyond the occasional masked fiend or serial killer, but people who strike fear into their very souls. Here are a few examples of on-screen scary people who completely understood the assignment.
The strange thing is that in Silence of the Lambs, he isn't really the villain. He's a cannibalistic serial killer, but he's there to help the heroes. And yet his chilling evil is so great that he managed to get to number 1 on AFI's Greatest Villains of All Time list.
A brilliant mind with great insight into the workings of the psyche. So brilliant he even recognizes his own insanity.
And he uses his abilities to manipulate people, even inducing insanity in others.
He's the only villain who could take everything that made you you and turn it into something else... And the cage he was in wasn't enough.
It's easy to stop someone from killing you with a knife... Not so easy to stop someone from talking you into killing yourself if he knows all the right words to say. In fact, he did just that.
"Why is Hannibal Lecter scary?"@netw3rk: "He resuses to acknowledge the reality of his surrounding. He's in prison, and yet, he's in complete command …"
"I slowly started to realise that it would be much more powerful if she doesn't know that she's evil. She, as a matter of fact, believes that she's helping people." - Milos Forman
The original Nurse Ratched wasn't scary because of some creepy back story; she was terrifying because she could literally exercise state power on the bodies and minds of those in her control. She was an avatar of quiet and calm state violence exercised to produce quiet and calm.
I rewatched this recently for this first time since the original release, and the biggest thing that stood out to me was the use of silence throughout the film. The silence and stillness of every scene makes everything seem so much more tense and unsettling.
By this logic No Country For Old Men is a horror movie because Anton Chigurh is scary and I'm afraid of him killing me and my family
— uosuÉÉšq (cozy arc) (@aphextriplet85) April 6, 2021
I just watched WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN for the first time and holy shit, this shot sent shivers alllll the way down my spine pic.twitter.com/DXhXBOTq16
One of the most famous Women's Prize winners is Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which was about the disturbing idea of a mom who hates her own son from the moment he's born and is convinced he must be evil
...The scene when he essentially gloats over Rick after he goads him into getting shot and [bleeding] to death was amazing in showing his terrifying and [calculating] nature. All because Rick wanted a pay [raise].
The last line in the movie: "I will never ask you to do anything I wouldn't do."
That's not all that reassuring, Louis.
I would pay good money for a MasterClass where Jake Gyllenhaal only talks about playing Louis Bloom in NIGHTCRAWLER. I am absolutely in awe of his calm, yet unhinged performance every single time I watch it.
