Who are the scariest villains of fiction?

Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

02-07-10

I think the further you live from the ocean the less scary Jaws seems to be. or maybe that's correct.

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honeykid

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02-07-10

I don't really see how that plays, mark. I can understand that it wouldn't play on your mind after watching the film as someone who's on the beach ever day, in the same way that Freddy's scarier than Jason because you go to sleep every night, while you might never go to camp. But it's not like the shark's going to leave the water and attack you in the street. I live about 26 miles from the coast, btw. I have no idea if that's too far or not.

will.15

Semper Fooey

02-08-10

For me, the fish was very scary until the climax when I got a good look at it.

mark f

Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

02-08-10

Well, honey, I notice that you didn't bother to answer the question, so OK, I'll acquiesce to you. The flippin' shark isn't scary at all and I'm a bleedin' lunatic. Iowa is scary and you are scary though. Don't try to BS me on that. Because I could end up on your street or in Iowa, but no, I could never ever show up where a flippin' shark is. (As if I have to be near a shark or anything else for it to be scary. It's called a scary movie. In Fiction.) You don't really seem to have a grip and you're lecturing me? Remember; I already acquiesced...

L .B . Jeffries

Msg

Registered User

02-08-10

I thought jaws had some frightening moments to be sure but...... for me it was more of a suspense. The predicament of being on an Island and putting yourself in the shoes of the main character Roy Schiender as the sheriff. People are going to swim there's really no stopping it so he's forced to take matters into his own hands. The moments that most scared me were John Williams score especially at the beginning with the girl going into the ocean. Dryfuss and Schiender go out at night in the boat and the first non descriptive viewings of the shark mostly immersed in water. Kids are lucky and unlucky these days everything is imaged and nothing is left to be imaged. I love the trickery and subtle that you get out of older cinema.

honeykid

MoFo Whisperer

02-08-10

Originally Posted by mark f

Well, honey, I notice that you didn't bother to answer the question,

That's because I don't find villains scary. So I don't have a scariest villain.

The flippin' shark isn't scary at all and I'm a bleedin' lunatic. Iowa is scary and you are scary though. Don't try to BS me on that. Because I could end up on your street or in Iowa, but no, I could never ever show up where a flippin' shark is. (As if I have to be near a shark or anything else for it to be scary. It's called a scary movie. In Fiction.)

I think you need a lie down. Maybe the Superbowl was a little too much excitement for you or something. Have you been drinking again?

You don't really seem to have a grip and you're lecturing me? Remember; I already acquiesced...

A grip on what? And I wasn't lecturing you at all. I was merely trying to make sense of what you said.

will.15

Semper Fooey

02-08-10

Mark f sounds like someone who's still pissed the Colts lost. I went back and looked at what honeykid said and I fail to see what he said that would trigger such a heated response.

Honeykiid's reply wasn't there there yet when I wrote the above. (Then my computer had a temporary breakdown typing this)

mark f

Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

02-08-10

I'm biting my tongue right now. I suggest you do the same.

P.S. I wanted the Colts to lose. This thread has reached an all-time high now. Heated response? HA! You guys also appear to have no clue about iluv2viddyfilms.

Plainview

Registered User

02-08-10

I live on the coast and when I'm in the ocean Jaws has crossed my mind more than once. Even though I don't think there is any record of a Great White off the coast of B.C. I completely agree with L.B about the score it makes it that much more suspenseful. The Shark in Jaws is the scariest villian in my opinion because Jaws can exist in real life. It has never crossed my mind that I would wake up with Chucky in my bed.

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02-08-10

Originally Posted by mark f

I think the further you live from the ocean the less scary Jaws seems to be. or maybe that's correct.

What about a beach? Iowa is a long way from California, but we have beaches and big lakes.

Are people in Chicago afraid of fish?

They have lake Michigan which looks like an ocean.

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02-08-10

Originally Posted by mark f

Yeah they don't seem to be aware of our history and constant bickering.

will.15

Semper Fooey

02-08-10

Sharks are real and they attack people. I live near the beach, but don't like the beach and haven't been in the ocean since a kid. Sharks scare me because they're ugly with big teeth. I'm also not fond of crocs or gators.

L .B . Jeffries

Msg

Registered User

02-08-10

There's different qualities that villians bring to the screen here a few and what they made me think of while watching these deviates.

Evil - Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) - The Night Of The Hunter
Distrubing - Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) - Blue Velvet (1986)
Lots of Fun - Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) - Die Hard (1988)
Ruthless - Frank (Henry Fonda) - Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)
Crazy - Norman Stanfield (Gary Oldman) - Leon (1994)
Creepy - Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) - Misery (1990)

mark f

Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.

02-08-10

I realize that this is a thread about "fictional villains". I also realize that since the shark in Jaws is an "eating machine", then maybe he doesn't qualify as anything more than a force of nature and not as a "villain", but to me a scary villain is someone or something you cannot reason with. Is Moby Dick a "villain"? I'd say yes, and it doesn't really matter if it takes a Captain Ahab to turn him into a "villain". Jaws would never have been written or filmed if it weren't for Moby Dick. Therefore, I believe the shark qualifies as a scary "villain" whether it takes Quint, some other victim or the reader to make it one. I don't believe this shark to actually exist except for in 'fiction", but since many people do actually fear the idea that it exists, that should make it even scarier.

will.15

Semper Fooey

02-08-10

Jaws was a shark bigger than any real shark which makes him fictional by any definition. Same for Moby Dick. How many other whales have a first and last name?

starlite

Registered User

02-20-10

Originally Posted by Cyberia

For me they'd be the ordinary people rather than aliens, monsters, etc. Like in an episode of Hawaii Five-O where a family of rednecks have been murdering people across America and now Hawaii for small sums of money and when finally caught, the father tells Steve McGarrett that they weren't kin so it didn't matter if they killed them and stealing off dead people don't count.

Or the Purple Man in a Marvel comic. His words are absolute law to others. He goes into a McDonalds for breakfast. Lots of noisy people and kids running about so he tells them to hold their breath. When he left after eating his meal and reading a newspaper, there were 30-odd dead adults and kids left behind him.

Yet when it comes to films, there are not many real villains about. The Joker of course, but he's from the comics.

A few scary 'human' monsters that come to mind are

1. Jack, from the shining
2. That lady from 'Misery'
3. Nurse Ratchet, from Cuckoos nest..
4. The wierd neihbor from that newer horror movie 'Deadly End' (gross)

Jasons mother, was kinda creepy, from the first Friday the 13th...

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02-22-10

I second Nurse Ratched......uuuuuuugghhh, she gives me the shudders.

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