Wonder how many points the missus would give “The Force” from Evil Dead 1 - thinking about the tree rape bit…
That pale Ripley/Alien clone thing in Alien Resurrection is pretty horrific, especially those beady eyes glittering down inside their sockets.
OK, yeah, the Pale Man is pretty near the top of the list.
OK, seeing as you brought it up, I’ll have to drag out this one, which I have posted at least twice before:
Do the various Lovecraftian thingies violate the rule against giant monsters? I would argue that Cthulhu, or moreso Azathoth, aren’t really in the same realm as kaiju. Gojira is big, Yog is cosmic.
Even if we disregard the big bads, I think that Nyarlathotep should be allowed, with a score that can only be expressed in scientific notation.
While she is more obscure than most of the villains mentioned so far, the first being I though of was the time-shifting cyborg assassin Rhadamanth Nemes from Dan Simmons’ Endymion and Rise of Endymion. High 90’s for sure.
I agree. Also, the other characters’ reaction to the sheer terror of his existence led to one of my favorite scenes in AtS, when Wesley comes to spring Faith from prison. Faith starts to protest, saying how she’s doing OK, and how prison is good for her, how she doesn’t want to get in any more trouble, until Wes says three words -
“Angelus is back.”
[Beat]
Faith: “Step away from the glass.”
Lucinda the fairy, from Ella Enchanted. (The movie at least, I haven’t read the original book)
Roaming magical fairy, a bit ditzy, possibly omnipotent. And she gives out magical gifts…but hers are flawed, more like curses. She’s like The Monkey’s Paw crossed with Glinda…but she has no idea she’s doing anything wrong. Further, she reacts badly if criticized.
She honestly scared the hell out of me, and I don’t scare easy. Most Lovecraftian cosmic horrors had nothing on her—Cthulhu doesn’t actively seek you out. Even Nyarlathotep doesn’t honestly think he’s doing you a favor.
Interrobang, the OP specified cinematic villains. Has there ever been an on-screen depiction of Lovecraft’s critters that was all that?
Right, she’s no villain, she’s a hero who goes into berserker mode, but the “touched” Lyta is several orders of magnitude scarier in that class.
Now, Bester… there’s someone vile, with a couple of multiplier factors – one, the sort of villainy that comes from being (or acting like) a True Believer who’s convinced that whatever suffering inflicted or moral boundaries crossed are righteous and necessary; another, that he can and will attack you and your allies by turning** you** into a traitor so you help destroy one another, and you won’t even know it yourself.
I think this counts because Inglourious Basterds was a fantasy. I found Hans Landa to be so terrifying that I don’t even like to watch Christoph Waltz in interviews.
Great scene, though I don’t think Faith was actually AFRAID of Angelus–at least, not at that point. She was confident that she could take him. Rather, she knew that Angelus was a threat the Fang Gang was not up to handling (she didn’t know about what’s-his-name, the emo kid), and that his return meant she could no longer afford the luxury of penance.
For me, it’s the Future Predators from Primeval. They really give me the willies. A strong 80 (85-89).
I fully expected people to ignore the OP’s stipulations, so I shan’t complain. But IG is quite obviously not the sort of fantasy the thread was intended for. There’s no magic, no science fiction: just history taking a different track.