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Re-saw Salton Sea (after the posts here) and really enjoyed it again, one of Val Kilmer's better films - even if I still think he can't act.
But Vincent D'Onofrio really impressed me with his bad guy Pooh Bear - very freaky/scary.
Got me thinking about other bad guy roles.
Hannibal's too sophisicated, Perkin's Bates, too sad & broken & even if Linda Blair was out of this world. She was, well, a 'she' and you had to be a priest to get the full whack from her.
What are the bad guy roles that REALLY scared you?
Follow Ups:
Welles in Carol Reed's magnificent "The Third Man." It's a brilliant film with great performances all around but Welles positively shines as the ultimate smiling bad guy.Cagney as the psychotic mamma's boy in Raoul Walsh's classic "White Heat" really gives me shudders.
Both films were made in 1949 - a good year for film villians.
One shudders to think how different these movies would have been with lesser actors in those key roles.
Honorable mentions: Edward G. Robinson in John Huston's "Key Largo", Bogie in Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre", Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear" and "Night of the Hunter", Robert Shaw in "From Russia with Love", Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Pt. II", and Bill Murray in "Mad Dog and Glory."
Most modern villans are written much too broadly and are unconvincing. The best ones in recent films are played by Anthony Hopkins, Ray Liotta, the CGI Golem, and the CGI T-Rex in the original "Jurassic Park."
LEE MARVIN in "The Killers"
ROBERT RYAN as the sadistic master-at-arms in "Billy Budd"
RUSSELL CROWE in "Virtuosity"
CHARLES LAUGHTON as Capt. Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty"
NEVILLE BRAND as the hired killer in "D.O.A"
BILLY DRAGO in "The Untouchables"
LAURENCE OLIVIER in "Marathon Man"
GREGORY PECK in "The Boys From Brazil"
...as the Brit mafia heavy in Mona Lisa was chilling.Ian McShane was equally scary in a similar role in Sexy Beast. I think this role was key to his casting in Deadwood.
And you should see what Robert Rodriguez does with Frodo in Sin City. (The Yellow Bastard is a close second though.)
But for sheer villany, I don't think anyone surpasses Dennis Hopper in Lynch's Blue Velvet. (Although Willem Dafoe's teeth deserve special billing in Wild At Heart.)
BTW, I adore Vincent Donofrio, a wonderful character actor. He made the mostly inane MIB1 pure fun.
He played his 'Blue Velvet' role to the hilt, ranging from intense sensitivity (his reactions in the scenes where Dorothy Valens performs the title track onstage at the roadhouse to Dean Stockwell's theatre-of-the-absurd trouble light karaoke of 'In Dreams') to the psychotic, oxygen-inhaling loon who brutally assaults Valens and later, Jeffery Beaumont on a country road at night. A real music aficionado who is a supremely nasty character.
but in the network version of Salem's Lot several years back, that creepy vampire kid floating outside in his pajamas, tapping on the window. Even the thought of it now creeps me out, although I haven't seen it for many years and I wonder how it would look to me now. And of course Viveca Lindfors pulling that shears out of her medicine bag in Exorcist 3. EEEWWWW! I guess that would be a multi-person bad guy, as he posseses many different people in there.
What worked in the Exorcist 3 scene was the slow, quiet build-up to that moment. I remember the entire theater gasped and jumped at that scene in the hallway.
not the one where the person walks out with the shears RIGHT AFTER the nurse locks that door? eeeeccckkk! Oh man that is scary. That was the scariest thing I ever saw in a movie 'til I saw that dead girl in the closet in The Ring. Those two scenes take the cake for me.
...in Reservoir Dogs. Anyone who saw THAT scene can never hear "Stuck in the middle with you" the same way again.
Yep. To me, it certainly was a more disturbing scene than the "Singing in the Rain" rape in "A Clockwork Orange". The problem is, "Reservoir Dogs" is sadistic and brutal with no point other than to titillate its audience. "Pulp Fiction" is just more of the same. Tarantino isn't a great moviemaker; he's simply an extremely sick, psychotic human being.
Tarantino's directorial skills(or lack thereof) can be debated forever. I'm just pointing out the character played by Madsen. He was pretty disturbing.
...was the scariest incarnation of Lucifer (Louis Cypher in the film) I´ve ever seen.Regards
BF
He costarred with Anthony Quinn and Christopher Lee
McDowell has gone all out to be crowned as the World Heavyweight Champion of Screen Bad Guys in his role in this film
A girlfriend and I saw this at the movies; we were McDowell fans having seen A Clockwork Orange, Time After Time, O Lucky Man, If, (tho' not all at once!)
After one particularly excruciating scene girlfriend stood up in tears, screamed "YOU BASTARD!" at the screen fortissimo while shaking her fist, and had to be taken home a trembling mess; this was a girl that hadn't batted an eyelid during A Clockwork Orange"The Passage" supposedly played in the States for a week and was hastily pulled from distribution, and has subsequently never been issued on video or any other format, tho' bootlegs exist
Uma Thurman claims to have survived this film: "When I was young there was one called 'The Passage.' It horrified me. I think Malcolm McDowell chopped off someone's fingers. ... I've never recovered ..."
Malcolm McDowell; "That movie contained some of the best work I've ever done"
Grins
Even as a computer programmer, computers can be scary:Arnold in the original Terminator. C'mon, his early acting is stiff and lifeless, a perfect robot :)
The guy who did the voice for HAL. That movie freaked me out when I was young.
Hector the robot in Saturn 3. Crappy movie, but the robot was cool.
Proteus in Demon Seed. Another mediocre movie, but super creepy voice acting by Robert Vaughn.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
John Wayne in "The Searchers" or Bobby Michum in "Cape TheFear." But, the scariest guy of all is the family man serial killer in "The Vanishing." This guy could reel you in, smiling all the while, and kill you with as much emotion as squashing a fly.
NT
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Just keep in mind Wayne's acting in the last two scenes of "The Searchers." I don't want to reveal the ending to anyone who hasn't seen this movie, but let me remind you that when Godard saw the film, the next to last sequence changed every long-held opinion he ever had about John Wayne. He said his heart was filled with love for Wayne!Now, Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear"? I agree, that's a vicious, psychotic thug! And don't forget Richard Widmark! What was the name of the film where he pushed the old woman in the wheelchair down the stairs? That almost defines vicious and psychotic!
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Could misse this one.
in "The Passion". When he (an Italian actress) appeared I was almost mesmerized at his looks. Almost androgenous, nearly beautiful. I thought that could very well be what Lucifer looks like.
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General Sherman sucks.
Frankie boy. And of course the white shark...
Peter Lorre always had that 'subservient' tag for me.
Frankie boy?
Was the white shark a guy?
Karloff. Not but a joke. When I saw the film, I just came from the beach, boy was it scary back then....
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