Who are your favorite movie villains?

Originally posted by EvilKoreKlown666:
[QB]heres my list....
5. Merrick "No Escape" (i forget the actors' name)
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"I dont find that funny" ::slices dudes neck straight through, dudes head slowly rolls off with stupified expression on:: "hahahahah now thats funny!"

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Originally posted by LapDawg:
Also check out Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast." Eek!
**smacks head*** could I have forgotten Kingsley in "Sexy Beast"?!! On my list above replace Joe/Lawrence Tierney with Kingsley.
One that I really wanted to put on my list but she was a TV villian & not a movie one is Nancy Marchant as Livia Soprano from "The Sopranos". She made Lady MacBeth look like June Cleaver!

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When most of us think of Diana Rigg, it's probably as sexy Emma Peel in TV's "The Avengers," the most unforgettable character she probably ever played. But excuse me for scoffing if anyone ever suggests that's the most interesting character she ever played. Though I lusted for Rigg's Emma like most red-blooded American boys of the 1960s, the Rigg character that haunts me most is Helena Vesey, the smother-mother she played in "Mother Love," a British TV drama that aired on PBS' "Mystery!" in 1990. Helena was a tightly-wound homicidal mom who became so possessive of her own adult son that she visited him in the hospital when he was critically ill--and pulled out his life-support tubes just because she found out he'd been visiting his father, the ex-husband who dumped her for another woman. Rigg played Helena as a sociopathic neurotic who's screwed-down so tightly that her head seemed likely to explode if she ever took the pins out of her severely tied-back hairdo. Her nastiest act in "Mother Love"? I'd say the time she baked poisoned cookies and gave them to her ex-husband's little children. TV Critic Marvin Kitman hailed Rigg's Helena as "the bravura performance of the century." I'd say her Helena Vesey has a good chance of being TV's baddest mom for two consecutive centuries.

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Poor Joan Crawford had this fabulous movie career that took her from silent screen chorus girl in the 1920s to horror movie diva in the 1970s, but with some incredibly strong dramatic performances in between, especially in her Oscar-winning performance as James Cain's "Mildred Pierce" in 1945. But her daughter, Christina, wrote a book called "Mommie Dearest" that portrayed Crawford as a mean-spirited child-abuser who locked her kids in closets and made this really horrendous fuss if they ever dared use "wire coat hangers!"
Faye Dunaway played Crawford in the 1981 movie version in such a juicily flamboyant she-monster style that the movie is now a camp classic. It's said normal kids now start to cry at the very sight of Crawford's face.

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In her Oscar-nominated 1962 performance as Mrs. Iselin in John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate," Angela Lansbury created one of the screen's most cruel and heartless moms--the wife of a right-wing U.S. Senator, conspiring to use her troubled son (Laurence Harvey), who was brainwashed by the commies while he was a prisoner during the Korean War, to carry out a series of political assassinations that will help her husband's career. The son might have been a brain-dead zombie, but Mrs. Iselin was a soul-dead itchbay. On top of that, she didn't even talk nice to the poor sod. At one point she asks him, rather rudely if you want my opinion, "Why do you always have to look as if your head were about to come to a point?" Hey, if my Mom had ever asked me that, I'd never have bought her that copy of "The Wit & Wisdom of Rush Limbaugh" for Mother's Day.

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For all those guys who wonder how on Earth Anne Bancroft's sexy Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" could be considered a "mother from Hell," consider this: Put yourself in her daughter's place. Mrs. Robinson came on to Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman), her daughter's boy friend, and showed him things Moms seldom show prospective sons-in-laws. How would you feel if your Dad had sex with your girl friend? (Yuck!) Besides, Mrs. Robinson turned against Benjamin and pushed her daughter (Katharine Ross) into marrying somebody else. True, Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson was a hot number you'd like to meet in a cocktail lounge some night, but as a Mom you'll have to admit she qualifies for federal disaster aid.

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Poor little Carrie White was raised by Margaret, her twisted Mom, to believe that all boys were "unclean" sinners when most of us realize that only 97.5 percent of them fall into that category. The result was such a naive and pathologically frightened girl that she actually thought she was bleeding to death when she got her first menstrual period because she had committed some loathsome sin. Fortunately, Carrie also had telekinetic powers, so she was able to pay back Mom and all her abusive high school classmates in one of the most destructive climaxes ever seen on a movie screen. For Brian DePalma's movie version of Stephen King's novel, both Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Piper Laurie (Mom) earned Oscar nominations.

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For years, Mrs. Bates sat in her rocking chair and berated her son, Norman, about one thing or another--but mostly girls and what they were really after from him. So, little wonder that Norm grew up as a knife-wielding psychopath who drilled holes in the walls of every room at the remote Bates Motel, then peeped through them at any female motorists who stopped there overnight. In Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Psycho," Norman (Anthony Perkins) dresses up like his Mom and uses various cutting tools to get rid of those nasty girls for arousing her simpering son. Don't think Mrs. Bates was nothing but the rotted husk of his original Mom. Any woman whose influence was so powerful that she continued to give orders to Norman long after her death surely must have been a genuine mother from Hell!

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In James Cameron's "Aliens," the first sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror extravaganza "Alien," astronaut Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) first encountered the Mother of all the alien monsters, rapidly reproducing herself while ingesting humans and absorbing all their cerebral wisdom. The duel between Ripley and Ma Alien continued through two more sequels, finally reaching the point in "Alien Resurrection" (1997) where Ripley is sort of a hybrid Alien Mom herself. When it comes to Moms, this one is the ugliest, slimiest, most ferocious and poisonous of them all. My advice is to not bother sending Mother's Day cards to any Mom capable of swallowing you whole or impregnating you with fetuses that accomodate their own births by ripping giant exit holes in your chest.

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