Underrated Movie Villains

[Lord Beautiful]

M. Bison, played by the awesome Raul Julia in the gods awful Street Fighter with Van Damme.

Everything about that movie was pure shite. Except for Julia. He was absolutely evil, but did so with the class and elegance that you'd expect from an actor of his caliber.

FUCK YES.

I couldn't have described his performance as Bison better. He took a character with virtually no character and gave him character. And it was magnificent.

Such a shame he died shortly thereafter. Such a great actor.

 

[Leemaster777]

Elijah Wood in Sin City. Dude was a beast.

I agree with this. Who knew a hobbit could be so freaky?

I'd also like to nominate Teri Hatcher as the Other Mother in Coraline. She does some seriously messed up stuff in that movie.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

The Nothing from The Neverending Story
I really don't think there has been a villain of this scale in literature. Truth be told, it really isn't even a true villain per se. It's an abstract force that, quite literally, wants to destroy everything. I guess you could say the wolf G'Mork is the closest thing The Nothing has to a face or even personality, but thats besides the point. It's the presence of it that really defines it. Just look at this scene, it really sums up just what the nothing is and how it operates.


It just doesn't destroy the world around it. It destroys the very will to go on.
It really is a shame that the villains of this series got less impressive as it went on. We went from abstract entities to bullies who could take themselves seriously while calling themselves The Nasties. Pretty Lame.

 

[micky]

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg from The Fifth Element. Played by Gary Oldman. I thought he was a good villian because he was a corrupt corporate millionaire who dabbled with the devil. He played all the angles used mercenary forces to attack the keepers of the fifth element. Took matters into his own hands and went after the stones. I think he is underrated because the movie as a whole is underrated. Its a fantastic scifi movie but it never gets brought up.

omg i loved him in that movie! he was one of the reasons that movie is in my top 5.

 

[sinsfire]

Kaiser Soze from The Usual Suspects. Kevin Spacey was brilliant.

He won an Oscar for best supporting actor. He was excellent but he was well recognized for the role.

 

[The Night Shade]

Max Zorin is Christopher Walken at his best

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Captain Vidal from Pan's Labyrinth, played by Sergi López i Ayats.

This man played one of the most absolutely brutal and twisted men I've ever seen in film. And its made even better by the fact that Sergi is primarily a comedy actor.

Vidal is a monster, and I don't think the character or the actor get enough praise.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Christopher Guest, the Count Tyrone Rogan from The Princess Bride. No one seems to remember him much from that epic epic film.


Also, does Evil Ash count as an underrated badguy?

 

[WingedIncubus]

Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker in Robocop, and Sam Neill's Damien Thorn in The Omen III: The Final Conflict.

Amon Goeth (Schindler's List): Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds is a more popular choice for "best villains" list, because he's comfortably fictional and there aren't real hordes of crypto-neo-nazis and witless goth girls idolizing him on YouTube. But the fact that he was based on a real guy makes him a million times more chilling.

Ralph Fiennes was so good, in fact, that reportedly several survivors who met him on the set were terrorized almost to the point of panic when they saw him in SS uniform, because he resembled Amon Goeth almost like a twin. He and the filming team had to reassure them, and actually tell them that he wasn't Goeth, but just an actor playing him.

I cannot blame them, however. Fiennes' Goeth was an angel of mercy compared to real-life Goeth, who was a sadistic, sociopathic monster. What Fiennes did in Schindler's List was nothing compared to things the real Goeth did while in command.