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Since we love talking about Top 10 lists and the movies;
How about this list from USA Today, Friday June 25, 2004
1. Darth Vader, Star Wars
Any half-man, half-machine willing to kill his children if they don't join daddy's firm is something to hiss about. His 11th-hour change of heart also gave us a reason to ultimately love the big lug.
2. Norman Bates, Psycho
One of Hollywood's first serial killers, played by Anthony Perkins, pushed the envelope of what studios were willing to put on film. Co-star Janet Leigh says she started taking baths after the film's horrific shower scene. And she knew it was just a movie.
3. Bruce, the shark from Jaws
The film warned ''Don't go in the water,'' and we didn't. How many movie villains scare us enough to give up swimming? Bruce was as frightening when you didn't see him as when you did.
4. Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
As refined a killer as they come. Anthony Hopkins' turn won him an Oscar and made it impossible to eat fava beans without thinking of a Census-taker's liver.
5. Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Louise Fletcher managed the most understated villain ever. Without lifting a finger or even her voice, Ratched made Jack Nicholson's antisocial character, McMurphy, look like an Eagle Scout.
6. Hal 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey
A detached voice has never been so frightening. Hal managed to scare the pants off us while embodying a deeper message about the ills of a technological world.
7. Jack Torrance, The Shining
What would a villain's list be without Jack Nicholson? The creepiest thing Stephen King has ever put on screen, only Nicholson could steal ''Here's Johnny'' from Johnny Carson.
8. Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction
Still the scariest movie any married man has seen. Glenn Close's character put the term ''bunny boiler'' into the adulterer's lexicon.
9. The hillbillies from Deliverance
Try this: go camping with some friends and whistle the opening bars of Dueling Banjos. Those woodsmen, including Bill McKinney and Herbert Coward, who menaced Ned Beatty (center), did more to set back the image of Southerners than The Beverly Hillbillies.
10. Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Robert Englund's Freddy was absurdly evil, but he introduced an indestructible slasher who still haunts.
How about this list from USA Today, Friday June 25, 2004
1. Darth Vader, Star Wars
Any half-man, half-machine willing to kill his children if they don't join daddy's firm is something to hiss about. His 11th-hour change of heart also gave us a reason to ultimately love the big lug.
2. Norman Bates, Psycho
One of Hollywood's first serial killers, played by Anthony Perkins, pushed the envelope of what studios were willing to put on film. Co-star Janet Leigh says she started taking baths after the film's horrific shower scene. And she knew it was just a movie.
3. Bruce, the shark from Jaws
The film warned ''Don't go in the water,'' and we didn't. How many movie villains scare us enough to give up swimming? Bruce was as frightening when you didn't see him as when you did.
4. Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
As refined a killer as they come. Anthony Hopkins' turn won him an Oscar and made it impossible to eat fava beans without thinking of a Census-taker's liver.
5. Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Louise Fletcher managed the most understated villain ever. Without lifting a finger or even her voice, Ratched made Jack Nicholson's antisocial character, McMurphy, look like an Eagle Scout.
6. Hal 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey
A detached voice has never been so frightening. Hal managed to scare the pants off us while embodying a deeper message about the ills of a technological world.
7. Jack Torrance, The Shining
What would a villain's list be without Jack Nicholson? The creepiest thing Stephen King has ever put on screen, only Nicholson could steal ''Here's Johnny'' from Johnny Carson.
8. Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction
Still the scariest movie any married man has seen. Glenn Close's character put the term ''bunny boiler'' into the adulterer's lexicon.
9. The hillbillies from Deliverance
Try this: go camping with some friends and whistle the opening bars of Dueling Banjos. Those woodsmen, including Bill McKinney and Herbert Coward, who menaced Ned Beatty (center), did more to set back the image of Southerners than The Beverly Hillbillies.
10. Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Robert Englund's Freddy was absurdly evil, but he introduced an indestructible slasher who still haunts.
