Greatest Screen Villainesses

[vavavinny]

I am a major film buff, and there is nothing I like more than a scheming, manipulative, evil villainess. I was wondering who everyone's favorite villainess is? I have too many to list, but I really think Glenn Close plays a villainess like no other. Her cold demeanor really brought Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction and the Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons, both fantastic, sexy but deadly b*tches, to life.

Other favorites include Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (SO many memorable lines!! "TINA, THE AXEEEEEEE!"), Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns (such a purrfectly sultry femme fatale!), and Cruella de Vill of 101 Dalmatians (such a fabulously wicked grand dame)!

 

[eternitygoddess]

Bellatrix Lestrange

 

[paz2992]

i have discuss and agree with my friends somre years ago, that the best villians have always been the ones from the disney classics.
Cruella de Vil, Scar (lion king) , you actually realise how mean they are, and intelligent at the same time.
i just think they are really great villians

 

[designerleather]

Gonna go Old School on some of these:

Nurse r*tchet - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Wicked Witch of the West - Wizard of Oz

Kathy Bates in Misery

Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Kristanna Loken in Terminator 3

Salma Hayeck - From Dusk Til Dawn

Lucy Lui in Kill Bill

Some of the Bond Baddies
- Famke Jansen - Golden Eye
- Barbara Carrera - Never Say Never Again
- Rosamund Pike - Die Another Day

Jean Marsh - The evil Queen in Willow

And the number 1...

Asami in The Audition - Japanese movie that many have ever seen, but the ending speaks for itseldf

 

[vogue28]

Some of the Bond Baddies
- Famke Jansen - Golden Eye

Defiantly. I think she's quite scary in some scenes

Grace Jones - A View to a Kill
But she turns into the good girl.

 

[vavavinny]

DEFINITELY agree with Nurse Ratched! She was so eerie and chilling in that film! Pure evil disguised in a nurse's white uniform. Kathy Bates in Misery is another excellent choice. And Sharon Stone is a classic femme fatale in Basic Instinct. I LOVE the interrogation scene. "What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?"

Bad Bond Girls are the best! My favorites are Xenia Onatopp (I wish I could do that with my thighs !) and ***** Galore (what a name!). Sophie Marceau also played an excellent evil Bond Girl.

I've never seen Audition, but I have been wanting to for SO long! It looks like such an amazingly macabre, creepy film. There's nothing quite like a dollish Japanse girl gone murderous!

 

[emma peel]

barbara stanwyck in double indemnity

 

[designerleather]

I've never seen Audition, but I have been wanting to for SO long! It looks like such an amazingly macabre, creepy film. There's nothing quite like a dollish Japanse girl gone murderous!

What makes Audition is the juxtaposition of the mousy person from the beginning to their real true nature.

 

[LUXXX]

Ursula (The Little Mermaid)

Catherine Trammell (Basic Instinct)

 

[Karen0193]

Angelina Jolie-Girl, Interrupted.
I know that she wasnt really a Villainess but she was scary and mean in mostly of the scenes.

 

[andersson]

Uma Thurman - Poison Ivy (though of course the costumes are rather kitsch)

 

[Deep Brunette]

Bellatrix Lestrange

100% agreed. HBC is brilliant, I think she outshines everyone on that cast, she really embodies this deranged evil.

 

[Urban Stylin]

what about that crazy fashionista on powerpuff girls..LOL

 

[xerq]

Him? it's a dude i believe.

vectorjunky

 

[Scott]

minnie castevet from rosemary's baby

madame blanc and miss tanner from suspiria

 

[SusanSuperstar]

robert de niro - cape fear

 

[wickedcrazyness]

Bellatrix Lestrange

I completely agree!
She's so evil! I love to hate her!

 

[wickedcrazyness]

Villainesses
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep's character) - The Devil Wears Prada
Regina George (Rachel McAdams' character) - Mean Girls
Maleficent - Sleeping Beauty

Villains
Captain Barbosa - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Those are the only good ones coming to mind at the moment.

 

[ad041715]

minnie castevet from rosemary's baby

madame blanc and miss tanner from suspiria

Oh, definitely agree with both!

Mines are O-Ren Ishi (Lucy Liu) in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) in Misery. Truly stellar, evil performances.

 

[chicca]

I agree on Kathy Bates in Misery evil & crazy!! my favs are Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket Heath Ledger as Joker , actually all the Batman villans are my fav, the first Jack Nicholson Joker and Uma turman as Poison Ivy are amazing!!
..I know it's not really a villan but Road Runner it's evil too evil let Wile Coyote catch him for xmas!

ohh I forgot Glenn Close & John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons epic!