The Best Movie Psychopaths?

[co2]

A few of my favourites:

That's a good list....that is freaking me out.

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Pretty much most of these.

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[hugekent]

Madman Mundt!

You win for having the most refreshing pick. What a great movie.

For sure, and John Goodman is a very underrated actor.

That's a good list....that is freaking me out.

Man, with the Norman Bates one I thought it was just a picture and I had it sitting there as I was doing something in a smaller window when suddenly out of the corner of my eye he looked up at me! Nearly shat myself.


Another good one I don't think anyone has mentioned is Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven. Just a completely evil woman but also ridiculously attractive. Makes for confusing thoughts.

 

[moviedoors]

Here's one I've never seen mentioned in such discussions: The Zodiac in David Fincher's Zodiac. Never clearly seen or even defined as any one suspect, his presence nevertheless infests the film like a tumor.

Also, the Lake Berryessa attack is one of the most chilling physical assaults I've ever seen in a movie. It manages to be quirky, very darkly humorous, suspenseful, and finally just downright unnerving in its cold brutality.

 

[Hotwire]

Here's one I've never seen mentioned in such discussions: The Zodiac in David Fincher's Zodiac. Never clearly seen or even defined as any one suspect, his presence nevertheless infests the film like a tumor.

Also, the Lake Berryessa attack is one of the most chilling physical assaults I've ever seen in a movie. It manages to be quirky, very darkly humorous, suspenseful, and finally just downright unnerving in its cold brutality.

I've had that movie for years, and just watched the other night. Great film. I know exactly what you mean about the killer.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Mr. Blonde.

 

[childeroland]

Anton Chigurh
Ledger's Joker
Jason Dean (Christian Slater, Heathers)
Su-mi (A Tale of Two Sisters)
Lee Geum-ja (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Mr. Blonde.

Love Michael Madsen.

 

[Vengeance of Bane]

The serial killer from I Saw The Devil.

 

[The Morningstar]

Anton Chigurh
Ledger's Joker
Jason Dean (Christian Slater, Heathers)
Su-mi (A Tale of Two Sisters)
Lee Geum-ja (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)

That's a good one. Heathers is awesome.

 

[DACrowe]

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) - Psycho (1960)

Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) - Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Cody Jarett (James Cagney) - White Heat (1949)

Alex (Malcolm MacDowell) - A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Szell (Laurence Olivier) - Marathon Man (1976)

Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) - Taxi Driver (1976)

The Joker (Heath Ledger) - The Dark Knight (2008)

Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) - Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis) - Gangs of New York (2002)

Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) - No Country For Old Men (2007)

Just a few.

 

[DACrowe]

Harry Powell-The Night of the Hunter
Bruno Anthony-Strangers on a Train
Brandon Shaw-Rope

They're excellent sociopaths.

Nice ones, especially Powell in that disturbing great classic.

 

[-Arya-]

A new favorite of mine:

Michael Gordon Peterson ; a.k.a Charles Bronson