History Monster / FilmHToI

* ''Film/HighRisk'': "[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname The Doctor]]" is a MadBomber and the [[BigBad leader]] of a [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist group in Hong Kong]]. Two years after [[WouldHurtAChild blowing up a bus full of children]], the Doctor and his terrorists attack the newly opened Hotel Grandeur so they can steal all the jewelry from one of the exhibits. They kill dozens during the takeover as they take all the guests hostage. When [[TheHero Kit Li]] realizes that the Doctor is the [[MyGreatestFailure same terrorist who bombed the bus]] (on which were his wife and son) and tries to kill him, he stops pretending to be a guest and takes command of the group; the Doctor then demands a chopper or else he'll start murdering hostages. After losing several men because of Li, the Doctor [[DestinationDefenestration has Frankie's manager thrown from the building's balcony]]. The Doctor orders his men to confront Li when he shows, but after Li crashes a helicopter into the hotel and kills more of his mercenaries, the Doctor kidnaps [[IntrepidReporter Helen]], straps a bomb to her, and flees, leaving Li to disarm the bomb on his own. The Doctor escapes police custody [[WoundedGazelleGambit by pretending to be a wounded guest]] and later calls Li from a phone booth [[EvilGloating to tell him that he got away and that he can't disarm his bomb]]. Even after Li figures out how to disarm the device, the Doctor gloats that he's free to RapePillageAndBurn as he pleases, moments before his KarmicDeath.

* ''Film/AHauntingAtSilverFalls'': [[EvilAunt Anne Sanders]] is a SerialKiller responsible for the death of not only the Dahl twins, but her own sister, as well. In the process of these murders, she allowed her husband [[CreepyUncle Kevin]] to rape them before torturing them to death and keeping their photographs as mementos. Allowing Wyatt Dahl to be framed for and put to death over the murder of his daughters, Anne gladly used him to intimidate anyone who saw the ghost of the twins. While trying to keep up the façade of a loving aunt to Jordan, Anne nevertheless bullied her over perceived slights, eventually locking her in the bathroom while she and Kevin went on a date. Once Jordan discovered the truth, Anne [[BitchInSheepsClothing revealed her true colors]] by openly plotting to torture her to death, smacking Kevin when he protested, and attempting to kill Jordan's boyfriend Larry when he tried to intervene. The evil failed to stop once Anne was killed, as [[ResurrectedMurderer she returned as a ghost]] to torment a man named Jack into committing more murders in her name, only stopping when Jordan managed to defeat her a second time.

* ''Film/IronMonkey'': [[BigBad Hin-hung]] is an evil Shaolin monk who betrayed his people, burned his temple, and took several students to be his servants in allying with the corrupt government. Using [[DiscOneFinalBoss Governor Cheng]] to oppress, tax, and starve a town of people while regularly threatening him, Hin-hung gives free reign to his quartet of monks to brutalize and rape innocents as they wish. Upon taking over the city when Cheng fails him, Hin-hung immediately murders Cheng's loyal aide and proves himself a fat worse ruler than Cheng ever was. Hin-hung kidnaps young Wong Fei-hung and [[WouldHurtAChild subjects the boy to bloody whipping]], threatening his life to draw out Iron Monkey, and has his own minion Fox whipped and stabbed when Fox tries to save Fei-hung. Hin-hung further [[MightMakesRight proves his utter contempt]] for the "weak" when he uses his own concubine as a HumanShield against a knife attack, then callously finishes her off when she pleads with him to tend her wounds.

* ''I Am Wrath'' (2016): [[BigBad Lemi K]] is a {{sadist}}ic crime lord from Columbus, Ohio, who once ate a man's fingers in front of a rival gang. Retrieving an incriminating video of the Governor's son, Lemi K uses the video to {{blackmail}} the governor into letting him and his gang commit any atrocities they like without facing repercussions; as such, crime dramatically increases throughout Columbus, with Lemi K and his crew killing dozens of innocent people. On the Governor's behalf, Lemi K has his men kill Vivian Hill and her husband Stanley, and when Lemi K learns that the latter has survive and is seeking revenge on Lemi's gang, he cuts off a [[{{Fingore}} finger]] from one of [[BadBoss his own men]] for not telling him about this sooner and goes after Stanley's family, eventually holding them hostage and killing Stanley's granddaughter himself.

* ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'': The [[NoNameGiven Vietnamese colonel]] functions as a {{sadist}}ic, brutal officer dedicated to making others suffer. When he feels insulted, he shoots a woman's husband in the head and attempts to have her brutalized, [[DisproportionateRetribution solely because she complained too much]]; he executes their Vietnamese driver as well. Once he begins hunting the heroes, the Colonel terrorizes a tribe into working for him via executions and when he gets his hands on any of the good guys he has them [[ColdBloodedTorture horribly tortured]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his own men have enough of him and try to leave]], after which he promptly executes one solely for spite.

* ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'' films:
** [[Film/HanselAndGretel2007 2007 film]]:
*** The caretaker of the "[[OrphanageOfFear House of Happy Children]]" orphanage is seen in an extensive flashback to be the reason why the three children in the woods, Man-bok, Young-hee and Jung-soon, became so mistrustful of adults and believe them to be evil. The caretaker kept the children in horrible conditions, and was [[WouldHurtAChild incredibly abusive]]. He locked away Man-bok’s friend to a dark room to starve along with another boy for spilling food; planned to rape the 7-year-old Jung-soon, and only didn’t because Young-Hee convinced him to rape her instead; beats a boy to death in a sack; and causes another boy to starve to death. When the children are caught trying to escape, the caretaker tries to burn Man-bok with flaming piece of wood before getting pushed into the fire himself.
*** [[PedophilePriest Deacon Byun Ji-wan]] was a pedophilic SerialKiller and religious cult leader before getting lost in the woods along with his wife and finding himself at the childrens' house. Upon his wife’s death, he just chuckles and remarks about how interesting the house is. He’s seen looking through a book filled with photos of his past victims, all of whom were children that he killed and is implied to have raped. After revealing his true nature, he takes Jung-soon hostage at knifepoint before slashing Man-bok’s back in an attempt to kill him. When that doesn’t work, he just tries to kill all three of the kids,[[note]]:who still look like and have the minds of children despite being adults chronologically[[/note]] believing them to be "Satan’s children."
** ''[[Film/HanselAndGretelWarriorsOfWitchcraft Warriors of Witchcraft]]'': [[WickedWitch The Great Witch of the Woods]] is a [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious sorceress]] who arrived in America with the Pilgrims. To maintain her {{immortality|Immorality}}, she lured children into her woods to eat their souls, leaving them as {{empty shell}}s. The Great Witch evebtually has her followers found a private school, where she has the most promising students bring her souls in exchange for her ensuring their place in the halls of power. When Ella and Jonah, two siblings whose parents the Witch killed, show up, the Witch has her cult corrupt Jonah while killing anybody who helps Ella investigate them. She eventually tries to have Jonah kill Ella before revealing that she intends to use her disciples to TakeOverTheWorld.
** ''[[Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters Witch Hunters]]'': [[BigBad Muriel the Grand Black Witch]] is the leader of the [[WickedWitch Black Witches]] and the vilest one in existence. She orchestrated the deaths of Hansel and Gretel's parents as part of a plot to use Gretel in a HumanSacrifice to make witches impervious to fire. Years later she and her lieutenants [[WouldHurtAChild kidnap twelve children to use in the sacrifice]], after already boiling one down for a magic brew. Muriel kills anyone who attempts to rescue the children, putting a curse on one tracker that forces him to eat maggots before exploding upon returning to Augsburg. When one witch is captured, Muriel sets part of the town on fire as a distraction, and forces a guard to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide shoot himself with his own gun]]. She later kidnaps Gretel to cut out her heart as part of the new sacrifice. When this fails, she takes Hansel and Gretel back to the Gingerbread House where they killed their first witch, before she murders the good witch Mina, whom Hansel fell in love with.
** ''[[Film/HanselAndGretelGetBaked Get Baked]]'': Agnes is a [[WickedWitch vile witch]] with a predilection for murder and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Agnes lures oblivious people into her household and subjects them to [[ColdBloodedTorture grotesque torture]] before sucking out their youth to replenish her own. She kidnaps Gretel's boyfriend, Ashton, and mutilates him horrifically, including [[EyeScream tearing out his eye and eating it]]. When her dealer Manny warns her that a local drug kingpin is coming for her, Agnes kills him before doing the same to the kingpin and his henchmen. She kidnaps Gretel and her friend Bianca and later attempts to cook Gretel's brother Hansel alive. She succeeds in murdering Bianca before seemingly being killed by Hansel and Gretel. However, she [[NotQuiteDead survives]] and promptly murders a man to steal his car.
** ''Film/GretelAndHansel2020'':
*** [[BigBad Holda]] takes in Gretel and Hansel after their mother abandoned them. Revealed to be an [[WickedWitch evil witch]], Holda was the mother of the girl in the pink cap who, after banishing her to the wilderness, was promised [[DealWithTheDevil great power if she gave into the darkness]]. [[OffingTheOffspring Sacrificing and cannibalizing her other children]], Holda took the appearance of an elderly woman to lure children into her house with enchanted food before killing and [[ChildEater eating]] them to enrich her powers. When she sensed the same powers in Gretel, Holda takes her as an apprentice and entices Hansel into climbing a ladder into a fire pit so Gretel would be forced to eat her own brother.
*** The "[[EnfantTerrible Beautiful Child]]" in the pink hat was the daughter of Holda and the reason for her mother's turn to evil. After being saved by her father's bargain with an enchantress, the child began to delight in reading the fortunes of villagers ending in horrific death. She would then [[SerialKiller ensure those deaths came to pass]], horribly murdering [[{{Patricide}} even her own father]]. Upon Holda attempting to send her to her fate in the woods, the child [[TheCorrupter beckoned her mother to accept the darkness in her]] and devour Holda's other children. Alone in the woods, the child continued to lure other children to their deaths.

* ''Film/AHauntingAtSilverFalls'': [[EvilAunt Anne Sanders]] is a SerialKiller responsible for the death of not only the Dahl twins, but her own sister, as well. In the process of these murders, she allowed her husband [[CreepyUncle Kevin]] to rape them before torturing them to death and keeping their photographs as mementos. Allowing Wyatt Dahl to be framed for and put to death over the murder of his daughters, Anne gladly used him to intimidate anyone who saw the ghost of the twins. While trying to keep up the façade of a loving aunt to Jordan, Anne nevertheless bullied her over perceived slights, eventually locking her in the bathroom while she and Kevin went on a date. Once Jordan discovered the truth, Anne [[BitchInSheepsClothing revealed her true colors]] by openly plotting to torture her to death, smacking Kevin when he protested, and attempting to kill Jordan's boyfriend Larry when he tried to intervene. The evil failed to stop once Anne was killed, as [[ResurrectedMurderer she returned as a ghost]] to torment a man named Jack into committing more murders in her name, only stopping when Jordan managed to defeat her a second time.

* ''Headhunter'' (1988): [[BigBad Chicati Tumo]], the titular [[SerialKiller Headhunter]], is an orixá who hunts Nigerians and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] them to [[YourSoulIsMine consume their souls]]. Having terrorized Nigeria for a long period of time, Tumo arrives in Miami to find the survivors of his massacre, slaughtering a number of immigrants and associates of his victims; killing a woman during her baptism and mutilating a friendly healer for helping the detectives. Posing as the wife of a detective, Tumo leaves her corpse for him to find and mocks the man for trying to stop him.

* ''Film/TheHunters'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Leif Bäckström]], [[TheHero Erik Bäckström]]'s [[CainAndAbel brother]], and the BigBad of the first film, is the leader of the titular hunter gang and stands out even despite the dark and savage atmosphere of the film and its sequel. After being [[AbusiveParents abused by his father]], Erik eventually had enough and moved to the city, but Leif was forced to bear it for years, [[FreudianExcuse developing a hatred for Erik]]. Leif's first crime was when he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals fatally shot his own dog]] for not following his orders. His second act was after a member of his gang Tomme accidentally killed an innocent berry picker while hunting, and when the wife of the berry picker came, Leif brutally kills her, with everyone else slightly shocked by his cruelty. After Erik meets and befriends a Philippine immigrant, Leif, coming home, starts harassing her and Erik, eventually knocking her down, and the day after he brings the gang to rape her, just to provoke his brother. His final act however, is when he hears that the mentally-challenged Ove has told the police about what happened with the berry picker, and he lures Ove out in the forest to hunt, just so that he could kill him. After crying and hugging his brother who seemed to convince Leif to turn himself in, Leif instead pours gasoline all over their house and burns himself and the house down.

** [[SatanicArchetype Tadashi Usobuki]] is a supernatural criminal mastermind who [[AdaptationalVillainy lacks the humor and charisma]] of his original comic book counterpart, using his MindControl powers to [[ProfessionalKiller carry out contract killings]] and make people [[TheCorrupter fall into the "darkness"]]. Obsessed with the "intent to kill", Tadashi turns against his clients if their malice is not "pure"; after killing one of his targets, who had supposedly tried to rape his client's wife, Tadashi leaves his client with evidence indicating that the man was actually trying to stop his wife from taking drugs, resulting in his client massacring everyone in his house while Tadashi watched everything from the window. Commissioned to kill a police detective by one of her co-workers, Tadashi murders her and then hypnotizes his client into confessing to everything in front of the department before falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. When a prostitute asks Tadashi to kill the fiancée of her more successful sister, Tadashi torments the woman until she goes insane and kills his target herself; returning to his client, Tadashi gives her a letter revealing that her sister truly cared for her, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to commit suicide]] out of remorse. After avoiding a prison sentence, Tadashi confesses that he will keep ruining lives until his nemesis, Tada, has enough courage to kill him.

* ''Into the Sun'' (2005): The [[AxCrazy psychopathic Kuroda]] is a savage up and coming {{Yakuza}} with no regard for the strict code of his order. Rising to power by slaughtering countless others in his quest to expand his territory, Kuroda plans to flood the streets with heroin and even allies with [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs foreign syndicates]] to that end. [[TheStarscream Betraying and murdering his superiors]], Kuroda kills bystanders and any others, even cutting a man apart with a katana for being "disrespected". Not above killing families, Kuroda has the hero Travis Hunter's fiancée killed for Hunter opposing him as well, before plotting to betray and kill his allies.

* ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'': The wicked [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Moreau]], to create humans from animals, [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments horrifically]] on them, changing them into malformed creatures. When they are fully sapient beings, Moreau continues to [[AndIMustScream torture them in his House of Pain without anesthetic]], vivisecting them again and again. Upon the arrival of others to the island, Moreau orders the deaths of anyone who could be a problem, even trying to have a woman [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] to see if offspring with his creatures is possible.

* ''Film/{{Hellbound}}'': Prosatanos is the emissary of {{Satan}} who strives to bring about HellOnEarth. During UsefulNotes/TheCrusades period in the Holy Land, he kidnaps UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart’s [[WouldHurtAChild infant son]] and tries to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice the prince]] for his royal blood. The King responds by [[SealedEvilInACan sealing Prosatanos in a tomb]] and [[DismantledMacGuffin dismantling his scepter]]. After being awakened centuries later, Prosatanos sets about recovering the pieces of his scepter, killing their protectors in the process. Notably, he murders a Rabbi by ripping his heart out of his chest, an old Italian priest by throwing him out of a moving train, and a blind Israeli monk by [[YourHeadASplode crushing the helpless man's skull]]. He also has no problem with killing any bystanders who get in the way, or [[BadBoss his allies]] as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they become a liability]]. In the climax he kidnaps his research assistant Leslie, who is revealed to be descended from nobility, to sacrifice her in his new ritual and bathe the world in fire.

* ''Film/TheHidden'': The unnamed [[PuppeteerParasite parasitic lifeform]] takes over the bodies of other sapient beings so that it can go on a violent crime spree, taking whatever it wants and killing anyone who gets in the way, purely for fun. The host bodies are discarded by the alien when they finally become so damaged that it needs to [[BodySurf jump into a new host]]. During its [[SpreeKiller murderous rampage]] throughout Los Angeles, it kills many dozens of people through methods varying from shooting, bludgeoning, stabbing, and vehicular homicide, having no compunctions with murdering children or the infirm either. The good body-controlling alien in the film, an [[SpacePolice extraterrestrial police officer]], has been pursuing the evil alien ever since it killed his partner on another planet, which the evil alien is only too happy to remind him of when they confront each other. The alien's ultimate plan is to take over the body of a U.S. Senator so it can become PresidentEvil.

* ''Film/TheIsland'': [[MadScientist Dr. Bernard Merrick]] is at first [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming and helpful]]. He has the clones under his care dissected alive when he views the need as arising, and lies by telling them they'll be sent to the mysterious "Island", while lying to the clones' original source by claiming the clones are brain dead and are not living, sapient beings. When one clone's original donor is already dead, Merrick spitefully plans to have her harvested anyways, and tries to kill any clone that resists him. Drunk on his own genius and power, Merrick seems to view himself as some sort of [[AGodAmI twisted messiah]].

* ''Film/AHauntingAtSilverFalls'': [[EvilAunt Anne Sanders]] is a SerialKiller responsible for the death of not only the Dahl twins, but her own sister, as well. In the process of these murders, she allowed her husband [[CreepyUncle Kevin]] to rape them before torturing them to death and keeping their photographs as mementos. Allowing Wyatt Dahl to be framed for and put to death over the murder of his daughters, Anne gladly used him to intimidate anyone who saw the ghost of the twins. While trying to keep up the façade of a loving aunt to Jordan, Anne nevertheless bullied her over perceived slights, eventually locking her in the bathroom while she and Kevin went on a date. Once Jordan discovered the truth, Anne [[BitchInSheepsClothing revealed her true colors]] by openly plotting to torture her to death, smacking Kevin when he protested, and attempting to kill Jordan's boyfriend Larry when he tried to intervene. The evil failed to stop once Anne was killed, as [[ResurrectedMurderer she returned as a ghost]] to torment a man named Jack into committing more murders in her name, only stopping when Jordan managed to defeat her a second time.

* ''Headhunter'' (1988): [[BigBad Chicati Tumo]], the titular [[SerialKiller Headhunter]], is an orixá who hunts Nigerians and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] them to [[YourSoulIsMine consume their souls]]. Having terrorized Nigeria for a long period of time, Tumo arrives in Miami to find the survivors of his massacre, slaughtering a number of immigrants and associates of his victims; killing a woman during her baptism and mutilating a friendly healer for helping the detectives. Posing as the wife of a detective, Tumo leaves her corpse for him to find and mocks the man for trying to stop him.

* ''Film/{{Hoodlum}}'': [[KosherNostra Dutch Schultz]], much like in real life, is an AxCrazy gangster who made his fortune off the Harlem numbers racket. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] murdering one of his own so-called "partners" and hacking off his balls for a cheap laugh, Dutch later orders hits on his rivals Stephanie "Madam Queen" St. Clair and Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, leaving streets full of dead bodies in the ensuing MobWar. A petty little psychopath who [[BadBoss can't resist humiliating even his own minions for a laugh]], Dutch gets back at Bumpy by having his best friend "Illinois" tortured to death, and personally shoots Illinois's sobbing wife shortly before this. Dutch even pointlessly kills an unarmed, harmless accountant when his final attempt to off Bumpy fails.

* ''Film/TheHunters'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Leif Bäckström]], [[TheHero Erik Bäckström]]'s [[CainAndAbel brother]], and the BigBad of the first film, is the leader of the titular hunter gang and stands out even despite the dark and savage atmosphere of the film and its sequel. After being [[AbusiveParents abused by his father]], Erik eventually had enough and moved to the city, but Leif was forced to bear it for years, [[FreudianExcuse developing a hatred for Erik]]. Leif's first crime was when he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals fatally shot his own dog]] for not following his orders. His second act was after a member of his gang Tomme accidentally killed an innocent berry picker while hunting, and when the wife of the berry picker came, Leif brutally kills her, with everyone else slightly shocked by his cruelty. After Erik meets and befriends a Philippine immigrant, Leif, coming home, starts harassing her and Erik, eventually knocking her down, and the day after he brings the gang to rape her, just to provoke his brother. His final act however, is when he hears that the mentally-challenged Ove has told the police about what happened with the berry picker, and he lures Ove out in the forest to hunt, just so that he could kill him. After crying and hugging his brother who seemed to convince Leif to turn himself in, Leif instead pours gasoline all over their house and burns himself and the house down.

** [[SatanicArchetype Tadashi Usobuki]] is a supernatural criminal mastermind who [[AdaptationalVillainy lacks the humor and charisma]] of his original comic book counterpart, using his MindControl powers to [[ProfessionalKiller carry out contract killings]] and make people [[TheCorrupter fall into the "darkness"]]. Obsessed with the "intent to kill", Tadashi turns against his clients if their malice is not "pure"; after killing one of his targets, who had supposedly tried to rape his client's wife, Tadashi leaves his client with evidence indicating that the man was actually trying to stop his wife from taking drugs, resulting in his client massacring everyone in his house while Tadashi watched everything from the window. Commissioned to kill a police detective by one of her co-workers, Tadashi murders her and then hypnotizes his client into confessing to everything in front of the department before falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. When a prostitute asks Tadashi to kill the fiancée of her more successful sister, Tadashi torments the woman until she goes insane and kills his target herself; returning to his client, Tadashi gives her a letter revealing that her sister truly cared for her, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to commit suicide]] out of remorse. After avoiding a prison sentence, Tadashi confesses that he will keep ruining lives until his nemesis, Tada, has enough courage to kill him.

* ''Into the Sun'' (2005): The [[AxCrazy psychopathic Kuroda]] is a savage up and coming {{Yakuza}} with no regard for the strict code of his order. Rising to power by slaughtering countless others in his quest to expand his territory, Kuroda plans to flood the streets with heroin and even allies with [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs foreign syndicates]] to that end. [[TheStarscream Betraying and murdering his superiors]], Kuroda kills bystanders and any others, even cutting a man apart with a katana for being "disrespected". Not above killing families, Kuroda has the hero Travis Hunter's fiancée killed for Hunter opposing him as well, before plotting to betray and kill his allies.

** ''The Last Key'': [[BigBad KeyFace]], aka the Key Bearer or the Man with the Keys, is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent vicious spirit]] from [[AlienGeometries the Further]], seeking to open all its gates. Tricking a young Elise into releasing him in her home, [=KeyFace=] immediately strangled her mother to death before possessing Elise’s father, [[AbusiveParents Gerald]]. Feeding off the pain and hatred from Gerald’s abuse, [=KeyFace=] would have Gerald kidnap and torture several women in his house for months, before killing them. Decades after Gerald's death, [=KeyFace=] would haunt the home's new owner into continuing Gerald’s crimes. Attacking Elise's niece, Melissa, [=KeyFace=] forces her into a coma and takes her to the Further, silencing her screams. It’s revealed he keeps the souls of his victims, including Gerald and Ted, in a prison of his to [[AndIMustScream torment them continuously]]. When Elise and her other niece, Imogen, come to Melissa’s rescue, [=KeyFace=] tries to coerce Elise into beating her father's soul for his past abuse, and continue feeding off their hatred. Failing that, he attempts to kill Melissa’s physical body out of spite.