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Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:19 pm
by CBT
As per title

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:22 pm
by Darnhill Claret
Jack Elam in westerns.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:23 pm
by Darnhill Claret
Harvey Keitel

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:25 pm
by Gunfury
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet…..and for comedy value and terrible acting,Vernon Wells as Bennet in Commando

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:26 pm
by BennyD
Alan Rickman.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:27 pm
by Darnhill Claret
Dickie Attenborough in 10 Rillington Place. Antony Perkins in Psycho.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:27 pm
by ElectroClaret
Brando in Apocalypse Now.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:28 pm
by Wile E Coyote
Javier Bardem, no question about it.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:28 pm
by dermotdermot
Alfonso Bedoya in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:30 pm
by CBT
All wrong
Malachi from children of the corn

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:36 pm
by karatekid
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:44 pm
by HahaYeah
Jack Palance in Shane.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:48 pm
by minnieclaret
Clancy Brown in Highlander

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:48 pm
by Grimsdale
The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:53 pm
by HahaYeah
Walter Long in Going Bye-Bye! :geek:

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:53 pm
by Rileybobs
That German bloke with the moustache who’s in all the war films.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:54 pm
by jdrobbo
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Mola Ram (Amrish Puri, RIP)

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:56 pm
by COBBLE
What a challenging question.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:01 am
by CBT
jdrobbo wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:54 pm
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Mola Ram (Amrish Puri, RIP)
That bugger gave me nightmares for years

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:09 am
by jdrobbo
Me too!

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:27 am
by Bop
Drexl.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:35 am
by Darnhill Claret
Excellent performance by Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Shockingly Evil and Vile.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:41 am
by fidelcastro
Ben Kingsley in 'Sexy Beast' takes some beating.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:50 am
by GordonvaleClaret
Darnhill Claret wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:22 pm
Jack Elam in westerns.
My thoughts exactly as soon as I'd read the title.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:54 am
by Chester Perry
Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:58 am
by Norfolk Claret
Drexl- True Romance (Gary Oldman)
Max Cady - Cape Fear (Robert DeNiro)

Alongside Pachino, the finest Actors on the planet

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:15 am
by Woonderbah
The truck driver in Duel.. and we don't even get to see him

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:38 am
by dermotdermot
Norfolk Claret wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:58 am
Drexl- True Romance (Gary Oldman)
Max Cady - Cape Fear (Robert DeNiro)

Alongside Pachino, the finest Actors on the planet
Pacino! Now come on!

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:52 am
by Taffy on the wing
Gunfury wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:25 pm
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet…..and for comedy value and terrible acting,Vernon Wells as Bennet in Commando
I even called my dog Frank Booth............Brilliant film & much misunderstood.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:21 am
by Somethingfishy
Bruce Payne in Passenger 57. Has that cool calm but psychotic thing going on..the intellectual baddy. Hard to take Liz Hurley seriously as a terrorist though :D

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:28 am
by gandhisflipflop
The guy who plays Hannibal Lecter. Also another vote for Zac Effron and Alan Rickman

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:35 am
by superdimitri
I enjoyed Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) in Casino Royale. Not a film but I think Arthur (Paul Anderson) in Peaky Blinders is an awesome henchman. Best has to be Hanibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) though.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:21 am
by Lancasterclaret
Mark Strong in Kick Ass

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:22 am
by Lancasterclaret
Mark Strong in Kick Ass

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:23 am
by Buxtonclaret
The Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
Early fluid gender.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:29 am
by Twistedbyknaves
Kathy Bates In Misery

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:32 am
by ChrisG
Ivan Drago

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:42 am
by Tall Paul
HAL 9000 in 2001

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:44 am
by Darthlaw
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber and Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa are standouts for me.

Johnny Depp as ‘Whitey’ Bulger in Black mass is particularly good too.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:50 am
by bobinho
Dave prowse/James Earl jones as Darth Vader.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:03 am
by HB Claret
Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:04 am
by BurnleyFC
Brick Top in Snatch and Hans Landa in Inglorious.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:10 am
by Claretlad
Pazuzu in The Exorcist...

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:42 am
by yTib
nurse ratched in one flew over...

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:25 am
by Rumpelstiltskin
Lee Van Cleef

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:50 am
by Peter Loo
Darnhill Claret wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:27 pm
Dickie Attenborough in 10 Rillington Place. Antony Perkins in Psycho.
Another vote for DA.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:53 am
by Bosscat
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger "Nightmare on Elm Street" and its sequels

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:56 am
by GodIsADeeJay81
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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:57 am
by ArmchairDetective
karatekid wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:36 pm
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds
Was hoping that Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa would have been mentioned on this thread.

It's a bingo!

Classic performance.

Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:02 am
by Silkyskills1
Always thought that Stephen Graham, when called upon to play a nasty piece of work, is as good as it gets.