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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:22 PM
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Poll question: Best (or worst) movie villain
Ya know, I almost left out The Terminator? What was I thinking? Sorry, Cruella!

Notice I left off non-speaking slasher movie type characters. I dunno, Jason/Michael Myers aren't so much villains as monsters, and that would be a different poll.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:24 PM
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1. The Tall Man
from Phantasm, played by Edgar Scrimm, one of the creepiest portrayals of absolute evil ever.
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:43 PM
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10. Boooyyy!!!!
Actually, it's Angus Scrimm. What a moniker!
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:45 PM
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13. DOH!!!! Freudian typing slip!!!!!
thinking about Edgar from MIB... Silly me.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 06:35 AM
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48. hannibal
nowhere else have i seen a more well acted villan
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:24 PM
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2. You don't have THE KURGAN (Highlander) listed?!?
From "Highlander? Bad move.

The Kugan should NOT have to be written in.

However, let me begin this fine write-in campaign.

VOTE KURGAN "HIGHLANDER"!!!
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:26 PM
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5. I'd also like to vote for Clancey Brown as Lex Luthor
in the WB DC-based superhero shows. He's AWESOME as the Man of Steel's arch nemesis.
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theivoryqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:24 PM
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3. Had to vote for the cockroach
I hate those bugs. Especially the big ones.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:26 PM
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4. Mrs. Danvers from Hitchcock's "Rebecca"
The original Evil Woman!!
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manderley Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:42 PM
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9. OMG!!
I love that novel and the movie is wonderful. I agree, Mrs. Danvers
can send chills down my spine
Hence my user ID manderley- the mansion :)
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:44 PM
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11. Way cool!
Have you noticed that on Office 2000 there is a font called "Rebecca" and it's dead on!
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manderley Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:46 PM
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14. Yeah, its weird
Glad to know someone appreciates it as much as I do!
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:27 PM
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6. David Warner in "Time Bandits"
You could tell he was having a ball!

He wasn't too bad as Jack the Ripper battling Malcom McDowell's HG Wells in "Time After Time"


--MAB
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number six Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:33 PM
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7. Aaah...David Warner
Edited on Thu Oct-30-03 02:34 PM by number six
The nearly man of British cinema. What about the priest from Poltergeist II? Terrifying, man!
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:02 PM
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20. THE David Warner?
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number six Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:17 PM
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23. I guess so.
He's THE David Warner to me, at least. English guy, in lots of 70's movies, esp. Hammer Horror / Amicus cheesefests.
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edzontar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:41 PM
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8. Dracula--as essayed by Lugosi or Lee
Or else the Wicked Witch of the West/

(Its the classics for me)
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:45 PM
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12. Toecutter/Lord Humungous
From Mad Max/Road Warrior
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:45 PM
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37. Whoa, dude! Good one!
"Remember the Night Rider! When you look...at the night sky!"
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:47 PM
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15. Bill the Butcher
From Gangs of New York.
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:47 PM
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16. Let's not forget...
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

Olivia DeHaviland in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

Bette Davis in The Little Foxes, among others

Jonathan Pryce in Something Wicked This Way Comes

Cancer Man from the Xfiles
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:49 PM
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17. Believe it or not Henry Fonda
from "Once Upon a Time in the West". After killing a farmer, he kills the man's young son. "What about the kid, Frank?" Fonda's reply: "Well, now that you've said my name."
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NuckinFutz Donating Member (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:52 PM
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19. OMG!
I'd forgotten all about that one. What an evil SOB!
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:50 PM
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18. Scar!
Come on people! I know it's a cartoon, but, gez! The guy kills his own brother for power!
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:14 PM
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21. John Doe in Seven or Mr. Frost in Mr. Frost
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:16 PM
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22. Mr. Freeze
Edited on Thu Oct-30-03 04:22 PM by LuLu550
AHHH-Nold in one of the Batman movies. He sucked!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:17 PM
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24. Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate, 1964)
:scared:
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:24 PM
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25. George C Scott
In "The Hustler"

or Lee J Cobb - "On the Waterfront"
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Zenaholic Donating Member (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:44 PM
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26. T1
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 05:49 PM
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32. Then VOTE for him, you silly person :)
Just kidding about the silly person part!
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:45 PM
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27. Darth Vader hands down
I remember how scared i was when i was a kid
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 04:48 PM
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28. Lex Luthor... the greatest criminal mind of our time...
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Paragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 05:52 PM
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33. "Me? Lex Luthor?!?"
;-)
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 08:23 AM
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49. Or how bout Jack as the Joker?
They were both absolutely great.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 05:21 PM
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29. I wish I'd put on Rhoda (Patty McCormack) from "The Bad Seed"
Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter and the Wicked Witch of the West cower in terror.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 08:44 AM
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51. "The Bad Seed" is an excellent choice
She's one of the scariest characters on film history.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 05:28 PM
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30. Other: Nurse Ratchet
from cuckoo's nest
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 08:24 AM
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50. Yep....
worst thing was her character didn't even know it. She thought she was doing the right thing.


......;)
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 05:47 PM
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31. Reverend Harry Powell in "Night of the Hunter"
followed by Max Cady in "Cape Fear". Robert Mitchum in both roles. In the first one the Mighty Mitchum plays a psychopath with plans to murder two small children. In the second, his plans include the rape of a teenager. No one could do villainy like Big Bob (and still remain a leading man)
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:57 PM
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38. Oh, "Night of the Hunter" is mind-bogglingly creepy
As with the Edward G. Robinson character in "Key Largo," I was just DYING for the Robert Mitchum character to get his ass kicked.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:17 PM
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34. Tim Roth's character in Rob Roy
Now, THAT is a horrible scary SOB!
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:30 PM
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35. Goldfinger... Scaramanger... Dr. No,
To name a few.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:42 PM
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36. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!!!
Okay, so he did turn out to be a pretty big wuss, but that is the coolest evil villain line ever spoken on screen.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:07 PM
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39. Darryl Revok!
Edited on Thu Oct-30-03 07:08 PM by rbnyc
We're gonna do this the Scanner way. I'm gonna suck your brain dry!

:loveya:

EDIT: oops, used <> for html. duh!
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Davo Dinkum Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:07 PM
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40. Bateman but what category?
I would pick Patrick Bateman, the killer out of American Psycho. The book was better but Christian Bale played him perfectly.
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:13 PM
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41. al pacino, scarface
THE WORLD IS YOURS!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:15 PM
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42. 101 Dalmations
Cruella rules! Also the Queen from Snow White. Disney has great villians.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:28 PM
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43. It's a tie,
Alan Rickman in Die Hard, Alan Rickman in Quigley Down Under.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:30 PM
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44. George W. Bush
Was he ever in a movie?

Anyhoo, I voted for Agent Smith. The other guys are so worn out, and Hugo Weaving is just too damn good in the role. Delightfuly nasty guy!
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 02:15 AM
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45. Jim Carrey as the Cable Guy
now that was creepy.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 05:51 AM
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46. Tim Roth as Archibald Cunningham
In Rob Roy. Stupendous performance in a very, very good movie.

Julie
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 06:33 AM
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47. I had to
go with "other".......Robert Mitchum's character in the original "Cape Fear" and a very close second would be his roaming preacher character in ????? (can't remember the name of the movie! Also starred Shelly Winters) :scared:

Jenn

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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 08:56 AM
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53. Night of the Hunter
directed by Charles Laughton
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 08:54 AM
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52. Professor Fate from The Great Race.
One of my all-time favorite movies. Push the button, Max!

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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:08 AM
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54. Max Cady from the original Cape Fear?
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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:28 AM
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55. Alex, lead droog
and a very bad, bad boy...

He's what makes A Clockwork Orange such a remarkable film.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 09:35 AM
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56. Dude! What about the evil Bill and Ted robots?
Edited on Fri Oct-31-03 09:36 AM by Prisoner_Number_Six
...since no one has mentioned them yet... ;-)
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