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1. Darth Maul - Ray Park in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Personally, I rate The Phantom Menace as the best of the "other" Star wars movies although admittedly that's akin to saying I'd rather be covered in warm p#ss rather than shite or vomit. And it's all due to Darth Maul, that tiny bit of sweetcorn in this enormous cinematic turd. From the moment he backflips off his speeder and launches a ferocious attack on Qui-Gon to his bizarrely pointless death (why kill off a great villain when you just have to introduce a new one in the next movie?). Menace only really crackled when he was on screen. That he has become synonymous with John Williams's Duel of the Fates can't have hurt, but the excellent three-way with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon seals him as one of the best villains of all time. If only there had been more of him and one less big fish.

Cause of death: Sliced in half by a very lucky Obi-Wan


2. Darkness - Tim Curry in Legend

No messing around here. Eight foot tall, red skin, goat legs, massive horns and evil bass-heavy laugh, Darkness is badass. Tim Curry looks like he's permanently on the cusp of either orgasm or homicide, maybe both at the same time. Too many times has the devil been nothing more than a sinister man in a suit. This is the definitive Prince of Darkness.

Cause of death: Complex arrangement of shiny shields blasting him with sunlight and unicorn horn to the gut. He deserved way better.


3. Don Logan - Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast

Don: You're the problem! You're the f#cking problem you f#cking Dr White honkin' jam-rag f#cking spunk-bubble! I'm telling you Aitch you keep looking at me I'll put you in the f#cking ground, promise you!

Don: Shut up, c#nt. You louse. You got some f#ckin' neck ain't you. Retired? F#ck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a f#cking suitcase out of you. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat b#stard. You look like f#cking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? [He gut-punches Gal]

You can't reason with him, bribe, cajole, influence, bully or stop him from getting you to do what he wants. The true sign of a top drawer lunatic is that he is at his most terrifying not when he's beating the hell out of someone but when he's just talking. And Don uses his voice like a machine gun, rapid fire, on target and capable of tearing people to shreds. Don even returned from the grave briefly to record the most sinister appeals for Live Aid ever. Watch them here and here.

Cause of death: Shot-gunned.


4. Stansfield - Gary Oldman in Leon

Gary Oldman flies way over the top with his Ludvig-van-loving psychopath cop. In contrast to Jean Reno's taciturn Leon, Stansfield roars and mugs shamelessly, almost falling over into cartoonish evil at times. He is an elemental villain, no apparent motives for his chaotic violence other than an ill-defined nihilism, he certainly seems to take no enjoyment from the spoils of his drug business. But then isn't that the scariest, when asking 'Why?' to be answered, 'Why not?'

Cause of death: Huge explosion, possibly caused by over-acting.


5. Jack Torrance - Jack Nicolson in The Shining

I fellate Stanley Kubrick pretty frequently so it's hard for me to accept that any part of this movie's awesomeness has anything to do with anyone other than him. But the Shining is Nicholson's film. Jack just owns the film. The bar scenes, the scene in the toilet with Mr Grady, the final chase in the maze where he looks to have regressed to a feral beast. Jack Nicholson is the only person who ever managed to steal a scene from Kubrick.

Cause of death: Froze to death after being outsmarted by a young boy.


6. Bad Ash - Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

Good or bad, it's still Ash.

Cause of death: Shotgun to the face, flesh burned from bones, catapulted and exploded.


7. Amon Goeth - Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List

Although playing a Nazi concentration camp commandant gives him a good head start in the evil stakes, it is to Fiennes' credit that Goeth is primarily a man and not a monster. Just a naturally sadistic man who had the misfortune to be unleashed on a world where sadism was considered a virtue. He neither revels in it nor is revolted by it. What chills me about him is that I suspect he thinks he is just a man doing his job.

Cause of death: Hanging.


8. Hans Gruber - Alan Rickman in Die Hard

I've always thought this movie, while being totally great, is a very revealing slice of American wish-fulfilment. An everyday American Joe takes on infinitely more suave, well-educated, better dressed Europeans and through a mix of guts and handguns kicks their smug polyglot asses. No matter, Hans isn't just a thief, he's an exceptional one and we all know that in the real world Hans and his team of all star mercs would have demolished John McClane without so much as creasing their Prada black label.

Cause of death: Dropped off a building by an Irish flatfoot.


9. John Doe - Kevin Spacey in Seven

Like Darth Maul he gets a tiny amount of time on screen. Unlike Darth Maul this is a good thing. His puppet master presence permeates the movie and his final reveal as an unremarkable man (minus the blood stains) makes him even more chilling. The unparalleled logical sadism of his crimes and their exquisite planning and execution make him make you wish serial killers were this inventive in real life.

Cause of death: Shot by Brad Pitt, believing that by murdering Gwyneth Paltrow he'd cause Brad to become the wrath victim and kill him. He actually ended up banging Angelina, so f#ck you mister serial killer.


10. Sheriff of Nottingham - Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Sheriff: I'll cut his heart out with a spoon!
Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
Sheriff: Because it's duuuuulll you twit, it'll huuurt moar.

Oppressed the poor, in league with the devil and perpetrator of the most light hearted rape scene in the history of film. The Sheriff is a bad guy's bad guy. And if it wasn't for the scenery chewing sheriff you'd only have the po-faced Kevin Costner being told off by Morgan "Hollywood's #1 Magic Negro" Freeman for two hours.

Cause of death: Dagger to the heart.


11. Roy Batty - Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner

"I want more life. F#cker." As motives go that's a pretty good one. In essence he could be seen as exacting a pre-death revenge on his own murderers. In the end he spares his pursuer Deckard after sharing some of his memories, making sure that some tiny part of him exists beyond his own mortality.

Cause of death: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." Hard to believe that after Hauer improvised one of the most iconic deaths in film, the highlight of his succeeding career would be a Guinness advert. Or possible a Kylie video.

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