+1 for him.
+2 for Anton
You know who else was a bad guy?
Hitler
Motherfucker’s always drinking my milkshake. And he’s all the way across the room! If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is.
The most evil ones I can think of are those who exist in real life – Hitler, Dahmer, Milosevic, Pol Pot, Idi Amin. Though Schindler’s List and The Last King of Scotland are fictional works, I don’t think using a real life person counts.
There’s General Vidal in Pan’s Labyrinth. Though from a fantasy movie, General Vidal is not a fantasy creature nor does he have any superpowers. That scene where he’s torturing that man for stuttering is chilling.
We make up horrors to cope with the real ones. – Stephen King
Nicolas Cage’s character in Lord of War.
Yuri Orlov
He is horrible and beyond redemption by the end.
Keyser Söze
Why did you exclude Darth Vader in the OP? He’s in our universe, just in a galaxy far, far away. But of course that was a long time ago.
Possibly the folks who run the hostel in Hostel movies? I only saw the first one (and I’m sorry I did), but those were some really sadistic, messed up freaks.
Tim Roth in Rob Roy (1995). Nothing redeeming about his character at all.
Roger Ebert: The film’s villains are magnificent because they are so smart, cunning and smarmy: Not content with merely being despicable, they work at it.
Before I laid eyes on Mr. Chigurh I thought Rutger Hauer’s portrayal of John Rider in “The Hitcher” was bone-chilling.
General Jack D. Ripper
Eh, they’re just misunderstood.
Robert Michum’s character in Night of the Hunter. Now that I think of it, his character in Cape Fear, too.