51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #3. ROY BATTY from BLADE RUNNER. The old saying goes “every villain is the hero of his own story” and that more than applies for Roy Batty. Branded the top [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #4 DARTH VADER from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK A NEW HOPE gave us the armored henchman and RETURN OF THE JEDI showed us the human, but in EMPIRE, we saw [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #5. THE JOKER from THE DARK KNIGHT Anyone walking out of BATMAN BEGINS in 2005 couldn’t wait to see what Chris Nolan was going to do with the Clown Prince [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #6. FRED KRUEGER from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET The idea of a murderer who stalks his prey in their dreams is such a completely brilliant and original idea it [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #7. FRANK BOOTH from BLUE VELVET I was 16 years old and had a nasty habit of staying up way, way too late on weeknights. I’d start the night off [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #8. JACK TORRANCE from THE SHINING Stephen King is without a doubt my favorite author. I know he gets a lot of flack from critics, but most of the comments [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #9. THE T-800 from THE TERMINATOR In the past twenty-five years, we’ve been subjected to four theatrical sequels, two seasons of a TV series, one theme park attraction, three sequel [...]

GREATEST FICTIONAL BAD GUYS #10. ALEX BURGESS/DeLARGE from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE I read the novel once, which personally was quite a feat at the time. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around the language (something [...]

Wes Craven was a personal hero of mine. When I saw ELM STREET many, many years ago, something in it beckoned to me -- the symbolism, the mystery and dark myth of it -- he [...]

51 GREATEST FICTIONAL VILLAINS #11 (wherein the word "fictional" means real ones put in movies! #11. EDWIN EPPS from 12 YEARS A SLAVE If I were a superstitious man, I’d say some cosmic trickster cursed [...]