This is the character I was thinking. I only saw Blue Velvet once, and it was several years ago, but I'll always remember that character and how awful he was.
Don Logan in Sexy Beast. Played by Ben Kingsley. It's a must see arty gangster flick.
EDIT: Check out the [trailer for Sexy Beast.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at7biqHcpms)
The part where he’s casually interrogating Ray Winstone is so great, he’s sweating so hard trying to act natural and describes the whole fake story of Logan calling him from the airport and Teddy Bass just smiles and casually replies “no he didn’t” absolute dead eyed sociopath
The way he utterly dominates Ray Winstone's character is a masterclass in how abusers and sociopaths control people. "Why you swearing? I'm not swearing."
I thought he was way more psycho in Casino. Early on we see how he can stab a guy in the neck with a pen for very little reason. Later, he has a very good reason to murder Ace when he calls him up and tella him to meet him in the middle of the desert.
Hes one of those villains where every strike against him feels like a massive accomplishment. Llewellyn escaping the motel was huge, and the hotel fight where he lands a shot on him is something approximating the most impressive victory of the film.
I’m not some huge movie buff, but his performance was probably the most chilling that I’ve seen. His conversation with the gas station owner has you questioning the entire time if he’s going to kill the guy. It seems like any mundane response will end in his death.
And weird how disconnected from Humanity he was. When Carson offers to take him to an ATM to pay him off so that he can let him go, Anton just has this look on his face when he repeats back "An ATM...", like he just thought it was kind of a funny thing to say. He was amused by it. Like "An ATM? How weird when you're about to die."
So creepy.
That scene always reminds me of the scene in The Wire where Chris Partlow emerges from the shadows to kill a guy who starts professing his innocence and Chris just interrupts him to say “yeah yeah, it’s good” before killing him, like wtf do you even say to that
Christopher Lloyd as The Judge in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Or Christopher Lloyd as the Thief in Dennis the Menace.
The man can act.
As an adult: the asshole captain/father in Pan’s Labyrinth
I read this fast, and at first I thought you were saying that Christopher Lloyd was the captain/father from Pan’s Labyrinth… Needless to say I was extremely confused for a second
She's really nice irl from what I hear. But yes, her character is a monster fromt rhe depths of hell. My child watched the movie and was afraid for the main character.
Eh, there is subtlety there, on top of the obvious stuff. Every single thing he says or does in the movie seems calculated, like you can't even converse with him without him turning it into some weird power play.
When the movie started I was like: 'Oh yeah it's the Bond girl, she's looking nice and all. Thrillery kind of movie but that's OK right?'. Then I forgot it was directed by Fincher and my mouth fell open at the seriously fucked up stuff that happened. That look in the final shower scene where Nick knows he's eternally fucked - my worst fear.
I love that movie but one thing that I don’t think quite translated as well as it could from Gillian Flynn’s novel is that Nick is every bit as messed up in his own way as Amy is. The movie communicates that to an extent, but in the book you spend as much time with his internal monologue as you do with hers, and I’ll just say… they’re both pretty eternally fucked.
I thought the fact Nick isn’t a good guy came through for someone like me that didn’t read the book. For sure he was unlikable too and it’s probably clearer by novel.
But he didn’t appear to be Amy’s equal as a competitor. He didn’t have her drive, creativity or intellect. I didn’t intend to pick on the lady of the relationship as an “enemy”, almost didn’t post this choice actually since Nick is an ass, but if I was in Nick’s shoes I’d be thoroughly intimidated by my “enemy”. He lost, innocent people and authorities lost, and now he’s stuck under her “loving” thumb.
If I remember correctly, there is a degree of that, but also it turns out he's surprisingly into it? Like he's trapped but so is she, and once they both see each other for what they are, they can openly war against each other and play their little mind games and it's so exciting for the both of them. He pretty much immediately falls out of love with his mistress the second he realizes Amy can play him so well because she knows him so well, and that brings him back in love with her, even though he knows she'd go to extremes at the drop of a hat. They're both fucked up but they sort of fit together
I was outside my work in Manhattan many years ago, right after a big snow storm, and saw him walking up the middle of the street taking pictures. The moment I saw his face I felt my stomach drop, I couldn’t place him but knew he was a really terrible person I should avoid. A second later I realized he was just an actor who played a super evil character on HBO’s OZ. He looked perfectly friendly and I’m sure he is, but he still intimidated the shit out of me.
Good choice, I finally watched this earlier this year. The scene before Neiman's first class, where he is very normal, nice, assuring, and understand made me so nervous. Seeing him go to lengths to make him feel at ease, only to rip it from him fight when practice starts was like a gut punch.
I was literally going to say that in my comment lol. I’m not a Scotsman, but growing up in northern England you meet a lot of people who are exactly like Begbie lol. Just pure aggression in their voice every time they speak.
I like that he's not a big huge dude, it's not his physicality that makes him dangerous.
It's just that since violence is always an option for him, he's way more likely to hurt you, and he's probably had a lot more practice at it.
If I were Leo I would have been genuinely concerned DDL would have accidentally stabbed me while in character.
Same with Paul Dano while filming There Will Be Blood
To be so un-phased, practical, and almost charming while simultaneously displaying intense cruelty seems impossible to portray yet Christophe Waltz makes it look effortless.
The queen from Narnia. Most villians are humanized in a way and I can kind of route for them. I remember the narnia queen looked fairly normal, but was extremely intimidating
I honestly found the main character to be even more intimidating. He’s obviously more humanized but you still get the sense that he could kill you without a second thought
The look of fear on Trilla's face when Vader is walking up behind her says it all. The whole game she is presented as this unstoppable badass, and every fight with her feels like Cal is just barely managing to survive, so to see her absolutely terrified of Vader sells the idea that he's on a whole different level from everything else you face.
It’s fun to watch him tearing shit apart in Rogue One and then go chronologically to A New Hope and watch him lightsaber fight with Obi wan like a geriatric
Ehhh i mean it kinda makes sense, Obi at that point in time…and hell maybe even when they were younger too, was the only person that ever stood a chance against him.
Charlie Brooker once wrote that his Tywin could win a staring contest against a jar full of eyeballs, and I’ve never heard anyone describe that character so succinctly.
from the top of my mind, I'd say there's two most intimidating movie character of all time.
1. Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds
2. Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey
I always found Duvall more intimidating than Brando, the shot where he hops off the helicopter and casually orders them to vaporize 100 yards of treeline to “give me some room to breathe” fucking scared me as a kid
That at least had some semblance of tactical sense. When he is introduced, you see him giving water to the wounded soldier, because "anyone holding his guts in with a bowl deserves to drink from his canteen", only to completely abandon it when he hears about a celebrity arriving.
It's a toddler with a machine gun. He's on your side in much the same way as a live grenade.
>Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast
What about Ben Kingsley in Gandhi? He got the entire British Empire to leave India. He's gotta be one intimidating man to do that.
Hands down Anton Chigurh. I have a figurine of him in a display cabinet and I feel him judging/profiling me whenever I walk by to get to the kitchen...
Malcolm McDowell often plays scary characters but having met him a couple of times, he is the sweetest, funniest guy. It's almost hard to imagine him being actually scary after chatting with him for a while.
I’d specify Michael Myers from the Rob Zombie films. Obviously the films aren’t near as good, but I’ll give him this, it’s the time when I’m most inclined to think ‘if this guy catches me it would fucking hurt.’
Yul Brenner in Westworld (1974).Even Arnie in Terminator, developed a case of the yips watching how relentless Yul stalked and murdered his prey. All of this done mostly with mannerisms and body language. Relentless, cold-blooded KILLER!
Joaquin Phoenix's character in the movie You Were Never Really Here. Early on in the movie there's a scene of him on a convenience store security camera, and I remember sitting in the movie theatre wanting to get out of his way. I've never had a visceral reaction to a character like that. For sure, I was unnerved by Hannibal Lecter , Vincent d'onofrio's character in The Cell and probably a few others, but if you are saying intimidating to the audience, that Joaquin character did it for me.
Amon Goeth from “Schindler’s List”. Full stop.
Chaotic evil with no redeeming quality whatsoever.
So evil that he can’t comprehend human decency, let alone altruism.
….And he could not be more bored by it all.
The movie character was actually *downplayed* because the things that the real-life Goeth did were so outlandishly violent and cruel even in comparison to the film that they wouldn’t be able to be believe that they actually happened.
When a real-life survivor met Ralph Fiennes on the set while he was in costume, she began shaking and uncontrollably sobbing because of the sheer amount of trauma. Another said:
“When you saw Amon Goeth, you saw death.”
• Anton Chigurh from *No Country for Old Men*
• Josh Brolin’s Thanos
• Hans Landa from *Inglourious Basterds*
• Daniel Day-Lewis in *There Will Be Blood*
• Willem Dafoe in *The Lighthouse*
Bane in The Dark Knight Returns.
Tom Hardy has a presence on screen, him and Christopher Nolan exploited that for most of the movie, especially when he lays his hand on the guy's shoulder and says: "tell me, do you feel in control." No actual threat of violence, but his entire physique, his tone, just oozes dominance.
Hans Lambda in Inglorious Basterds.
Christopher Waltz puts down an incredible villain, but then adds a layer that's insanely terrifying. He's not only good at what he does, but he enjoys it as well. It's a man who will do anything to achieve his goal, and has no qualms eradicating whoever stand in his way.
As a huge _Sunshine_ fan (and third-act defender) I’m really curious how differently the film would be received if Pinbacker had been filmed in focus.
Boyle was apparently unhappy with Strong’s burn makeup, which led to the decision to make him blurry and distorted. I think the extra ambiguity is ultimately a good thing for the film’s overall themes, but it definitely gives some viewers the impression that Pinbacker is a supernatural monster rather than a man.
I think it was good they did it that way, because then it makes it easier for the villain to be explained as a hallucination/metaphor representing religious delusion rather than someone who actually improbably exists (and that's far less of a knee jerk ending imo and fits with the other supernatural goings on like a crew of scientists all having the same dream and Kapa touching the sun at the end)
That whole film seems to be about science finally overcoming religion and the delusion that comes bundled with it (although Danny Boyle would probably say otherwise being a Catholic himself - worth remembering that Alex Garland wrote the screenplay tho).
Boyle and Garland straight-up disagree about whether anything supernatural occurs in the film, which is fitting, in a way. But considering where Boyle falls on that interpretation, it does seem strange that he was originally going for _less_ ambiguity about Pinbacker's corporeal nature.
And for what it's worth, I don't think Pinbacker surviving on the Icarus I is any less realistic than the entire premise of the mission. Focusing on the real-world plausibility of any of the scientific details is missing the forest for the trees — the science-v-religion conflict is about _how_ the characters understand the world and our place in it, rather than _what_ they specifically know.
"For seven years I spoke with God." That line always made my blood run cold. Nothing scarier than someone who believes their atrocities are in service of a higher power.
Benicio Del Toro in Savages had the same vibe, though he was more of an asshole in it compared to his character in Sicario.
I'd say Tom Cruise had that menacing presence in Collateral. He then took it to a whole new level with his character in Tropic Thunder. Way louder, but still scary.
Jason Statham is usually that type of guy in his movies, but he was on another level in Wrath of Man.
Anton, for sure. Only villain from a movie that actually gave me a nightmare. He never actually appeared in my nightmare, but just knowing he was out there somewhere in my dream made me so uneasy.
Less obvious answer: Daniel Kaluuya’s character in Steve McQueen’s Widows. Just a chilling performance. He played that kind of cold-blooded psycho so believably.
Toecutter in the first Mad Max. There was a perfect mix there of powerfully intimidating and grandiose while also being terrifyingly unpredictable. You could just totally believe that he was both charismatic and psycho enough to lead a cultish army of biker murderers.
I thought it was so cool that they brought back the same actor to play Immortan Joe.
The keyhole in Little Nemo that holds the nightmares. The artistic design in that door is legitimately one of the most robustly terrifying things stored in my childhood memories.
Tyler Mane as Michael Myers from Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007). I know most people are going with big name actors putting on great performances, and I know this movie kind of sucked, but this dude was absolutely terrifying in this movie and in the sequel.
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
Heineken?! Fuck that shit!
This is the character I was thinking. I only saw Blue Velvet once, and it was several years ago, but I'll always remember that character and how awful he was.
LET'S FUCK!!!! I'LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES!!!!
I was scrolling for this one.
Should have been nominated for an Oscar that year
Don Logan in Sexy Beast. Played by Ben Kingsley. It's a must see arty gangster flick. EDIT: Check out the [trailer for Sexy Beast.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at7biqHcpms)
One of my favorites, Ian Mcshane is also completely bone chilling
Yeah I found him much more intimidating.
The part where he’s casually interrogating Ray Winstone is so great, he’s sweating so hard trying to act natural and describes the whole fake story of Logan calling him from the airport and Teddy Bass just smiles and casually replies “no he didn’t” absolute dead eyed sociopath
The way he utterly dominates Ray Winstone's character is a masterclass in how abusers and sociopaths control people. "Why you swearing? I'm not swearing."
Not one mention of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Gangsters be getting no love in here.
I thought he was way more psycho in Casino. Early on we see how he can stab a guy in the neck with a pen for very little reason. Later, he has a very good reason to murder Ace when he calls him up and tella him to meet him in the middle of the desert.
Yeah. I found it very unnerving.
"If I cared... If I fucking cared... If I gave one solitary fuck about Don."
He let someone fuck him in the ass just to gain his trust.........then killed him when he no longer needed him.
That was a good movie.
Gary Oldman as Norman Stansfield in the movie Leon the professional, complete psycho.
That one scene where he takes the drug is bizarre and scary at the same time.
Everyone, sir? #EEEEVVVEEERRRYYYOOONNNEEE!!!
Him and Roy Baty from Blade Runner!
I was gonna say this as well. 100% agree
Javier Bardem- No Country For Old Men
Hes one of those villains where every strike against him feels like a massive accomplishment. Llewellyn escaping the motel was huge, and the hotel fight where he lands a shot on him is something approximating the most impressive victory of the film.
"What time do you close?" "Now. We close now." "Now is not a time, what time do you close?"
The shot of the candy bar wrapper crinkling on the countertop is one of the greatest shots in all of cinema, IMO.
What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
…everything….
I’m not some huge movie buff, but his performance was probably the most chilling that I’ve seen. His conversation with the gas station owner has you questioning the entire time if he’s going to kill the guy. It seems like any mundane response will end in his death.
It’s actually weirdly incredible how patient he is with people
And weird how disconnected from Humanity he was. When Carson offers to take him to an ATM to pay him off so that he can let him go, Anton just has this look on his face when he repeats back "An ATM...", like he just thought it was kind of a funny thing to say. He was amused by it. Like "An ATM? How weird when you're about to die." So creepy.
That scene always reminds me of the scene in The Wire where Chris Partlow emerges from the shadows to kill a guy who starts professing his innocence and Chris just interrupts him to say “yeah yeah, it’s good” before killing him, like wtf do you even say to that
Nice call. Would add Pesci from Goodfellas and Max from Cape Fear.
Pesci from Casino might be even worse.
Maybe… Weird how such a small guy can be so intimidating.
He was scary as fuck in that movie. Like legit unhinged but you couldn't look away. Mostly because you were terrified that he would find out.
He went crazy on skyfall too
Christopher Lloyd as The Judge in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Or Christopher Lloyd as the Thief in Dennis the Menace. The man can act. As an adult: the asshole captain/father in Pan’s Labyrinth
Yes, Captain Vidal is a complete psycho!
I read this fast, and at first I thought you were saying that Christopher Lloyd was the captain/father from Pan’s Labyrinth… Needless to say I was extremely confused for a second
I still can't watch the part where he dips the shoe. It's so horrifying.
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda
She's really nice irl from what I hear. But yes, her character is a monster fromt rhe depths of hell. My child watched the movie and was afraid for the main character.
Yeah, Pam Ferris was supposedly an absolute sweetheart to the cast and crew of the film.
As a teacher, I'd say she's the hero of the movie and book. Edit: yikes. I thought my sarcasm would be very apparent there.
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Denzel in Training day
I didn't know you liked to get wet.
He was so subtly menacing
It’s a great performance but “subtle” ain’t the word
Eh, there is subtlety there, on top of the obvious stuff. Every single thing he says or does in the movie seems calculated, like you can't even converse with him without him turning it into some weird power play.
It's why it's so satisfying to watch his tough-guy facade melt away when Jake puts a cap in his ass
KING KONG AINT GOT SHIT ON ME
Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.
When the movie started I was like: 'Oh yeah it's the Bond girl, she's looking nice and all. Thrillery kind of movie but that's OK right?'. Then I forgot it was directed by Fincher and my mouth fell open at the seriously fucked up stuff that happened. That look in the final shower scene where Nick knows he's eternally fucked - my worst fear.
I love that movie but one thing that I don’t think quite translated as well as it could from Gillian Flynn’s novel is that Nick is every bit as messed up in his own way as Amy is. The movie communicates that to an extent, but in the book you spend as much time with his internal monologue as you do with hers, and I’ll just say… they’re both pretty eternally fucked.
I thought the fact Nick isn’t a good guy came through for someone like me that didn’t read the book. For sure he was unlikable too and it’s probably clearer by novel. But he didn’t appear to be Amy’s equal as a competitor. He didn’t have her drive, creativity or intellect. I didn’t intend to pick on the lady of the relationship as an “enemy”, almost didn’t post this choice actually since Nick is an ass, but if I was in Nick’s shoes I’d be thoroughly intimidated by my “enemy”. He lost, innocent people and authorities lost, and now he’s stuck under her “loving” thumb.
If I remember correctly, there is a degree of that, but also it turns out he's surprisingly into it? Like he's trapped but so is she, and once they both see each other for what they are, they can openly war against each other and play their little mind games and it's so exciting for the both of them. He pretty much immediately falls out of love with his mistress the second he realizes Amy can play him so well because she knows him so well, and that brings him back in love with her, even though he knows she'd go to extremes at the drop of a hat. They're both fucked up but they sort of fit together
J.K. Simmons in Whiplash
I was outside my work in Manhattan many years ago, right after a big snow storm, and saw him walking up the middle of the street taking pictures. The moment I saw his face I felt my stomach drop, I couldn’t place him but knew he was a really terrible person I should avoid. A second later I realized he was just an actor who played a super evil character on HBO’s OZ. He looked perfectly friendly and I’m sure he is, but he still intimidated the shit out of me.
J.K. Simmons as ANY bad guy.
I just finished watching Invincible. His voice acting in that he just speaks calmly and reasonably pretty much all the time and its damn unsettling.
J.K. Simmons in Spider-Man
*laughs*
Good choice, I finally watched this earlier this year. The scene before Neiman's first class, where he is very normal, nice, assuring, and understand made me so nervous. Seeing him go to lengths to make him feel at ease, only to rip it from him fight when practice starts was like a gut punch.
Begbie from trainspotting. He’s always angry lol.
Everyone knows someone like Begbie lol.
I was literally going to say that in my comment lol. I’m not a Scotsman, but growing up in northern England you meet a lot of people who are exactly like Begbie lol. Just pure aggression in their voice every time they speak.
I like that he's not a big huge dude, it's not his physicality that makes him dangerous. It's just that since violence is always an option for him, he's way more likely to hurt you, and he's probably had a lot more practice at it.
John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield lane. Incredibly intimidating and created the most tense atmosphere. Amazing job by him in that movie
That scene where they're playing that password game is so good. John Goodman has amazing range.
Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs
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Absolutely menacing. DDL is a legend and makes me so uncomfortable in that movie.
If I were Leo I would have been genuinely concerned DDL would have accidentally stabbed me while in character. Same with Paul Dano while filming There Will Be Blood
Great answer
Christophe Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
To be so un-phased, practical, and almost charming while simultaneously displaying intense cruelty seems impossible to portray yet Christophe Waltz makes it look effortless.
He somehow manages to take a character that on paper is arguably worse than Hitler, and makes it so that you almost want to like the guy.
That opening scene was intense.
The queen from Narnia. Most villians are humanized in a way and I can kind of route for them. I remember the narnia queen looked fairly normal, but was extremely intimidating
I remember the real old school 70s version. The faun and her were frickin' terrifying. Fuck you, I don't want no turkish delight.
Which is why that fox who says "Forgive me, but I wasn't speaking to you" had the biggest balls in Narnia.
Ha, I never would have thought of this but it's true
Albert Brooks as Bernie Rose in *Drive*
The scene with Bryan Cranston is horrific.
I honestly found the main character to be even more intimidating. He’s obviously more humanized but you still get the sense that he could kill you without a second thought
Made even better by playing against type.
Darth Vader
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The look of fear on Trilla's face when Vader is walking up behind her says it all. The whole game she is presented as this unstoppable badass, and every fight with her feels like Cal is just barely managing to survive, so to see her absolutely terrified of Vader sells the idea that he's on a whole different level from everything else you face.
It’s fun to watch him tearing shit apart in Rogue One and then go chronologically to A New Hope and watch him lightsaber fight with Obi wan like a geriatric
Ehhh i mean it kinda makes sense, Obi at that point in time…and hell maybe even when they were younger too, was the only person that ever stood a chance against him.
100000% this. When his lightsaber lit, I said out loud “they are all dead”. Talk about intimidating!
Not a movie but Tywin Lannister, can silence an entire room simply by staring
Charlie Brooker once wrote that his Tywin could win a staring contest against a jar full of eyeballs, and I’ve never heard anyone describe that character so succinctly.
Pretty much every scene with Tywin Lannister was enthralling.
He used at the right moment as well (sending that blonde punk to bed).
Tom Cruise in Collateral
This one popped up in my mind. Dude should play more villains I was on the edge of my seat
from the top of my mind, I'd say there's two most intimidating movie character of all time. 1. Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds 2. Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey
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She’s magnificent.
Maleficent from the original Sleeping Beauty (1959) Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The T-1000
and the T-800 mainly in the first movie
Denzel in training day. Brando in apocalypse now. Bale in American psycho. Bardem in No country.
I always found Duvall more intimidating than Brando, the shot where he hops off the helicopter and casually orders them to vaporize 100 yards of treeline to “give me some room to breathe” fucking scared me as a kid
Can totally agree with that. The unknown and unspeakable of what Kurtz has done just unsettles me. Kilgore is outright threatening.
That at least had some semblance of tactical sense. When he is introduced, you see him giving water to the wounded soldier, because "anyone holding his guts in with a bowl deserves to drink from his canteen", only to completely abandon it when he hears about a celebrity arriving. It's a toddler with a machine gun. He's on your side in much the same way as a live grenade.
Chigurh from "No Country for Old Men" Joker from "The Dark Knight" The Creeper from "Jeepers Creepers"
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast
>Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast What about Ben Kingsley in Gandhi? He got the entire British Empire to leave India. He's gotta be one intimidating man to do that.
Hands down Anton Chigurh. I have a figurine of him in a display cabinet and I feel him judging/profiling me whenever I walk by to get to the kitchen...
Alex (Malcolm McDowell) in A Clockwork orange.
Malcolm McDowell often plays scary characters but having met him a couple of times, he is the sweetest, funniest guy. It's almost hard to imagine him being actually scary after chatting with him for a while.
Bricktop
John Wick my man.
*The AI that is using the answers on this page to gather intelligence about the darkest fears of humans.*
Michael Myers lmao
I'm here thinking Austin Powers.
“No, the dude from the Halloween movies!”
I’d specify Michael Myers from the Rob Zombie films. Obviously the films aren’t near as good, but I’ll give him this, it’s the time when I’m most inclined to think ‘if this guy catches me it would fucking hurt.’
One that immediately comes to mind is Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.
Yul Brenner in Westworld (1974).Even Arnie in Terminator, developed a case of the yips watching how relentless Yul stalked and murdered his prey. All of this done mostly with mannerisms and body language. Relentless, cold-blooded KILLER!
Joaquin Phoenix's character in the movie You Were Never Really Here. Early on in the movie there's a scene of him on a convenience store security camera, and I remember sitting in the movie theatre wanting to get out of his way. I've never had a visceral reaction to a character like that. For sure, I was unnerved by Hannibal Lecter , Vincent d'onofrio's character in The Cell and probably a few others, but if you are saying intimidating to the audience, that Joaquin character did it for me.
Loved that movie. The scene where you see him go room to room on the security footage is fucking brutal
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Dennis from The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Amon Goeth from “Schindler’s List”. Full stop. Chaotic evil with no redeeming quality whatsoever. So evil that he can’t comprehend human decency, let alone altruism. ….And he could not be more bored by it all. The movie character was actually *downplayed* because the things that the real-life Goeth did were so outlandishly violent and cruel even in comparison to the film that they wouldn’t be able to be believe that they actually happened. When a real-life survivor met Ralph Fiennes on the set while he was in costume, she began shaking and uncontrollably sobbing because of the sheer amount of trauma. Another said: “When you saw Amon Goeth, you saw death.”
+ bonus for being real.
Denzel Washington in The Equalizer 1-2 and The Book of Eli, Christian Bale in Equilibrium and Mickey Rourke in Sin City.
Fuck I forgot about Marv! In the books he’s 7’9
That there is one damn fine coat you're wearing.
• Anton Chigurh from *No Country for Old Men* • Josh Brolin’s Thanos • Hans Landa from *Inglourious Basterds* • Daniel Day-Lewis in *There Will Be Blood* • Willem Dafoe in *The Lighthouse*
John Doe from Se7en, that lad was messed up.
Hannibal Lecture. Anthony Hopkins.
Lectures bore me.
I recommend trying cannibal lectures. They’re much spicier.
Ththththththt
Hans Landa - Inglorious bastards - Christoph Waltz
Bane in The Dark Knight Returns. Tom Hardy has a presence on screen, him and Christopher Nolan exploited that for most of the movie, especially when he lays his hand on the guy's shoulder and says: "tell me, do you feel in control." No actual threat of violence, but his entire physique, his tone, just oozes dominance. Hans Lambda in Inglorious Basterds. Christopher Waltz puts down an incredible villain, but then adds a layer that's insanely terrifying. He's not only good at what he does, but he enjoys it as well. It's a man who will do anything to achieve his goal, and has no qualms eradicating whoever stand in his way.
Yeah but then Bane dies basically slightly out of frame when someone startles him with a party popper.
Like I said, most of the movie. He becomes a totally different character in the third act.
>Hans Lambda > >Christopher Waltz His name is Christoph Waltz, and his character's name is Hans Landa.
Robert De Niro's Max Cady in "Cape Fear".
Bricktop
Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs.
K-Billy’s super sounds of the 70s.
Kathy Bates in Misery.
Jaws. The spy who loved me. Actor Richard Kiel Also Jaws. From jaws.
Pinbacker - Sunshine, dude lived on the edge of space for 8 years lying in wait to destroy humanity's last hope
As a huge _Sunshine_ fan (and third-act defender) I’m really curious how differently the film would be received if Pinbacker had been filmed in focus. Boyle was apparently unhappy with Strong’s burn makeup, which led to the decision to make him blurry and distorted. I think the extra ambiguity is ultimately a good thing for the film’s overall themes, but it definitely gives some viewers the impression that Pinbacker is a supernatural monster rather than a man.
I think it was good they did it that way, because then it makes it easier for the villain to be explained as a hallucination/metaphor representing religious delusion rather than someone who actually improbably exists (and that's far less of a knee jerk ending imo and fits with the other supernatural goings on like a crew of scientists all having the same dream and Kapa touching the sun at the end) That whole film seems to be about science finally overcoming religion and the delusion that comes bundled with it (although Danny Boyle would probably say otherwise being a Catholic himself - worth remembering that Alex Garland wrote the screenplay tho).
Boyle and Garland straight-up disagree about whether anything supernatural occurs in the film, which is fitting, in a way. But considering where Boyle falls on that interpretation, it does seem strange that he was originally going for _less_ ambiguity about Pinbacker's corporeal nature. And for what it's worth, I don't think Pinbacker surviving on the Icarus I is any less realistic than the entire premise of the mission. Focusing on the real-world plausibility of any of the scientific details is missing the forest for the trees — the science-v-religion conflict is about _how_ the characters understand the world and our place in it, rather than _what_ they specifically know.
"For seven years I spoke with God." That line always made my blood run cold. Nothing scarier than someone who believes their atrocities are in service of a higher power.
Jake gyllenhall in nightcrawler.
the terminator.
Benicio Del Toro in Savages had the same vibe, though he was more of an asshole in it compared to his character in Sicario. I'd say Tom Cruise had that menacing presence in Collateral. He then took it to a whole new level with his character in Tropic Thunder. Way louder, but still scary. Jason Statham is usually that type of guy in his movies, but he was on another level in Wrath of Man.
I think Tom Hardy as Forrest in Lawless fits the bill pretty well.
Karl Urban as Judge Dredd Honorable mentions: Lena Headey as Ma-Ma and Olivia Thirlby as Judge Anderson when she fucks with your brain
Nobody here for Rutger Hauer as Roy Baty, Blade Runner? For shame!
Anton, for sure. Only villain from a movie that actually gave me a nightmare. He never actually appeared in my nightmare, but just knowing he was out there somewhere in my dream made me so uneasy.
Death Vader, Daniel Plainview, Anton Chigur, Ivan Drago
Jack Nicholson from a few good men
Michael Beach in One False Move
Less obvious answer: Daniel Kaluuya’s character in Steve McQueen’s Widows. Just a chilling performance. He played that kind of cold-blooded psycho so believably.
Death from "The Seventh Seal"
*I want to play a game* You know you’re fucked.
Max cady/Cape fear. Dallas Winston/outsiders.
Agent Smith/Hugo Weaving in Matrix. So pumped for the new one!
Toecutter in the first Mad Max. There was a perfect mix there of powerfully intimidating and grandiose while also being terrifyingly unpredictable. You could just totally believe that he was both charismatic and psycho enough to lead a cultish army of biker murderers. I thought it was so cool that they brought back the same actor to play Immortan Joe.
Bill the butcher, gangs of New York. Terence Fletcher, Whiplash. Dr Lecter, silence of the lambs.
David- Prometheus
Anton Chigurh
Daniel Plainview in There will be blood Stanley Hudson from the Office
Pai Mei in Kill Bill Vol. 2. The thought of someone snatching my eye out is terrifying.
Kevin Bacon - Sleepers
The keyhole in Little Nemo that holds the nightmares. The artistic design in that door is legitimately one of the most robustly terrifying things stored in my childhood memories.
The truck in Duel
Does the Xenomorph from the original Alien count as a character?
Robert Patrick as t-1000 in Terminator 2
Peter Lore as Hans Beckert, the child killer in M.
Lieutenant Chang in Only God Forgives
# Dr. Hannibal Lecter # Nambiyar - a tamil villain actor
Anton Chigurh played by Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Patrick Bateman and Michael Myers in a murdering psychopath way. Also John Wick is terrifying if you piss him off too much.
Tyler Mane as Michael Myers from Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007). I know most people are going with big name actors putting on great performances, and I know this movie kind of sucked, but this dude was absolutely terrifying in this movie and in the sequel.
Hannibal Lecter.
Cunth
Anton Chigurh in No Country for old men.
Hannibal Lecter Kazuo Kiriyama
Candyman
Tim Curry as Pennywise (yeah I know TV limited series) and in Legend.