# Most evil character in movies.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2004, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461 "2004-03-10T08:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/21 "2004-03-11T02:16:58Z")
Compared to Sadako from the original _Ring_, Samara’s second-rate evil. In the original, Sadako could kill people outright just with a thought while she was alive. Also, the way to remove the curse was different: you had to not only copy the tape, but show it to someone else. It’s like the pyramid scheme of deadly curses. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/22 "2004-03-11T12:04:19Z")
The lead nun in **The Magdalene Sisters** was a little cartoony, but she was pretty chilling. Oh, and the Mountain Men from **Deliverance**. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/23 "2004-03-11T14:07:35Z")
Ben Kingsley in “Sexy Beast”. Now THERE’S as reprehensible a human being as you’ll ever find. Also, Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter”. Eeew. He’s a bad man. ---
**Author:** ![dil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@dil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dil)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/24 "2004-03-11T14:45:55Z")
Inspector Javere (I have no idea how to spell that - sounds like Zja-vair) as played by Geoffrey Rush in the movie version of Les Mis. Although I guess he wasn’t diabolically EVIL or anything, but the way Rush played the character made him absolutely reprehensible. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/25 "2004-03-11T15:07:56Z")
Also Sejanus in _I, Claudius_, brilliantly played (IMHO) by Patrick Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/26 "2004-03-11T16:10:35Z")
C’mon! Doesn’t anyone have any feelings for [_this_](http://www.thesith.com/vader/extras/vader3.jpg) guy? Maybe the newer movies have whussified him a bit, but back when (before the newer crop of movies), this guy personified cool evil. “Apology accepted, Captain Needa.” Hoo Lordy! Don’t get much more evil than that. Who isn’t waiting for the punk to get his butt whupped just so we can see the baddest Man-In-Black ever? Forget the psycho’s. They know not what they do, what with the bad head-wiring and all. And supernatural evil, while certainly kinda scary, just don’t do much for me. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/27 "2004-03-11T16:21:30Z")
The girl’s father in Priest scared me more than any other villain in any film I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/28 "2004-03-11T18:05:52Z")
Whoops, I’m an idiot, the thread is titled ‘‘Most evil character in movies …’’ and \*I, Claudius \* was televised. Sejanus was still pretty darn evil, though. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/29 "2004-03-11T19:30:09Z")
Terminus Est: > [@](#): > > Can’t get more evil than personification of evil himself. Yes you can…in _South Park: Bigget, Longer and Uncut_, Saddam Hussein is quite clearly more evil than Satan. As for the OP, though, I’d vote for the Wicked Witch of the West from _Wizard of Oz_. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/30 "2004-03-11T22:05:57Z")
Gotta go with King Edward I from _Braveheart_: “Excuse me, Sire! Won’t the arrows hit our own troops?” “Yes…but we’ll hit theirs, as well!” ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461/31 "2004-03-11T23:03:28Z")
Iago (from _Othello_) is evil, all right… flat, but evil. So evil he doesn’t tell the world why he’s so evil. I guess that’s evil. Dark Helmet was pretty evil, too. “What?!? You went over my helmet?!?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-character-in-movies/233461.md?page=1)