| Rank
|
Villain
|
Actor
|
Film
|
Year
|
Notes
|
| 1.
|
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
|
Anthony Hopkins
|
The Silence of the Lambs
|
1991
|
|
| 2.
|
Reverend Harry Powell
|
Robert Mitchum
|
The Night of the Hunter
|
1955
|
based on Harry Powers
|
| 3.
|
Darth Vader
|
David Prowse (voiced by James Earl Jones)
|
The Star Wars Trilogy
|
1977-83
|
|
| 4.
|
Jack Torrance
|
Jack Nicholson
|
The Shining
|
1980
|
|
| 5.
|
Frank Booth
|
Dennis Hopper
|
Blue Velvet
|
1986
|
|
| 6.
|
Nurse Ratched
|
Louise Fletcher
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
|
1975
|
|
| 7.
|
Norman Bates
|
Anthony Perkins
|
Psycho
|
1960
|
based on murderer Ed Gein
|
| 8.
|
The Joker
|
Heath Ledger
|
The Dark Knight
|
2008
|
|
| 9.
|
Noah Cross
|
John Huston
|
Chinatown
|
1974
|
|
| 10.
|
Hans Gruber
|
Alan Rickman
|
Die Hard
|
1988
|
|
| 11.
|
Alex
|
Malcolm McDowell
|
A Clockwork Orange
|
1971
|
|
| 12.
|
Daniel Plainview
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
There Will Be Blood
|
2007
|
|
| 13.
|
Begbie
|
Robert Carlyle
|
Trainspotting
|
1996
|
|
| 14.
|
Alex Forrest
|
Glenn Close
|
Fatal Attraction
|
1987
|
|
| 15.
|
HAL 9000
|
Douglas Rain
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
1968
|
|
| 16.
|
Amon Goeth
|
Ralph Fiennes
|
Schindler's List
|
1993
|
real person
|
| 17.
|
Idi Amin
|
Forest Whitaker
|
The Last King of Scotland
|
2006
|
real person
|
| 18.
|
Harry Lime
|
Orson Welles
|
The Third Man
|
1949
|
|
| 19.
|
Anton Chigurh
|
Javier Bardem
|
No Country For Old Men
|
2007
|
|
| 20.
|
Warden Norton
|
Bob Gunton
|
The Shawshank Redemption
|
1994
|
|
| 21.
|
Michael Myers
|
Tony Moran
Nick Castle
Will Sandin
|
Halloween
|
1978
|
|
| 22.
|
Freddy Krueger
|
Robert Englund
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street
|
1984
|
|
| 23.
|
Baby Jane Hudson
|
Bette Davis
|
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
|
1962
|
|
| 24.
|
Captain Bligh
|
Charles Laughton
|
Mutiny on the Bounty
|
1935
|
real person
|
| 25.
|
Bill Sikes
|
Robert Newton
|
Oliver Twist
|
1948
|
|
| 26.
|
The Terminator
|
Arnold Schwarzenegger
|
The Terminator
|
1984
|
|
| 27.
|
John Doe
|
Kevin Spacey
|
Seven
|
1995
|
|
| 28.
|
Leatherface
|
Gunnar Hansen
|
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
|
1974
|
|
| 29.
|
Auric Goldfinger
|
Gert Frobe (voice of Michael Collins)
|
Goldfinger
|
1964
|
|
| 30.
|
Maleficent
|
Eleanor Audley
|
Sleeping Beauty
|
1959
|
|
| 31.
|
The Wicked Witch of the West
|
Margaret Hamilton
|
The Wizard of Oz
|
1939
|
|
| 32.
|
The Evil Queen
|
Lucille La Verne
|
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
|
1937
|
|
| 33.
|
Phyllis Dietrichson
|
Barbara Stanwyck
|
Double Indemnity
|
1944
|
|
| 34.
|
Mrs. Eleanor Iselin
|
Angela Lansbury
|
The Manchurian Candidate
|
1962
|
|
| 35.
|
Count Orlok
|
Max Schreck
|
Nosferatu
|
1922
|
|
| 36.
|
Bill "The Butcher" Cutting
|
Daniel Day-Lewis
|
Gangs of New York
|
2002
|
real person
|
| 37.
|
Max Cady
|
Robert De Niro
|
Cape Fear
|
1991
|
|
| 38.
|
Frankenstein's monster
|
Boris Karloff
|
Frankenstein
|
1931
|
|
| 39.
|
Mrs. Danvers
|
Judith Anderson
|
Rebecca
|
1940
|
|
| 40.
|
Frank
|
Henry Fonda
|
Once Upon a Time in the West
|
1968
|
|
| 41.
|
Lars Thorwald
|
Raymond Burr
|
Rear Window
|
1954
|
|
| 42.
|
Hank Quinlan
|
Orson Welles
|
Touch of Evil
|
1958
|
|
| 43.
|
Tommy Udo
|
Richard Widmark
|
Kiss of Death
|
1947
|
|
| 44.
|
Vince Stone
|
Lee Marvin
|
The Big Heat
|
1953
|
|
| 45.
|
Annie Wilkes
|
Kathy Bates
|
Misery
|
1990
|
|
| 46.
|
Asami Yamazaki
|
Eihi Shiina
|
Audition
|
1999
|
|
| 47.
|
Clarence Boddicker
|
Kurtwood Smith
|
RoboCop
|
1987
|
|
| 48.
|
Col. Hans Landa
|
Christoph Waltz
|
Inglorious Basterds
|
2009
|
|
| 49.
|
Lord Voldemort
|
Ralph Fiennes
|
The Harry Potter Movies
|
2005-11
|
|
| 50.
|
Calvin Candie
|
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
Django Unchained
|
2012
|
|
