Evil and Fun Movie Villains

CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 6:07 pm In the wake of stories about how Heath Ledger played the "Joker" in the new Batman movie will be one of the best/worst villains in the talkies, I started thinking about really creepy villains in movies I either have on my shelf in some form, or which immediately come clearly to my mind. I have to separate them into humanoid and non-humanoid and just plain fun. They have to be really creepy, evil, not just someone’s nemesis, like Lex Luthor to Superman (though the fellow in TV’s Smallville is getting there little by little). Human and pretty much like a human: Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Glen Close – Dangerous Liasons – ghastly evil wicked person – always leaves me upset, came to my mind first) Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth – Rob Roy – ghastly evil wicked person –... [read full story]