20 of the Scariest Onscreen Villains of All Time
Up and down, black and white, peanut butter and jelly, heroes and villains — none of these things would be the same without the other. Without a villain to fight or at least get really mad at, every protagonist would just spend their time knitting with a nice cup of tea. Would you watch that? Without your own knitting? Yeah, that’s what we thought.
But sometimes, that villain is just a little too scary. For one Redditor, it’s Breaking Bad’s Gus Fring, who they describe as “polite and professional but also totally cold blooded,” and Terence Fletcher in Whiplash, who was “more realistic scary, publicly humiliates you and tells you you aren’t talented enough to achieve your dreams.”
They then asked r/AskReddit, “What movie/TV show villain was genuinely scary?” and a thread filled with terror quickly followed.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Star Trek: The Next Generation
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Inglourious Basterds
Return to Oz
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Kindergarten Cop
No Country for Old Men
Game of Thrones
Doctor Who
It
Breaking Bad
Jessica Jones
Oz
The Powerpuff Girls
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Coraline
The Silence of the Lambs
