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Franco Begbie

Javier Bardem

Richard Dormer as Dan in Fortitude, some properly unhinged moments.
Robert Newton as Bill Sykes
Good call for Mr Bronson up there ^^
Richard Dormer as Dan in Fortitude, some properly unhinged moments.
In a similar vein, Mr Hickey from the recent Arctic horror The Terror (excellent, by the way).
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Good shout on Buxton, the blue cat @maccruiskeen
The embodiment of evil!
And another vote for Mr Hickey. Just finished the Terror last night and he’s a proper malevolent bastard
Anton Diffring played his fair share of stereotypical German baddies (turns out he had a Jewish parent). Not particularly scary though.

Jason Isaacs in the patriot and Joachim Phoenix in Gladiator are both in the disconcertingly unhinged category of wrong’un, surely?
Woody Harrelson.
Who would have guessed it after so long in the role of harmless, witless, Woody...

Psychopath evil

Ape-hating evil

Racist, misogynistic, corrupt evil

Micheal Wincott has played some really likeable baduns.
This guy is often typecasted
Good call on Phoenix.
I like Ian McDirmaid as Palpatine in the Phantom Menace -> Revenge of the Sith. While the films and a number of the characters were, shall we say, mostly a bit lacking in subtlety his role was much better played.
Forest Whittaker for The Last King of Scotland.
Begbie is a good call, but I reckon Robert Carlisle actually topped that in Ravenous:

Heath Ledger was very good...
Javier Bardem is the best film villain of recent times IMO, especially in No Country for old men
Alan Rickman obviously...
Cristoph Waltz was brilliant as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds
Tom Hardy does well, especially as Charles Bronson I thought
Ben Kingsley was superb in Sexy Beast! Pretty menacing in Shutter Island too.
Kathy Bates in Misery... Scary stuff!
Cristopher Lee, possibly the all time great bad guy...? 🤷🏻♂️
Al Pacino is arguably the master of playing the bad guy when trying to seduce the audience into believing that he is the good guy.
Joe Pesci was properly deranged in Goodfellas!
Gary Oldman in Leon
Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained (FAR more menacing than Di Caprio!)
Probably loads more worthy of a mention, but those are the ones that come to my mind straight away...

Dennis Hopper


Laurence Fox
Brian Cox in Manhunter
De Niro in Cape Fear
Philip Seymour Hoffman. A talent for playing wrong ‘uns.
Forest Whittaker for The Last King of Scotland.
Absolutely, great shout!
I'm gonna have to give Terror a viewing too now, cheers 👍🏻
jason isaacs in the patriot
Gripper from Grange Hill.
Closely followed by Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy
jason isaacs in the patriot
Haven't seen that, but he was an excellent wrong 'un in The OA as well.
Has anybody mentioned this fella?

Stephen Graham as Combo gets a shout too.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
He certainly did the creepy guy on the phone as well as anyone.
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Another proper wrong'un!

And she's a wrong 'un too:

Seem to remember Ben Mendelsohn as 'Pope' Cody in Animal Kingdom as being pretty chilling


Hung-over or psychotic killer, enquiring minds want to know...
So in a fight between
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it's clear who can carry the most beers
John Lithgow in Dextor
Paddy Considine in Dead Mans Shoes, a good wrong un
How about the delightful Darlene from Ozark?

Jesus, don't start with Game of Thrones. That deserves a separate category all to itself.


Boyd Crowder (Walton goggins) from Justified. Charismatic, likable, silver tongued evil

Has noone done Marlo yet:
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Has anyone seen Winter's Bone? Some proper wrong 'uns in that
Has noone done Marlo yet:
Pretty stiff competition between these three.

The perfect balance of psycho and dimwit. Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues

Marlo Stanfield - great shout
John Lithgow in Cliffhanger

