50 FURIOUS FILM FIENDS

Movies just wouldn’t be as exciting if they didn’t contain those colorfully warped characters known as “villains”. Often times these people are merely twisted, lonely, misunderstood souls that have been psychologically damaged and/or are out for revenge. Then there’s the flat out, pure evil ones who have nothing driving them except an innate need to cause mayhem and terror. Whatever they are, wherever they come from, they provide us film fans with an immense amount of thrills and entertainment. Let’s face it, they are, in large part why we love cinema in the first place! In tribute to them, FC has picked out fifty of our favorite freaky film fiends for you to peruse. Enjoy!

1. Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) – White Heat: “Top of the world!”

2. Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) – The Treasure of The Sierra Madre: “Let’s see, three times 35 – is a hundred and five. I’ll bet you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before I do.”

3. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) – Misery: “Now that’s an oogie mess.”

4. Tony Montana (Al Pacino) – Scarface: “Say hello to my little friend!”

5. Arthur Maggot (Telly Savalas): The Dirty Dozen: “It’s judgment day, sinners!”

6. Mr. Han (Shih Kien) – Enter The Dragon: “Very few people can be totally ruthless. It isn’t easy; it takes more strength than you might believe.”

7. Boss Godfrey aka The Man with No Eyes (Morgan Woodward) – Cool Hand Luke

8. David Lo Pan (James Hong) – Big Trouble in Little China: “They have returned. And this time they are not alone. Egg Shen is with them. Little bastard sorcerer has brought them through the Bog of the Dead Trees.”

9. Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) – Death Proof: “We’re both goin left so I guess you’re gonna have to get scared immediately”

10. Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn)  – The Stepfather: “Who am I again?”

11. Mrs. White (Piper Laurie) – Carrie: “I pray you find Jesus”

12. Stansfield (Gary Oldman) – Leon: The Professional: “I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven.”

13. Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) – GoodFellas: “How am I funny?”

14. Sgt Barnes (Tom Berenger) – Platoon: “Death? What do you all know about death?”

15. Douglas C. Neidermeyer (Mark Metcalf) – National Lampoon’s Animal House: “You’re all worthless and weak!”

16. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) – A Clockwork Orange: “Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.”

17. Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) – The Night of The Hunter: “Salvation is a last-minute business, boy.”

18. Frank White (Christopher Walken) – King of New York: “I must’ve been away too long because my feelings are dead. I feel no remorse.”

19. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) – Die Hard: “I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way… so he won’t be joining us for the rest of his life.”

20. Red Grant (Robert Shaw) – From Russia With Love: “The first one won’t kill you; not the second, not even the third… not till you crawl over here and you KISS MY FOOT!”

21. Bobbi – Dressed To Kill: “Don’t make me be a bad girl again!”

22. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) – Psycho: “I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing.”

23. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) – Wall Street: “Greed is good”

24. Damien (Harvey Stephens) – The Omen

25. Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) – Robocop: “Hello, buddy boy. Dick Jones here. I guess you’re on your knees right about now. Begging for your life. Pathetic. You don’t feel so cocky now do ya Bob?”

26. Brad Whitewood Sr. (Christopher Walken) – At Close Range: “If it’s blood, don’t break it.”

27. Sgt. Meserve (Sean Penn) – Casualties of War: “Even though I walk through the valley of shadow and death, I shall fear no evil. For I’m the meanest motherfucker in the whole fucking valley.”

28. Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) – Apocalypse Now: “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving.”

29. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) – Marathon Man “Thus far I find you rather detestable, may I say that without hurting your feelings?”

30. Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) – Fatal Attraction: “You’re so stupid… you’re a stupid, selfish bitch!”

31. The Terminator (Arnold Shwarzenegger): “I’ll be back”

32. Mr. Joshua (Gary Busey) – Lethal Weapon: “Now if you would kindly tell me everything you know, I promise I’ll kill you quick.”

33. Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) – Back To The Future 1-3: “What are you looking at butthead?”

34. Max Cady (Robert DeNiro) – Cape Fear: “Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”

35. David (Keifer Sutherland) – The Lost Boys: “Maggots, Michael. You’re eating maggots. How do they taste?”

36. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) – Reservoir Dogs: “Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?”

37. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) – No Country For Old Men: “You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.”

38. Scorpio (Andrew Robinson) – Dirty Harry: “Stupid kid! Come on sing everyone! Sing or I’ll go home and kill all your mommies, sing, sing!”

39. Mickey and Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis & Woody Harrelson) – Natural Born Killers: Mallory: “Let’s go out there, and run down the stairs, and go out in a hail of bullets. And then we’ll die! And then we’ll really be free. Mickey: That’s poetry. But we’ll do that when all else fails.”

40. The Joker (Heath Ledger) – The Dark Knight: “Do you know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savour all the little emotions.”

41. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: “If Mr. McMurphy doesn’t want to take his medication orally, I’m sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don’t think that he would like it.”

42. Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage/John Travolta) – Face/Off: “I’m scared, Sean. Well, I think you better pull the trigger Sean, because I really don’t give a fuck.”

43. Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) – Blue Velvet: “Don’t toast to my health, toast to my fuck!”

44. Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) – The Cable Guy: “You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I’m the bastard son of Claire Huxtable!”

45. Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb (Ted Levine) – The Silence of the Lambs: “Put the fucking lotion in the basket!”

46. Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) – New Jack City: “See ya and I wouldn’t wanna be ya!”

47. Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) – The Matrix: “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.”

48. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) – There Will Be Blood: “You’re just a bastard from a basket!”

49. Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) – Training Day: “King Kong ain’t got SHIT on me!”

50. John Doe (Kevin Spacey) – Seven: “Don’t ask me to pity those people. I don’t mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah.”