The top ten movie psychopaths

[batman]

Originally Posted by stevie boy I actually think that Kingsley was not at all frightening, in my experience people who resort to swearing left right and centre are all bluff and bluster. I would have kicked him in the balls as soon as he started.

[Shadwell]

Originally Posted by scholes If I see you talking to anyone ,the girl dies I don't care if it's a pekinese pissing against a lampost, the girl dies. Do'you know the station on 44th, you better make it you've got ten minutes, otherwise dead girl ,yeah..........hubba hubba hubba.....pig bastard......... Go on, push you're nose right up against the cement

I know what you're thinking, did I fire six shots or only five, well seeing as this is a .44 magnum - the most powerful hangun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one good question, do you feel lucky? Well do ya, PUNK...







Sorry, could resist.....

[rustywhite]

Wings Hauser plays a homicidal pimp named Ramrod in a 1980s film called "Vice Squad." A very memorable badguy. The movie also had the "Go ahead, make my day" dialogue before it showed up in the Dirty Harry sequel.

Already mentioned, but I second the motion: Javier Bardeim in No Country for Old Men, Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear.

[dremble wedge]

Peter O'Toole in Night of the Generals

[christoph404]

Telly Savalas as "Maggot" in "The Dirty Dozen"
Ralph Fiennes in "Schindlers List"
Tony Curtis as "The Boston Strangler"
Rod Steiger in "No Way To Treat a Lady"
Al Lettieri in "The Getaway"

very scary people indeed. Is anyone watching "Dexter" on ITV, Miami forensic expert moonlighting as serial killer who tortures his thoroughly deserving victims, can't work out if he is a psychopath or not, very similar to the Hannibal Lector character insofar as he is presented to us as a "hero" character.

[scholes]

Originally Posted by Shadwell I know what you're thinking, did I fire six shots or only five, well seeing as this is a .44 magnum - the most powerful hangun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one good question, do you feel lucky? Well do ya, PUNK... Sorry, could resist.....

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Dirty Harry was on last night .

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by scholes D Dirty Harry was on last night .

I know I missed it I love Harry, I could probably recite the script from all of the Dirty Harry films..great stuff.

I will need to have a good think about UK baddies.

[stanthology]

Definitely the first Hanibal .Probably any creepy guy in like Olivver Twist. ( reminds me of Catholic school in Hove) Even the people in Waterhorse give me the creeps. I haven't seen a film with the weird mindset like that for a long time.

[batman]

Originally Posted by stanthology Definitely the first Hanibal .Probably any creepy guy in like Olivver Twist. ( reminds me of Catholic school in Hove) Even the people in Waterhorse give me the creeps. I haven't seen a film with the weird mindset like that for a long time.

I am interested to know more of the the creepy people in The Water Horse.

[Gazza]

Having watched Seven (Se7en) recently, I reckon Kevin Spacey is relentlessly psycho, someone who understands a person's vulnerability and knows how to expose and manipulate it.

[wadsy]

Any part 'Timothy Carey' played!

[batman]

Originally Posted by wadsy Any part 'Timothy Carey' played!

Tim Carey was fantastic .... this is from the IMDB.

"Has a uniquely twisted screen presence that many great directors tried, and often failed, to harness. He was the only man Elia Kazan ever physically attacked on the set. Marlon Brando cast him in One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and ended up, in desperation and frustration, stabbing him with a pen. When John Cassavetes came to his house for the first time, Carey made him wear a bulky, padded suit and then turned his attack dog loose on him."