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I just hate it when people put De Niro’s cartoonish Max Cady in these type of lists and completely ignore Robert Mitchum’s far more terrifying and far, far more realistic version. Not only that, I’d say the 80’s Cape Fear is one of Scorcese’s weakest movies and the original 60’s version is one of the single greatest crime dramas ever produced. Do yourself a favor and give that a watch. And Mitchum’s character in Night of the Hunter is even more sinister.
@@Stang2023exactly what I came to say. Too far from reality for me to feel any sense of dread or stakes in the film. Stacey’s character did not seem real at all. Compare that to No Country and Anton Chigurh, the entire film felt real and thus made the villain that much scarier as he was so meticulous and precise while moving around among normal people living their day to day lives.
Rutger Hauer's character in 'The Hitcher' actually served as the inspiration for The Joker in The Dark Knight. It's also one of Christopher Nolan's favorite movies. Btw, these are NOT the most terrifying psychopaths in movies, these are only the most well-known ones. Even some well-known ones are shockingly absent such as Amy Dunne from Gone Girl, Lou from Nightcrawler, Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction etc. If this comment gets 100 likes, I will start listing each one, especially one psychopath who makes Heath Ledger's Joker seem like his Mickey Mouse compared to him.
Ben Kingsley was brilliant in Sexy Beast, but he wasn't a psychopath. I'd argue that Teddy in the same movie (played by the always excellent Ian McShane) was the actual psychopath in that film :)
@@MrDarkweaver Hard disagree. Teddy was a sociopath, cold blooded but very much in control of his own emotions, very manipulative calculated kingpin which does require stability, and yes an excellent performance by McShane truly sinister. But Don was categorically psychopathic as much or more than any character from this vid's solid but incomplete list.
Patrick Bateman does not qualify for this list, as the movie makes it intentionally vague as to whether he is psychopathic, or psychotic, which are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DISORDERS THAT HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE ANOTHER. The film suggests that he is psychotic, exhibiting signs of schizophrenia, and that he imagined the whole thing, which makes him NOT a psychopath. However, he could be co-morbid, as it is possible to be both psychopathic AND psychotic, but there is nothing in the film to suggest this. Psychopathic or not, he is definitely a narcissist though, that is certain.
Impressive performance, but Norman Bates was not a psychopath. Mr. Bates, like the guy in "M", suffered from schizophrenia and a dissociative identity disorder.
Alex from Fatal Attraction, Asami from Audition, Billy Loomis from Scream, Jigsaw from The Saw franchise, Jackson from Red Eye and David from Fear should be on the list
Patrick Bateman was the most traumatizing Especially when he kills that street dog, we don't actually see it in close-ups, but hearing it yelping gave an idea of how much it suffered And the worst part is that it's not even certain whether it died on the spot or if it took hours to die out
The point about Patrick Bateman is that his psychotic behaviour is internal. What that means is the majority of the killings we see him commit are actually him fantasizing about murdering people.
Does Gordon Gekko remind anyone else of a certain ex-president? "He displays superficial charm, manipulation & a grandiose sense of self-worth." Sure seems familiar to me.
If you're referring to the grossly fat ex-president, he really doesn't have a lot of charm, but the manipulation and the delusions of grandiosity definitely fit.
@@leewagner2945 I'll take them wherever I please. If you don't like them, don't read my comments. By the way, I notice that I've gotten a lot of likes in the short time since I posted the comment.. At any rate, You are NOT going to tell me what I may or may not post.
@@leewagner2945 I'll post what I please, where I please. YOU are not my parent. You have no authority of any kind over me. And by the way, I've gotten a lot of likes since I posted that comment. I think you're outvoted. As if it matters.
Here are my top 10. 1. Brad Pitt as "Jeffery Goines" in "12 Monkeys" 2. Peter Stormare as "Gaear Grimsrud" in "Fargo" 3. Anthony Wong as "Wong Chi Hang" in "The Untold Story" 4. Alan Arkin as "Harry Roat" in "Wait Until Dark" 5. Rutker Hauer as "John Ryder" in "The Hitcher' 6. Jessica Walter as " Evelyn" in "Play Misty For Me" 7. Terry O'Quinn as "Jerry Blake" in "The Stepfather" 8. Tom Bergener as "Gary" in Looking For Mr. Goodbar" 9. Sean Penn as "Captain Tony Meserve" in "Casualties Of War" 10. Martin Landau as Bryon "Preacher" Sutcliff" in "Alone In The Dark" & you have to include Jack Nicholson as "Jack Torance" in "The Shining"
Amazing list, I couldn't agree with you more. John Ryder, Jerry Blake and Jack Torrance are my favorites and should be on this list. Also, Meserve and Clarke were amazing psychos in Casualties of War. Martin Landau was awesome and disturbing in Alone in the Dark. Also, like to add Pooh Bear from The Salton Sea and the entire cast of mutants in The Hills Have Eyes 2006. Also, Hans Gruber from Die Hard, Joshua Foss from Sudden Death, and Earl Blake from Ricochet and any movie with John Lithgow from Raising Cane to Johnny Skidmarks, to Cliffhanger, to Blow Out and Mr. Brooks, David LoPan from Big Trouble in Little China, Patrick Channing from The First Power and Lord Summersisle from The Wicker Man should be on this list.
Hannibal has been my favourite villain since I was 8 years old. Brian Cox, Mads Mikkelsen also did amazing work portraying the character, even the actor who played the younger version in Hannibal Rising. Anthony Hopkins was just magic. Just the way he perfected that stare while talking to Clarice, especially in the scene shown here at 16:48 with the wide angle closeup, combined with his chilling stone cold demeanour. 🥶🥶🥶
Have you read the books? Hannibal the book is particularly amazing and has an insane ending totally different that shows both Hannibal's psychopathy and cruelty toward someone he actually bonded with and had feelings (or at least his narcissistic interpretation of feelings) for.
Gary Oldman's Norman Stansfield in "Leon: The Professional" was sadly-overlooked here. Patrick Bateman is debatable, given that the film leaves it ambiguous as to whether he actually committed his crimes or if they were all in his head.
I agreed with the final 8 maybe not with the same positions. I would’ve liked to see Gary’s Oldmans Drexel Spivey in true romance in there. for just a few screen minutes he struck terror into your heart like few could.
You can add the killer couple from The Frighteners, the two leads from Surveillance, the little girl from The Bad Seed, David from The Good Son, and the girl from The Orphan. So creepy when they're evil kids 👀
I thought Jack Torrance of The Shining was a terrifying psychopath. Jack chopping doors with an axe and saying "Here's Johnny!' is the stand out scene of the Stanley Kubrick classic.
Doesn't count. He was a normal human being that became something else because of supernatural events. None of the psychos in this list needed THAT kickstart.
@@Scottie_SHe may be the supernatural being himself, I’d argue he wasn’t a “normal human” but I definitely agree he wasn’t near someone like Patrick Bateman
@@ljack-dr7kx Doctor Sleep makes it seem as though the hotel preys on people turning them evil and then "feeding" off their evil acts. BUT, the photo from the 1930s of Jack at a ball in the hotel was never really explained other than kinda seeming like he might be a reincarnation of a 'victim' of the hotel maybe. Either way Doctor Sleep was really interesting in its own way.
Fun fact 11:00 Kevin Spacey negotiated that he not be included in any promotional material, trailer or the poster for the film. His reason was if you read the cast (Pitt, Freeman, Paltrow) and you realize that Pitt and Freeman are playing the detectives+Paltrow the wife, you would deduce that Spacey was playing the killer. When he shows up to turn himself in, it’s the first time the audience sees Kevin Spacey.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! One thing I realized was how violent the recent movies have become, when compared to similar movies from the 70s/80s/90s.
Patrick Bateman kills several people: "Eh, they probably had it coming, anyway." Bateman kills a dog, and attempts to shove a cat through an ATM: "You monster, what did they ever do to you?!"
@@jamiethal1319 Well, in the infamous and obviously terrible sequel, American Psycho II: All American Girl, it is confirmed that Bateman actually committed the murders. But, the sequel, you know sucks and is not connected to the first film, a classic.
@@Jacoblikesfilms don't you hate it when sequels answer questions that didn't need to be answered, that may have even been best unanswered? That's why I hated Terrifier 2, Terrifier was great because we don't know anything about Art, it's just a deranged supernatural clown that starts chopping people to pieces for no known reason. The mystery makes it scary.
Holy crap…I just saw Training Day for the first time just last week! Man, that was a completely screwed up movie, and Denzel Washington’s portrayal of Alonzo Harris scared the crap out of me! 😳
Bonnie Bedelia's portrayal of Barbara Sabich in Presumed Innocent should be up there. She went through the entire film as an unsuspecting character but the when its revealed she was the murderer you can't help but just get chills knowing what she did
I think Chef Julien Slowik from The Menu should've made the list or at least been an honorable mention. He displays the textbook sense of charm and menace that people with psychopathy tend to display.
He genuinely doesn't think he's doing anything wrong, that's what made him so determined. He never once hesitated with the morality, because he thought he was doing the right thing.
Brian Cox's portrayal in Manhunter is far more realistic making him way scarier. Anthony Hopkins is like an over-the-top stereotypical Hollywood cartoon pantomime villain I could never take serious. I hate how the far superior movie Manhunter always gets overlooked :-)
It's pretty obscure, but one of my favorites is Cliff, from Accident Man. Because he's an idiot, completely insane, but barely smart enough to hack people to pieces with an axe. And he's very good at it.
i saw the coolest yt video ever called ENTER SANDMAN A MOVIE VILLAINS TRIBUTE by the vintage tribute...needs more views its so well done...glad they included some of my psychopath favs in it too like oliver lang and talented mr ripley
Actually technically Alonzo didn't plan to kill Jake right away. It was Jake refusing to take any money that made Alonzo make the phone call to Smiley. You can even hear him on the phone after that scene "yeah get the tub ready"
@@spacejam8765lmao, if his parent's death was a little more brutal, and he hadn't been trained by Al Gul, Bruce Wayne would have been Patrick Bateman🤣
@@infamouswickedjokestar lmao, I hope so. Because I don't think you're supposed to think the character is awesome. The performance is awesome, the movie is awesome. But the character himself is..... Morally dubious, to put it mildly.
And what about: Jimmy Reno From Road House 1 (1989) Alexander From Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man (1991) William "Wild Bill" Decaire From Road House 2 (2006) Lurtz From Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Charles "Scorpio" Davis From Dirty Harry 1 (1971) Karl Verski From Die Hard 1 (1988) Bennett From Commando (1985) Arthur Galt From Rambo 1: First Blood (1982) Clarence Boddicker From RoboCop 1 (1987) The Sawyer Family From the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-Movies (1974-1986) Freddy Krueger From the Nightmare on Elm Street-Movies (1984-1994) Frank Cotton From Hellraiser 1 and 2 (1987-1988)
Wolf creek where there in Australia and he tortures them in his shed? Yeah that guy was terrifying I guess he was based on a real serial killer who lived out there and killed backpackers
One thing about *Anton Chigurh* I caught on is the coin toss. Chigurh only uses it when killing is not business i.e. a target or his life and/or well-being are at stake.
I would add the giggling psychopathic Gestapo agent Toht from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Easily one of the most iconic movie villains. Rutger Hauer's John Ryder from The Hitcher is another terrifying movie psycho who deserves to be on this list, but I would add another costar of his... Gary Busey from Surviving the Game. Just listening to his seriously messed up story of his childhood dog is enough in itself for inclusion on this list.
Some of these are murderous psycho/socios, some are more over the top and even goofy and some are more realistic (like dirty cop types) Mark Walhberg as David - Fear David Hess as Krug - Last House on the Left Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro - Casino Jack Nicholson as Frank Castello - The Departed Larenz Tate as O-Dogg - Menace to Society Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher - Gangs of NY Tom Cruise as Vincent - Collateral Jason Isaacs as Col. Tavington - The Patriot George Clooney as Seth Gecko - From Dusk til Dawn Quentin Tarantino as Richie Gecko - From Dusk til Dawn Woody Harrelson as Mickey - Natural Born Killers Tom Sizemore as Jack Scaganetti - Natural Born Killers James Woods as Carl Panzram - Killer: A journal of a murder Macaulay Culkin as Henry - The Good Son Leo Fitzpatrick as Telly - Kids Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint/Kaiser Soze - The Usual Suspects Robert DeNiro as Dwight - This Boy's Life Rebecca deMornay as Ms Mott - The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown - New Jack City Alan Ford as Bricktop - Snatch Russell Crowe as Tom Cooper - Unhinged Nicholas Cage as Castor Troy - Face/Off Ellen Page as Haley - Hard Candy Patrick Wilson as Jeff - Hard Candy Some honorable mentions from TV: Ron Perlman as Clay Morrow - Sons of Anarchy Kim Stokes as Trig - Sons of Anarchy Brian Cranston as Walter White - Breaking Bad Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey - The Shield Joe Pantalioni as Ralph - Sopranos Chris Meloni as Chris Keller - OZ
As mentioned before, ”The Hitcher” with Rutger Hauer first came to mind when I saw the video title. Béatrice Dalles charachter in ”Inside”, Asami from ”Audition”.
Michael Rooker as Henry. He''s cunning and will probably never get caught... and all you have to do is be his victim is be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lester is the biggest idiotic sense. He openly describes his ventures. No psych patient would ever describe past crimes. For they would never be able to engage in it again
While not terrifying, two honorable mentions may be Max Zorin from A View to a Kill and Elektra King from The World is Not Enough, who in my opinion, are some of the most reprehensible Bond movie villains and both got exactly what they deserved.
If the Joker qualifies, so does 2007 Michael Myers and 2009 Jason Voorhees. There's nothing supernatural about those versions of the characters. They're just psychotic maniacs in those movies.
yeah I think this list conflates psychopaths, sociopaths, and psychotics. pychopaths are born not made and have no remorse, and colonel kurtz, norman bates, hans becker, and the joker, were either psychotic, sociopaths or just plain snapped.
King Longshanks from Braveheart threw his son's lover out of a window. He had no problem with his own men being hit by arrows as long as the opposing men were also hit.
I knew Anthony Hopkins' _Hannibal Lecter_ was going to be number one. When that movie was in theaters I had no interest in seeing it but once it came out on VHS (which was the style at the time) my younger brother insisted that I watch it (I had to like *_EVERYTHING_*_ he_ liked, though I don't for the life of me know why) and it was as dull as I suspected. Robert De Niro is far more terrifying as _Max Cady_ in "Cape Fear".
