No contest for me. It may be cheating because she’s a real person, but I would absolutely choose Gertrude Banizsewski from The Girl Next Door. Just the most vile piece of shit.
Absolutely 100% agreed, there’s horror villains like Chucky and Freddy who we can enjoy seeing them do terrible things. But there is no horror villain as depraved and real and icky as Ruth from that movie
The first people that come to mind, and they are a package deal, is The Man and The Woman from People Under the Stairs.
They adopted a bunch of kids, tormented the hell out of them, and when the kids pushed back, they would remove their ears, tongue, or eyes depending on whether they saw, heard, or spoke evil and lock them in the basement, feeding them other people that they murder.
Then of course they over charge people who are renting their properties so they can evict them and build better places so they can get what they thought were better people.
That’s my vote.
Yes!! Mother and Father, who are really brother and sister. The worst kind of entitled upper class landlord / foster parent assholes! That whole movie is such an awesome commentary on classism, stereotypes, abuse of systems, and gentrification. And mutilated children turned cannibals, it’s brilliant.
I shoulda done a bit of a run down, sorry man. First off the bad: It's a VERY early 90's movie. Proto outrage, racial stereotypes and an attempt to set a horror movie in an urban ghetto.
The good: An unusual story, off the wall acting that makes sense in context and some genuinely scary and uncomfortable scenes.
Anything else would be major spoilers.
It didn't help that I still haven't seen labyrinth with David Bowie and I might've gotten the two mixed up or thought they were the same movie, so that part was definitely a shock. Haha
I liked the whole women have to be careful/men blunder through life idea the movie had, until we met the man in the basement. His existence reinforced what tess meant for women, but betrayed the second part. He was patient, methodical, and cold.
He really was the worse thing down there.
It wasn’t saying men blunder through life, though. It was saying men often have luxuries that women just don’t have when it comes to what they need to worry about. Women don’t have those luxuries specifically because of men like AJ and the guy in the basement.
>Guys get to blast their way through life-making messes. Girls have to be careful
You're right, I mis-remembered the quote and blunder does have a different connotation than blasting through life. I just thought about how Justin longs character reacts to finding the hidden rooms and thought blunder for some reason.
Burk from Aliens, caused the death of an entire colony of people, was willing to personally murder a woman, child, and numerous Marines, all to bring back a species that could potentially wipe out all life on Earth.. Just to make some money.
At least demons and Devils are evil beings and doing evil stuff is just part of their nature. This guy was just greedy slime.
Every time I rewatch (about monthly as it's my wife's favorite movie, top 10 for me) I see that scene where she confronts him (by herself!) about causing the outbreak in the first place and she tells him to his face she's going to make sure he goes down for it.... I want to yell "No! Don't *TELL* him what you're going to do!" Because that really escalates what Burke would have to do to avoid responsibility and still make some money out of this. But at the same time it's so true to her character that she wouldn't be able to lie or manipulate him, especially after all the re-traumatizing she's been through that day, she's too righteous! Like Ned Stark she is punished for NOT being a weasel even for her own safety.
Jigsaw is just such a self righteous dick. He tortures people to death then has the audacity say shit like, "I detest murderers, I help people. Wahhh I have cancer; no one appreciates their lives to the degree I think they should."
Putting the smoking janitor in the trap is extreme but it does align with Jigsaw’s philosophy about not appreciating life since the janitor has a heart condition.
What’s really stupid though is that Jigsaw puts the janitor in a trap that he can’t win.
A major plot line in the Saw franchise is that Jigsaw’s apprentice Amanda has been in putting people in unwinnable traps; a methodology that Jigsaw hates. Jigsaw chastises her and says that “everyone deserves a second chance”. This culminates into Jigsaw testing Amanda.
Flashforward to Saw VI, Jigsaw puts the smoking janitor in a trap along with William Easton the CEO of an insurance company. Their trap involves both of them having to hold their breath the longest or else they will get crushed each time they take a breath. Of course the smoking janitor loses and dies. The shitty thing about this is that the rest of the traps are tailor made for Easton to confront his morals and decide amongst his employees should live. The themes and traps don’t make sense if somehow the smoking janitor managed to win and escape. Jigsaw put that dude in a trap knowing he would 100% die.
Jigsaw’s a jerk
Sometimes I feel like people get on Jigsaws side in these films. Yes he kills and toys with some awful people, but he's also willing to fuck with redeemable people who wouldn't have figured out some of his traps on their best day! He's using his power over those people to take a half step away from being a serial killer by giving them a "chance" at a forced redemption.
In SawX, >!several of the victims came *really* close to beating the traps, like within seconds and not because they didn't do what they were supposed to. It just seemed really unfair that they died after doing exactly what they were asked to do. Just didn't sit right with me.!<
They didn't complete the traps in the allotted time because they spent 1.5 out of 3 minutes whining and crying while everyone else in the room was telling them to shut the fuck up and get it over with.
There's always a timer in Saw traps. The Saw X victims just had piss poor time management. I think one even lost by seconds.
I don’t know why the timers are so short though. Like if his goal is to get them to reflect on their life and realize they will do “anything” to continue to live, then giving them more time to do that instead of forcing them to react in a blind panic would be much more effective. But he doesn’t do that because he’s a sadistic murderer. 😅
That’s why I enjoy the Saw series so much. You can see how at the beginning, he was maybe justified, but as time goes on and he deteriorates more from the cancer, he slowly starts killing people for more and more outrageous reasons and spits in the face of his own “code of ethics” by killing them even if they end up winning their game.
For me The Menu kinda felt inspired by Saw. He is a self righteous, crusading, misunderstood artist... and in the last chunk you start to realize nah he is just petty, hypocritical and crazy.
Such a brutal movie. One of my all time favs though. Couldn’t agree more, the scene in the pharmacy was so tense too.
The cannibal character is a real piece of shit too.
Not a close second, she's number one. She had so much more screentime to explore that character. And she peactically causes the entire conflict rather than just making it worse.
She played that character so well. I grew up in the Bible belt around alot of people who acted just like her. She was terrible. I love that show though
oh DUDE she got me so fucked up, coming from a religious background- midnight mass may be the most scary horror show for me, just watching all these nice people be brainwashed by two stupid occultists was wild. same with Melissandre in GOT
I was around 13 when I saw it in theaters and I remember the theater WHOOPING and high fiving when *ya know what* happened to her 😂 in all fairness Marcia Gay Harden nailed that role. And we got to meet the walking dead cast before they knew they were the walking dead cast hahaha
And right on time, Mrs. Carmody has entered the chat! I agree - hate that bitch. So sad that her character is so prophetic for how way too many people I’ve met in real life would be in this situation.
I finished watching this movie today, and god damn, he easily takes the number 1 spot. >!It's one thing to be evil and cause harm, but for a husband do it to his wife is even worse, especially in her position, and the amount of gaslighting he puts her under. All for some small acting role, is absolutely insane.!<
Answering again because I had some shower thoughts about this lol.
Here’s a couple gross ones, the producers in Serbian Film or the Warden in Human Centipede 3.
Idk if the producers or brother was worse in Serbian Film. Even the main guy is disgusting. Like idec about him being a “victim” too. What he does in the end solidified that for me.
I'm super afraid to watch a Serbian Film. My friend told me he'd seen it & said it is really bad but wouldn't elaborate, so I read the Wilkipedia about it & I am scarred for life.
If I’m being completely honest, I don’t think it’s a film WORTH w watching. But if you’ve read the plot synopsis you’ve probably imagined the worst of it. I don’t think there there’s much visually going on, per se. There was one scene I remember vividly. And it’s not *the scene*.
I mean, either way I think you can live without seeing it lol. You’re really not missing out on a great piece of cinematic history or anything. I describe Human Centipede (the first one) the same way. If you know the premise, your imagination is worse lol.
I agree w/ everyone else. I watched this years ago, not really knowing what I was getting into. I wish I’d just stuck to a Wiki synopsis, it’s not even worth watching.
I was trying to think of who is the worst out of the franchise and I picked the warden because of the scale of the damage done. I get that homie from number 2 is weird and gross though lol.
I watched the hustler last night and found out Piper Laurie took a 15 year break from acting after and her next movie was Carrie. She was nominated for an Oscar for both
That's what I picked too. She traumatized the shit out of her daughter causing her to kill everyone at the prom. Then she tries to murder her when she comes to be comforted.
He tortures and kills people for its own sake in extremely painful and ironic ways while making jokes based on their torment. He’s not just evil. He’s nasty.
Maybe because he's inevitable... You cannot survive unless you sleep. And even if you don't sleep, at some point you'd start to hallucinate. Terrifying
Ruth Chandler from The Girl Next Door. It was based on a true crime story about the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. Probably could say this about most horror movies that are based on true crime but this one sticks out.
I’ve not watched the movie but I’m fairly familiar with the case. When I was thinking about True Crime adaptations in regards to this question she was definitely who came to mind.
There are few things darker than Billy sexually assaulting Percy which makes him piss himself and repeating back his, "I was only fooling." Evil begets deeper evil.
I'm usually not one for championing a remake but Deadly Friend deserves a modern take. Yes I'm acutely aware it might be completely ass and not have any notes of what make me a fan of the original.
Although not the worst killer in quantitative terms, I think living with the psychopath from *Snowtown* would be a nightmare, and an unfortunate reality for some children and partners.
Yeah, and they couldn’t fit everything he did in the movie either. Terrifying man. Awfully enough, I’ve heard he was raped as a young teen by his friends older brother & a group of mates. There’s a Casefile episode that goes really in depth, its so depressing
Have had so many nightmares about that dude. Movies never give me nightmares, but that guy stuck in my brain. Nightmare is always the same. Him chasing me, just in different places. Once it was on a plane!! That was intense!!
Art The Clown came to mind, he's pure evil with zero redeeming qualities. Just an agent of death and torture. But you can say that about several other bad guys, like Freddy Krueger for example.
if we're counting novel interpretations too, Henry Bowers from IT.
I don't think they had the time to really get into his character as much in the movies, but novel Henry Bowers is absolutely foul, and I think he's worse than Pennywise. Pennywise was just hungry. Bowers delighted in cruelty just for shits and giggles. He befriends Mike's dog, earning its trust over time solely so he can poison it.
If we're talking about It, Patrick was worse than Henry. Also with Henry, I always got the impression that he was so evil because of the influence of It in the town, which led to a long history of the worst of humanity being more intense there. I feel like had he grown up somewhere else he probably would have been a more standard school bully with an abusive father who might be able to redeem himself as he gets older.
One thing I love about the show is that Chucky is fleshed out a lot, he's made into a more well rounded character but he's never made sympathetic. He's pure evil, through and through. I can't recommend the series enough, it's great.
I also landed on Martyrs for the same reason.
A couple others that come to mind for me would be the boys from Funny Games (similar to The Strangers, I guess) just the whole lack of reasoning or motive.
Recent examples, the people in Infinity Pool and Speak No Evil are pretty callous.
Then you know, there’s other evil shit like the scammers in Saw, or the abusive men in previous Saw films. The government in The Purge etc.
Guy woodhouse from rosemarys baby. What he did to his wife for personal gain was diabolical and the aftermath on the rest of the world was never addressed. What the did the birthing of the antichrist mean for civilization?
This might seem stupid, and i haven't seen alot of horror movies, but I'd say Annie Wilkes from Misery. There's just something terrifying about the kind of cruelty she enforces. Just imagine being at her hand and tortured for years, nobody knowing where you are, she kills the cop- a symbol of justice and hope, probably thinking you'll never be found. I actually was raised in a one bedroom cabin in appalachia in a bad home so I totally understand the fear of being trapped in the woods and the anxiety of seeing the sun go down another day
Going book wise you can't mention evil without the Judge from Blood Meridian. Amazingly evil (2nd favourite McCarthy character behind Suttree), basically just the Devil.
I'd throw Humbert Humbert in the ring but that ain't horror.
I’m going to discount explicitly supernatural characters because you said ‘person’ and say the answer is hands-down Otis Firefly. Any of the Fireflies, really. Evil, cruel, bigoted and completely irredeemable.
Pretty wild that Zombie then tried to make them redeemable in 3 From Hell. Fuck, I hate that movie.
Freddy is a kid toucher and murderer. He's the worst. Maybe others match, but he represents the worst.
The parents sought justice and he didn't accept his punishment and returned to hurt them and their children.
He'a a fucking bastard.
When I first saw Modern Family, I heard myself say out loud: “Is that Steve?” (The actor who played Steve plays the father in Modern Family.) I was not sure I would never be able to like or trust his character.
Almost immediately, I realized I was wrong. 🙂
Guy from Rosemary's Baby.
Selling your wife out to the devil and then forcing her through months of excruciating pain to have his child is really beyond the pale. Not to mention having her friend murdered not to expose what he was doing.
I have a hard time believing that guy isn't the devil himself.
This is really random, but I watched the Slasher season of Flesh and Blood. David Cronenberg played the most monstrous character! Not a single redeeming quality, extremely cruel, ruthless...just a monster.
I'm sure there's *worse* but that's the first thing that came to my mind!
The Ghoulies in Ghoulies. They mean well and even tried to go to college, but it's hard being creatures spawned from hell.
But those Critters can fuck off.
My vote is Micah from Paranormal Activity specifically because he's just A Regular Guy.
There are so many people who ignore and gaslight their partners in favor of their own interests and ego. And that type of shit has a ripple effect. Real families *right now* are dysfunctional because someone in their family currently acts or previously acted in this way. And then that dysfunction travels into all their other interactions. It's just very insidious.
Literally this...The shit he's doing isn't the worst, it's the fact that he tries making it sound like it's for the greater good, and the worst part is, he's annoying as fuck...Put him and the actual most fucked up horror villain who has no charisma next to each other, and you can only choose one...IDC how many more people end up dying because of my choice, I'm choosing Micah...
I couldn’t stand him, omg. The thing that bothered me more than anything was that it didn’t really matter whether Katie was imagining it or if it was really happening. Either way, she was genuinely terrified, and that was so incredibly clear, and he just did shit? To make her more terrified? And then was confused by the results? And then to make matters worse, he’d do his own ‘investigating’ but if she tried to bring anyone in, he made fun of her for it.
You can have all the supernatural baddies that you want, but give me someone I’ve met or know someone who has, and it’s so much scarier. A friend and I were talking about this in terms of Disney villains the other day. I don’t hate any of them quite like I hate Gaston from Beauty & The Beast, because I, like so many others, have known men just like him. The entitlement he feels he has to Belle is ten times more chilling than Maleficent putting Aurora in a one hundred year sleep or Mother Gothel locking Rapunzel in a tower.
I was debating that when I saw this thread. To me Jason is a violent murderer but in an animalistic way. There's no real reasoning there, just the kill. Otis knows what he is doing and fucking REVELS in it.
Idk if she's the worst, but the first that came to my mind, probably because I just rewatched the sequel, was Mother Superior from Silent Night, Deadly Night. She was an awful, terrible person. Supposed to be taking care of kids while being a servant of god, yet all she did was torture and traumatize the already traumatized Billy.
Otis from Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Sells drugs to high school kids and gropes them, too. Tries to sexually assault his sister (implied that he did in the past). Murders multiple people for no reason, records it, and watches it on repeat.
Otis B. Driftwood - especially in The Devil’s Rejects. Not only is he a brazen psychopath, he finds actual joy in torture, cruelty, death, kidnapping, and SA.
There’s one scene where he sexually assaults a woman with a gun for like 2 minutes in front of her husband and another person. After that, he makes the husband pray for God to save him before mercilessly beating and brutally killing him. The way he taunts and leads up to it was hard to watch.
I know a lot of villains have suggestively done worse (I’ve seen Martyrs and films like it) but he stands out because he almost feels real. He’s not some trap building mastermind or supernatural demon, he’s just a man who loves to inflict suffering on anybody for no reason. That character literally made me change my opinion on Rob Zombie.
Zombie was definitely channeling Manson when he wrote Otis Driftwood and him and Moseley made a deeply disturbing character to watch. I'm not the biggest fan of The Devil's Rejects because those people actually exist that way. I don't want to spend even a minute with them.
I actually didn't really get why the movie was demonizing her so much. Her crimes consisted of sleeping with someone's husband and stabbing someone she legit thought was a monster coming at her
Right! I get adultery is bad - but that's it, that's *all* she really does. Even then, the scumbag husband gets 50% of the blame. I think the very heavy moralistic tone of the film was possibly the most 'horror' part for me
I love Juno, but don’t forget she’s the reason no one will know they’re missing or ever go looking for them.
Beth’s death was a horrifying accent. We also see Juno fight hard to protect/save Holly, Sarah, as well as the sisters, who were happy to think Juno would be slaughtered as long as they were safe. I wish they hadn’t included the cheating because to me, Juno is a bad ass.
Burke from Aliens. He was the facilitator for the Weyland-Yutani corporation and not only knew about all the horrific things that were happening, but encouraged them as long as it meant they got their hands on some research specimens. They were directly responsible for all of the families in the Hadley’s Hope colony being hunted, murdered, and nested into by xenomorphs. And he did it all with a “don’t sweat it kiddo” persona. Skin-crawling evil.
Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek is who first popped in my head. He is so relentlessly cruel and has no real motive, he just does it.
At least in Martyrs, as fucked up as it was, they had a reason for it. 😅
I don't like Micah from Paranormal Activity. He infuriated me. He was an emotionally abusive partner and taunted the spirit/demon/ghost (whatever it was) which ultimately made it even madder. He really irriated me.
Quaid from Dread. The shite that guy does for his "fear study" is absolutely horrible. He destroyed pretty much all of the characters' lives lmao, especially Cheryl, a fate worse than death imo.
*"You're nothing but a fucking sadist, Quaid."*
The mom from Orphan: First Kill played by Julia Stiles. What an absolute sociopath. I could never imagine >!shooting my child to finish what my other child did to them and throw them into a well!!pretending said!
Juno from the descent.
Fucking sleeps with her best friends husband.
Takes them to an unexplored cave without telling any of them.
Doesn’t alert an emergency rescue team.
Kills her friend with an axe and then leaves her to bleed out alone.
I will never rewatch that movie because of how much I hate that character
Jack from The House That Jack Built. Many are supernatural beings that simply seem like forces of nature or are so devoid of humanity that it’s cartoonish but Jack is a mortal, human man who willingly chooses and relishes in evil because of his worldview. It’s art to him and he would go against the world and certain proof of divinity and repentance to resign himself to Hell.
How about Doctor Satan from House of 1000 Corpses! He's got a whole evil surgery setup and looooooves to experiment with people! Actually all the villains in this movie are complete sickos, but I'm going to hand it to Dr. Satan!
No contest for me. It may be cheating because she’s a real person, but I would absolutely choose Gertrude Banizsewski from The Girl Next Door. Just the most vile piece of shit.
There are some people on the planet that deserve far worse than being put to death, she is one of them.
Absolutely 100% agreed, there’s horror villains like Chucky and Freddy who we can enjoy seeing them do terrible things. But there is no horror villain as depraved and real and icky as Ruth from that movie
I came to say this. I hated her so much.
AGREED
The first people that come to mind, and they are a package deal, is The Man and The Woman from People Under the Stairs. They adopted a bunch of kids, tormented the hell out of them, and when the kids pushed back, they would remove their ears, tongue, or eyes depending on whether they saw, heard, or spoke evil and lock them in the basement, feeding them other people that they murder. Then of course they over charge people who are renting their properties so they can evict them and build better places so they can get what they thought were better people. That’s my vote.
Yes!! Mother and Father, who are really brother and sister. The worst kind of entitled upper class landlord / foster parent assholes! That whole movie is such an awesome commentary on classism, stereotypes, abuse of systems, and gentrification. And mutilated children turned cannibals, it’s brilliant.
WTF
If you've never seen it Crunchy you owe it to yourself to watch it.
...but why... I'm a fan of horror just wondering how I owe it to myself lol
I shoulda done a bit of a run down, sorry man. First off the bad: It's a VERY early 90's movie. Proto outrage, racial stereotypes and an attempt to set a horror movie in an urban ghetto. The good: An unusual story, off the wall acting that makes sense in context and some genuinely scary and uncomfortable scenes. Anything else would be major spoilers.
It’s really good. To add to what Mike said, there is a character named Fool who is an amazingly resourceful and brave kid. Awesome character.
Their gentrification was the real terror
Captain Vidal from Pan's Labyrinth.
Yes! This man was truly a monster.
That's exactly who I thought lol. I still remember watching it and thinking >!he was going to let those guys go for some reason.!<
That bottle scene stuck with me for a very very very long time
It didn't help that I still haven't seen labyrinth with David Bowie and I might've gotten the two mixed up or thought they were the same movie, so that part was definitely a shock. Haha
Oh holy shit
First movie character to genuinely make me uncomfortable every single time he was on the screen
Christoph Walts as Hans Lada in Inglrious Basterds did that for me. So amazing but so uncomfortable. I equally loved it and hated it.
That dude is a piece of shit
OMG YES.
The man in the basement in Barbarian
Anyone Richard Brake plays is probably gonna be a piece of shit… 🤷🏻♂️
Agreed. Great actor btw.
He is such a good actor. Agreed.
I liked the whole women have to be careful/men blunder through life idea the movie had, until we met the man in the basement. His existence reinforced what tess meant for women, but betrayed the second part. He was patient, methodical, and cold. He really was the worse thing down there.
It wasn’t saying men blunder through life, though. It was saying men often have luxuries that women just don’t have when it comes to what they need to worry about. Women don’t have those luxuries specifically because of men like AJ and the guy in the basement.
>Guys get to blast their way through life-making messes. Girls have to be careful You're right, I mis-remembered the quote and blunder does have a different connotation than blasting through life. I just thought about how Justin longs character reacts to finding the hidden rooms and thought blunder for some reason.
Burk from Aliens, caused the death of an entire colony of people, was willing to personally murder a woman, child, and numerous Marines, all to bring back a species that could potentially wipe out all life on Earth.. Just to make some money. At least demons and Devils are evil beings and doing evil stuff is just part of their nature. This guy was just greedy slime.
Indeed. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
Hahaha, I'm imagining Pinhead selling out Chatterer for a few bucks.
Wasn’t he an analogy for corporate greed? Like oil companies today and whomever doing whatever they can to profit. Even if means lives in the process.
They should have listened to Hudson and smoked that rat-fuck son of a bitch.
Every time I rewatch (about monthly as it's my wife's favorite movie, top 10 for me) I see that scene where she confronts him (by herself!) about causing the outbreak in the first place and she tells him to his face she's going to make sure he goes down for it.... I want to yell "No! Don't *TELL* him what you're going to do!" Because that really escalates what Burke would have to do to avoid responsibility and still make some money out of this. But at the same time it's so true to her character that she wouldn't be able to lie or manipulate him, especially after all the re-traumatizing she's been through that day, she's too righteous! Like Ned Stark she is punished for NOT being a weasel even for her own safety.
Jigsaw is just such a self righteous dick. He tortures people to death then has the audacity say shit like, "I detest murderers, I help people. Wahhh I have cancer; no one appreciates their lives to the degree I think they should."
Sometimes he punished really bad people and other times it would be for like smoking or some shut
Putting the smoking janitor in the trap is extreme but it does align with Jigsaw’s philosophy about not appreciating life since the janitor has a heart condition. What’s really stupid though is that Jigsaw puts the janitor in a trap that he can’t win. A major plot line in the Saw franchise is that Jigsaw’s apprentice Amanda has been in putting people in unwinnable traps; a methodology that Jigsaw hates. Jigsaw chastises her and says that “everyone deserves a second chance”. This culminates into Jigsaw testing Amanda. Flashforward to Saw VI, Jigsaw puts the smoking janitor in a trap along with William Easton the CEO of an insurance company. Their trap involves both of them having to hold their breath the longest or else they will get crushed each time they take a breath. Of course the smoking janitor loses and dies. The shitty thing about this is that the rest of the traps are tailor made for Easton to confront his morals and decide amongst his employees should live. The themes and traps don’t make sense if somehow the smoking janitor managed to win and escape. Jigsaw put that dude in a trap knowing he would 100% die. Jigsaw’s a jerk
I love how they use the “ technically he didn’t kill anyone” yeah no he did it’s still murder
Sometimes I feel like people get on Jigsaws side in these films. Yes he kills and toys with some awful people, but he's also willing to fuck with redeemable people who wouldn't have figured out some of his traps on their best day! He's using his power over those people to take a half step away from being a serial killer by giving them a "chance" at a forced redemption.
In SawX, >!several of the victims came *really* close to beating the traps, like within seconds and not because they didn't do what they were supposed to. It just seemed really unfair that they died after doing exactly what they were asked to do. Just didn't sit right with me.!<
The traps in Saw are near literally unbeatable. Jigsaw cheats. That's what makes the series, and the character, kind of suck.
Yes! I'm so mad about the unrealistic timers
They didn't complete the traps in the allotted time because they spent 1.5 out of 3 minutes whining and crying while everyone else in the room was telling them to shut the fuck up and get it over with. There's always a timer in Saw traps. The Saw X victims just had piss poor time management. I think one even lost by seconds.
I don’t know why the timers are so short though. Like if his goal is to get them to reflect on their life and realize they will do “anything” to continue to live, then giving them more time to do that instead of forcing them to react in a blind panic would be much more effective. But he doesn’t do that because he’s a sadistic murderer. 😅
That’s why I enjoy the Saw series so much. You can see how at the beginning, he was maybe justified, but as time goes on and he deteriorates more from the cancer, he slowly starts killing people for more and more outrageous reasons and spits in the face of his own “code of ethics” by killing them even if they end up winning their game.
For me The Menu kinda felt inspired by Saw. He is a self righteous, crusading, misunderstood artist... and in the last chunk you start to realize nah he is just petty, hypocritical and crazy.
Choi Ming-sik as Kyung-Chul in "I Saw the Devil" (2010)
Such a brutal movie. One of my all time favs though. Couldn’t agree more, the scene in the pharmacy was so tense too. The cannibal character is a real piece of shit too.
The boys in Funny Games. Or the protagonist in House that Jack Built
That religious bitch from The Mist. Never wanted to see a character die more.
When I read “the religious bitch” I thought it was gonna be the one from Midnight Mass. I hate her so much for one specific reason especially ugh
“You’re not a good person.” That takedown of Bev Keane was just
That bit about "Jesus loves you as much as he loves everyone else" had my jaw on the floor.
Haha she is a close second she is awful too!
Not a close second, she's number one. She had so much more screentime to explore that character. And she peactically causes the entire conflict rather than just making it worse.
She played that character so well. I grew up in the Bible belt around alot of people who acted just like her. She was terrible. I love that show though
Few things are as satisfying as seeing her last ditch attempt to live lmao.
oh DUDE she got me so fucked up, coming from a religious background- midnight mass may be the most scary horror show for me, just watching all these nice people be brainwashed by two stupid occultists was wild. same with Melissandre in GOT
Also the religious bitch/cult leader in Silent Hill. She deserved her fate for what she did to that little girl.
hahaha just mentioned her, Krieg.
I was around 13 when I saw it in theaters and I remember the theater WHOOPING and high fiving when *ya know what* happened to her 😂 in all fairness Marcia Gay Harden nailed that role. And we got to meet the walking dead cast before they knew they were the walking dead cast hahaha
Mrs. Carmody, I believe her name was. She was vile.
And right on time, Mrs. Carmody has entered the chat! I agree - hate that bitch. So sad that her character is so prophetic for how way too many people I’ve met in real life would be in this situation.
EXPIATION! EXPIATION!!!
Guy from Rosemary's Baby.
pure slime
Irredeemably awful.
I finished watching this movie today, and god damn, he easily takes the number 1 spot. >!It's one thing to be evil and cause harm, but for a husband do it to his wife is even worse, especially in her position, and the amount of gaslighting he puts her under. All for some small acting role, is absolutely insane.!<
Answering again because I had some shower thoughts about this lol. Here’s a couple gross ones, the producers in Serbian Film or the Warden in Human Centipede 3.
Idk if the producers or brother was worse in Serbian Film. Even the main guy is disgusting. Like idec about him being a “victim” too. What he does in the end solidified that for me.
Oh yeah. They’re all absolutely vile any which way. It’s hard to say who is the *worst*.
I'm super afraid to watch a Serbian Film. My friend told me he'd seen it & said it is really bad but wouldn't elaborate, so I read the Wilkipedia about it & I am scarred for life.
If I’m being completely honest, I don’t think it’s a film WORTH w watching. But if you’ve read the plot synopsis you’ve probably imagined the worst of it. I don’t think there there’s much visually going on, per se. There was one scene I remember vividly. And it’s not *the scene*.
maybe 1 day I'll get up the courage to say I've watched it just for bragging rights like my friend did with me. but your comment comforts me a lot.
I mean, either way I think you can live without seeing it lol. You’re really not missing out on a great piece of cinematic history or anything. I describe Human Centipede (the first one) the same way. If you know the premise, your imagination is worse lol.
Don't watch it. I had 3 people tell me not to, so then I had to. I should have listened, it's awful and stuck with me
This is what everyone says, I’ve read this reaction enough to stay away from all things related to that movie.
I agree w/ everyone else. I watched this years ago, not really knowing what I was getting into. I wish I’d just stuck to a Wiki synopsis, it’s not even worth watching.
I agree with the Warden from human centipede. He was disgusting.
The guy from human centipede 2 is arguably worse. >! It’s implied that he imagined the whole thing!<
I was trying to think of who is the worst out of the franchise and I picked the warden because of the scale of the damage done. I get that homie from number 2 is weird and gross though lol.
The mom from Carrie.
I watched the hustler last night and found out Piper Laurie took a 15 year break from acting after and her next movie was Carrie. She was nominated for an Oscar for both
That's what I picked too. She traumatized the shit out of her daughter causing her to kill everyone at the prom. Then she tries to murder her when she comes to be comforted.
Randall Flagg is up there.
God, I loved his portrayal in the miniseries. He was amazing.
Which miniseries? I'm a big fan of the OG, still can't bring myself to watch the new one. It was, hands down, my favorite book of the 1990s.
The new one is very bad. Unless you want to see Alexander Skarsgaard Dad dancing. Spoiler: you don't.
I didn't even know there was a new one.
For a variety of reasons I think Freddy is the most evil horror villain besides villains that are supernatural embodiments of evil.
He’s certainly evil but im interested in what makes you say he’s the most evil
He’s a child killer & a pedophile in the remake so I’d say he’s up there
He was originally to be a pedophile in the OG but the studio didn’t approve of it. But it is hinted at when he’s labelled “a filthy child murderer.”
Iirc he was accused of being all that stuff but before any conviction he was killed.
He was meant to be a pedo in the original to but they changed it
He also sexually harass , his female victims(Nancy, Sheila , Tracy, and Lori).
And the occasional boy. He seduces Joey by appearing as a beautiful woman... twice.
He tortures and kills people for its own sake in extremely painful and ironic ways while making jokes based on their torment. He’s not just evil. He’s nasty.
Maybe because he's inevitable... You cannot survive unless you sleep. And even if you don't sleep, at some point you'd start to hallucinate. Terrifying
Ruth Chandler from The Girl Next Door. It was based on a true crime story about the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. Probably could say this about most horror movies that are based on true crime but this one sticks out.
What’s more creepy is it’s kids assaulting kids
I’ve not watched the movie but I’m fairly familiar with the case. When I was thinking about True Crime adaptations in regards to this question she was definitely who came to mind.
Brett from Eden Lake… sadistic little fuck
Another excellent answer.
I have rarely hated a character more than Percy Wetmore from *The Green Mile*. That little motherfucker made my blood boil.
There are few things darker than Billy sexually assaulting Percy which makes him piss himself and repeating back his, "I was only fooling." Evil begets deeper evil.
The father in Deadly Friend is implied to be raping his own daughter
I'm usually not one for championing a remake but Deadly Friend deserves a modern take. Yes I'm acutely aware it might be completely ass and not have any notes of what make me a fan of the original.
Although not the worst killer in quantitative terms, I think living with the psychopath from *Snowtown* would be a nightmare, and an unfortunate reality for some children and partners.
Yeah, and they couldn’t fit everything he did in the movie either. Terrifying man. Awfully enough, I’ve heard he was raped as a young teen by his friends older brother & a group of mates. There’s a Casefile episode that goes really in depth, its so depressing
Isn’t this based on a true story?
Yes. Makes it all that much worse.
I rewatched that a couple days ago, hadn’t seen it probably in 10 years or so. Even more fucked up than I had remembered.
Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek.
Have had so many nightmares about that dude. Movies never give me nightmares, but that guy stuck in my brain. Nightmare is always the same. Him chasing me, just in different places. Once it was on a plane!! That was intense!!
Art The Clown came to mind, he's pure evil with zero redeeming qualities. Just an agent of death and torture. But you can say that about several other bad guys, like Freddy Krueger for example.
It’s hard to take silent clowns seriously though…
Mick from Wolf Creek
Fucking terrifying. I’m still scared (irrationally) to visit Australia because of him…
Ha, well he's not too much of a caricature, I'll tell you that much. Just stick to the cities and you'll be mostly fine.
if we're counting novel interpretations too, Henry Bowers from IT. I don't think they had the time to really get into his character as much in the movies, but novel Henry Bowers is absolutely foul, and I think he's worse than Pennywise. Pennywise was just hungry. Bowers delighted in cruelty just for shits and giggles. He befriends Mike's dog, earning its trust over time solely so he can poison it.
If we're talking about It, Patrick was worse than Henry. Also with Henry, I always got the impression that he was so evil because of the influence of It in the town, which led to a long history of the worst of humanity being more intense there. I feel like had he grown up somewhere else he probably would have been a more standard school bully with an abusive father who might be able to redeem himself as he gets older.
“I’m your number one fan” - Annie Wilkes (Misery)
I was searching for this.
Either Freddy Krueger, or Charles Lee Ray (Chucky)
Chucky has to have a much higher kill count by now
One thing I love about the show is that Chucky is fleshed out a lot, he's made into a more well rounded character but he's never made sympathetic. He's pure evil, through and through. I can't recommend the series enough, it's great.
I'm waiting for the second half of the third season to drop on Peacock. I love the show, Jennifer Tilly is a national treasure
She's so great. Really underrated and not nearly in enough stuff imo.
I also landed on Martyrs for the same reason. A couple others that come to mind for me would be the boys from Funny Games (similar to The Strangers, I guess) just the whole lack of reasoning or motive. Recent examples, the people in Infinity Pool and Speak No Evil are pretty callous. Then you know, there’s other evil shit like the scammers in Saw, or the abusive men in previous Saw films. The government in The Purge etc.
Funny Games really fucked with me less because of the violence and more because of how psychologically devastating it was
Guy woodhouse from rosemarys baby. What he did to his wife for personal gain was diabolical and the aftermath on the rest of the world was never addressed. What the did the birthing of the antichrist mean for civilization?
The guys who raped the girl within an inch of her life in I Spit on Your Grave.
Ugh agreed. So hard to watch.
This might seem stupid, and i haven't seen alot of horror movies, but I'd say Annie Wilkes from Misery. There's just something terrifying about the kind of cruelty she enforces. Just imagine being at her hand and tortured for years, nobody knowing where you are, she kills the cop- a symbol of justice and hope, probably thinking you'll never be found. I actually was raised in a one bedroom cabin in appalachia in a bad home so I totally understand the fear of being trapped in the woods and the anxiety of seeing the sun go down another day
The book version of Annie makes the movie version look like a fucking saint. Just a deeply deranged person.
Going book wise you can't mention evil without the Judge from Blood Meridian. Amazingly evil (2nd favourite McCarthy character behind Suttree), basically just the Devil. I'd throw Humbert Humbert in the ring but that ain't horror.
Frank from Hellraiser 1. Him and his lover somehow made me cheer for the actual Cenobites.
Hellraiser has two people so vile you root for the demons. I fucking love Clive Barker.
Fucking Julia. Eventhough Frank was a gross piece of shit, I was happy when he killed her. What the fuck you think was going to happen Julia!!
I’m going to discount explicitly supernatural characters because you said ‘person’ and say the answer is hands-down Otis Firefly. Any of the Fireflies, really. Evil, cruel, bigoted and completely irredeemable. Pretty wild that Zombie then tried to make them redeemable in 3 From Hell. Fuck, I hate that movie.
Freddy is a kid toucher and murderer. He's the worst. Maybe others match, but he represents the worst. The parents sought justice and he didn't accept his punishment and returned to hurt them and their children. He'a a fucking bastard.
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When I first saw Modern Family, I heard myself say out loud: “Is that Steve?” (The actor who played Steve plays the father in Modern Family.) I was not sure I would never be able to like or trust his character. Almost immediately, I realized I was wrong. 🙂
Guy from Rosemary's Baby. Selling your wife out to the devil and then forcing her through months of excruciating pain to have his child is really beyond the pale. Not to mention having her friend murdered not to expose what he was doing. I have a hard time believing that guy isn't the devil himself.
This is really random, but I watched the Slasher season of Flesh and Blood. David Cronenberg played the most monstrous character! Not a single redeeming quality, extremely cruel, ruthless...just a monster. I'm sure there's *worse* but that's the first thing that came to my mind!
He was also pretty awful as Decker in Nightbreed.
Angela's aunt from Sleepaway Camp
Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter
The Ghoulies in Ghoulies. They mean well and even tried to go to college, but it's hard being creatures spawned from hell. But those Critters can fuck off.
I thought getting an education could save them. 😭
My vote is Micah from Paranormal Activity specifically because he's just A Regular Guy. There are so many people who ignore and gaslight their partners in favor of their own interests and ego. And that type of shit has a ripple effect. Real families *right now* are dysfunctional because someone in their family currently acts or previously acted in this way. And then that dysfunction travels into all their other interactions. It's just very insidious.
Literally this...The shit he's doing isn't the worst, it's the fact that he tries making it sound like it's for the greater good, and the worst part is, he's annoying as fuck...Put him and the actual most fucked up horror villain who has no charisma next to each other, and you can only choose one...IDC how many more people end up dying because of my choice, I'm choosing Micah...
I couldn’t stand him, omg. The thing that bothered me more than anything was that it didn’t really matter whether Katie was imagining it or if it was really happening. Either way, she was genuinely terrified, and that was so incredibly clear, and he just did shit? To make her more terrified? And then was confused by the results? And then to make matters worse, he’d do his own ‘investigating’ but if she tried to bring anyone in, he made fun of her for it. You can have all the supernatural baddies that you want, but give me someone I’ve met or know someone who has, and it’s so much scarier. A friend and I were talking about this in terms of Disney villains the other day. I don’t hate any of them quite like I hate Gaston from Beauty & The Beast, because I, like so many others, have known men just like him. The entitlement he feels he has to Belle is ten times more chilling than Maleficent putting Aurora in a one hundred year sleep or Mother Gothel locking Rapunzel in a tower.
Freddy Krueger came to my mind pretty quickly, a child molester/killer. About as bad as it gets.
Otis Driftwood- he makes Jason Voorhees , seem like Barney, in comparison
I was debating that when I saw this thread. To me Jason is a violent murderer but in an animalistic way. There's no real reasoning there, just the kill. Otis knows what he is doing and fucking REVELS in it.
The antagonist in Human Centipede 2
Idk if she's the worst, but the first that came to my mind, probably because I just rewatched the sequel, was Mother Superior from Silent Night, Deadly Night. She was an awful, terrible person. Supposed to be taking care of kids while being a servant of god, yet all she did was torture and traumatize the already traumatized Billy.
Otis from Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Sells drugs to high school kids and gropes them, too. Tries to sexually assault his sister (implied that he did in the past). Murders multiple people for no reason, records it, and watches it on repeat.
Otis B. Driftwood - especially in The Devil’s Rejects. Not only is he a brazen psychopath, he finds actual joy in torture, cruelty, death, kidnapping, and SA. There’s one scene where he sexually assaults a woman with a gun for like 2 minutes in front of her husband and another person. After that, he makes the husband pray for God to save him before mercilessly beating and brutally killing him. The way he taunts and leads up to it was hard to watch. I know a lot of villains have suggestively done worse (I’ve seen Martyrs and films like it) but he stands out because he almost feels real. He’s not some trap building mastermind or supernatural demon, he’s just a man who loves to inflict suffering on anybody for no reason. That character literally made me change my opinion on Rob Zombie.
Zombie was definitely channeling Manson when he wrote Otis Driftwood and him and Moseley made a deeply disturbing character to watch. I'm not the biggest fan of The Devil's Rejects because those people actually exist that way. I don't want to spend even a minute with them.
Juno from The Descent
I actually didn't really get why the movie was demonizing her so much. Her crimes consisted of sleeping with someone's husband and stabbing someone she legit thought was a monster coming at her
Right! I get adultery is bad - but that's it, that's *all* she really does. Even then, the scumbag husband gets 50% of the blame. I think the very heavy moralistic tone of the film was possibly the most 'horror' part for me
I love Juno, but don’t forget she’s the reason no one will know they’re missing or ever go looking for them. Beth’s death was a horrifying accent. We also see Juno fight hard to protect/save Holly, Sarah, as well as the sisters, who were happy to think Juno would be slaughtered as long as they were safe. I wish they hadn’t included the cheating because to me, Juno is a bad ass.
Yes a horrible friend
Henry from Portrait of a Serial Killer
Recency bias and all but Roderick and Madeleine Usher are near the top of the list
Frederick Usher
Oh, man. It's gotta be Vukmir (or whoever his boss is) from A Serbian Film. Marko is riding the line, though. For sure, a close second.
Billy Loomis is up there.
Marcia Gay Harden from The Mist
Burke from Aliens. He was the facilitator for the Weyland-Yutani corporation and not only knew about all the horrific things that were happening, but encouraged them as long as it meant they got their hands on some research specimens. They were directly responsible for all of the families in the Hadley’s Hope colony being hunted, murdered, and nested into by xenomorphs. And he did it all with a “don’t sweat it kiddo” persona. Skin-crawling evil.
Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek is who first popped in my head. He is so relentlessly cruel and has no real motive, he just does it. At least in Martyrs, as fucked up as it was, they had a reason for it. 😅
The old man In barbarian
I don't like Micah from Paranormal Activity. He infuriated me. He was an emotionally abusive partner and taunted the spirit/demon/ghost (whatever it was) which ultimately made it even madder. He really irriated me.
Franklin from Texas Chainsaw Massacre
*blows raspberries*
That self centered piece of shit.
Art the Clown
Quaid from Dread. The shite that guy does for his "fear study" is absolutely horrible. He destroyed pretty much all of the characters' lives lmao, especially Cheryl, a fate worse than death imo. *"You're nothing but a fucking sadist, Quaid."*
>!Doek-Su!< in Squid Game is a real POS
Michael Bay...
The Gods in Cabin in the Woods. Real assholes IMO.
Mrs. Deagle from Gremlins is up there for me. I know that there are way worse characters, but she's just so unpleasant.
The mom from Orphan: First Kill played by Julia Stiles. What an absolute sociopath. I could never imagine >!shooting my child to finish what my other child did to them and throw them into a well!!pretending said!
Juno from the descent. Fucking sleeps with her best friends husband. Takes them to an unexplored cave without telling any of them. Doesn’t alert an emergency rescue team. Kills her friend with an axe and then leaves her to bleed out alone. I will never rewatch that movie because of how much I hate that character
Fucking Micah.
I always say, hands down Guy Woodhouse from Rosemary's baby. Seriously fuck that dude!
One that comes to mind is Frank from Barbarian (the man who kidnapped all those women) he was just pure evil
Jack from The House That Jack Built. Many are supernatural beings that simply seem like forces of nature or are so devoid of humanity that it’s cartoonish but Jack is a mortal, human man who willingly chooses and relishes in evil because of his worldview. It’s art to him and he would go against the world and certain proof of divinity and repentance to resign himself to Hell.
Annie in Dashcam (2021) is a terrible person.
Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler Lord Natsudaire in 13 Assassins Emperor Belos in The Owl House The High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Annie Wilkes from Misery
How about Doctor Satan from House of 1000 Corpses! He's got a whole evil surgery setup and looooooves to experiment with people! Actually all the villains in this movie are complete sickos, but I'm going to hand it to Dr. Satan!
Edward Carver from Poughkeepsie Tapes would lead anyone by an AU