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Is a "favorite movie villain" the villain you love to hate? Or, the villain who is most evil? Or, is it the scariest?
I'm not a big fan of scary movies so I'm not going to waste my answer on the obvious: anyone with a chainsaw, knife, face mask, doll part, puppet face, etc...
Before I give my final pick, here's a taste of some of my contenders.
I'll get you my pretty
As a child, I was terrified of The Wicked With of the West, particularly when she first appears as Dorothy's house travels in the tornado. You think you're going to see Miss Gulch again (which is bad enough) and then... BAM ... you get the Wicked Witch looking into the window. Pure childhood fear gets her on my list.
Honorable mention goes to the Mombi/Nurse Wilson character in Return to Oz, who scared me completely shitless when I was 8 years-old. A producer probably said "Hey let's make a kids movie about Dorothy Gale getting shock treatment!" Cool. "And let's add these characters called Wheelers that are pure evil!" Sounds good. "Oh and there are severed heads in it too!" Umm. A kid's movie? I hate that movie.
Criss-Cross
The Birds in The Birds. I'll root for animals most of the time, assuming that they're main objective isn't to pluck out eyes and trap people in houses. Hitchcock's villains should be be strong representatives on any best of list, particularly Norman Bates in Psycho and Bruno Anthony in Strangers On a Train.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled...
Verbal says it best: "'Keaton always said: I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."
Candy Colored Clown
But the best movie villain, in my humble opinion, is Frank Booth from Blue Velvet. Insane, perverse, sadistic and creepy beyond belief, he is completely irredeemable but for the fact that he knows music and he realizes that Roy Orbison's In Dreams is probably one of the best fucking songs in the world.
