Monster / Film: O to R

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• Oblivion (1994): Redeye is a reptilian outlaw who terrorizes the town of Oblivion. We first see him challenging Marshall Stone to a duel, a duel which Redeye wins because he buried an element nearby that negates the sheriff's force field badge; he guns the sheriff down. When Stone's son, Zack, meets Butou, we learn that Redeye got this element by murdering Butou's family. After Butou kills one of his gang members in revenge, Redeye proceeds to order him whipped to death in the most painful way his top lieutenant can think of. Once Butou is rescued, Redeye kidnaps Mattie, a townswoman. When the heroes try to rescue her, Redeye implies he will return her after he and his goons finish raping her. When Mattie escapes, Redeye shoots her, intending for her blood to attract nightscorps to consume her alive.
• Oblivion (2013): The malevolent A.I., "Sally", controls the Tet, a machine it uses to destroy planets after plundering them of their resources. Targeting Earth, Sally destroys the moon, resulting in catastrophic events that wipe out much of humanity. Capturing Jack Harper and Victoria "Vicca" Olsen, Sally clones Jack and uses his copies as mindless soldiers to fight the surviving humans. Spending the next 50 years hunting down survivors with her drones, Sally leaves clones of Jack and Vicca to maintain her machines on Earth, routinely wiping their memories while falsely promising them voyage to an inhabitable world.
• The Octagon: Seikura is the resentful half-brother of Scott James and the leader of a powerful, multinational terrorist syndicate. Training aspiring terrorists in the way of the ninja to become assassins and dispersing graduates to commit terrorist actions worldwide, Seikura holds his disciples to a code that, if broken, ensures the death of both them and their entire families. Seikura proves his ruthlessness when he has a woman named Nancy, her diplomat brother, and her family—among them a child—all slaughtered by his assassins. Seikura later captures Scott's friend AJ and forces Scott to participate in the titular lethal fighting course, and defiantly slits AJ's throat anyways when Scott passes the test.
• Oculus: The spirit in the mirror has driven many dozens of people to murder and violent suicides to sate its hunger for suffering. Purchased by the Allen family, it takes human form to seduce the father and drive both parents insane, killing them and nearly murdering their children Kaylie and Tim. When Kaylie and Tim later attempt to destroy it years later, the mirror brutally tricks Kaylie into killing her fiancé and later Tim into murdering Kaylie, seeing him arrested while showing him his family's tormented souls.
• Odd Thomas: Officer Simon Varner, the leader of a group of Satanists, attempts to kill as many people as possible solely as a tribute to the Prince of Darkness. To this end, Varner has a potential witness kidnapped and fed to one subordinate's dogs, even killing another of the group when young psychic Odd Thomas becomes suspicious of him. Varner orders the death of the local police chief and has his subordinate Eckles kill the security of the local mall before intending a mass shooting of the mall's patrons, before Varner sets off a bomb to kill everyone else with the first responders.
• The Odessa File: Eduard Roschmann was the SS Commandant of the Riga ghetto who was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 German Jews. Christened the "Butcher of Riga" due to his ruthlessness, Roschmann reveled in exterminating the Jewish prisoners in cruel fashion. His crimes include: sentencing a line of Jews to hang—as well as personally kicking the chair from underneath a Jewish boy; allowing his lieutenants to shoot prisoners into open graves; and reconverting a van into a gas chamber, trapping several Jews inside, Salomon Tauber's wife being one of the casualties. When Wehrmacht soldiers were called in towards the end of the war, Roschmann angrily shoots the Wehrmacht commander who is later revealed to be the father of journalist Peter Miller. Taking the alias Hans "Josef" Kiefel, Roschmann founds the Kiefel Electric and secretly aids the ODESSA by manufacturing radio gyroscopes and biochemical warheads which will then be distributed to Egypt, with striking Israel as the end goal.
• The Offering (2023): Abyzou, the demon known as "The Taker of Children" is a voracious devourer of children who appeared to the scholar Yosille when he attempted to contact the Angel of Life to bring his wife back from the dead. Murdering a little girl and taking her form, Abyzou began to feed on children with Yosille in its thrall. Upon Yosille's sacrifice to contain it, Abyzou arrives at a funeral home and tricks the hero Arthur's wife Clare into freeing it, murdering Arthur's father Saul. Targeting the pregnant Claire's unborn baby, Abyzou proceeds to kill anyone who helps Arthur. Taking the form of one victim to trick Arthur into a pointless suicide in a failed attempt to contact Abyzou, the demon then lures Clare into a false sense of security before attacking her as well.
• Officer Down (2013): Royce Walker is a scummy pimp who brings immigrant women to America so he can force them into human trafficking lest he revoke their visas and get them kicked out of the country. Keeping multiple women as sex slaves through this method, Walker rapes and murders one of "his" girls when he learns she is planning to run away. Walker later realizes that his apparent minion Nick is an undercover cop, and so he manipulates the volatile David Callahan into believing Nick is a Serial Rapist so that David will kill Nick and silence him. Walker further murders one of his own associates to solidify the plot, and smugly derides all of his victims as nothing but "puppets: pull the strings, watch 'em dance!"
• Officer Downe (2016): Zen Master Flash is a psychotic mercenary hired by the Fortune 500 to eliminate undead supercop Terrance Downe. Specializing in killing heroes, Flash aims to not only murder Downe, but to crush his and the city of L.A.'s spirit. Massacring a room full of people with a grin on his face, Flash lures Downe into an ambush, and upon capturing him, betrays his employers, planning to kill them all once he's finished with Downe. Flash slaughters his way into a prison, where he has the inmates torture Downe, and intends to loose the convicts onto the streets of Los Angeles to cause mass chaos for chaos's sake, all in a ploy to utterly destroy the city's hope.
• Off Limits (1988): Master Sergeant Dix is the Serial Killer who murdered his general's foreign-born wife in retribution for denying Dix a promotion years ago, in an attempt to force the man to feel the pain he felt. Unsatisfied with other foreign women about, Dix took to slaughtering Vietnamese women around Saigon, stopping for a time before starting up a new killing spree.
• Oldboy (2013): Arthur Pryce is Adrian's father, whose actions kickstart the series despite being long dead. Sexually abusing his two children for years, while manipulating them into thinking it was love, Arthur moved his family overseas after his actions were exposed, and proceeded to slaughter his family and himself to escape his crimes. Arthur's actions drove Adrian, who survived the attack, to take revenge on Joe Doucett for causing his father's death.
• The Omega Code duology: Satan proves himself to be an utter monster in both films:
  • The Omega Code: In the first movie, Satan possesses Stone Alexander after he is shot in the head, healing Stone and becoming Chancellor of the United World. When two prophets confront him, Satan has them killed and hung on display to serve as a warning to his enemies. When Satan learns that several countries under his rule are seceding from him, he plots to launch a nuclear strike against them, but when he learns that Gillian Lane has the final Bible Code, Satan offers to call off the attack in exchange for the code. However, after Lane gives the code to him, Satan reveals that he is going to initiate the attack anyway.
  • The Omega Code 2: Megiddo: In the second movie, Satan possesses Stone when Stone is a young child, trying to have him burn his baby brother, David, alive. When Stone becomes an adult, he becomes President of the European Union and forms a world government, with Satan forcing him to kill countless dissidents against his regime. When the U.S. President refuses to join Satan's world order, Satan murders him, and when the new president, David, also refuses to join his regime, Satan has him framed for his father's murder, which Satan committed. Satan also plots to wage war against countries that defy him.
• Omega Cop duology:
  • Omega Cop (1990): Wraith is a slaver responsible for the deaths of John Travis's squadmates. Regularly hosting auctions to sell women into sexual slavery, Wraith also hosts blood rituals where he drinks his victim's blood, hoping to use John for his next ritual. After multiple failed attempts to secure John for himself, Wraith instead heads to the police headquarters and tries to kill everyone inside.
  • Karate Cop (1991): Supreme Commander Lincoln is a drug lord who plans to obtain the crystal and use it to conquer the world. The dictator of Tradetown, Lincoln in his spare time hosts Gladiator Games where multiple men are slain by his champion, all for his sadistic pleasure. Hoping to find the crystal and use Rachel's teleporter for his own needs, Lincoln has a child she knew murdered in front of her for fun.
• The Omen series: Damien Thorn is The Antichrist foretold in scripture. Initially horrified by this revelation, Damien eventually accepts his destiny, and sets out to Take Over the World. Making his lineage known in Damien: Omen II, he incites an aneurysm in his cousin's brain when he refused his offer of world conquest. Becoming Ambassador to Great Britain in Omen III: The Final Conflict, he decrees that every baby boy born on March 24, 1982, be executed when he realized that the Second Coming of Christ was imminent. Among other atrocities, Damien coldly brainwashes Barbara into killing her husband and son with a clothes iron. Any redeeming traits that he may have had in the other films quickly dissipate once he gets romantically involved—and later rapes—a female journalist. Always the charismatic figure, Damien manipulates the journalist's young son into discipleship, only to remorselessly use him as a Human Shield when De Carlo attempts to kill him. Demonic, malicious, and blasphemous, Damien craved to fling the Earth into eternal damnation.
• Once Upon a Time in China series:
  • First film:
    • Jackson, an American dignitary, is a corrupt sociopath who runs a side business selling the Chinese as slaves, especially selling attractive women as prostitutes. Using the Shaho Gang as his personal army of thugs, Jackson orders an attack on the province's governor and hero Wong Fei-Hung at an opera, having his men fire into the crowd of civilians. When confronted by Fei-Hung at the end, Jackson attempts to use the Governor as a hostage while trying to kill Fei-Hung and his friends.
    • Tong is the leader of the Shaho Gang, who participates in the massacre at the opera house and abducts innocents to be sold in Jackson's slave trade. Terrorizing the province and murdering at will, Tong also kidnaps Wong Fei-Hung's Love Interest, Aunt 13, and makes clear his intention to rape her. When she fights back, Tong attempts to drag her to a boiler to burn her face off.
  • Once Upon a Time in China II: High Priest Kau-Kung, master of the White Lotus sect, leads a crusade against anything even vaguely Western. Having his followers burn every Western item they can find, Kau-Kung even has Western dogs burnt alive before sending his men into the streets to attack and murder those with Western items, technology or clothing. Kau-Kung has his followers attack multiple institutions, including a school for children to learn foreign languages, with Fei-Hung barely saving the lives of the children. He then has the foreign embassies besieged, intending to have every Westerner within massacred, along with any Chinese citizen seen as a "collaborator".
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico: The corrupt General Emiliano Marquez plots a coup against Mexico's president to let the torturing, murdering cartel of his ally Barillo flourish. An enemy of the nameless "El Mariachi", Marquez murdered the former's wife Carolina and their young daughter for spite, returning to lay siege to Mexico City and slaughter everyone close to the President, with his forces willing to kill all civilians who stand against him.
• Once Upon a Time in the West: Frank is a sadistically cruel former bandit and the man the protagonist "Harmonica" owes his namesake to. Encountering a young boy in the past, Frank forced the boy's brother to stand on his shoulders with a noose tied around the brother's neck, before placing a harmonica between the panting boy's lips and telling him to "keep your lovin' brother happy." Frank watched with glee as the young boy subsequently collapsed and caused his brother to be hanged. Becoming an enforcer for railroad tycoon Mr. Morton, Frank kills off the McBain family for their property, happily shooting Mr. McBain's son just for knowing his name—despite being told by Morton to just scare them—and frames the bandit Cheyenne for the massacre. Ignoring Morton's peace offerings with widow Jill McBain, Frank takes Jill hostage, rapes her in exchange for sparing her life, and forces her to auction off her land, later trying to murder Morton himself to gain control over his railroad company.
• Once Upon a Warrior: Sorceress Irendri started the Snake Cult to remain powerful forever. Ordering her cult to commit massacres, with survivors being forcefully converted into her cult, Irendri established dominance over the survivors by using her powers to raze a village full of people to the ground. Her reign of terror lasting for decades until her defeat, upon being revived centuries later Irendri restarts her Snake Cult and began her campaign of dominance. Learning of a Mysterious Waif, a 9-year-old girl named Moksha, being the key to Irendri's invincibility, Irendri sends her cult to attack villages to kidnap Moksha, while frequently bathing in blood from ritual sacrifices to maintain her eternal youth. After sucking the life force from hundreds of children from several villages to enhance her powers, Irendri, having Moksha captured, intends to sacrifice her during an eclipse; preparing for the ritual in Moksha's village, Irendri has all its inhabitants, save for Moksha herself and her protector Yodha, cocooned alive, to feast on their flesh after the ritual, and upon being bestowed powers by the eclipse, reveals her ultimate form as a snake-human hybrid monster to deliver a brutal beating on Yodha, nearly killing him, and tries to devour Moksha later on.
• The One: Gabriel Yulaw is a sociopathic interdimensional criminal with a God complex. Originally an officer of the Multiverse Authority, Yulaw discovered that, by killing his alternate selves, he would gain their life energies and essence. Yulaw then set about across dozens of parallel universes, killing all of his alternate selves in an effort to become "the One," a being of godlike power. Having already succeeded in killing 123 of his targets, Yulaw was briefly detained, but broke free, murdering several guards before teleporting himself to the universe of his final target, Gabe Law. Upon arriving, Yulaw went on a killing spree, killing several police officers as he sought out Gabe to kill him. When his former ally, Harry Rodecker, arrived to stop him, Yulaw delivered a brutal beatdown upon his former friend, ultimately killing him. He then proceeded to gun down Gabe's wife, making sure that Gabe was watching while he did so. After his final showdown with Gabe ended with the two of them being transported back to MVA headquarters, Yulaw attempted to frame Gabe for his crimes. Arrogant and sadistic, Yulaw lived for nothing more than power and his own egomania.
• One-Armed Swordsman: The Long-Armed Devil is the old master Qi Rufeng's old rival with a grudge on his shoulder. Recruiting bandits and murderers to his banner, the Devil proceeds to begin having Qi Rufeng's students and allies murdered to send a message before personally invading the Qi household. Killing multiple students, Qi Rufeng proclaims his intention to slaughter all of Rufeng's students and even his family in front of him before killing him as well. When Rufeng offers to kill himself if the Long Armed Devil will spare the others, the Devil simply laughs and tells Rufeng he knows the Devil better to think that will work.
• Onechanbara film series:
  • The Movie: Dr. Sugita is a scientist working for the D3 Corporation who created the zombies as a way to fuel his god complex. Needing someone from the Imichi clan to continue his research, he decided to use the young Aya, ordering his men to attack her father, then coercing Aya's sister Saki into killing him, taking her in as a servant who kidnaps people for his experiments. Ten years later, while searching for the now-adult Aya, he unleashes his zombies onto the world, causing an apocalypse. Kidnapping Katsuji's sister Asami and treating her as a pet, he turns her into a zombie once she disobeys him and sends her out to get Aya. Bragging to Aya about the death of her father, he unleashes a gang of zombies on her that end up killing Reiko.
  • Vortex: Himiko, the haggard leader of The Organization, created a drug to grant immortality that ended up turning people into zombies, using them to conquer the world. Seeking eternal life, she searches for Kei, a child from the Imichi clan, planning to kill her and drink her blood. Having Aya and Saki's parents killed when they were children, Himiko, posing as a woman named Misery, tricks them into helping her locate Kei, later seducing Saki into working for her. Drinking Kei's blood and becoming young again, she tries to kill Aya and Saki in order to completely wipe out the Imichi clan bloodline.
• One False Move: Ray Malcolm and Lenny "Pluto" Franklyn are a pair of petty crooks who go to brutal extremes to make a quick buck. They invade the homes of drug dealers, torture the occupants, then carry out a mass murder of all 6 people inside before robbing them. When they realize a child lives in the home, Ray and Pluto try to hunt the kid down to kill him. Later betraying and murdering their drug dealer contact simply because he wouldn't pay them what they wanted in a dope deal, Ray and Pluto also kill a random addict and get a cop shot dead. When Ray's abused girlfriend Fantasia betrays the duo to police, Ray shoots her in the head while Pluto stabs the arresting officer in an attempt to kill him.
• One Man's Justice: Corrupt FBI Agent Karl Savak, within moments of his first appearance, has the wife and young daughter of heroic drill sergeant John North murdered by proxy to silence them as witnesses to his illegal gunrunning. Casually dropping body after body in pursuit of guns he promised drug lord Dexter Kane, Savak interrogates a roomful of helpless drug dealers before executing them one by one; torches alive another gunrunner with vital information in his own car; viciously tortures and later threatens to murder the twelve-year-old child Mikey to gain North's cooperation; and later betrays Kane himself, murdering his brother and tricking his men into being massacred by the police by selling them blanks for their attempted retaliation. Eventually, Savak executes both Kane and his own subordinate Marcus to keep the guns for himself, utterly thrilled with the amount of bloodshed he'd be able to orchestrate with such firepower.
• Only God Forgives: Billy Thompson is a violent heroin dealer with a penchant for raping and beating prostitutes. Casually deciding he wants to "fuck a 14-year-old", Billy hunts down a teenage sex worker to brutally violate and beat to death. Dying himself in a vigilante killing, his brother Julian finds Billy's crime so disgusting he refuses to avenge him.
• Onmyōji (2001): Dōson is a wicked onmyōji seeks to overthrow the Emperor and defeat his archrival, Abe no Seimei. Attempting to use evil spirits to poison those near the Emperor, Dōson tries to kill the crown prince and forcibly turns a woman into an Oni while trying to frame Seimei and have him and his allies killed. When defeated by Seimei, an enraged Dōson decides to find the grave of wrongly executed Prince Sawara and summons his wrathful spirit to destroy the Heian capital and all within.
• On the Waterfront: Michael J. Skelly, known as "Johnny Friendly" to all, is the crooked union boss who rules the docks with an iron fist. Friendly keeps the civilians around the docks kept in a controlled fear, subjecting them to beatings with steel pipes and threats on their lives to force them into silence about his criminal activities. Anyone who proves to be a thorn in Friendly's side is murdered by Friendly and his goons, as demonstrated with Joey Doyle being flung off a rooftop and Kayo Dugan having a shipment of whiskey barrels dropped on his head as punishment for trying to rat on Friendly's operations. Having killed them and "a dozen more" good men who got in his way according to Father Barry, Friendly orders his minion Charley to kill protagonist Terry Malloy—Charley's own kid brother—and when Charley refuses, Friendly has Charley killed and his body left on display before trying to murder Terry and Edie Doyle to silence all loose ends. When Terry survives and testifies against him, Friendly baits Terry into a fist fight, only to have his thugs jump in and brutally beat Terry to within an inch of his life.
• Open 24 Hours (2018): James Lincoln Fields, aka the Rain Ripper, killed 35 women and forced his girlfriend Mary to stand by as he did, leaving her forever haunted by her inaction and ruining her life and reputation. Escaping from prison and tracking Mary down, James torments her, playing with her fragile mental state. James ties Mary, her friend, her parole officer, and her coworker down to chairs, and forces her to watch as he tortures them to death, and kills a customer for getting too close to finding him, then a cop who tried to save Mary and chases her until he's seemingly mortally wounded, and ultimately leaves it ambiguous if he continued to stalk her after their last encounter.
• Open Fire (1994): Stein Kruger is a ruthless terrorist imprisoned for a streak of murder of US servicemen. Engineering his escape, Kruger hires a band of elite mercenaries to slaughter their way into a power plant and take those they don't kill hostage, threatening to have all of the hostages killed if he is not freed. Once Kruger is transferred to the plant and still at odds with the FBI, Kruger reworks his demands with threats to poison the entire city of Los Angeles with lethal nerve gas, executing one of the hostages himself in a moment of irritation, forcing a truck driver to ride out as a decoy by threatening to blow him sky-high and forcing the father of his main adversary Alec McNeil to fly him out to safety by nearly murdering his other hostage in front of his eyes.
• Open Windows: Simon Chord is a psychopathic cyberterrorist who uses his abilities to trick Nick Chambers into working with him to spy on Jill Goddard, as well as electrocuting and tying up her agent, Tony. When Nick starts questioning him, Chord threatens Nick by showing video footage of Nick's crimes, saying he could easily show this to the police if Nick tries to pull the plug. Chord directs Nick to near Jill's house, and has Nick send a hack that will allow him to communicate with Jill through her laptop. From there, Chord has the unconscious Tony as a hostage, and zaps him with increasing electric shocks to force Jill to strip, using Nick to relay his commands. Chord next storms in and kidnaps Jill, before orchestrating the death of several SWAT teams by luring them to Jill's house and then blowing it up with a bomb he planted in Jill's bedroom. He then leads a car chase that endangers multiple civilians and cops. It is then revealed that despite others thinking Chord was a notorious master hacker named Nevada, Chord actually tricked and killed Nevada to get his servers. Chord then kills Nick, and uses Jill's stripping webcam to trick millions of people into watching a livestream of her death.
• Opera: Inspector Alan Santini was a Serial Killer in a relationship with heroine Betty's mother. He would tie up women and kill them while she watched. After she pressured him to do it more often, he got fed up with her ordering him and killed her as well. Deciding to make Betty his new target, Santini stalks her at the opera house she is performing at and murders people in front of her after tying her up and forcing her eyes open so she sees everything. He kills three ravens during his murder spree, and eventually sets a room on fire to kill Betty. When he survives, he pursues her all the way to the Swiss Alps to make her his.
• Operation Delta Force series:
  • Original film: Colonel Johann Nash, leader of a white supremacist terrorist group, launches an attack on a UN Biochemical Research Facility to obtain samples of a newly-discovered viral strain, personally gunning down dozens of unarmed scientists and research personnel to Leave No Survivors and intending to use the virus to unleash a global epidemic for cleansing the world in his own image. After Major Tipton disables his transport, Nash hijacks a train station, having his men slaughter civilians en masse while taking the occupants of the train hostage, and later has an entire village captured to lure the Delta Force into a trap, intending to have villagers and Delta Force members massacred to cover his tracks. After the viral strain had leaked out and the only sample of the antidote is in Nash's possession, Nash intends to send his infected henchmen to cities worldwide, to spread the virus to as many countries as he can.
  • Random Fire (5th film): Jafari Bin Kasim is the leader of a terrorist organization who had developed Mind Control technology, which he uses on captured Delta Force operatives, brainwashing them into becoming suicide bombers, forcing them to commit terrorist attacks on his behalf. Introduced sending a brainwashed Delta Force member to suicide bomb a train carrying a diplomat and his family, killing everyone aboard, Jafari had his men capture a village, and subsequently blow it up when Delta Force members tries to resolve the hostage situation, before abducting several members, one of whom he sends to commit another suicide bombing on the Boston Financial Center killing everyone inside. When Captain Skip and his team managed to infiltrate his hideout, Jafari reveals he already had Skip brainwashed and forces Skip to blow up himself with most of his team, and later captures Delta Force Operative Robert Johnson, and puts him through Mind Rape while forcing protagonist Brad Kennedy to watch.
• Orphans of the Storm:
  • Robespierre is a "pussyfooting tyrant" who schemes the overthrow of the aristocracy not out of moral reasons, but to institute his own Reign of Terror. Robespierre helps kick off the revolution that leads to much rioting, chaos, and bloodshed, then immediately institutes the "Committee of Public Safety" to host phony trials where hundreds of people are executed for any and all association to the aristocracy. Declaring his intent to "purge all vice" from France, Robespierre orders the executions with smug glee, and even when he is implored by his more righteous ally Danton to spare multiple innocent people, Robespierre feigns agreement, only to order them beheaded anyway.
  • The Marquis de Praille is the most reprehensible example of the decadent French aristocracy. Showing the kind of man he is by fatally running over a small child, de Praille flicks a coin at the child's devastated parents without a hint of empathy. The Marquis stuffs his face in lavish feasts while hundreds of starving peasants teem outside his gates, and when a young, virginal woman catches his eye, the Marquis abducts her so that he may rape her, leaving her blind sister alone on the streets of Paris. When the one noble with a conscience attempts to stop the Marquis' rape, de Praille attempts to strike him down.
• The Osiris Child (2016):
  • General Lynex is an unexpressive sociopath who leads the Ragged project under the Exor corporation. Under guise of a prison, Lynex has hundreds of prisoners subjected to horrifying experiments that transform them into the abominable Raggeds, with which Lynex intends to use to wipe out entire civilizations across the galaxy to pave the way for Exor to assume control. When the Raggeds get out of control and begin decimating a penal colony of the world Lynex has been conscripted to protect, Lynex detonates a nuclear reactor to wipe out all life on the planet rather than be exposed for her atrocities, and has any innocents who try to seek refuge from the blast shot on sight to silence loose ends.
  • Warden Mourdain is the smug head of Exor's prison colony, using his position to brutally abuse and torture the prisoners under his charge. Leading Exor's experiments on prisoners to turn them into—as well as use them as food for—the Raggeds, Mourdain uses his special torture cells for any prisoners who stand up to him, locking them in a small, dark room that continuously spins, leaving prisoners inside the room for days at a time to drive them insane.
• Osmosis Jones: Thrax is a deadly virus who is obsessed with infamy and making his name known in the medical books. To this end, Thrax infiltrates human after human and slowly kills them through an agonizing fever—one of his victims a little girl who "didn't like to wash her hands"—which comes with the consequence of killing both the human and every living organism inside of them. Upon invading the body of Francis "Frank" DiTorre, Thrax introduces himself by burning a cell unfortunate enough to cross him from the inside out whilst humming, and cuts clean through a local crime boss to cow his flunkies into serving him. Thrax sets about murdering whomever comes in his way and burns his own flunkies to death after they suggest incubating, ultimately nearly succeeding in dooming Frank and gloating to hero Osmosis Jones that he intends on breaking his record on Frank's young daughter Shane.
• The Other Lamb: Shepherd, real name Michael, is the leader of the Flock, an all-female cult he has conditioned to revere him as a deity. Fashioning himself as a wise and benevolent leader, Shepherd sexually abuses his "wives", all the while grooming his daughters to take their place once they come of age, as well as denying them medical assistance whenever they become ill or pregnant, even if it results in their deaths. To protect his position in the Flock, Shepherd also has any male babies born abandoned or killed. Leading the Flock to a new destination after they're forced out of their old home, Shepherd promptly kills the older members and attempts to force his daughters to become his new wives.
• Our Evil (2019): Charles is a freelance hitman and a misanthropic Serial Killer who is willing to kill even children. Hosting his own website on the Dark Web, Charles keeps a list of homemade snuff videos as a presentation for his visitors; one such video shows him scalping a woman alive. Contracted to assassinate Arthur and his daughter Michele, Charles is disappointed in the hit as it doesn't involve torture. Bringing a lesbian couple to his home, Charles murders them for fun and, after executing his targets, orders pizza like nothing had happened. A human who manages to be worse than a literal demon, Charles calmly confesses to lacking remorse for his crimes simply because he hates people anyway.
• Our Friend Power 5: Shark is the genocidal leader of the Shark Gang, in the past having invaded the peaceful planet of Battlestar to get the energy research on the Comentor Robot solely to further his own plans, destroying the entire planet with presumably only six survivors. In the present, Shark chases the surviving five turtles and their princess to the planet Earth, where he sends his two henchmen to hunt them down; their first action is to kill two children. When his minions fail to get the Comentor Robot, Shark decides to destroy Earth when they refuse to give up the turtles, proclaiming he will "Kill every Earthling."
• Our Town (2007): Hyo-yi, exposed to violence at an early age after witnessing his mother's death, became enamored with killing, which he rather quickly illustrates by snapping a cat's neck. Once an adult, Hyo-yi, after having his romantic advances on his childhood friend So-yeon go completely ignored, decided to kill So-yeon for "rejecting" him. To build up to the murder, Hyo-yi first murdered 3 other females, one of which was an 8-year-old girl, after which he would string up their bodies in sick poses. Once murdering So-yeon, Hyo-yi next kills two detectives on his trail before stabbing one of So-yeon's former boyfriends to death, all the while shown to have no problem killing his own pet dogs if they do something he doesn't like. In the end, to show "gratitude" to his former teacher Gyeong-joo for driving bullies off of him, Hyo-yi kills Gyeong-joo's best friend, then goads Gyeong-joo into killing to prove he's a killer.
• Outcast: Prince Shing is a ruthless, overly-ambitious tyrant who murdered his father after being denied the throne due to his sadistic tendencies. Subsequently framing his lawful younger brother, Prince Zhao, and his sister, Princess Lian, as the Emperor's killers, and ordering a manhunt on his own siblings, Prince Shing took over the palace's Black Guard legions, threatening the legion's commander into submitting to him by saying he will have the commander's children nailed to walls in pieces and his wife ravaged by soldiers. Sending Black Guards to massacre entire villages whose inhabitants are suspected to be helping Princess Lian and Prince Zhao, Prince Shing has his army launch a direct assault on a La Résistance hideout and kill everyone in order to get to his siblings, Shing himself gleefully watching as the resistance's leader, Gallian, get brutally impaled by several Black Guards. Challenging the heavily-wounded Jacob to a Duel to the Death, Shing deliberately injures Jacob with multiple slashes and stabs in order to inflict maximum suffering, and even attempts to kill his own sister, Princess Lian, when she tries to stop him from killing Jacob.
• Out for Justice: Richie Madano is a drug-addicted psychopath with a Hair-Trigger Temper. This noxious combination results in a multitude of deaths; when his girlfriend cheats on him with a cop, Richie first kills his girlfriend before shooting the cop dead in front of the latter’s family. Richie goes on to terrorize and kill everyone in his way after this; when a woman makes the mistake of honking at him in traffic, Richie blows her brains out, and he later murders his own wheelchair-bound ally out of nothing but baseless paranoia. Even Richie’s own family, including his long-abused brother, fear for their lives if they were to ever get on his bad side.
• Out of Reach: Faisal is the leader of a syndicate specializing in human trafficking. Running an orphanage in Poland by deceiving good Samaritans, Faisal waits until the girls are in their early teens before abducting them and selling them into the sex trade. Faisal has been doing this so much that his business is worth billions, having sold off countless children. Faisal is a ruthless killer, showing no compunction in killing those in his way, the kids who become too much trouble, or anyone who fails him. When the hero William Lansing tracks Faisal down, Faisal attempts to kill him and keep the sex trade going in order to profit off of it.
• Out of the Furnace: Harlan DeGroat is a violent backwoods meth boss who begins the film at a drive-in movie with a date. When she thinks him having food poisoning is funny, DeGroat chokes her and beats her before pummeling a good Samaritan coming to her aid nearly to death. Later, when DeGroat is offered the chance to make money by a man who owes him named Petty, via Petty's fighter buddy Rodney taking a dive in a bare-knuckle fight, DeGroat ambushes them and has them both killed simply out of spite, pride and because Rodney did a bit too well before he took the dive. When Rodney's brother Russ tries to trap DeGroat later, DeGroat executes the unarmed, helpless bartender in the area before trying to flee.
• Outbreak: Major General Donald "Donnie" McClintock is an Insane Admiral par excellence who sees the gruesome results of the Motaba virus and decides it would make an excellent bioweapon. Intent on keeping the truth about the virus secret no matter what, McClintock has an African military camp firebombed to kill everyone in it, infected or not, simply to keep the existence of the virus a secret. When the Motaba virus breaks out in a small American town named Cedar Creek, McClintock secretly withholds the cure to see the virus kill its way through the town before placing pressure on the American government to blow up the town and everyone in it. McClintock even personally attempts to shoot down Sam Daniels and his innocent pilot to stop them from getting the cure to Cedar Creek, knowingly and willingly trying to throw away thousands of lives for the sake of his own military advancement.
• The Outlaw Josey Wales:
  • Original film: Captain Terrill is the bloodthirsty leader of the Redlegs, a group of pro-Union looters and pillagers who open the film torching the titular character's house to the ground and murdering his family, including his young son. Enlisted as a genuine federal authority by Senator Lane in order to dispose of any holdouts at the end of the Civil War, Terrill exercises his new power by having his Redlegs massacre a group of surrendering Confederates who had been promised amnesty and mortally wounding one of the escaping survivors himself. Terrill begins a ruthless manhunt for Josey Wales across the countryside after he escapes the carnage, with full intent to move onto Texas afterwards and continue killing rebels, coldly remarking that "Doin' right ain't got no end."
  • The Return of Josey Wales: Captain Jesus Escabedo is the sadistic chief of police in a Mexican town still loyal to the deceased Emperor Maximilian. Escabedo makes a recurrent hobby of riding out to scalp native Apache people, with a proclivity for collecting the skulls of the infants. Escabedo has a woman gang-raped to death, dismissing her as "another whore with dreams", and personally beats the one witness to it half to death before shooting him dead. Escabedo later has an Apache woman brought to his quarters for his own personal entertainment, beating her bloody when she resists him and promising her she'll hang for the rest of her people to see her.
• Outlaw King: Edward, Prince of Wales, is the sadistic son of King Edward I "Longshanks", who convinces his father to declare Robert the Bruce an outlaw. Sent by Longshanks to crush Robert's uprising, Edward razes numerous villages throughout Scotland, massacring countless innocents, while having his henchman Aymer de Valence slaughter Robert's forces, and threatens to execute de Valance should he fail to capture Robert again. Seizing control of Kildrummy Castle, Edward hangs and disembowels Robert's brother before slitting Lord MacKinnon's throat, while making Robert's wife and daughter watch as he kills them. When Robert's wife, Elizabeth de Burgh, refuses to annul her marriage, Edward places her in a hanging cage, letting the rising tides potentially kill her. When Longshanks collapses while traveling to face Robert, Edward insults his father before he dies and defies his father's dying wishes, by having him buried in a country he hates.
• Outlaw of Gor: Lara is a sadistic and ambitious woman determined to become the queen of Gor. Seducing and then marrying Marlenus, Lara murdered him after he made hero Cabot his heir, and then framed Cabot for the crime. Immediately undoing all of Marlenus's work reforming the country, Lara allowed slavery to run rampant, with hundreds being sold on and either worked to death in the palaces and mines or used as Sex Slaves. When a cave-in occurs in one of the mines when Lara is present, she orders the exits blocked which results in many people being Buried Alive. Bragging to her henchman Xeno that she did this for no other reason than because she could, Lara reveals that she plans on enslaving the entire population before murdering Xeno himself when he realizes what a monster he has put on the throne.
• Outlaw Prophet (2001): Quinton McBride is an intergalactic television producer who brainwashed the galaxy into accepting his violent show Escape 2020. Having put countless planets in danger for the sake of viewers, Quinton forces android Jon 141 to participate in his games, at one point giving him false information that causes the deaths of innocents, which Quinton chastises Jon for. Once Jon is sent to Earth and plans to put a stop to him, Quinton threatens Jon with the destruction of the planet, and kidnaps a woman to force Jon to attend a talk show. After Jon steals his precious V-chip, Quinton kidnaps the mute child Amy and holds her hostage, refusing to release her once he acquires the chip, and even poses as Jon's deceased wife Mary to break his mind long enough to kill him.
• Outpost trilogy:
  • Doctor Klausener is the mastermind behind the events of the trilogy. A former Untersturmführer and Mad Scientist with delusions of power, Klausener conducted twisted human experiments and built a revolutionary machine in a failed attempt to create a generation of Super Soldiers. Several years after the end of the war, the old and crippled Klausener leads a Fourth Reich conspiracy to release his subjects from the now-abandoned secret facility, sacrificing mercenaries and their backup team to achieve his goals. Unleashing the undead army on war-torn Yugoslavia, Klausener's machinations force NATO to consider nuking the area with thousands of people still inside to save the rest of Europe. In the end, Klausener plans on replicating his machine in modern day.
  • Brigadeführer Götz is the cold-blooded leader of the undead army, lacking the animalistic savagery of his fellow zombies and retaining his strategic nature after his transformation. A known camp commandant involved with Klausener and his experiments, Götz poses as the sole survivor of the project while his soldiers quietly assassinate the mercenaries before launching an attack to kill the remaining men but keeping one of them alive in constant agony, linking him to the machine to expand the electromagnetic field and allow his soldiers to rampage further. Starting his crusade by wiping out the soldiers that arrived to investigate the facility, Götz and his army slaughter countless soldiers and civilians across Yugoslavia, children included, going as far as to decorate his lair with the corpses of his victims and running some experiments of his own.
  • Standartenführer Strasser is the officer in charge of personally supervising the experiments for Klausener, openly embracing death and enjoying his own cruelty. Strasser treats his own men as guinea pigs in many trials of the Super-Soldier program—which involves burning out neural pathways until their heads potentially explode—casually dismissing their brutal deaths while turning penal conscripts and other victims into zombified attack dogs for the Nazis, even setting them on POWs to slaughter them with impunity in his own Gladiator Games. Uncaring towards the soldiers under his command, Strasser simply leaves them to die to give him enough time to flee on his own after recklessly releasing the zombies.
• Overlord (2018): SS Hauptsturmführer Wafner is the head of a Nazi operation in a French village to create a secret weapon using a black tar that can mutate humans and raise the dead. Wafner has innocent villagers horrifically experimented upon, subjecting them to horrific agony while having failures burnt alive. Wafner has any troublesome villagers experimented upon, while blackmailing the girl Chloe for sex by threatening the life of her eight-year-old brother Paul. After being captured when he attempts to rape Chloe, Wafner escapes with Paul as a hostage, attempting to have Paul experimented upon too. Intending on creating a Nazi empire that encompasses the world, Wafner believes himself to be a god when he utilizes the serum himself, even torturing Corporal Ford by impaling him on a meat hook and gloating about his glory, thinking nothing of the pain and death he causes to create his Reich.
• P-51 Dragon Fighter: Dr. Heinrich Grudun is the Nazi occultist in charge of a secret project to breed dragons as aerial support for the Afrika Korps, recruiting telepathic witches to control the flying beasts and fight for Nazism. Training the dragons as living weapons to be used against Allied soldiers, Grudun unleashes them in North Africa to burn and destroy their enemies, developing more eggs to create an unstoppable army of dragons to conquer not only the region, but also the entire continent. Familiar with the existence of an uncontrollable and apocalyptic dragon, Asuzaka the Destroyer, Grudun promises to prevent his return, but releases Asuzaka anyway when he realizes that he was losing a battle.
• Padmaavat: Alauddin Khilji is the Sultan of Delhi, who rose to power by helping his uncle Jalaluddin usurp the throne and then backstabbing him to seize power. Fueled by a rapacious lust and a desire to make any beautiful woman he sees his own, Alauddin cheats on his first wife Mehrunisa on the day of their wedding, and kills a courtier when she witnesses the act. Alauddin also uses his military campaigns as an excuse to find women he can force to join his harem, even leading the unsanctioned conquest of Devagiri just so he can make their princess his own. Alauddin later turns his attention to Chittor after hearing of Padmavati's beauty, and lures her husband Ratan Singh out under the guise of a truce so he can capture him and blackmail Padmavati into submitting to him. When Mehrunisa helps Ratan to escape, Alauddin has her condemned to his dungeon for the rest of her life. After killing Ratan with help from his right-hand man in what was supposed to be a one-on-one duel, Alauddin leads his army into Chittor to rape and plunder its people, leading the women of Chittor to self-immolate themselves to avoid such a grisly fate.
• The Painted Bird (2019): The nameless Cossack commander is an emotionless butcher who joined the Nazis to Rape, Pillage, and Burn across the Eastern Front. Leading an attack against a defenseless village, his men rape the women and brutally execute the men for fun, even throwing grenades into houses just to maximize the number of casualties. He personally participates in the massacre by having people lined up against a wall before gunning them all down with the same bored expression on his face.
• Painted in Blood (2022) (link): The unnamed Creature uses a painting of a silhouette of himself to interact with the physical world, where he would manipulate struggling artists, promising them "greatness". Believing that true art is pain, he would influence them into committing Self-Harm, and eventually taking their own life, at which point he would then lead them to another world where he would trap their souls in a gallery; he has done this to around fifteen people, and intends to make Malik his next victim. Underneath his soft-spoken and polite demeanor, the Creature was a monster obsessed with his own twisted vision of art.
• Pandorum: Corporal Gallo of the Elysium decided without Earth that morality meant nothing. Murdering the other members of the bridge crew, Gallo awoke other members of the 60,000 strong crew from cryo-sleep and drove them into the bowels of the ship, having them murder each other and cannibalize the dead for his own amusement. He sentencied them to mutate with a special algae aboard the ship into feral creatures with a bloody culture and a drive to hunt other survivors Gallo would awaken. Periodically freezing himself to prolong his life, Gallo reigns over the ship, playing sadistic games with those he awakens, sending them to be hunted. Gallo later murders another survivor himself, attempting to prevent the ship from being salvaged so he can continue ruling his own twisted little kingdom.
• Panic Room: Raoul is one of three robbers who invades the new home of a mother and her daughter, and from the start he proves himself to be far more cruel and murderous than both his comrades. He has no reservations about killing people or even children to get the bearer bonds stored in the safe room. He turns up the gas so Meg and Sarah almost suffocate and doesn't care that his associate Junior almost burned to death as a result. When Junior tries to cut his losses and leave, Raoul shoots him in the head, then shoots the corpse again out of spite. He threatens to kill Burnham too if he doesn't go through with the job. He beats Meg's ex-husband Stephen almost to death to get them to leave the safe room, and then intends to kill her daughter if she tells the police. After they beat Raoul up it gets personal, as he prefers to murder the whole family rather than escape with the money.
• Pan's Labyrinth: Captain Vidal is far more terrifying than the fantastical monsters in the same work. Vidal first shows his nastiness when two poachers, a father and son, are brought to him in the dead of night, his men suspecting them of being rebels against the regime. He beats the younger man's face in with a bottle simply for defending his father against Vidal's accusations before shooting them both with a vague air of boredom and pleasure. When the men are proven not to be rebels, Vidal shows no remorse, only belittling his men to be more careful next time. At one point, Vidal captures a rebel with a horrible stutter and cheerfully shows the man his torture instruments before offering to let him go if he can clearly count to three. He fails. Vidal is married to the young heroine's mother solely so she'll bear him an heir, and shows no concern over the possible death of his wife in childbirth. When the doctor attending her gives the stuttering torture victim a Mercy Kill, Vidal coldly guns him down. At the film's end, Vidal's stepdaughter Ofelia tries to rescue her baby brother, but Vidal catches her and promptly shoots her fatally. It's no accident that Vidal's place at the head of the table in the dinner scene parallels that of the Pale Man; each qualifies as a Monstrous Humanoid in his own way, one literal, one figurative.
• Paradise: The Jackal is a slave trader who sells girls in Baghdad as sex slaves. When a British teenager named Sarah catches his eyes, he tries to buy her. He pays a guide to help him find the caravan that Sarah is traveling with. When the caravan stops to make camp, the Jackal leads his men to massacre them, killing David's missionary parents in the process. The surviving women are raped and taken prisoner. The Jackal refuses to pay his guide as Sarah escaped the mayhem, explaining he intended to take her in his own harem, before killing his guide. When Sarah's servant Geoffrey finds the Jackal's encampment, the Jackal has him killed too before then relentlessly pursuing David and Sarah.
• Paradise Hills: The Duchess is a supposed mother figure to the young women of Paradise Hills, but is revealed to be far worse than she lets on. Having been abandoned by her mother for being a "nasty girl", the Duchess uses her vine powers to feast on the women in her care. Promising other young, poor women a better life outside, the Duchess has them mimic her patients in order to replace them after their deaths, having plastic surgery performed on them by placing her patients in a coma and using them for parts. With plenty of bodies found within her hidden forest, the Duchess feasts on Chloe in front of her friend Uma, before attempting to drain Uma and her substitute of all their energy.
• Paranoia (2013): Nicholas Wyatt is a greedy businessman with a habit of digging his fingers into the lives of his innocent employees so he can blackmail them into committing corporate espionage against his rival, Augustine "Jock" Goddard. When he's done with them, Wyatt inevitably murders his employees, leaving at least three people dead before he blackmails protagonist Adam Cassidy into working for him. When Adam tries to back out, Wyatt coldly threatens to kill not just Adam but every single person he loves, including his sick, elderly father, proving his point by having one of Wyatt's friends run over; to Wyatt, it was a choice of the friend or Adrian's girlfriend first.
• Paranormal Activity: Grandma Lois is secretly a cold-blooded witch and the head of the Midwives coven, that bargained with the invisible demon, in return for personal gain, to surrender the first male member of the family to the demon, knowing it would pursue her bloodline until a male child is conceived. In the third film, Lois orchestrates the death of her own daughter Julie when she refuses to have a son and watches Julie's boyfriend's brutal death when the man tries to rescue her granddaughters from her and the demon. Lois then manipulates and erases the memories of the girls to brainwash them into having a male child, leading to her descendant Hunter being taken by the demon to use his blood to successfully create a physical body to wreak havoc in. Fully aware of the pain and suffering that would come with her deal, Lois is a heartless monster willing to sacrifice her entire family for personal greed.
• Parents: Nick Laemie is the father of the young hero Michael and a cannibalistic Serial Killer who murders people for food. A brutal sociopath, Nick keeps a meat locker full of corpses and pulled his wife into the cannibal lifestyle. Murdering his son's guidance counselor, Nick tries to force Michael into cannibalism. When Michael resists, Nick tries to murder him, killing his own wife when she tries to protect Michael.
• The Passage: Captain von Berkow is a devoted Nazi hunting the Basque and his charges. Capturing a French informer, von Berkow savagely tortures him before cutting off his fingers, cooking them in goulash and, it's implied, forcing him to eat them. Pursuing his targets to a Gypsy village, von Berkow captures and sexually assaults one target before burning the village leader alive and having the Gypsies massacred by his forces once he has the information he desires. Dedicated only to his advancement in the Nazi regime, von Berkow even considers those who lack his sadism to be failures, believing only he has the drive to rise higher.
• Passenger 57: Charles Rane, the "Rane of Terror", is a terrorist who enjoys causing the destruction of airliners for fun. Just before being captured, Rane slits the throat of the doctor who was going to give him a new face. He not long after threatens and intimidates the attorney who tries to get him to plead insanity. He brags about probably murdering his own father by commenting on how "he died violently". When being transported aboard a plane, Rane has the agents guarding him murdered and hijacks the jet. When retired Secret Service Agent and current airline security consultant John Cutter tries to stop him, Rane takes a hostage, coaxing the man's name and the fact he has a daughter from him, and then cruelly shoots the man dead. Rane later tries to have all of the civilian hostages executed when he's briefly recaptured, taunts an agent about murdering one of his friends and has authorities shot at while he's escaping. He then comes extremely close to raping flight attendant Marti Slayton, bragging that he's "going to kill you during".
• Patchwork: Madeleine manages to stand out as a genuinely disturbing character in this otherwise light-hearted horror-comedy. Prior to her surgery, she was a Serial Killer who murdered people and kept their dismembered remains stored in her fridge. After she discovered the procedure for Tom Blake's surgery, her immediate response was to offer to supply bodies herself. She followed both Ellie and Jen as they left the bar, killing the both of them and taking their bodies to be attached to hers. When the two other women resolved to murder those responsible for their condition, she did nothing to stop them, and only tried to take control when it became clear that the other women opposed her plan to complete the surgery. Narcissistic to the extreme, Madeleine murdered others purely out of insecurity with her own beauty.
• Pathfinder (2007): Gunnar is the brutal head of a Viking expedition to the new world. Arriving on the American shores, Gunnar massacres a village full of innocent natives and later kills any prisoners taken. When discovered by the young Ghost, a Viking child left behind on a previous expedition and raised by the natives, Gunnar attempts to force him to lead them to the other natives so Gunnar can exterminate all of them and colonize the land. When Gunnar attacks another village, he proceeds to torture a captive to draw Ghost out and executes the chief Pathfinder by having him pulled apart by horses. Ghost agrees to help when Gunnar threatens to torture Ghost's lover, and leads Gunnar and his men into a trap at the top of a mountain. When his men end up falling to their deaths, Gunnar callously kills one just to increase his own chances for survival before trying to kill Ghost.
• Pathology (2008): Dr. Jake Gallo is a medical doctor in training who is also the leader of a group of students in the pathology program Ted "Teddy" Grey enrolls in. Under the guise of vigilante killings, Gallo holds a game in which each student attempts to commit the perfect, undetectable murder. After nonchalantly killing a man with a beer bottle laced with a mixture of ethanol and nitric acid, Gallo tries to justify this by saying that trash like the man deserved to die. Obsessed with committing the perfect murder, Gallo murders three prostitutes in a savage fashion whilst giddily laughing. Upon discovering that his girlfriend Juliette Bath was sleeping with Teddy, Gallo angrily kills her and remorselessly prepares her body for examination. As a final act of pure spite for Teddy, Gallo kills Teddy's fiancée, Gwen Williamson, and mockingly declares his victory to Teddy's face.
• Paths of Glory: General Paul Mireau is the opportunistic commander of the 701st regiment in World War I. Taking his men on a dangerous mission to secure a promotion by capturing Anthill, Mireau threatens and beats even his shell-shocked soldiers, and eventually sends thousands to their deaths while only concerning himself with the speed of his forces' advance. When a group of his own soldiers refuse to participate in the fruitless conflict, Mireau orders them bombarded with artillery, executing the artillery commander for refusing the insane order. After losing the battle, an enraged Mireau tries to execute 100 of his own soldiers, forced to amend the order to three but enjoying their wrongful killings all the same.
• Patient Zero (2018): The Professor is an Infected with unusual intellect. Formerly a college professor before being bitten by another undead during the initial outbreak, the Professor butchered his wife and little daughter with relish. Seeking to kill all hope of a cure, the Professor steals into the underground bunker to murder the "immune" man Milo, unleashing the Infected within to massacre every civilian and soldier they can find.
• The Patriot (1998): Floyd Chisholm is a militia leader who takes advantage of his captivity to release a deadly virus and kill countless innocent people. Forgetting not to poison himself in the process, Chisholm dispatches his men to kidnap the potential "cure" and murder her for her blood to save his own hide.
• The Patriot (2000): Colonel William Tavington is introduced having wounded soldiers gunned down and having freed slaves press-ganged into the British army. He proceeds to take one messenger, Benjamin Martin's eldest son Gabriel, to be hanged, Gabriel's brother intervenes, for which Tavington callously guns him down and sneers "stupid boy" at his shell-shocked father. Tavington's savagery earns him furious rebukes from General Cornwallis, until Tavington convinces the general to allow him free reign, bargaining himself to be a new landowner as his methods will render him persona non grata back in Britain. Tavington corrals a town full of innocent people in a church when none of them will talk about the location of Martin's forces. When he gets his answer, Tavington has the town locked in the church and then has it set afire, adding the forgiveness of the people is between them and God. Tavington later kills Gabriel in combat and when facing Benjamin in a Duel to the Death mocks him for being a lesser man.
• Paycheck: James "Jimmy" Rethrick, the seemingly friendly CEO of Allcom, hires reverse engineer Michael Jennings to create a device to foresee events. Killing those involved after learning the device will inevitably lead to nuclear fallout when they protest, Rethrick only relents from killing Jennings after learning he has deactivated the machine. Luring Jennings back to Allcom, Rethrick decries him as a fool before setting Jennings up to die by the FBI he has manipulated, intent on using his device to devastate humanity in a future he alone controls.
• The Peacemaker: While General Aleksandr Kodoroff may merely be the courier to Dušan Gavrić's plot to nuke the UN headquarters in New York, he totally lacks his employer's conscience and loved ones. To procure Gavrić's nukes, Kodoroff has his men massacre a train full of soldiers carrying a shipment of bombs, leaving one on the train that Kodoroff subsequently rerails into the direction of a passenger train. The ensuing collision and nuclear blast kills thousands, something that unsettles one of his men and prompts Kodoroff to execute him on the spot. Kodoroff later slaughters dozens more at a Russian checkpoint en route to Gavrić simply out of impatience. Kodoroff's only concern through all this is lining his own pockets, expressing disgust at a line of refugees simply for being poor.
• Pentathlon: Heinrich Müller is a cruel Stasi officer and athletic coach turned fanatical Neo-Nazi terrorist waging what he sees as a holy war against those who disagree with his message of hate. He has a mad obsession with his former protégé Eric Brogar, an Olympic gold medalist who defected to America, and even savagely beats Brogar's elderly father to death out of anger at the defection and the old man's disdain for him. His real plan is to have the German ambassador to the US and a prominent human rights activist rabbi assassinated with a rocket launcher during a peace rally simply for speaking out against racism. Müller never shows any regard for human life, and never hesitates to gun down any innocents standing in his way.
• The People Under the Stairs: "Mommy" and "Daddy" Robeson are a pair of incestuous siblings known as cutthroat landlords in a poor neighborhood, evicting tenants ruthlessly. Even worse in private, the Robesons abduct children from poor families and hideously abuse them, cutting out "the bad parts" from them and imprisoning them under the stairs while killing any intruders and feeding them to the imprisoned and starving kids. When the hero, Fool, is lost in their house, the Robesons spare no effort to try to find and kill him while abusing their abducted child Alice. When Alice discovers the truth and rejects "Mommy" as her mother, the latter tries to kill her, screaming at her to burn in hell.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief:
  • Hades is the cruel, tyrannical god of the Underworld, a hellish realm where he keeps thousands of souls in horrific burning agony, with a vast collection of their lost hopes and broken dreams from life. Kidnapping the goddess Persephone, Hades would force her to be his bride in a loveless and abusive marriage. Incorrectly assuming Percy stole Zeus's master bolt, Hades captures Percy's mother to try forcing him to give him the bolt, desiring to use it to break free from the Underworld and wage a war on Olympus that would destroy the world. After getting the Bolt, Hades goes back on his word to spare Percy and his friends, trying to have them consumed by monstrous souls while boasting that he'll be King of the Gods.
  • Medusa was once a beautiful woman cursed by Athena to turn anyone who looks her in the eyes to stone. In the present, Medusa runs Auntie Em's Garden Emporium, where she turns anyone who enters into stone before adding them to her collection around her garden, including children. Introduced chasing a woman, whose husband she had turned to stone, Medusa eventually does the same to the woman, before attempting to turn Annabeth and Percy to stone as well, at one point threatening to use her snakes to force Percy to open his eyes.
• A Perfect Getaway: Cliff, real name Rocky, appears to be a nice, jovial husband on a honeymoon trip to Hawaii, but is actually one half of a Serial Killer duo alongside his partner, Cydney. In the past, he seduced a woman and took her to the lake, where he revealed that he hanged her neighbor’s Labrador, threatening to kill her if she were to ever tell anyone. Living a life of crime due to feeling alienated by society, Rocky manipulates/abuses his partner into helping him murder and take the identities of multiple couples, while also collecting their teeth and cutting off their fingertips, planning on taking 100 different lives to continue his killing spree. Their most recent victims, Cliff and Cydney, cause them to have to hide from the police on a remote island. Discovering that cops are searching the island for them, Rocky decides to frame a couple for the murders and kill another one so that he and his partner can avoid detection. When Gina discovers who he really is, he tries to kill her, gleefully murdering four people who were trying to help her. When Nick and Gina reunite, Rocky tries to have the cops shoot Nick, attempting to kill them himself when his plan fails.
• Perfect Victims (1988): Brandon Poole goes on a rampage to kill as many women as possible, as he blames them for giving him AIDS. Brandon drugs Carrie Marks and Melissa Cody and rapes the former, before leaving them both to die from the drugs. Brandon later rapes and kills another woman. He then proceeds to set a Man on Fire when he becomes suspicious of him, and murders the woman he paid to lure the man to him. Brandon later tries again to murder Melissa and Carrie, and this time, he attempts to drug Carrie's baby to get it to stop crying. Lastly, he non-fatally slashes a cop's throat in an attempt to escape.
• The Perfection: Anton, the head of Bachoff Academy, is a seemingly friendly music teacher who hides a dark secret. An abusive Serial Rapist, Anton lures in young women to become great cello players, only to psychologically and emotionally abuse them until they break under it, whereupon he subjects them to rape at his hands and those of his fellow instructors at the academy, the fate that befell the heroines Charlotte and Lizzy. After Lizzy loses her hand, Anton coldly abandons her, focusing on his new protege Zhang Li, intending to mold and eventually rape her as well. When Charlotte is returned to him, Anton forces her to play for him again, before trying to have her gang-raped to keep as a Sex Slave.
• Peter Pan (2003): Captain James Hook himself is a rapacious, murderous pirate who holds a special enmity for Peter Pan after the boy chopped his hand off and fed it to a crocodile. Hook treats the lives of his crew with utter nonchalance, murdering several of them just for speaking to him at the wrong time while throwing others' lives away on a whim. Having sworn vengeance on Peter, Hook kidnaps young John, Michael, and Tiger Lily to use as bait, chaining them up alongside the corpses of other victims of Hook's so they will slowly drown. After realizing the relationship Peter has with Wendy, Hook preys on the girl's naivety and uses her to find the entire group of Lost Boys so that Hook can feed them one by one to the crocodile hunting him, casually murdering a fairy in the process for fun. Hook then hopes to force Peter into utter despair by using Wendy as a hostage, before attempting to kill them both while he makes each watch the other die.
• Phantasm series: The Tall Man is a mysterious, but monstrous, being wearing the skin of a kindly old man named Jebediah Morningside. The Tall Man roams from town to town, leaving death and destruction in his wake for the purpose of creating corpses that he can use in his undead army for eventual world domination. His crimes over the series include repeatedly torturing the young hero Mike, implicitly killing his older brother, Jody, and Mike's girlfriend, and enslaving the former as a golden sphere. He also murders Reggie's innocent family simply to hurt him. When multiple timelines and worlds are revealed to exist, it's shown that in one such world, the Tall Man succeeds in bringing about an apocalypse, having entire cities razed and sets loose a deadly alien plague, killing millions. Though the Tall Man claims human emotions are a waste and beneath him, his cruelty and sadism towards the heroes is exemplified when he describes their encounters as a game, finding Reggie's misery especially amusing.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1989): Erik Destler, unlike his more sympathetic incarnations, is reimagined as an inhumane beast. When a Deal with the Devil ends with Destler's face disfigured, Destler became a Serial Killer who skinned his victims to cover up his disfigurements. Upon seeing aspiring opera singer Christine Day, Destler becomes obsessed with her, flaying a scene-shifter to scare the lead actress from her role in a production and later decapitating her at a party to incite a panic. Enraged that Christine disobeyed his orders by meeting Richard at the party, Destler tries to rape her before murdering two police officers and personally disposes of Richard by setting him ablaze.
• Phantom of the Paradise: Mister Swan is the CEO of Death Records, owner of the Paradise Theatre, and secretly a vain, murderous devil-worshipper. Having attempted to kill himself in his youth due to fearing losing his good looks with age, Swan instead made a Deal with the Devil for immortality and eternal youth, and over time became the most powerful and vicious executive in the music industry, performing such actions as forcing female candidates to sleep with him or his right-hand man; deliberately getting his acts addicted to drugs to reduce the chances of them speaking out against him; and ending the careers of any who try anyway. When Swan steals the music of brilliant young composer Winslow Leach, he has Winslow brutalized and sent to prison on trumped up charges to silence him, where he and other inmates are subjected to unethical medical experiments sponsored by Swan. When Winslow escapes and begins terrorizing the Paradise as the eponymous Phantom, Swan tricks him into selling his own soul to the Devil on the condition that only Phoenix, Winslow's Love Interest, can sing his music. When Phoenix becomes a hit, Swan proposes marriage to her, then attempts to have her killed during the wedding for publicity. When this fails and Winslow terminates his deal with the Devil, Swan's last action before Winslow kills him is to attempt to personally strangle Phoenix to death.
• Pilgrimage: Raymond de Merville is a cruel Norman soldier who carries out raids against Ireland, later intending on stealing a holy relic against his own father's guarantees despite it meaning the elder de Merville's damnation. Arranging a massacre of pilgrims, Raymond captures the chief monk Brother Ciaran and reveals he is also a serial torturer who fancies a barbed prong, having tortured many Greek Orthodox priests before utilizing the device on Brother Ciaran to give him a slow death, using the same on another opponent and former knight later.
• The Pirates of Blood River (1962): Captain LaRoche is a fiendish blackguard and the leader of a crew of bloodthirsty pirates who forcefully occupy a Huguenot village in search of treasure. LaRoche turns a blind eye to the rape and murder of his crewmates while having no compunction about abusing or shooting them dead himself, murdering the Huguenots who can fight back before spitefully ordering two more villagers hanged each day his crew turns up dirt instead of riches. LaRoche even attempts to have every man, woman and child slaughtered out of pique before the villagers finally break.
• Pishtaco (2003): The Pishtaco is a mysterious silent murderer who mutilates the bodies of his victims to extract their organs and fat to sell. Introduced murdering a man returning home, the Pishtaco reveals the true extent of his brutality when a little girl discovers his lair, where the Pishtaco hangs the bodies of his victims like animals. Discovering the little girl, the Pishtaco proceeds to murder her as well. When the Ronderos in charge of searching the Pishtaco lose their leader, the Pishtaco beheads one of them and leaves his head in middle of the street to shock his friend and murder him, throwing his corpse in the wilderness. Completely victorious at the end, the Pishtaco continues to murder people in the Ayacucho region.
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1991): Tomás de Torquemada runs a horrific regime in Spain where countless people are tortured and executed in show trials, all to keep up a weak show of false piety to mask his sadism. When he lusts after a woman, Torquemada has her arrested and tortured before imprisoning her husband and attempting to extort sex from her in exchange for his life. When she resists, Torquemada beats her and cuts out her tongue, before continuing his activities, attempting to subject her husband to the worst death he can think of with the titular pit and pendulum.
• Pixote: Sapatos Brancos and Almir represent the worst of the corrupt society that preys on children. Sapatos runs a cruel rehabilitation home for juvenile delinquents where he lets rampant physical and sexual abuse take place, locking the children in dark rooms completely naked to torture them. Sapatos sells children to the corrupt cop Almir for Almir to viciously torture and kill, so he can then frame them for crimes he is too lazy to solve. When one of Almir's latest victims dies from internal bleeding and the boy's mother raises an outrage, Sapatos and Almir frame another boy for it, kill him, then try to frame the boy's trans female lover for his death out of bigotry.
• The Plague of the Zombies: Squire Clive Hamilton discovers a tin mine on his lands and, having studied voodoo in Haiti, unleashes poison disguised as a plague to kill a large amount of people so he can resurrect them as zombie slaves to toil in the mines free of wages. Forming a lust for the heroine Sylvia, he has Sylvia see a zombie murdering a woman and lures her in so he may eventually sacrifice her and revive her as another zombie slave. Keeping his zombies enslaved in torment, Hamilton cares nothing for who he kills or hurts as long as he can profit from it.
• Plan 9: In this remake, Eros is portrayed as a genocidal alien invader with none of the original version's pretense of good intentions. A horrendous bigot who takes one human's attempt to utilize Solaranite as a challenge to his species' superiority, Eros sets out to destroy the human race, starting in the small town of Nilbog. Using his mothership to raise the dead, Eros has his zombie drones murder every person they come across, intending to blanket the world with rays that will bring the countless dead under his control, until the entirety of Earthling civilization is extinguished. Personally murdering Chief Simpson, as well as several soldiers sent to end the invasion, Eros manages to capture the heroine Lucy, taking sadistic pleasure in revealing her own role in the deaths of her fellow citizens, before attempting to take her back to his home planet, where he plans to torture her for the secrets of Solaranite. A calculating, brutal mass-murderer who doesn't even bat an eye at the deaths of his own people, Eros is driven by nothing more than a malignant loathing for the human race.
• Platoon has these two Sociopathic Soldiers:
  • Staff Sergeant Robert "Bob" Barnes is a sociopathic brute who believes himself to be the ideal that all American soldiers should strive to be. Already showing himself to be an unforgiving fanatic by regularly degrading his own troops, even as they die all around him, Barnes shows his truly vicious personality when, while leading a raid onto a small Vietnamese village, he kills numerous villages who are too slow in complying with his orders, before shooting an innocent woman in the head for irritating him. Holding an innocent child at gunpoint in an attempt to force her father to answer his questions, Barnes develops a seething hatred toward Sergeant Elias for halting his crimes, and later guns him down to eliminate the only one who would incriminate him for his murders. In the end, Barnes ruthlessly attempts to murder the only other man willing to stand up to him, Chris Taylor, and goads Taylor into killing him to prove his point that war and conflict is the true state of humankind.
  • Bunny is a psychopathic scumbag who quickly graduates from a particularly nasty jerkass to a full-blown monster. When he and his squad invade a Vietnamese village, Bunny happily beats a disabled teenage boy to death, before doing the same to the boy's mother. Following this, Bunny leads the gang-rape of two young girls, mocking Taylor for not joining in. By the end of the film, Bunny giddily mows down enemy soldiers with a smile on his face, proclaiming that he feels as if he's done nothing wrong and that war is true freedom, enabling people like him in to indulge in whatever wicked acts their hearts desire.
• Playing with Dolls series (trilogy & Cry Havoc): Scopophilio, aka "The Watcher" or "The Voyeur", and his hired psychopath Prisoner AYO-886, aka "Havoc" or "Metalface", are a pair of monsters who mutually benefit one another's sadism. The Voyeur, having come to believe that pain and suffering are the true meaning of human life, uses his immense wealth to trick countless innocents into falling into the killing grounds of Havoc, who uses all manner of weapons and tools to hunt down, torture and butcher his targets. While Havoc bisects, disembowels, and dismembers his targets to use their body parts as trophies, the Voyeur records it all for his own private Snuff Film collection. Havoc's killing frenzies often result in his own allies being slaughtered by his killing hand, and the Voyeur becomes so enamored with Havoc's work that he personally drugs a prostitute to rape and torture her to death, the two villains having claimed dozens of lives over the years, with no signs of stopping anytime soon.
• Plunkett & Macleane: Thief Taker General Chance is a sadistic thug of a lawman who enforces the justice system by brutally torturing all those who fall into his clutches. With a fondness for gouging out the eyes of his victims, Chance subjects the partner of thief Will Plunkett to this as he does many others before sending them to swing on the gallows or more torture. With a lust for Lady Rebecca Gibson, Chance murders her father to frame the heroes and assaults Rebecca, stopping himself from raping her solely because he judges she has not been sufficiently hurt or broken enough for his taste. To fully destroy her, Chance decides to hang James Macleane, the man Rebecca loves, while forcing her to watch all the while and meets his demise trying to torture a seemingly wounded Plunkett.
• Poikkal Kuthirai (2022): Deva, the estranged husband of wealthy businesswoman Rudra, at first seems to be a worried father who desperately wants his kidnapped daughter back, but doesn't trust hero Kathiravan to investigate. Deva, who in fact is behind the kidnapping, has been secretly using Rudra's family's import/export business to smuggle guns and drugs. When his father-in-law realised the company was engaged in criminal activity, Deva killed him and made it look like suicide, hoping to drive Rudra to a breakdown and seize full control of the business; when Rudra became head of the business, Deva staged the kidnapping to pile more pressure on her. In parallel, Deva reassures his contacts that he's still open for business by trafficking dozens of children overseas for organ harvesting. When Kathiravan starts to get too close to the truth about his schemes, Deva uses information from one of the hero's friends to frame him, kidnapping Kathiravan's own daughter, who urgently needs life-saving surgery, from her hospital bed, to blackmail him into taking the fall for Deva's own crimes. When Deva's pre-teen daughter overhears him talking to Kathiravan about the plot and decides her father is a bad man, Deva is angry, but only because now he'll have to modify the plan to kill her as well.
• Polar: Mr. Blut runs Damocles Industries, and has his retired employees assassinated so he can collect their pensions to make his company worth more for a buyout. He tries to have retired assassin Duncan Vizla killed so he can collect his pension in millions, first by laying a trap for him in Minsk, then sending his A-Team to murder him in his own home. Capturing Vizla, Mr. Blut proceeds to torture him for three days straight. On the fourth day, Vizla's birthday, he intends to rape Camille, Vizla's neighbor whom Mr. Blut kidnapped and drugged, and force Vizla to watch.
• Polaroid: In life, Roland Joseph Sable was a photography teacher who would rape his daughter and take photos of his assaults. When her friends tried to help her, Sable, in a rage, had them hunted down and sadistically tortured to death, leaving only one survivor before his death. Possessing his camera after his death, Sable's ghost now stalks and murders those whose photos his camera takes. Killing the survivor of his original murder spree by having him ripped in half, Sable decides to murder the remaining heroes out of spite.
• Police Story 2: The unnamed, deaf-mute gang leader, named "Gabby" in the dub, is a vicious little martial arts master leading a group of bombers in order to blackmail a ransom out of the city. First planting a bomb in a crowding shopping mall, the gang leader intends to up his ransom demands to 20 million while also attempting to bomb a police station and a property company. He kidnaps the girlfriend of hero Ka-kui "Kevin" Chan before torturing Chan and sending him to collect the ransom, wearing an explosive vest, intending to kill him and take out witnesses anyways.
• Poltergeist: Reverend Henry Kane was the insane leader of a utopian cult in the early 19th century who led his "flock" into an underground cavern under the premise that the world was about to end, but in actuality, his only intention was to harvest their souls for his own power. As a ghost, he absorbed the energy from his followers, which fused with the evil in his heart and turned him into a monstrous apparition—a demon called "The Beast". When the Freeling family moves into the home built where the cavern once was, Kane tries to abduct the young Carol Anne and bring her to the realm of the dead, dubbed the "Other Side," where he could use her to attract more souls for his energy. In Poltergeist II: The Other Side, he keeps on tormenting the Freelings, possessing Steven's body in order to rape Diane while taking a proactive role in psychologically and physically tormenting the family as he seeks to take Carol Anne. At the end of Poltergeist III, Kane apparently abandons his pursuit of the Freelings and accepts the mystic Tangina's offer to show him into the light, but the film ends with a flash of lightning and Kane's demonic laughter, showing his supposed redemption as a sham.
• Pompeii: Roman Senator Quintus Attius Corvus is a sneering, arrogant aristocrat who feels he can do whatever he wants. Starting the film with a brutal slaughter of a Celtic tribe, Corvus murders the mother of the young hero Milo, though the boy escapes and later becomes a slave at the city of Pompeii. When Milo becomes attached to the Roman noblewoman Cassia, whom Corvus lusts for, Corvus promises to spare him for Cassia's sake, but has him and another Gladiator named Atticus chained in the Arena to be slaughtered by Roman soldiers to recreate Corvus's victory over the Celts. When Cassia protests, Corvus tells her he simply wants her as a possession that he can break and that she will "stay broken," to beg and crawl as he demands. Corvus blackmails her family into agreeing to the marriage by threatening to accuse them of treason and murders Cassia's father when Mt. Vesuvius erupts. To get to safety, Corvus kills innocent civilians and even abandons his loyal dragon Proculus while attempting to abduct Cassia and escape.
• The Pool: Frank at first appears to be one of the normal teens at the party, but in reality is a vicious killer. In the opening, Frank murders Catherine's boyfriend and then murders Catherine herself after she rejected his advances. When Frank is rejected by Sarah, he decides to not only go after her but all of her friends. Frank goes on a killing spree, first murdering Kim. Frank then stabs Carter below a water slide; kills Svenja by driving his machete through her groin from top to bottom; then kills Mel; then Martin; then Mike. It is also shown he killed a cop earlier. Frank also nearly kills Carmen and two more people while gleefully and without remorse admitting to everything.
• Poor Things: General Alfie Blessington was the husband of Bella Baxter's previous life as Victoria Blessington. A Sociopathic Soldier with an inclination to inflicting pain for pain's sake, Alfie regularly torments and maims his own servants, breaking their arms and in one case threatening to shoot a manservant in the face for improperly preparing a meal. When Alfie gets his hands on Bella, he decides to keep her prisoner, cut out her clitoris to kill her libido, then rape her until she fathers him an heir, all under pain of Bella's death should she attempt to escape. Bella concludes that Alfie's cruelty was such that Victoria decided to kill herself with her unborn child rather than continue living with him.
• The Pope's Exorcist: Asmodeus, the "King of Hell", is a mighty demon preying on humanity to serve his sadistic goals. Ages ago having possessed Friar de Ojeda and used him to corrupt the church into kick-starting The Spanish Inquisition, Asmodeus basked in the countless atrocities committed in the name of "God" and oversaw hundreds of torturous deaths himself. Released in the present, Asmodeus possesses young Henry and immediately begins terrorizing the boy and his family, mutilating Henry's body while accosting his mother and sister. Luring Father Amorth to him, Asmodeus intends to kill the entire family and possess Amorth so he can infiltrate the Vatican and bring about another bloody Inquisition, darkening the hearts of mankind while enabling the rise of further demons and chaos.
• Portrait of Hell (1969): Lord Horikawa is the tyrannical overlord of the province and a sadist who oppresses, starves, and murders his people en masse, including an old man at the film's start. Abducting the daughter of the painter Yoshihide, Horikawa forces her into sex slavery and attempts to force Yoshihide into painting scenes of heaven even as Yoshihide can only paint hell. When Yoshihide asks to paint Horikawa in hell, Horikawa burns his daughter alive for "inspiration".
• Posse: This duo of vile racists personify much of what was wrong with The Wild West:
  • Colonel Graham is the corrupt and racist commanding officer of the 10th Cavalry. After murdering a deserter when hero Jesse Lee refuses to do so, Graham tries to get the 10th Cavalry killed as deserters, later returning to hunt them down and kill whoever gets in the way. Allying with the equally wicked Sheriff Bates, Graham attempts to wipe out the town of Freemanville in his quest to murder Jesse.
  • Sheriff Bates of Cutterstown is a racist Ku Klux Klan member who led the lynching of Jesse's father, King David. Determined to murder Jesse, Bates attempts to lynch him as well, beating one of his friends to death when that fails. Upon the arrest of the posse, Bates frames Jesse by murdering Cutterstown's mayor himself and later allies with Graham to wipe out Freemanville, even killing his own partner there when the man quarrels with him.
• Posse from Hell (1961): A murderer who escapes from death row, Crip and his fellow escapees take refuge in the town of Paradise. Fatally shooting the marshal, Crip takes a saloon full of hostages, murdering one to show he's serious and then murdering several more before fleeing with a woman named Helen as a captive. Crip rapes her and lets his men do the same, leaving her tied up by a rattlesnake when he's done. In revenge for being pursued, Crip plans to attack Paradise again, slaughtering men, women and children just to sate his thirst for blood.
• Possessor: Girder is the handler of body-jumping assassin Tasya Vos. A former killer herself who abandoned all humanity to maximize her effectiveness, Girder comes to the conclusion Tasya would be most effective without any human connection. Having killed and ordered the deaths of many in horrible ways, with the victims aware of the possession up until the moment of death, Girder arranges for several deaths during Tasya's latest assignment. Possessing Tasya's young son Ira, Girder arranges for the death of Tasya's husband before having her kill Ira as well. Ending the film with Tasya emotionally broken, Girder proceeds to express calm satisfaction she has broken her assignment into the perfect monster.
• Possum: Maurice is Phillip's abrasive, sadistic uncle who hides an even darker side beneath the bullying exterior. A vicious pedophile who wears a mask and assaults children around the city, Maurice raped Phillip himself for years after taking custody of him. Kidnapping another child in the present and keeping him locked in a chest, Maurice plans to rape the boy and Phillip one last time before framing Phillip for his crimes and moving on to terrorize other cities.
• The Postman Fights Back: Lord Hsu, introduced as a representative of a wealthy baron hiring Ma and his team of couriers to transport an expensive cargo across the wintry Chinese-Mongolian border, turns out to be a Professional Killer and Manipulative Bastard who is using the main characters for a Suicide Mission, killing them off one-by-one in excruciatingly brutal deaths as their journey progresses. His true identity is revealed when he tortures Miss Li to death while having her suspended from her wrists, and later strangles Gui-hua, Ma's girlfriend, and eliminates Fu Jun in a fierce battle. In order to enforce loyalty from the main characters, he abducts the kid sisters of Yao-Jie, the youngest member of the team, forcing Yao-Jie to become The Mole to ensure the cargo would arrive at its destination in exchange for his sisters' lives, only to reveal the cargo to be a heavy machine-gun which Hsu demonstrates its effectiveness by using it to kill twenty innocent prisoners before firing it upon Yao-Jie and his younger sisters. A sadistic Blood Knight, Hsu is perfectly content with starting a War for Fun and Profit not caring how many people will die as a result.
• The Poughkeepsie Tapes: Edward "Ed" Carver began his prolific killing spree with the rape and murder of a little girl, which he later followed up with a string of sexual tortures, murders, and mutilations that he would tape to revisit. Taking interest in a college girl named Cheryl Dempsey, Ed viciously murders her boyfriend and abducts her, holding her captive and brainwashing her into becoming his Sex Slave and accomplice over the course of several years. With the public beginning to catch wind of his killings, Ed starts killing prostitutes under the persona of the Water Street Butcher so that he can continue his murderous rampage while lulling the public into a false sense of security. Framing police officer James Foley for the murders of the prostitutes, Ed kills several more women as Foley is put to death, eventually giving up his location and the now-brainwashed Cheryl, desecrating her grave after she's Driven to Suicide to further hurt her family and to defile her corpse.
• The Power (1968): Adam Hart, aka Arnold Nordlond, born with vast Psychic Powers, considers people his playthings and has abused them since childhood. Taking a new name, Adam destroyed nearly every trace of his old life, brainwashing his hometown’s mechanic to kill anyone who turned up asking about him. A true sadist, Hart enjoys playing with his victims, often inducing mind-breaking hallucinations before inflicting agonizing deaths. When his old friend Professor Henry Hallson discovered the existence of another super genius, Hart became obsessed with removing a potential rival, murdering Henry by imprisoning him in a centrifuge. He then targets Professor Jim Tanner, manipulating events to look like Tanner killed Hallson before almost murdering him through induced agony. Going after Sally Hallson, Hart rewrote her entire personality, leaving permanently damaged and barely able to remember her husband. Stalking Tanner, Hart caused Professor Melnicker to die from a heart attack. To divert suspicion he faked an attack on himself, taking the opportunity to almost crush Tanner with an elevator. Hart then tried to run Tanner over before running him into the river, and set Doctor Van Zandt's house on fire, killing him and his wife. When Tanner finally confronts him, Hart attempted to torture him to death, forcing him to experience sub-zero temperatures, his flesh burning off, the empty vacuum of space stripping him down to the bones and reliving all his friends' and colleagues' deaths, all whilst he cheerfully narrates.
• The Power of One (1992 film adaptation): Jaapie Botha, otherwise known as the Judge, was an Afrikaner bully who took an immediate disliking to PK because of his English heritage. Jaapie later tried to sacrifice him and his pet chicken, Mother Courage, to Adolf Hitler; he kills Courage, and he tries to do the same thing to PK after he had humiliated him in front of the other children. Years later, Botha became the sergeant for Colonel Breyton, and he was given the task of investigating PK's multiracial gym. Once there, he severely beats Gideon with a whip, causing him to lose his eye, and he attacks the other boxers. Jaapie later aided Breyton in several attacks, one of which would end up killing PK's Love Interest; they then started a massacre in Alexandra, all in their pursuit of PK and Gideon. Jaapie was found in the middle of savagely beating a boxing promoter, and he still expressed a desire to kill him, even when PK willingly gave himself up.
• Pray for Death (1985): Limehouse Willie is a brutal mobster and chief enforcer of the gangster Mr. Newman. When Akira and Aiko Saito move to the United States with their children Tomoya and Takeshi and a valuable necklace is stolen by corrupt cops on Newman's payroll, a series of coincidences leads Newman to blame the Saitos. First beating the original owner of their apartment to death with a crowbar, Willie kidnaps Tomoya and attempts to torture him with a blowtorch in front of Akira for answers. When Akira, secretly a talented ninja, escapes with his son and gives Willie a warning to leave his family out of things, Limehouse has Aiko and Tomoya hospitalized before putting himself in the hospital. Willie murders a doctor, several police officers and proceeds to rape and murder Aiko herself, barely stopped from murdering little Tomoya next. Tracking down the corrupt cops who stole the necklace, Limehouse guns them down in a restaurant along with everyone else inside, very deliberately murdering a young woman who is the only survivor of the initial shooting. When he finally faces Akira, Willie shows no remorse for his deeds, demonstrating no human feeling beyond an enjoyment of stealing the lives of others.
• Precious: Carl Kenwood Jones, unfaithful husband to Mary and father to the titular Claireece "Precious" Jones, uses the two to fulfill his lust for sex and money. Carl molested Precious—since she was as young as 3 years old—and continued to rape her well into adolescence; verbally and physically abused Mary in the rare moments she objected; and showed no care to the grandchildren he fathered with Precious either.
• President's Day: Leonard Wright is a teacher at Lincoln High School, as well as the psychotic Serial Killer who is targeting the school. Harboring an ephebophilic crush on one of his students, Chelsea Blythe, he attempts to express his "love" for Chelsea by killing her rivals in the student body presidential race. To this end he mercilessly slaughters students and teachers alike, stabbing, strangling, burning, crushing, and dismembering his victims. To throw suspicion off himself, he fakes his death, killing his own dog—the only thing he ever loved—in the process. He frames another teacher for the homicides, hanging him and making it look like a suicide, before forcing the principal at knifepoint to declare Chelsea the winner of the election. Killing two cops, he kidnaps Chelsea's rival Joanna Bolen and lures Chelsea to the school basement, where he demands that Chelsea kill Joanna to "prove her love". When Chelsea rebuffs him, he immediately murders her, demonstrating that his warped concept of love was simply obsession. An animalistic and self-centered killer with over a dozen victims to his name, he darkens the tone of this horror-comedy with his unhinged inhumanity.
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: George Wickham is now a murderer who implicitly killed Darcy Sr. for the inheritance. After squandering said inheritance, Wickham later comes in possession of zombies he "civilizes" with pig brains and decides to unleash, as well as more of the undead hordes, on London. Leading them through many deaths of civilians, Wickham unleashes his armies on London to slaughter the populace until he can rule the city as a king. Declaring himself The Antichrist out to lead the dead, Wickham attempts to murder Darcy and later arrives at the end to attack Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding party to kill all of the Bennet family.
• Priest (2011): The former priest known as Black Hat is a vampire-human hybrid who leads his group of vampires through the frontier, massacring those in their path. Kidnapping Lucy, the niece—actually the daughter—of the film's hero, Priest, Black Hat sweeps into another town, massacring everyone there before taking his vampires to assault the largest city around and kill everything there before moving on to wipe out all of humanity.
• Primal Fear: John Shaughnessy is a crooked State's Attorney willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and cover up his corruption. Dealing in Police Brutality and criminal business on a daily basis, Shaughnessy masterminded a scheme to force hundreds of poor and minority people onto the streets and tear their homes down for profit. When his partner, Archbishop Rushman, backed out of the scheme, Shaughnessy threatened him with death, and later kills local good-hearted crime boss Joey Piñero for disobeying orders. Shaughnessy's true evil comes from the fact that he deliberately covered up and suppressed evidence and victims of Rushman's vile sexual abuse of teenagers, Shaughnessy enabling Rushman to continue his abuse for decades so long as he was profitable. Shaughnessy later tries to get the death penalty for Aaron Stampler—one of Rushman's victims who killed the man to escape the abuse—just to keep the cover-up quiet, and promises to ruin the career and life of lead prosecutor of the case, Janet Venable, if she fails.
• Prime Cut: Mary Ann is a corrupt slaughterhouse owner who has a way of ensuring the debts he owes the Chicago Irish Mob remain unpaid by murdering anyone who comes to collect and turning them into sausage to be sold to unsuspecting customers. After multiple murders, Mary Ann nonchalantly reveals himself to be a sex slaver who sells doped up girls on flesh auctions against their will. When one of these girls, Poppy, is rescued, Mary Ann later kidnaps her back and has her friend Violet gang-raped, intending to have the same done to Poppy herself.
• Primeval: Harry is a low-level government functionary in Burundi who is actually "Little Gustave", a warlord in the brush who commits acts of horrific violence solely because he loves the power of being like God to the ones he terrorizes. Responsible for atrocities during the civil war, Harry fills up mass graves with his victims, killing those who speak out against him and sometimes throwing the corpses into the river to be fed upon by the mighty crocodile Gustave, his namesake. Harry later takes a shaman who spoke against him and kills the man with a machete before murdering his family as well, later trying to attack the journalist heroes and torture and murder them to obtain the footage of his crimes.
• Prince of Darkness: Satan, though terrifyingly eldritch, is still recognizably evil as the titular Prince of Darkness. Introduced as a Leaking Can of Evil, Satan possesses dozens of people, from the homeless to college students, and compels them into homicide and insanity for the purpose of freeing him from his seal. Satan uses some of the only moments it has for dialogue for mock the heroes on their impending doom at the hands of its apocalyptic father, The Anti-God, gloating that "you will not be saved!"
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Nizam, the uncle of Dastan, chafed at being in the shadow of his elder brother, the King. To remove himself from under the King's shadow, Nizam set his sights on the Dagger of Time and the Sands of Time, not caring of the horrors and chaos he could unleash on the world. Nizam brought about a battle with an innocent city, not remotely caring of the deaths of innocents, and arranged the death of his own brother while attempting to have his sons murdered. Revealing an utter contempt for the adopted low-born Dastan, Nizam revealed his true goal was to rewind time so he could undo his greatest error: once saving his brother's life when they were children.
• Prisoner Maria: The Movie (1995):
  • The unnamed Taiwanese mob boss is a sadistic human trafficker. Enabling the wicked Dr. Kito to brainwash captured women and mold them into obedient, mindless puppets, the mob boss sells these women to various criminals for either prostitution, organ harvesting, or as hired killers. Setting his sights on serial killer Akio's sister, the mob boss has an escaped captive raped in front of them before taking her in and having her brainwashed.
  • Dr. Kito is a psychiatrist with a god complex who works with the mob boss to cause political unrest and profit. Taking a famous politician's son, Kito brainwashes him, playing off the resentment he possesses towards his mother, to get the man to sexually assault and murder multiple women. Maria later sees he participates in brainwashing women to shatter their minds and make them pliant and obedient sex slaves to be sold for profit.
• Prisoners of the Ghostland: The Governor is the ruler of Samurai Town who pretends to be a loving "Grandpa" to the young woman of the area. In truth, the girls are taken as children, raised to be kept as sex slaves by the twisted old man, with any willfulness viciously punished. Attempts to flee result in execution, while those who are "imperfect" are sent to the Ghostlands. Enlisting the Hero to find Bernice, his favorite "granddaughter", the Governor later goes back on his deal to spare Hero's life, regardless of retrieving Bernice.
• Prisoners of the Lost Universe: Klael is a barbarian warlord who makes extensive use of slavery. Capturing a scientist from Earth, Klael is only convinced to not enslave him when he learns that the scientist can make firearms, which are significantly more advanced technologically than anything in his universe. When some slaves plot to take the guns, Klael hangs one and takes the other to face his justice, which is facing him in single combat while still exhausted from having been forced to walk for several days. During these events, he captures Carrie Madison to be his Sex Slave, of which he has many, ordering her locked in a cage to starve until she agrees to the arrangements. When Klael learns that he doesn't have sufficient material for his scientist to make nitroglycerin, he orders the slave mines worked 24/7 to get production up. After Klael's previous favorite slave tries to kill him for liking Carrie more, the warlord ties her up to be eaten by zombies. When Dan, Carrie's Love Interest, arrives with a group of heroes that includes the ex-favorite slave to rescue his girlfriend, Klael guns the slave down and takes the other heroes hostage as a bargaining chip to force Carrie to marry him.
• Prisoner X (2016): Ramiro, a time-traveling terrorist who seems more than he appears, manages to play the staff of the Sandbox for fools in his elaborate, enigmatic schemes. Playing mind games with his interrogator and eventually driving him to suicide, Ramiro spreads paranoia and unrest among the world with tales of a jihadist group that he claims came with him, masterminding countless terrorist attacks and vicious retribution from the US that cost countless millions. Eventually revealing to his new interrogator that the existence of the jihadists was a total lie, Ramiro smugly confesses he simply means to spread enough fear and distrust to throw the world into a series of destructive wars to destroy America and allow Islamic terrorists to take over the rest.
• The Prodigy: Edward Scarka was a depraved murderer who killed many women, taking their hands as trophies. Upon the escape of his final victim, Scarka was killed by the police, but his soul possesses a young boy named Miles Blume. Slowly taking over, Scarka kills the family dog, completely erases Miles's soul from the body, and stabs Miles's father to send him into a coma. Hunting down his one escaped victim Margaret, Scarka butchers her and plays innocent so Miles's mother Sarah will be shot by a good Samaritan, ending as Scarka continues to behave as a young boy, intending to continue his killing spree where none will ever suspect him.
• The Professional: Norman Stansfield is a psychopathic DEA agent who takes advantage of his position to terrorize, extort, and kill who he wants. On a drug bust, Stansfield, after finding out that Mathilda Lando's father has been cutting the stashed cocaine he gave him, decides to get high on drugs and slaughter Mathilda's family, including her 4-year-old brother, only caring about how he'll explain the deaths to his superiors. Foiling Mathilda's plan to kill him, he attempts to kill her while she's crying, taking pleasure in killing people who value their life. When Leon kills one of his men during a drug deal and rescues Mathilda, Stansfield leads a raid on Leon's apartment with the intent to kill the two, later shooting an injured Leon In the Back before he can escape, fatally wounding him in the process.
• Project: Metalbeast: Colonel Peter Alexander Miller is the jovial head of a shady government plot, who discovered the existence of werewolves and aims to create super soldiers of them. When his soldier, Donald Butler, turns himself into a werewolf, Miller has him shot and put in cryogenics, before ordering a witness to be killed. Resurfacing decades later, Miller takes control of another project to create synthetic skin from a metal substance, using Butler as a guinea pig; when Butler awakes with his mind a mess, Miller drives him to further psychological trauma. The end result was to create a werewolf with metallic skin, that would be the perfect obedient soldier for Miller. When Butler transforms into a ravenous, unstoppable monster, Miller shrugs off the deaths he causes and tries to personally kill the witnesses; shooting out General Hammond's knees and leaving him to be mauled, even cracking a joke about it when confronted.
• Project Wolf Hunting (2022):
  • Director Pyo is the highest-ranking member of Aeon Genetics and one of the heads of the horrific experiments to perfect the anti-aging drugs. In the 1940s, Pyo presided over camps where numerous prisoners were murdered via failed drug tests, bodies disposed of in mass graves. Pyo continues the experiments to present day, even snapping the arm of one such experiment for daring to touch him.
  • Oh Dae-woong is an enforcer for Aeon who helps in the inhumane experiments. When one test subject escaped, Lee Do-il, escaped, Dae-woong hunted down and murdered Do-il's wife before handing his infant son to the company to be experimented on. Realizing that their test subject "Alpha" is aboard a cargo-linger, Dae-woong takes a team to massacre everyone aboard the ship and retake Alpha, simply killing the rampaging berserker when it's too much trouble to take him back alive.
• Prom Night series:
  • Second & third films: Mary Lou Maloney was a popular, if spiteful and manipulative girl in life, but became something much, much worse in death. When she used two boys, Buddy and Billy to become prom queen, and is killed in a revenge prank gone wrong, Mary's spirit awakens years later, killing a pregnant teenager named Jess and possessing her friend Vicki, trapping the latter in a dark world. Mary Lou seeks to become prom queen again, killing everyone who gets in her way; this includes Buddy, now a priest; Vicki's friend Monica; and attempts to seduce Vicki's father in his daughter's body before killing her mother. Mary Lou learns Vicki is now dating Billy's son Craig, and seeks revenge on Billy through his son. Billy is forced to shoot Vicki, causing Mary Lou's spirit to manifest and go on a rampage, during which she attempts to drag Craig into the underworld. When seemingly defeated, Mary Lou possesses Billy with the apparent intent to try to kill Vicki and Craig again. Escaping Hell, Mary Lou kills another one of her ex-boyfriends before seducing and becoming obsessed with a student named Alex. Mary Lou would go on to kill students and teachers for Alex before he rejects her. In retaliation, Mary Lou kills his best friend Shane, framing Alex for the deed and plans on killing his girlfriend Sarah. At the prom, Mary Lou agrees to let Sarah live if Alex agrees to be her prom king for eternity in Hell. When Sarah seemingly rescues Alex, Mary Lou kills Sarah before leaving Alex stranded in Hell.
  • 2008 film: Richard Fenton was a former teacher who had a hidden obsession with one of his students, the fourteen-year-old Donna, whom he began stalking and harassing. When he got fired for this obsession and was served a restraining order, Fenton decided to kidnap Donna so he could have her all to himself. To this end, he murdered her whole family, including her younger brother, before Donna managed to flag down the police and they caught him. At his arraignment, he unrepentantly insisted to Donna that she belonged to him and he would return to get her. Three years later, Fenton breaks out of prison just before Donna's prom night, and attends her prom party at a local hotel incognito, murdering most of Donna's friends and anyone else who crosses his path, including some of the hotel staff. When corpses start turning up and the police hustle Donna back to her home for her safety, Fenton quietly murders a cop while sneaking into her house, and slits her boyfriend's throat in his sleep. He then attempts to rape and/or murder Donna before being gunned down by the police.
• The Prophecy series:
  • First film: Colonel Arnold Hawthorne, described by both Gabriel and Lucifer as the worst human on Earth, is the prophesied "Dark Soul" sought after by the rebel angels during the Second War in Heaven. Once a man who came from a poor working family and graduated from the top of his class at the military academy, Hawthorne rose through the ranks of the army and eventually participated in The Korean War, where he committed the most grotesque war crimes ever recorded in American history. Conducting a series of ritualistic killings at the Battle of Chosin, Hawthorne turned the battlefield into a mass human sacrifice; Hawthorne dismembered his victims, impaled them, and dumped their bodies into a mass grave, eating their hearts and ordering his troops to do the same, and cutting off their faces as trophies. After his death, Hawthorne's soul was placed inside the innocent Mary, harming her body and proudly confessing to have been "colder than anyone" at Chosin.
  • The Ascent: Pyriel, the White Sepulcher has assumed the mantle of the "Angel of Genocide." While his former leader Gabriel simply balked at having humanity placed above angels and eventually turned good, Pyriel has his followers call him the new God and states that his mission is to help the "monkeys" perish, adding "Genocide...it happens now and then." His mercilessness extends to his own angel brethren, as he has his fallen brothers captured and tormented in horrible agony. When confronted by the hero, the Nephalim Danyael, Pyriel attempts to kill him by sadistically crushing his skull and shoving his thumbs through his eyes, grinning the entire time.
• The Proposition:
  • Eden Fletcher is a smug official who hides his appetite for cruelty behind a thin veneer of politesse. With conflicts between the townspeople and the Aboriginal tribes, Fletcher informs Captain Stanley that rather than kill one or two perpetrators, he will simply need to exterminate the tribes completely in a full genocide. Upon the arrest of Mike "Mikey" Burns, brother of notorious criminal Arthur, Fletcher goes back on the deal Stanley made with Mikey's brother Charlie. Despite Mikey's clear mental incapacity, Fletcher sentences him to a hundred brutal lashes with no care of how it will bring the monstrous Arthur's wrath down on the town, ordering the flogging to continue long after the people, even the flogger, have grown disgusted and tired of it.
  • Sergeant Lawrence is a racist brute who eagerly hopes to kill any Aboriginal locals he can. Lawrence establishes his cruelty when he rounds up a group of innocent Aboriginals under the delusion they are "rebels", locks them in dreadful conditions, and violently threatens to kill them one by one to extort information. Spending his free time tormenting the mentally slow Mikey Burns to the point of tears, Lawrence is later personally dispatched to wipe out any nearby Aboriginals. He begins his warpath by slaughtering an entire camp of unsuspecting Aboriginal men, women, and children, and laughs with glee while covered in their blood, anticipating the slaughter of the next settlement he comes across.
• The Protector (1997): Dr. Ramsey Krago is known as a genius virologist and philanthropist whose charitable ventures hide a depraved sociopath. Krago manufactures viruses and their vaccines, testing them on luckless individuals, but releases the viruses first to kill many people before he brings out the vaccines to profit off them. Murdering a scientist who knows the truth, Krago later poisons a company board member with one of his own concoctions to agonizingly kill the man, plotting on releasing a new virus to kill millions and profit more than ever before.
• Psycho Cop & Psycho Cop Returns: Joe Vickers is a psychopathic Satanist who is Impersonating an Officer after God does not respond to him. In the first film, Vickers kills a random couple after they find the killing of another random person. Vickers murders the caretaker of an apartment and then murders Zack. Vickers later picks off the couples, killing Eric, Julie, Sarah, and then two cops and crucifying their bodies. During the sequel, Vickers enters a bachelor party by tricking the guard, and then kills him by stabbing him through the eye with a pencil. Vickers then murders another man by pushing him off an elevator shaft, and then shoots another guy and pushes the stripper he was with off the roof, and then kills two more people. After Vickers murders Larry and chases three women to the stairwell, he threatens to shoot one of them if Sharon doesn't back down. To make sure Sharon knows he is serious, he shoots another woman. However, Vickers reveals that he was invoking Exact Words and snaps the woman's neck. Vickers survives his encounter, and while in the hospital, he massacres the two doctors and police officers watching him.
• Public Enemy (2002): Cho Kyu-Hwan is a seemingly normal young man with a good job and loving parents, who just so happens to murder anyone who gets on his bad side, or when he feels like it. When he discovers his parents aren't leaving him a fortune in their will, he snaps and murders them. When disposing of their corpses, he encounters the hero Jang and slashes his face in a fight. To deflect suspicion, Cho later kills another man in a similar way to his parents, and when he encounters the hero later, he tries to kill him to keep his secret.
• Pulí (2015): Thalapathy Jalatharangan, initially appearing to be Queen Yavanarani's lackey, turns out to be controlling the queen with a magic ring, using the queen as a puppet as he commits various massacres and indiscriminate slaughters of entire villages. Introduced killing a band of peaceful ambassadors to prevent them from meeting the queen, Thalapathy later turns out to be responsible for the deaths of hero Marudheeran's family, forcing Marudheeran's father to kill himself in exchange for sparing an entire village, only to have Marudheeran's mother and the villagers executed anyways. Enforcing the Kanya Puja ritual yearly to maintain his control over the queen, which involves having a young maiden being dropped into a burning pyre alive, Thalapathy would maintain his reign of terror for 18 years, until he decides to betray and kill the queen once she is no longer of any use to him. Even after being killed by Marudheeran, Thalapathy would transfer his will into Queen Yavanarani and erase every remaining element of purity in the queen's heart, gloating that with Thalapathy's death, the queen will become an even worse tyrant that before.
• Pull (aka Pulled to Hell) (2019): The unnamed killer is a demon who butchers humans for other demons. He kidnaps, tortures, and kills his victims in a variety of sadistic ways, with his favorite being to impale them through the stomach with a chain and use it to pull them into a pit where they're eaten by his demonic pets. Angered by Brooke's defiance, the killer forces her to watch as he impales her friend on a hot camping fork and pulls a chain through her stomach, all while she's still alive. He mocks Mickey by throwing her the severed head of her friend Charles, who he previously fed to his demonic pets. When Lisa threatens to burn his pets if he doesn't stop, the killer instead laughs in her face and tries to slowly stab her friend Kyle to death in front of her. The killer has slaughtered more people than all the other monsters and murderers Mickey's group has faced combined.
• Pulp Fiction: Zed and Maynard are an inconspicuous-seeming pair of brutal redneck serial rapists. When Maynard captures prizefighter Butch Coolidge and mobster Marsellus Wallace, Zed plays a game to determine which of the two captives will be the first victim, selecting Marsellus and dragging him off to the den where the two take turns violating their victims, leaving their implied former victim "the Gimp" to watch over the restrained Butch.
• Puppet Master franchise:
  • Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys (2004):
    • Erica Sharpe is a Spoiled Brat who runs her late father's toy company after he sacrificed his soul to bring her Living Toys, which she has zero gratitude for. Secretly a devotee of the demon Bael, Erica tortures innocents to death in her "play room", having a young woman murdered painfully to commune with Bael, and for pleasure. Erica intends on crafting the greatest sacrifice of innocents in history by having millions of toys given to poor families, before making a pact with Bael by sacrificing the last of the Toulon bloodline, allowing Bael to bring the toys to life and slaughter millions of children, all so Erica can sadistically satisfy herself.
    • Bael is the wicked force behind Erica Pierce and a demon lord who strives to make his name known as the most nefarious among his kind. Bael feeds on steady Human Sacrifice, Erica keeping him satisfied with the lower-ranking members of her corporation, and agrees to use his powers to empower his demonic toys to butcher millions of children to see the greatest blood sacrifice the world has ever seen. Along the way, Bael tries to devour the soul of the youngest Toulon, Alex, all in retribution of the first Toulon having escaped his clutches after having promised Bael his soul.
  • The Littlest Reich (2018): Andre Toulon stands in stark contrast to his sympathetic original incarnation, as a bigoted sadist who used black magic to animate his puppets for sinister purposes. A criminal in his early years, he moved to Germany during World War II to aid the Nazis. Once the tide turned in the Allies' favor, he fled to the United States via a ship, throwing his wife overboard and ordering his puppets to kill everyone else on board. Over the years, he would take Jewish women to his home to perform grisly experiments on them, while using his puppets to slaughter any "undesirables" he came across. In the present day, his puppets—on his command from beyond the grave—gruesomely murder a number of guests in a hotel including Jews, people of color, homosexuals, and a Romani man, before indiscriminately butchering the fleeing guests. When the hero tries to put a stop to the hotel massacre by ramming into his mausoleum, Toulon rises up and shoots the hero's lover in the face.
• Pushed to the Limit (1992): Harry Lee is a drug dealer infamous amongst Los Angeles for being worse than the Mafia. Dealing with prostitution and extortion on the side, Lee makes most of his money through the Kumite, a deadly fighting tournament where martial artists are tricked into fighting for the chance to win money or an opportunity to work with him, only to be killed by his champion Inga in front of a bloodthirsty audience. Having his young associate and heroine Mimi's brother Johnny killed for stealing some of his coke and making a racist joke, Harry forces Mimi to watch her friend Terri get killed by Inga when her cover's blown, while also kidnapping her mentor Vern with intent to torture him.

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• Qorin (2022): Ustad Jaelani is the perverted headmaster of the religious boarding school Rodiatual Jannah, with plans to use Black Magic to fulfill his depraved lust. A sexual abuser of several of the young girls in his charge, Ustad desires to hold them all in his power, and so tricks them into helping him complete a ritual that unleashes the "Qorin Jinn" up the school. The Jinns torture and possess each of the girls, turning them into ravenous puppets enslaved to Ustad, whose only motive is to keep the demonic doppelgangers as his own personal harem. Ustad further kills his wife's father out of a pathetic inferiority complex; murders Malick, Yana and Yolanda for standing in his way; and nearly strangles his wife to death for disobeying him. Nothing but a misogynistic pedophile, Ustad was considered pure evil even by the demonic Jinn themselves.
• Quarantine (2008) duology: Henry is a self-absorbed Misanthrope Supreme who orchestrated both outbreaks. A member of a bioterrorist cell, Henry and his group engineered The Virus and released it in an apartment complex in Los Angeles to test its properties, causing the events of the first film. In the sequel, Henry, posing as a school teacher, infected the passengers of a plane, hoping it would spread the infection to other parts of the country. When his cover is blown, Henry kills a man and kidnaps a young boy to use as a Human Shield. An arrogant man whose friendly attitude masks a chilling sociopath, Henry's goal was to propagate the virus in a global scale, believing in his own truth that the "Earth needs a good plague", something in which he may very well have succeeded.
• The Queen of Black Magic:
  • 1981 original: Gendon is a ruthless sorcerer enraged over losing an election for village headman decades prior. Waiting for the current headman to marry off his daughter, Gendon torments her with hallucinations and kills a shaman who tries to help so that the town will blame the groom's ex Murni and lynch her. Saving her life and offering vengeance, Gendon teaches Murni Black Magic so she can painfully butcher her targets, eventually controlling the groom's severed head to try and tear the headman's throat out. When Murni falls in love with a newcomer and tries to retire, Gendon manipulates events to make her think her new lover is cheating on her so she'll try to kill him. Finally confronting the headman himself, the sorcerer demands to be given the headman office on pain of massacring the village.
  • 2019 remake: Orphanage owner Pak Bandi acted as a kind and friendly father figure to the orphans, but was a cruel pedophile who targeted the girls. Molesting most of the girls in the orphanage, including the current wrathful ghost, Pak Bandi framed his kind assistant and burned three girls alive as a warning not to cross him.
• Queen of the Damned: Queen Akasha was the first vampire, the progenitor of the race and by far the most evil. She ruled over Ancient Egypt with her husband Enkil as vampiric Evil Overlords, nearly annihilating mankind completely due to her massive bloodlust before turning into a living statue and sleeping for centuries. She cares about nothing but her own gratification and is feared and hated by the other Ancient vampires (her closest relatives) for her indiscriminate slaughter of humans and vampires alike. After she awakens, she drains her husband to death to absorb his powers and because she's interested in having Lestat as her new consort. She kills a club full of vampires by immolating them all after ripping out the heart of one of them and eating it. She later feeds on several hundred people in a single night, causing Lestat to question what she would want with a kingdom of corpses. She confronts the other Ancients who have come to live in peace with humanity to announce her plan to turn the world back into a vampire tyranny and reduce the humans to cattle. She promises to kill them all if they refuse to join her, before ordering Lestat to kill his human love interest Jesse to prove his loyalty to her and tries to kill him too without a second thought after he turns on her.
• Quigley Down Under: Elliott Marston is a ruthless Cattle Baron aiming to expand his land and profit. Unfortunately, the Aborigine people are in his way. As a result, Marston hires thugs to shoot "animals", later revealing he intends them to kill Aborigines, which enrages hero and sharpshooter Matthew Quigley. Marston has Quigley dumped into the wilderness to die with a witness named Cora, and on their trek back to civilization, they see Marston's men massacring Aborigines, in one case running them over a cliff. Marston later attempts to kill Quigley by forcing a quick-draw duel under the impression Quigley can't use a revolver, while showing no compunction in murdering whoever gets in his way. Ruthless and genocidal, Marston embodies the worst concepts of greed and expansion, even in the Australian Outback.
• Quills: Dr. Royer-Collard, the "alienist" brought in to treat the Marquis de Sade, makes Sade look positively decent in contrast. During the course of the film, he subjects a number of innocent inmates to torture as part of his quackish "treatment", marries a teenage girl a third of his age and then rapes her, orders a woman flogged for helping the Marquis disseminate his work, drives his asylum's Good Shepherd resident priest to commit atrocities on the Marquis, and not only abandons an innocent woman to be raped and murdered by a lunatic, but ensures that no one else will stumble on the scene in time to save her.
• Quo Vadis, Aida?: General Ratko Mladić is a boisterous, preening Glory Hound who plays himself up as a hero, however is proven to be nothing but a vile war criminal. Having besieged the city of Srebrenica until it is rubble and any straggling Bosniak citizens are rounded up and executed, Mladić forces the Dutch peacekeepers into negotiations under threat of bombing their "safe zone" for surviving Srebrenica citizens. Promising safe passage to the citizens, Mladić lures them into a false sense of security, only to reveal his true intentions: separating the men and boys to be mass murdered in gunfire, while the women are abused and assaulted at his soldiers' leisure. Mladić threatens the Dutch military with death if they try to intervene, and his genocidal actions lead to the deaths of over 8,000 innocent Bosniaks, all of which he blames on the Bosniaks for bringing on themselves.
• Rabbit-Proof Fence: Mr. A. O. Neville—nicknamed "Mr. Devil" by his victims—is the "Chief Protector of the Aborigines", who uses his position of power to enforce his own racist desires onto Australia. Holding the Aboriginal people in contempt and wishing to slowly breed out Aboriginal blood in "half-caste" children, Neville signs a decree in which any children born from one white parent and one Aboriginal parent are ripped away from their homes and thrown into the Moore River Native Settlement, a labor camp where the children are forcibly trained into becoming servants for white society. Through this, Neville hopes to see a mass eugenics scheme come to fruition, in which all of the "trained" half-caste children are married off to white partners and their children have their Aboriginal bloodline bred out of them. Neville oversees the camp and ensures that any children who try to escape or otherwise misbehave are brutally whipped bloody and locked in cages in the heat, and he keeps one of his best minions in line by holding the man's daughter hostage at Moore River. Despite his proclamations of "helping the natives", Neville is a corrupt supremacist who reigned for 25 years and ruined thousands of lives, and is happy to tear families apart and sentence children to lives as slaves who are physically and sexually abused in his mad quest for white blood propagation.
• Racket Busters (1938): John "Czar" Martin is a ruthless mobster and the face of the evils of racketeering. Martin has terrorized New York City for years, forcibly extorting and threatening people into becoming a part of his corrupt rackets while killing anyone who tries to become a witness for the police. One man who tries to go to the police is brutalized so badly by Martin that he's left comatose and amnesiac. In his scheme to take over the city's transportation and food supply, Martin forces truckers to join a "union", slashing the brake lines of dissenters so their vehicles get in deadly crashes. Martin further vandalizes and poisons the produce supplies of many farmer's markets, then forces a truckers' strike in an attempt to starve the entire city out until they bend to his whims.
• The Rage (1997): Corrupt FBI agent John Taggart led a siege at an enclave years ago. Thanks to his bloodthirsty incompetence, Taggart led the massacre of guards and civilians, for which he shows no remorse. Attempting to betray the heroes to let the paramilitary killers do more before he stops them, a vengeful Taggart tries to kill the heroes afterwards for nothing but spite and cruelty.
• Rage of the Buccaneers (1961): The slimy, ruthless Romero is the secretary of the governor of San Salvador. Allying with the thuggish pirate Tortuga, Romero manipulates the governor into suspecting the heroic Black Buccaneer Gordon, while intending on forcibly marrying the governor's daughter. Having Tortuga massacre a ship's crew, Romero is soon revealed as the true leader of the underground slave trade where men, women and children are abducted in raids and forced into horrible labor. Romero proceeds to capture the governor and threatens to murder him if Manuela will not marry him. When Gordon interferes and finally corners Romero, Romero threatens to ignite a pile of gunpowder and kill everyone present rather than face defeat.
• The Raid duology has each film's Big Bad:
  • Redemption (first film): Tama Riyadi is a Jakartan crime boss known and feared for his cruelty and lack of any emotion except cold glee at his crimes. Introduced executing four hostages with a gun, Tama opts to beat a fifth hostage to death with a hammer just because he can. When a squad of special tactics police officers plan to infiltrate Tama's base of operations, a massive apartment complex, and arrest the criminal, Tama allows the strike to happen just so he can lead the dozens of officers into a trap and slaughter them all. Cutting off their escape routes and ability to call for backup or help, Tama smugly challenges the thugs and crooks in the building to help kill the police in exchange for monetary rewards, only to then betray his allies and have his loyal goons kill any tenants wounded during the firefights with the cops so Tama can loot their bodies and apartments for money. When one of Tama's Co-Dragons, Andi, spares the life of Rama, one of the cops, because they are brothers, Tama responds by viciously torturing Andi and planning to kill him in front of Rama, and as Tama is captured by the officers, he cheerfully brags about the fact that his trap killed at least 18 cops in a single day.
  • Berandal (sequel): Bejo acts as The Corrupter to the young gangster Uco, son of the top gangster of Jakarta, Bangun, who Uco feels has grown soft. Bejo shows his ambition in the opening scene by having protagonist Rama's brother executed via shotgun to the head for being a threat to him. He manipulates Uco by allowing him to slit the throats of men who had supposedly been behind an attempt on Uco's life—which Bejo was really behind—and convinced Uco to betray and murder Bangun's old friend and top assassin Prakoso, who has been like an uncle to Uco, and frame the rival Japanese gang for it, thereby provoking a Mob War. After Bangun refuses to declare war, Bejo then dispatches his legions of assassins to provoke the Japanese gang by murdering several of their targets. When Bangun still refuses and reconciles with the Japanese, Bejo tricks Uco into murdering his own father. Driven by nothing more than greed and ambition, Bejo will stop at nothing to climb the ladder in Jakarta's underworld no matter how many bodies he leaves in his wake.
• Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest (1971): Captain Lee Grayton, in the Civil War, massacred wounded and surrendering soldiers in a Confederate hospital for nothing but his own evil gratification. Years later, Grayton becomes a predatory land baron who bribes, threatens, or outright murders entire families who own a stretch of land that Grayton wants to build a railroad through; in one instance, Grayton tortures the teenage son of a rancher until the old man breaks, then kills both the boy and his father. Grayton is a terror even to his own allies, gunning them down left and right for failing him, and in his worst moment, Grayton beats a woman so badly she later dies from her wounds, all in a fit of paranoid rage.
• Raising Cain: Dr. Carter Nix Sr. is a horrible abuser who is determined to unlock the secrets of multiple personality disorder for his own scientific curiosity. In order to test his theories on MPD, Nix subjected his own young son, Carter, to all manner of abuses in order to fracture the boy's mind. Nix then tried to buy a batch of infants off the Black Market to use as further test subjects. After faking his death, Nix continues his research in secret, using the tormented Carter as a pawn to carry out kidnappings and murders, culminating in Nix forcing the kidnapping of his own granddaughter as one of the next children he plans to abuse as part of his research. When Carter's wife tries to save her child from Nix, Nix threatens them both with a gun and reveals he intends to let Carter take the fall for his crimes.
• The Rake (2018): This depiction of The Rake portrays it as a tormenting demon-like entity that takes as much joy in emotionally destroying its victims as much as it does slaughtering them. The Rake possesses its victims, causing them to commit murder and self-mutilation; it does this to murderer Jacob Murphy, before having him kill his psychiatrist and said psychiatrist's wife, then killing himself in front of their children Ben and Ashley. The Rake haunted them for years, even tormenting Ashley into having a traumatizing abortion by threatening her unborn child, leaving her broken ever since. When Ashley's cousin Nicole announces her pregnancy, the Rake taunts Ashley with visions and nightmares, before stating its intent on targeting Nicole's unborn baby. The Rake proceeds to slaughter the guests as Nicole's pregnancy celebration and tricks Ben into shooting Ashley. The Rake then possesses Ben, having him kill himself before manifesting from his corpse. The film ends with the Rake menacingly reaching towards a crying Nicole as they are surrounded by police.
• Rambo series:
  • Rambo III: Colonel Alexei Zaysen is a Soviet military officer who is determined to see through the genocidal campaign against Afghanistan. Zaysen has headed up a variety of war crimes, including the mass rape and slaughter of pregnant women; disguising mines as toys so children will be blown up; and regularly seeking villages to massacre the occupants. Running a heinous extermination camp, Zaysen regularly tortures Afghanistan citizens to death through electricity, fire, and beatings just for fun, and when he captures Col. Samuel "Sam" Trautman, he subjects the man to these same torments. When Rambo tries to save Trautman and help the Afghan rebellion, Zaysen gleefully leads a helicopter squad to kill hundreds of men, women, and even babies.
  • Rambo IV: Major Pa Tee Tint is a deplorable soldier in charge of a military camp within Burma. Introduced forcing innocent villagers across mine-infested waters out of sick amusement, Tint would then have them shot even if they made it through. A horrific sadist, Tint would have his men level villages, slaughtering all within, indiscriminate of age and gender. At his own camp, Tint allows his soldiers to violate female prisoners, keeping other prisoners in inhumane conditions and feeding them to pigs for the slightest offences. Not a stranger to sexual crimes, Tint would sexually abuse any children that were brought into his camp and would also have them moulded into serving in his army.
  • Last Blood: The icy Hugo Martinez and his savage, sadistic brother Victor are a pair of pimps seeking to join the much greater Human Trafficking operation of Don Miguel. Kidnapping numerous young girls, the women are beaten, raped and terrorized into the sex trade, kept as slaves until they are used up and disposed of, often addicted to drugs to keep them pliant and dependent. Abducting Rambo's honorary niece Gabriela, Hugo tells Rambo he will keep him alive so Rambo can suffer in the knowledge of Gabriela's fate, before Victor drugs her with heroin and the two send her to a brothel to be raped and abused, with her eventually dying. Seeking to make their fortune by trafficking countless women into sex slavery, the two stand as some of the vilest John Rambo has ever faced.
• Rampage (Korkusuz) (1986): Ziya is a terrorist responsible for assaulting numerous villages to kill and plunder who he finds there. Taking Girl as a captive, Ziya's men kill her father, and Ziya subjects her to brutal mistreatment. Later trying to have her raped for his sick amusement, Ziya also brutally tortures the hero Serdar and even sends his own brother to die in battle.
• Rampage (2018): Claire Wyden is introduced informing a hapless scientist on a space station to "return with a sample or not at all", preventing her escape and eventually getting her killed. Running her business with ruthless efficiency and removing those in her way, Claire proves the depths of her evil when she learns her company's chemicals have turned three animals into massive monsters. She proceeds to use a signal to lure them to Chicago, causing untold casualties, solely to get them killed and collect samples off their corpses. Later, she even attempts to murder the heroes and skip town without a twinge of remorse for the lives she's destroyed.
• Rampant (2018): Kim Ja-joon is the Joseon Minister of War. Plotting a coup, he has the followers of the benevolent Crown Prince murdered and tortured, targeting the returning second prince after his brother's death. Upon learning of the zombie "demon" plague, Kim abandons large populations to be killed, arranges for an infected concubine to attack the king, and then kills the king while unleashing the zombies upon the palace. Killing his own co-conspirators, he tries to prevent the heroes from stopping the zombies, deciding to allow Joseon and its people to die so he may make a new nation from the ashes in his own image.
• Random Acts of Violence (2019-2020): The Man is a retired Serial Killer who is obsessed with ''Slasherman'' creator Todd for supposedly keeping his work alive. Having killed a young Todd’s mother after Todd witnessed him committing murder, the Man spared Todd only because he drew a picture of his murder. After hearing that Slasherman is coming to an end, the Man took it upon himself to come out of retirement and brutally murder people in the style of the comic—children included—in order to provide inspiration for Todd. Killing Todd’s friends and wife Kathy to provide more inspiration, the Man hopes the final Slasherman issue will inspire other killers around the world like himself to go on a murder spree in order to "kill the world."
• Rapid Assault (1997):
  • Lars Rynark is a former KGB soldier who defected from his government after a hit was placed on him. Desiring revenge on his superiors, Rynark decided to become a terrorist and unleash a deadly virus across the world with the goal of killing billions, threatening the US government with the virus unless he receives $50 million. Having a mole scientist tortured to death, once Rynark grows weary of using animals as test subjects, he threatens the kidnapped Dr. Strichman with using his daughter as a test for the virus's capabilities should an innocent scientist not be used instead. Growing bored of the US government not handing him his money, Rynark decides to launch a missile at New York, and later abandons his men to make a getaway.
  • Marko and Talia are Rynark’s Co-Dragons who gleefully participate in his plan to unleash the virus and kill billions, torturing a mole scientist to death and killing Dr. Strichman with a smile on their faces. Only in It for the Money, both Marko and Talia propose unleashing the virus on two nations and selling it as a bioweapon for profit, showing themselves as nothing but greedy sadists only out for themselves.
• Rasputin and the Empress (1932): Grigori Rasputin is a drunken, lecherous fraud who puts the court of the Czar into his thrall. Strongly implied he takes advantage of the women he hypnotizes, Rasputin attempts to rape Princess Natasha when she uncovers his schemes, even manipulating the start of World War I to strengthen his hold on the throne and kill any in his way.
• Rasputin the Mad Monk: Grigori Rasputin himself is a "holy man" who uses his Healing Hands, and especially his Hypnotic Eyes, to get people to do his bidding. He starts the movie drunkenly seducing a woman, and when her boyfriend attacks him, Rasputin chops the man's hand off, before trying to rape the woman. He then hypnotizes Sonia, lady-in-waiting to the Tsarina, into, among other deeds, causing the Tsarina's young son into having an accident so Rasputin could heal the son, the first step into gaining influence with the Tsarina. Rasputin's other deeds include cruelly dismissing Sonia when he tires of her and then having her kill herself; attacking her brother—likely fatally—with acid when the former confronts him; and, even when being killed, manages to kill one of the attackers, a former colleague of Rasputin's who joined the conspiracy to kill him when Rasputin's machinations became too much.
• The Raven (1935): The evil Dr. Richard Vollin is an Edgar Allan Poe fanboy who becomes obsessed with a young woman named Jean Thatcher. Vollin tries to destroy her family in vengeance for being spurned. When a Sympathetic Murderer named Bateman begs Vollin to change his face so he can leave a life of crime behind, Vollin instead hideously deforms him so he'll have to assist Vollin in return for having the procedure corrected. Vollin tries to kill Jean's family, putting her father in a trap designed on the bladed pendulum, and forcing Jean and her husband into a room where the walls will close in to crush them, before even Bateman has had enough.
• The Raven (2012): Ivan Reynolds is responsible for a string of gruesome murders in 19th century Baltimore, Maryland; these murders are based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. These murders include breaking all the bones in a woman's body before slitting her throat; strangling said woman's 12-year old daughter to death before stuffing her body into the chimney; having a man bisected by a pendulum; and forcing another man to wear a dress-—and possibly raped said man-—before entombing him alive within the sewer walls. He also orchestrates the kidnapping of Edgar's Love Interest, Emily, and when the police track him down he kills one of the cops and nearly kills the other. He later introduces himself to Edgar by killing the newspaper editor and forces him to drink poison, promising that he will reveal Emily's location. However, he goes back on his word and leaves both Edgar and Emily to die, successfully killing Edgar.
• Ravenous (1999): Colonel Ives is a cannibalistic soldier who learns of the Wendigo myth and decides to try it because he's dying and has nothing to lose. The myth was true; Ives is cured of his tuberculosis and depression. He takes a wagon train into the mountains and leads it astray so he can slaughter and eat everyone else. To kick off the main plot, he assumes the identity of "Reverend Colqhoun" and lures more soldiers to the spot so he can eat them too, sadistically chasing one terrified man down before gutting him with a knife. When he returns to the fort, having killed everyone who could recognize him except for Captain John Boyd, Ives plans to encourage Boyd down his (already started) path to cannibalism and therefore have someone to help him get away with killing people. Revealing his intent to create a cannibal ruling class with himself at the top as a messianic figure, Ives is a representation of the predatory evils of Manifest Destiny and the savagery in human nature.
• Raw Force (1982): Thomas Speer is a greedy, evil scientist. Kidnapping women in cathouses, he sells them to a cabal of cannibalistic monks on Warrior's Island in exchange for jade minerals, fully aware that they use their flesh to reawaken the dead. Preventing anyone from entering Warrior’s Island, he has Cooper kidnap the cruise ship's captain, and once that fails, he allows Cooper to burn the ship and kill everyone on board. When the zombies arise from their graves, Speer hides in the jade mine and steals all the minerals he can carry, attempting to abandon everyone on the island afterwards.
• Rawhide: In this 1951 Western, Tevis is an escaped convict and a member of Rafe Zimmerman's gang. Unlike his pragmatic boss, Tevis is a brutal loose cannon who murders the stationmaster of Rawhide station and instantly sets his sights on the beautiful woman Holt, trying to rape her before Zimmerman stops him. Tevis later makes another attempt to rape Holt, strangling her when she resists. When Zimmerman stops him again, Tevis shoots him in the back, kills another member of their gang and tries to murder the last. When he engages in a fighter with Tom Owens, Tevis holds Callie, the baby niece of Holt, at gunpoint to force Tom to present himself unarmed, shooting the ground near Callie to make her "dance."
• The Rebel (2007): Sy is a smug traitor to his country, collaborating with the French colonizers to stifle any hint of rebellion. Hunting down the father of fiery-spirited revolutionary Thuy after torturing her in prison, Sy also tortures the father of his former subordinate Cuong for information by gouging out his eye. Locating the rebels, Sy is only too glad to turn over an entire village for oppression and potential execution while also murdering his superiors in a rage over being denied a promotion.
• Re:Born: Phantom is Toshiro "Ghost" Kuroda's former commanding officer. Having already participated in international crimes such as genocide, Phantom makes a habit out of brainwashing children to serve as his soldiers, molding them into skilled, inhuman fighters all the way to adulthood. Seeking revenge on Kuroda after realizing he faked his death and took one of his children, Phantom sends his soldiers out to kill him, uncaring for their deaths, before trying to kill Toshiro himself by guilting his mind long enough to stab his throat.
• [REC] series: The demonic Parasite is the instigator of all the zombie outbreaks that have plagued Spain. Kept inside the body of Tristana Medeiros—whom it possessed when she was only 11—the Parasite begins using her own blood as a virus to have more people under its control. Infecting and killing countless people, the Parasite massacres an entire apartment complex and a wedding ceremony with its zombies, personally killing Tristana after having jumped into the body of reporter Ángela Vidal. Repaying the kindness of a special ops officer, Guzman, by leaving Ángela and possessing him instead, the Parasite has the crew of the ship Zaratustra killed for no reason other than wanting to enjoy more carnage, all the while planning to spread the infection to untold proportions.
• The Reckoning (2020):
  • Judge John Moorcroft is a stern and fanatical witch hunter with a legacy of tortured women behind him. Traveling from town to town, Moorcroft interrogates, tortures, and burns women alive, including the mother of heroine Grace. Upon Grace being accused of witchcraft, Moorcroft oversees her torture with increasing intensity before he decides her confession is implicit, since only a witch could endure such agony, sentencing her and her baby to burn for the sake of his wounded pride.
  • Squire Pendleton is Grace's landlord who lusted after her. Poisoning her husband with the Plague, Pendleton attempts to extort Grace for sexual favors to keep her land, fought off when he tries to rape her. Later framing Grace as a witch, Pendleton gives her to Moorcroft to be tortured and executed. Spitefully murdering a prisoner Grace befriended, Pendleton reveals his murder of her husband, vowing to kill anyone Grace has ever cared about, ending with her baby daughter Abby.
• Red Eye: Jackson Rippner is a "manager" who hires himself out to clients to pull off their illicit activities. Paid to arrange the death of Deputy Secretary Charles Keefe at the Lux Atlantic hotel, Rippner takes the hotel's manager, Lisa Reisert, hostage on her red eye flight and threatens the life of her father to force her to change Keefe's reservation to a room where his assassination can be completed. Rippner's assassination of Keefe involves an explosion that will kill not just the man himself, but also his wife, two kids, staff team, and any guests in surrounding rooms. Rippner spends the red eye flight horribly tormenting Lisa, from choking and slamming her against walls to forcing her to recount her rape while he mocks her about it, and when she thwarts his hit on Keefe, Rippner plans to kill Lisa and her father, promising to force her dad to watch her die.
• The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972): Franziska Wildenbruck murdered the girl brought in to pass as her sister Eveline as to take the Wildenbruck fortune for herself. Targeting her other sister Kitty, Franziska finds the true Eveline, going by the name Rosemary, and drugs and brainwashes her into becoming the murderous Red Queen to slaughter her way through multiple other claimants to the fortune before murdering Rosemary and attempting to drown Kitty. Upon being fatally wounded, she attempts to even murder Kitty's lover, declaring she will destroy happiness for others if she cannot win herself.
• Red Riding Hood: Cesaire is the werewolf who has been for years terrorizing the village his daughter Valerie lived in. While living as a seemingly normal member of the community, Cesaire left the people alone due to animal sacrifices for the past twenty years, before deciding to find richer hunting grounds in the city. Cesaire planned to take his daughters with him, and turn them into werewolves too, but upon finding out that Luci wasn't his, he kills Luci in a fit of anger. Cesaire would later take his revenge on his wife's lover, Henry's father. He'd return as a wolf and kill off the knights sent to protect the village. Confronting Valerie as a wolf, Cesaire tries to get Valerie to leave with him, threatening to kill her friend Roxanne and massacre the village if she refuses. Later on, Cesaire goes on a rampage, during which he bites off Father Solomon's hand. The next day, he kills his mother and feeds an unwitting Valerie her remains as soup, before trying to bite her against her will, and attempting to kill her Love Interest Peter.
• Red Rooms (2023): Ludovic Chevalier is a plain, uninteresting man who becomes known as the "Demon of Rosemont" after his horrific crimes are discovered. Chevalier is involved with Snuff Films on the dark web, and begins creating his own by kidnapping young girls so he can rape, torture, and kill them on camera. Chevalier does absolutely unspeakable things to the children, from mutilation to dismemberment, and by the time he's caught, he's killed 3 girls. Even when faced with his crimes in court, Chevalier is downright bored by their recounting, and forces the victims' families to bear witness to the videos of his crimes by pleading not guilty so a trial will be necessary.
• Red Scorpion: General Oleg Vortek is a Soviet war criminal with a passion for committing atrocities against the people of Mombaka in an effort to crush La Résistance. As Lt. Nikolai Petrovich Radchenko's commanding officer, Vortek sends him on a mission to assassinate their leader Sundata, allowing him to kill allied soldiers for the sake of his plan. Having already dropped bombs on the village of a resistance captain, Vortek orders Nikolai's execution when he fails his mission. Learning that Sundata would be speaking on the radio, Vortek gives his answer by deploying chemical weapons on civilians and tribesmen, with not even children and babies being safe from him. Finding a village that was affiliated with the resistance, Vortek aids the Cubans in raiding the place using aerial warfare, killing Sundata when the latter sacrifices himself to save a little girl. Realizing that the guerillas would win a battle at his military base, Vortek makes an attempt to leave his men behind and tries to shoot Nikolai in the back, even after having his life spared by him.
• Red Sun Rising (1994): Jaho is the brutal right hand of boss Yamata. Set to kick off a brutal gang war with military grade technology in the hands of mobsters, Jaho performs numerous assassinations to distribute blame between gangs. Having murdered hero Hoshino's partner, Jaho ensures the deaths of bystanders and even murders a mother grieving at the grave of one of his victims. Later threatening to rape Hoshino's girlfriend, Jaho even intends to murder his elderly mentor just for spite.
• Reform School Girls:
  • Warden Sutter is the religious head of the Pridemore Juvenile Facility who enjoys instilling control over the prisoners. Enabling her cohort Edna's abusive treatment towards her prisoners, even pushing her into enacting crueler means of punishment whenever they cause a ruckus, Sutter does whatever she can to prevent Pridemore's reputation from leaking to the public, making Edna sexually assault Jenny in order to prevent her from testifying as a witness.
  • Edna Dawson, aka "Big Ed" or "Big Eddy", is the sadistic head matron of Pridemore who uses her position to physically and sexually abuse her prisoners how she sees fit. Partaking in cruelly punishing the prisoners, Edna allows Charlie to brand and rape the prisoners to her liking. Taking particular interest in Lisa, Edna burns her cherished stuffed bunny in front of her after catching her trying to retrieve it, locks her in claustrophobic isolation while frequently raping her, and crushes her new pet kitten. Assisting Sutter in covering up Pridemore's corruption, Edna tortures Jenny so that she won’t be able to testify against them, and with the escaped prisoners wanting her head, Edna kills as many prisoners as she can, all to further her control over them.
• Reign of Chaos (2022): Chaos is an entity who desires to rule the world as a god. With his sons Erebus and Nyx, Chaos unleashes a plague upon the earth, transforming much of the population into cannibalistic beasts called joiners. With the descendants of the goddess Nike threatening his reign, Chaos hunts them down to consume their essence and eradicate the bloodline, murdering Nicole's mother and later having her adopted parents killed by his sons. Drawing the few remaining descendants of Nike out for a final confrontation, Chaos gloats as to how he will consume the world into darkness once he has destroyed them.
• Reincarnation (2005): Professor Norihasa Omori, the culprit of the Gunma Hotel Murders, is an obsessive psychopath who became a mass murderer solely to prove the existence of reincarnation. Believing humans to be nothing but "temporary vessels" for the consciousness, Omori decided to test his hypothesis by bringing his family to a hotel and filming himself murdering 11 innocent people, including his own children.
• Renfield (2023): Dracula himself, also known as the Prince of Wallachia, the Dark One, and the Lord of Death, is a narcissistic monster who has earned his various titles through his boundless cruelty and sadism. For decades, Dracula has feasted on the blood of humans, particularly enjoying feeding on the kind and innocent, and has slaughtered anyone who tries to stop him. Dracula also manipulated Robert Montague Renfield into becoming his immortal servant, keeping him in line through abuse and manipulation while forcing him to acquire new victims. When Renfield abandons him, Dracula tracks him down, breaks down his newly found self-confidence, and slaughters his support group, promising to kill many more just to spite Renfield. Tired of hiding in the shadows, Dracula allies with the Lobo crime family and turns many of them into familiars, hoping to expand his influence worldwide so that everyone is either his servant or his food.
• The Report: Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, as depicted in the film, are a pair of psychologists whose greed drives them to create and spread the brutal "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" system across the CIA. Approaching the CIA with the idea to turn their knowledge of military training and psychology into new interrogation tactics against prisoners, Mitchell and Jessen subject two captured terrorists to truly vicious, demeaning tortures, from depriving them of sleep and assaulting them to burying them alive, all to extract information and prove their "EITs" are working. Once getting approval from CIA superiors, Mitchell and Jessen propagate the usage of the EIT throughout CIA installations, leading to hundreds of detainees, even completely innocent men, being horribly tortured in the name of public security, with one prisoner even dying from the relentless torture. Revealed to actually be completely ignorant and unskilled in genuine interrogation and basing their methods on nothing but personal cruelty and ideas, Mitchell and Jessen are shown to be truly smug monsters in the movie, with their last scene showing them cheerfully laughing about how much money they got paid for assisting the CIA in nothing but hurting people, and even bragging that they kept souvenirs from torturing prisoners.
• Repo! The Genetic Opera: Rottismo "Rotti" Largo is the CEO of Geneco, who "cured the world" via a new organ trade, but convinced Congress to legalize organ repossessions, killing countless people via the Repo Men. When his lover Marni left him, Rotti poisoned her and convinced her husband he was responsible for her death, turning Nathan into a sadistic Repo Man while plotting to shape Nathan and Marni's daughter into his perfect heir. Rotti has multiple people killed, intending to kill Marni's best friend Blind Mag for trying to leave her contract as the face of Geneco by having Nathan do it, later murdering her for sheer spite when she defies him. He then tries to expose Nathan as a Repo Man to his daughter Shilo, shooting Nathan in a fit of rage when Shilo defies him at the end.
• Requiem for a Dream:
  • "Big Tim" is a local drug dealer and pimp who takes advantage of addicted women to force them into sexual favors in exchange for drugs. After coercing Marion Silver into sexual acts by withholding drugs she's current suffering withdrawal from, Big Tim manipulates her into taking part in an orgy of other women under his sway, for the viewing pleasure of wealthy clients. Big Tim dopes up all of the women to make them more malleable, and watches on with smug satisfaction as they are pushed into the most debasing acts possible, uncaring of the empty shells they are left as.
  • "Uncle" Hank is a disturbing pervert introduced in Fortune Cookie breaking a salesman into becoming his Sex Slave. Shown later working with Big Tim, Hank personally torments the women they use for prostitution, and is shown humiliating two for the pleasure of himself and a crowd of clients.
• Requiescant (aka Kill and Pray) (1967):
  • George Bellow Ferguson is a racist ex-Confederate who fancies himself an aristocrat. Massacring a Mexican village to steal their land, Ferguson sets up in San Antonio where he continues to take the land of others, treating Mexicans and Blacks as slaves while murdering any who resist. Allowing his cohort Dean Light to sexually enslave women, Ferguson tries to recruit Requiescant when he arrives to free his stepsister. Initiating sadistic games such as shooting candles out of the hands of young ladies, Ferguson later murders his own wife for assisting Requiescant before trying to kill the remaining Mexican rebels who stand in his way.
  • Dean Light is a licentious, blond-haired sadist who is the one behind the Gatling gun when Ferguson orders a Mexican village massacred and the one holding back Ferguson's wife when Ferguson strangles her. Beyond this, Dean is a sex slaver and a Serial Rapist, lording over Ferguson's forced prostitution racket while Ferguson himself stays hands-off. Dean Light enjoys regularly raping his prostitutes himself, forcing Requiescant's stepsister to endure this treatment after he "won" her in a crooked deal.
• The Resurrected (1991): Joseph Curwen is a wicked necromancer who experiments on innocents to turn them into agonized, twisted abominations. Leaving notes for a descendant to revive him, Curwen murders his descendant Charles Ward to take his place and, upon developing a craving for flesh and blood, becomes a vicious Serial Killer who cannibalizes his victims. Locked in an asylum as investigator March gets to the truth, Curwen kills an orderly and intends to eat March alive, threatening to find Charles's wife and eat her as well before continuing his work.
• Resurrection (1999): Gerald Demus is a religiously-motivated Serial Killer who wants to recreate the body of Christ in time for the Resurrection on Easter by assembling it from stolen body parts. He performs one murder for each body part—limbs, head, torso—with six planned victims total. Chicago P.D. homicide detective John Prudhomme eventually tracks down Demus and interrupts one of his rituals, but is too late to save his latest victim, who dies of massive trauma and blood loss in John's arms. After a pursuit, Demus captures John's partner and dresses him up in his own disguise so he can get away and the cops will shoot one of their own. The unfortunate detective needs to have his leg removed, which Demus later steals to make up for lost time. Deciding that John personally must be punished for his interference, Demus breaks into John's home to murder his wife and sends him a taped message informing him of this, only to kill his wife's best friend by mistake and leaving the body behind for John to find. After he completes the body of Christ, he heads over to a maternity ward to sacrifice a newborn child, killing several nurses and orderlies along the way.
• The Retreat (2021): James is a bigoted sadist who teams up with Gavin and Layna to "cull" the world of the LGBT+ community. A longtime supporter of the duo's live snuff films, James finally joins in on their crimes as he uses an axe to butcher a gay couple while cruelly taunting and filming them. James later kills two bystanders to Leave No Witnesses, and works with Gavin to capture the lesbian couple Renee and Val, so that James can force them to watch as one another are tortured to death.
• Retroactive: Frank is a fast-talking, brutal thug who becomes involved with the plot when he tries to sell stolen microchips to Brian, a scientist who invented a Time Machine. He picks up the stranded heroine Karen on the road, only to murder his abused wife Rayanne in front of Karen after he discovers Rayanne's infidelity. Karen travels back in time to stop Frank, only to make things worse with each iteration. Throughout the various temporal loops Frank kills his wife, kills her lover, tries to kill Karen, kills the local Sheriff, kills a family of three, takes the family's son hostage and threatens to kill the boy, and mocks Karen when she couldn't save the kid in a later loop. He eventually decides to use the time machine so he can go back through multiple loops and kill Brian and Karen as many times over as possible.
• The Returner: Mizoguchi is an insane and violent Yakuza boss who steals children to harvest their organs. Having done this to hero Miyamoto's childhood friend, Mizoguchi partners with the Triads to gain absolute power and world domination. Killing anyone who gets in his way, including his own men, Mizoguchi betrays his allies and attempts to kickstart a war between the Daggra aliens and mankind by killing a Daggra baby, all for the sake of fun and profit.
• The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937): Maximilien Robespierre is the head of the Committee that rules France. Responsible for the Reign of Terror, Robespierre sentences countless people to the guillotine, enemies of the state and rivals alike. Plotting his own coup and a purge of any potential rivals, Robespierre also sends his agent Chauvelin to kidnap the Pimpernel, Percy Blakeney's wife Marguerite, while she is pregnant, deciding to have her sent to the guillotine regardless of her value as a hostage before providing twenty more names to be arrested and executed.
• The Return of the Vampire (1943): Armand Tesla was an expert on vampires whose obsession with the dark creatures transformed him into one. Embracing his new form, Tesla would haunt the lands for centuries, killing and draining the blood of innocent women and even targeting the young girl Nicki in her bed. Though staked through the heart by Lady Jane and Professor Saunders, Tesla uses his powers to arrange the death of Saunders and revive himself. Tesla used the tragic Andreas for years as his slave, forcibly transforming him into a werewolf, and upon his revival, Tesla immediately tracks down the traumatized Andreas and enslaves him once again. Targeting the family of Jane, Tesla kills several civilians, then tries to turn Nicki into a vampire and force her to slaughter her own family. When Andreas is mortally wounded in Tesla's service, Tesla coldly orders him to crawl into a corner and die for outliving his usefulness.
• Return to Oz:
  • The Nome King is the greedy, self-centered ruler of the Nomes who considers all the precious stones in the world to be his. Angered at the people of Oz creating the Emerald City out of his emeralds, the Nome King attacked Oz, turning its population to stone. The Nome King also allowed the tyrannical Princess Mombi to collect the heads of dozens of women to indulge her vanity, with their heads being left alive and fully aware of their situation. When Dorothy Gale returns to save Oz and confronts him, the Nome King challenges her and her friends to a game where the losers are transformed into ornaments for his palace. When Dorothy wins, the Nome King attempts to eat her and all of her friends.
  • Princess Mombi is a deranged, tyrannical sorceress who usurped control of the Emerald City by trapping the true ruler inside an enchanted mirror. A narcissist whose looks are fading with age, Mombi collects the heads of beautiful women and swaps her own head for one of theirs every so often. When not in use, the heads are kept alive and conscious. When Dorothy arrives in the Emerald City, Mombi has her imprisoned with the intention of adding her head to her collection once she becomes an adult.
• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987): Judge Axel, the ruler of the vampires of Jerusalem's Lot, puts on a show of affability to disguise the corrupt monster within. Having many who enter the Lot killed and drained, Axel has a group of punks slaughtered to lure the final survivor to his house and present her to Joe, the journalist he wishes to make his successor, before having her killed. When Joe realizes the evil of the vampires, Axel has a bus filled with innocents slaughtered and attempts to even take Joe's young son Jeremy and stake him personally.
• The Revenant: Toussaint is the leader of the French trappers. At first appearing to be a reasonable man doing business with the Arikara, he's revealed to be a sadistic racist who exploits them to get rich, belittling them in French in the belief that they can't understand him. Toussaint kidnaps and rapes the Arikara chieftain Elk Dog's daughter Powaqa and blames Hugh Glass's team for it, inciting the Arikara to massacre many of them in order to take out his competition. When his team encounters Hikuc, the friendly Pawnee man who helped Glass earlier, Toussaint has him lynched, displaying his corpse along with a message condemning him as a "savage".
• Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014):
  • Ah Chung serves as the leader of the Green Dragons gang on the behalf of Paul Wong. Upon recruiting Sonny and Steven to his gang when they were only kids, he was responsible for turning them into his loyal hitmen, and would order them to kill anyone he wants, starting with a group of people that owes him money. Years later, his gang would cause many deaths of many rival gang members as well as innocents, and he even has one gang member tortured to death, having his teeth pulled out, his fingers cut off, and finally getting shot in the head. Upon hearing that Steven's uncle has acquired some money, he decides to rob his place and commands his right-hand man Chicken Wing to rape the uncle's daughter while he forces him to watch. This act causes Steven to have a mental breakdown and go on a killing spree on his own, causing the death of a white man. When Ah Chung learned of this he was upset, but only because of how much unwanted attention it will bring from the cop and barely got away, where afterwards he proceeds to stab Steven to death before putting his corpse in a dumpster.
  • Chicken Wing serves as The Dragon to Ah Chung, but managed to stand out on his own. He first establishes himself by beating an innocent man in a bathroom; when a young Steven stumbles across this, he forces Steven to defecate on the man before he kills him. He then takes the boy to brutally beat up and was about to castrate him before Ah Chung and Paul Wong show up to recruit Steven. He also partook in the gang's mass killings of rivals and innocents and was actually the one who gave Ah Chung the idea for the rival gang member's slow and torturous death. He later helps Ah Chung rob Steven's uncle and gladly follows his boss's order to rape his daughter, as well as his wife. He later takes their panties as trophies and proudly shows them to Steven, much to the latter's disgust. After Steven nearly got them arrested, Chicken Wing prevents his brother, Sonny, from saving Steven from being brutally executed by Ah Chung.
• Revenge of the Ninja (1983): The manipulative Braden is seemingly a good friend of hero and secret ninja Cho Osaki, but in truth is merely using Cho's art gallery for his heroin smuggling. When the local mob boss Caifano refuses to work with him, Braden employs his ninja talents from his time in Japan to murder Caifano's men, relatives and any bystanders with them. When he fears that Cho's young son has seen heron in a broken doll, he attempts to murder the child, and kills Cho's ninja mother when she fights him to save her grandson. When Braden's assistant Cathy betrays him to rescue Cho's son, Braden attempts to murder her by leaving her tied up in a hot tub to drown. Braden then invades Caifano's headquarters, massacring everyone he encounters before engaging Cho himself in a final duel to the death.
• Revenger (2018):
  • Carlos Kun/Kuhn is the bandaged leader of the prison island AP 101. Originally a criminal who killed Yul's wife and daughter in front of him, Kun faked his death and headed to AP 101, where he immediately slit a man's throat; chopped off Bau's hand; and killed Jin's father. Becoming the island's leader, he has people captured and released so his men can chase after and kill them. When Yul kills one of his men and releases his prisoners, Kun kills the man who told him this and sends his assassins out to murder Yul, before trying to kill Yul himself.
  • The unnamed right-hand-man of Kun's forces is a grinning psychopath who participates in horrible games on the island. Hunting down and murdering those in his path, the killer carries out Kun's will and gleefully executes those in his path. Attacking Bau's village, he leads a massacre there, killing most of the village while even slitting the throat of one of the heroes' allies in front of them before trying to kill a little girl's mother before her, even trying to kill her as well before Bau saves her.
• The Rezort: Valerie Wilton is a seemingly charitable businesswoman who creates the Rezort to utilize the zombies remaining after an outbreak as sport for people to hunt, all while simultaneously having a hand in founding the Hope 4 U refugee charity. In truth, Wilton is using Hope 4 U to lure refugees to the Rezort to be murdered and transformed into zombies to keep her supply constantly thriving. Thousands of men, women, and children alike are turned into mindless zombies by Wilton to be tortured and killed in the Rezort, and when the zombies escape their confinement, Wilton leaves her entire staff to be massacred while trying to escape, and even attempts to betray Mel after forming a partnership with her.
• Rhymes for Young Ghouls: Popper is a racist, corrupt Indian Affairs Agent who has the power to take away Native children and send them to a residential school. Popper uses this power to terrorize a local Native reserve, giving out beatings to any Native men he dislikes and extracting bribes from Native people so he doesn't take their children away. Any Native children sent to Popper's residential school are threatened with violence, torture, and even murder if they displease him; Popper also sexually assaults his students. When a Native girl named Aila steals back some of the money Popper took from her and humiliates him in the process, Popper confronts her, threatens to murder her father right in front of her, and then attempts to rape her.
• Richard III:
  • Richard himself, Duke of Gloucester, is a scheming, self-described villain who is out to make the world around him as miserable as possible in his quest for power. After personally leading the slaughter of King Henry, his son, and their entire cabinet, Richard dedicates himself to seducing the daughter and wife of his victims simply to prove he can. He uses the woman, Anne, as a steppingstone for power that he mistreats before killing her when he grows bored of her. To ensure his personal ascent to the throne, Richard frames his brother Clarence and has him killed in prison, blaming his death on their older brother Edward, which drives Edward to a despair-induced death. Richard uses the assassin James Tyrell to brutally kill multiple other members of his own family—from brother-in-law Earl Rivers to Richard's child nephews—only to later shoot Tyrell in the face during a petty rage. After eliminating all political rivals, Richard takes over England and begins transforming it into a fascist dictatorship, planning to wipe out thousands of rebels against his rule before forcibly marrying his own niece so his bloodline will reign forever.
  • James Tyrell is a cold-blooded social climber, loyal to Richard only for money and the hope of promotion. Tyrell acts as Richard's pet assassin, murdering Richard's brother, George, and brother-in-law, Rivers, and hanging Lord Hastings on trumped up charges during Richard's rise to power. Following Richard's ascension to the throne, he has Tyrell—now the head of State Sec—smother his child nephews for good measure, and when Richard's ally, Buckingham, abandons him, it is Tyrell who captures, tortures, and ultimately strangles the duke while Richard looks on. Void of all emotion save self-satisfaction, Tyrell proves himself every bit as monstrous as his tyrannical boss.
• Ricochet: Earl Talbot Blake is a cruel hitman who is seen murdering a drug dealer for his money before he is pursued by a cop named Nick Styles. After taking a woman hostage, Blake is arrested by Styles and rots for years in jail while burning with hatred for his captor. Blake escapes by causing a massacre of a parole hearing and murders a man to serve as a stand-in for Blake's corpse. Blake proceeds to hound Styles, injects him full of drugs and films him being raped by a prostitute to destroy Styles' career, marriage and life. Blake later kills Styles's partner and gleefully expresses he wants to destroy everything Styles has. When his own loyal right-hand man finally has enough, Blake murders him, too.
• Ride with the Devil: Pitt Mackeson manages to be the Token Evil Teammate of the First Missouri Irregulars with his love for fighting and bloodshed. A young gunslinger who enlisted in the Confederate militia solely for the chance to kill Unionists, Pitt is introduced following his fellow bushwhackers in a plan to attack a pro-Union store, killing a guerilla and amusing himself by repeatedly shooting another in the chest, shouting with excitement afterwards. Pitt then murders the owner while his wife watched everything before torching the store amid the protests of his loyal compatriot. When his group is ambushed by Union soldiers, Pitt stays behind on purpose instead of escaping just to kill more people. Ecstatic upon discovering that they would join in on raiding a town, Pitt gleefully participated in the Lawrence Massacre and killed its first victim. Dissatisfied with how his side was losing the war, Pitt ultimately deserted to indiscriminately plunder and murder with his own gang.
• The Ripper: Jack the Ripper himself was the misogynistic perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders, killing prostitutes to power his ring and gain immorality. Using his ring to return in the 1980s, the Ripper possesses Professor Richard Harwell and viciously disembowels young women, eventually trying to kill Richard's fiancée to restore his own body.
• R.I.P.D.:
  • Bobby Hayes betrayed his former partner in the Boston Police Department, Nick Walker, after the latter tried to give the gold that they stole to the authorities. It was revealed that he conspired with undead creatures known as deados and then tries to use the stolen gold in order to create the Staff of Jericho, an artifact which will reverse the flow of souls from Earth to the afterlife and result in The End of the World as We Know It. To activate the staff, Bobby kidnaps Nick's wife to use her as a Human Sacrifice, and after she is stabbed, Bobby taunts Nick that a human sacrifice for the staff doesn't necessarily need to be Nick's wife. It was revealed that Bobby did all of this so that he could slake his personal amusement.
  • Rise of the Damned prequel: Astaroth, aka Otis Clairborne, is the sadistic right hand to Satan himself. Desiring a dominion of his own, Astaroth found a weak spot in the barrier of Hell and painfully killed and possessed a miner. Astaroth recruits numerous Deados and takes over a nearby town. Having dozens of people captured and forced to work in the caves. Astaroth intends to break through the weak spot and unleash the spirits of Hell to kill and possess all of humanity, turning the Earth into a 10th circle of Hell he could rule. Astaroth kills one of the Deados to ensure the others' loyalty, and his mining of the weak spot releases Deadly Gas that endangers those left in town, including children. Capturing Roy Pulsipher and Jeanna, Astaroth plans to throw them in the gateway and let them burn for all eternity.
• Rise: Blood Hunter: Bishop is the hedonistic leader of a vampire cult that operates with the habit of killing and raping innocent women. When reporter Sadie Blake investigates his activity, Bishop responds by killing two of her friends and presenting one of their severed heads, before raping and slowly murdering Sadie. When Sadie awakens as a vampire, she teams up with a benevolent vampire master that Bishop previously usurped, while Bishop continues picking off innocent women. Hiding out in a blood harvesting farm, Bishop is revealed to have turned an innocent teenager named Tricia into a vampiric monster like he is. When Sadie confronts him, he has her stripped naked and slowly drained of blood before trying to leave her to her fate.
• The Rite: Ba'al, notably cruel and petty, is a high-ranking demon who is responsible for a string of possessions and attacks in Vatican City. Initially, Ba'al possesses and torments a pregnant teenager named Rosaria, and her baby; he would even claim that he possessed her father, having him rape and impregnate her in the first place. Having a fixation on the seminarian Michael Kovak, Ba'al relentlessly mocks him for the misery in his life, having Michael's father killed by a fatal stroke, before seemingly taking his soul to Hell and having him call his son from there. Ba'al eventually kills Rosaria and her baby, using the exorcist Father Lucas Trevant's guilt and failure to possess him. Ba'al also claims that he and his fellow demons are responsible for the torment and death of Angelina's brother, before trying to force Michael to submit to possession himself.
• The Ritual Killer (2023): M'Gushu Randoku is a sangoma, an African Witch Doctor who serves as an assassin. He kills his target and mutilates them, harvesting their organs as "Muti", or medicine to sell to his clients, believing that it brings them power and knowledge. Randoku has killed several young women throughout Rome this way; upon being found out by the police, he kills a few of them and escapes to Mississippi where he continues his killing spree, killing a teenage girl and 10-year-old boy, as well as an innocent old man who happened to witness him. Randoku kidnaps and almost kills another teenage girl before being stopped and killed by Dr. Mackles.
• River of Death (1989): Wolfgang Manteuffel is an amoral Nazi researcher with grandiose plans of a new Reich borne at his hand. In the dying days of World War II, Wolfgang is confronted by a local Nazi captain disgusted with Wolfgang's horrible experiments on the camp's POWs. Wolfgang coldly shoots the captain dead in full view of the man's daughter once he refuses to stand down, and shortly after cripples his own associate Heinrich Spaatz and leaves him for dead not moments after giving Heinrich his father's ring to profess his feelings for him. Twenty years later, Wolfgang is no less of a monster, conducting torturous experiments on local Amazonian tribe members with a virus and leading to their painful deaths. Wolfgang's ultimate plan is to unleash his virus worldwide to eliminate any people he deems not part of the perfect Aryan race, murdering the daughter of the captain he killed years ago moments before his own demise. Only capable of extending hollow amicability to people he deems useful before discarding them at his own whim, Wolfgang is a cold sociopath even by the standards of the Nazi regime.
• Road Games: The unnamed Serial Killer, aka "Smith" or "Jones", is a silent, cannibalistic murderer who travels Australia taking in prostitutes and murdering them after having sex with them. Having killed over 20 women by the start of the story, once the killer notices trucker Quid hunting him down, he kidnaps Pamela and later tries to have him framed for his murders. Getting the last laugh, he places two skinned human corpses in Quid's meat truck to be ground into burger meat.
• Road to Perdition: Harlen Maguire is a sleazy nightcrawler and mob hitman who enjoys photographing his own killings. Introduced smothering a stabbing victim to death when he realizes the man is alive and disrupting his camera shot, Maguire hangs the picture up alongside many others, signifying more of his victims. Hired by the Rooney family to hunt down and kill Michael Sullivan and his son, Maguire tries to see the job through, with cheerful delight at getting to kill the legendary Sullivan and his child. During his hunt for them, Maguire kills a policeman for distracting him and a mob banker just for being in his way, and ultimately knocks off Sullivan's sister-in-law and her husband to ambush and kill Sullivan, nearly claiming his son's life, too.
• Robin Hood films:
  • Prince of Thieves: Sheriff George of Nottingham is trying to usurp the throne of England from Richard the Lionheart. He tries to convince Robin's father to join him, and kills him when he refuses. He then trumps up charges of Devil worship so he can seize Locksley as his own, has a castellan's eyes put out for doubting the charges, and becomes a cruel despot who has children killed for hunting on his land and sexually exploits women. When Robin first defies the Sheriff, he threatens to Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon. The Sheriff then gives Guy of Gisborne a fortnight to capture Robin Hood, and runs him through with a sword when he fails. After that, the Sheriff attacks the Merry Men's village and takes captives, including children, whom he threatens to hang if Maid Marian doesn't marry him. On their wedding day, the Sheriff decides to hang some of them anyways, starting with a kid, before Robin rescues them all. The Sheriff then tries to force himself on Marian as the Bishop is saying the wedding vows.
  • 2010 film: Sir Godfrey is a cruel, sadistic knight. Originally the closest friend of Prince John, Godfrey betrays him and his entire country for personal gain, selling them out to King Philip of France to reconquer as long as he himself profits. Godfrey ambushes and murders several knights in an attempt to assassinate King Richard, before using his friendship with John to get himself appointed to collect taxes from English villages. After having French soldiers kill and impersonate the knights under his command, Godfrey leads them in slaughtering several villages, hoping to incite a revolt against John so the French can invade. When he attacks Nottingham, Godfrey locks the people inside of a burning building and confronts Sir Walter Locksley, taunting him about his dead son and tormenting the old man before brutally killing him when Walter lands a small blow.
  • 2018 film: The Sheriff of Nottingham serves as The Heavy for the Cardinal in a conspiracy to overthrow the king and rule England through the Church. The Sheriff uses his power to force men into fighting The Crusades, then seizes all of their belongings, including Robin of Locksley's manor. He also taxes the citizens of Nottingham, saying they are donations for the war effort, only to use it to fuel his greed. He forces many of the citizens to work and pay their debts in the mines, where they starve and die. After Robin Hood begins to steal and make a fool out of him, he brings in his Crusaders, led by the sadistic Gisbourne, and has him burn the mines to try and find Robin and has his mentor and friend John captured and tortured, at which point the mocks his dead son. When Robin surrenders to save more lives, the Sheriff threatens to drown Robin in his own piss and have his Love Interest Marian sent to Arabia to be raped over and over again, and when John is about to hang him, the Sheriff pathetically begs for his life. A cruel, greedy and utterly depraved sociopath, The Sheriff of Nottingham in this film is one of the most twisted versions of the character to date.
  • The Rebellion: The wicked Sheriff of Nottingham oppresses and murders the people at will, introducing himself by threatening a family for the whereabouts of Maid Marian, gutting the father and threatening the lives of the kids. Later seen raping a woman, the Sheriff threatens to feed her eyes to pigs if she should fail to please him. Dedicated to killing and torturing Robin Hood and his friends, the Sheriff kills multiple people around them, including their ally Much, before trying to kill Robin so he may force Marian into marriage.
• RoboGeisha: Hikaru Kageno and his father Kenzan, the heir and head, respectively, of Kageno Steel Manufacturing, seek to destroy Japan and remake it In Their Own Image. To this end, they kidnap young women and brutally train them to become geisha assassins, converting them into cyborgs and Tengu servants, while forcing those who leave to commit hara-kiri. They send the geishas out to murder whomever gets in their way. When heroine Yoshie plans to take the Kagenos down, Hikaru leads her into a trap that blows her up, forcing her sister Kikue to watch. Hikaru later rewires Kikue into obeying him, removing her memories of Yoshie. The Kagenos later summon an interest group searching for the women to their building, where they proceed to murder all but three members. Desiring to drop a special bomb onto Mt. Fuji to eradicate everyone in Japan, Kenzan has his building transform into a giant robot, murdering everyone in its way. With Kenzan soon perishing, Hikaru decides to carry out the plan, hoping to kill himself along with everyone in Japan, having Yoshie fight her brainwashed sister as a distraction.
• Robot Holocaust: The Dark One caused a nuclear holocaust, killing billions and destroying everywhere except New York City. Controlling the air, the Dark One suffocates any humans who disobey him and becomes enraged when he realizes a scientist has invented a device to allow for people to continue breathing. Capturing the scientist, the Dark One has him tortured and threatens his daughter, trying to learn how he can undo the effects of the device, eventually absorbing the scientist for his disobedience.
• Robot Monster: The Great Guidance is the cruel leader of the Ro-Man Empire, who forcefully forbids that his own people feel any human emotions. Arriving at Earth to eliminate any potential rivals, the Great Guidance sends XJ-2 down to activate a device that destroys countless cities and causes the survivors to go to war, with XJ-2 killing the survivors. Discovering a surviving group, the Great Guidance has XJ-2 try and kill them while occasionally contacting them to show them footage of the Earth's destruction to lower morale, at one point killing two survivors on a rocket ship just to show it to them. When XJ-2 refuses to kill one of them, having developed feelings for her, the Great Guidance kills him and proceeds to destroy Earth himself.
• Robot Ninja (1989):
  • Gody Sanchez is the leader of a gang of punks who prowl the town raping and murdering anybody they please. Encountered by the Robot Ninja, Gody holds a child hostage and accidentally kills him while running away. Happily mutilating Robot Ninja's claw wrist while he's pinned down by her men, Gody later tortures and kills Dr. Goodknight under the impression he was Robot Ninja. Encountering Robot Ninja one final time in the junkyard, Gody runs over a cop patrolling the place before brutally maiming the vigilante until he's near death.
  • Buddy Revelle is Gody's murderous, rape-happy right hand who participates the most in his boss's crime sprees. Upon being encountered by the Robot Ninja, Revelle tries to rape a woman during the commotion, leaving his team to sort out the masked vigilante before becoming Robot Ninja's first kill.
• Robotrix (1991): Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese robot manufacturer who, after getting blacklisted from a sheik's robot legion project, transfers his memories into a powerful android to get revenge. Kidnapping the sheik's son and murdering Detective Selina Lam, Sakamoto holds the prince hostage unless he's brought back onto the sheik's project. Going on a killing and molestation spree in his new body, Sakamoto later drills a hole in the Prince's leg after losing patience, killing Joe's friend Tony the next day. After getting caught, Sakamoto tries to rape Anna and once again kills Selina before making his escape.
• Rob Roy: Archibald "Archie" Cunningham is a seemingly harmless, foppish dandy with a penchant for gambling and a desire to make his way in the world; underneath that is a cunning, heartless and sadistic man stopping at nothing to feed his greed and vanity. Archibald demonstrates his nastier side proving his incredible sword talents and toying with his opponent throughout the fight. Archibald solves his money trouble by ambushing and murdering the man the honorable chief Rob Roy of the MacGregor Clan sent to deliver a sizable amount of money to Cunningham's patron, the Marquise of Montrose, stealing the money and framing Rob as a thief. Archibald leads an attack on Rob's home, slaughtering his friends, and brutally raping his wife, later commenting she was "far sweeter forced than most women are willing." Despite being illegitimate himself and knowing the hardships of such a life, when the chambermaid he seduced is pregnant, Archie mocks and abandons her before, leading to her suicide. When he and Rob finally face in a Duel to the Death Archie once again displays his sadism by slowly inflicting wound after wound and trying to make sure Rob knows he has failed in everything.
• The Rock: Captain Frye and Captain Darrow attempt to extort money by threatening San Francisco with VX nerve gas. While their superior, Brigadier General Francis X. "Frank" Hummel, wants to distribute the money to families of soldiers whose deaths went unrecognized and without compensation, they only want it for themselves and deliberately provoke a massacre of a Navy SEAL team just because they like killing. When it becomes apparent Hummel is bluffing, they act swiftly to remove Hummel from command and eventually kill him while proceeding with the attack. Even when it becomes apparent that they've lost, Frye and Darrow try to launch send a rocket armed with poison gas at San Francisco to kill every civilian they possibly can.
• RocknRolla: Lenny Cole, the premiere crime boss in all of London, will do anything and everything to secure his position and the fear of others. Lenny was a vile stepfather to Johnny Quid, abusing the latter throughout childhood and blaming him for his mother's suicide, something Lenny himself is implied to have been responsible for. A sadist when dealing with targets of his wrath, Lenny enjoys torturing his victims by dunking them into a river and setting vicious crayfish upon them, showcasing this horrid method by having two men tortured and killed in this way even after they've given him info he wanted. Trying to subject the Wild Bunch to the same fate while ordering Johnny and his innocent managers be killed as punishment for the lot messing with his enterprises, Lenny is revealed to be the infamous police informant plaguing the underground, having sold out each and every criminal he's dealt with to years in prison to both save his own neck, and to eliminate rivals.
• Rocktober Blood (1984): John Harper is Billy's homicidal twin brother and a Serial Killer responsible for murdering 25 people prior to Billy's execution after being mistaken for his brother. Returning two years later, John begins stalking Billy's girlfriend, Lynn, pretending to be Billy's ghost in an attempt to make her life a living hell. He also kills people close to her and hides the bodies, with these murders including drowning a girl in a hot tub, and ironing a woman's neck until she dies. Disposing of the tour's lead singer and assuming his position, John eviscerates women onstage; he beheads one and throwing her dismembered head to the audience, viewing this as the "ultimate show".
• Rollercoaster: The bomber, credited as "Young Man", derails a rollercoaster with an explosion and kills all of the riders, children included, and later causes a deadly fire at a dark ride. The bomber threatens to keep causing disasters at amusement parks unless he is paid a million dollars. When he receives the money, but it turns out to be marked, he decides to bomb another rollercoaster anyway as an act of revenge. When the first bomb he tries to use is deactivated, he gets another one to continue. When he is caught, he threatens to detonate the bomb unless the FBI let him go.
• Rome Against Rome (aka War of the Zombies) (1964): Wicked priest Aderbad of the moon goddess has soldiers slaughtered to revive in his legions. Ceremonially having women sacrificed by being burned alive to fuel his magic, Aderbad unleashes his zombies on Roman forces and civilians to add to his army, plotting to turn them against the world itself to kill and dominate all he can.
• Romeo is Bleeding: Mona Demarkov is a vampish, sadistic Femme Fatale who acts primarily based on what would either profit or entertain her. Already possessed of a vast streak of bodies—such as a man she emotionally ruined and drove to suicide—Mona attaches herself to homicide detective Jack Grimaldi and decides to ruin his life for pleasure. Along the way, Mona murders crime boss Nick Gazarra and all of his men; tricks Jack into shooting his own mistress dead; coerces Jack into burying his own boss alive; and eventually frames Jack for all her crimes. Unsatisfied that Jack will be executed in her place, Mona spitefully states she intends to murder Jack's wife next.
• Rome, Open City: Major Bergmann is the chief of The Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of Rome. During his hunt for the Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi, Bergmann, through his assistant Ingrid, bribes Manfredi's ex lover Marina by giving her drugs and fur coats in order to obtain her confession about Manfredi's hideout. After suspecting to having found Manfredi's whereabouts, Bergmann orders a massive roundup where even sick people are dragged out of their houses, which ends up causing the death of the single mother Pina, on the day of her wedding and in front of her little son. After capturing Manfredi, Bergmann has him tortured so to extort him the names of his allies, and forces the partisan-supporting priest Don Pietro to watch the scene. After Manfredi dies from his injures and Marina, seeing his lifeless body, faints, stricken by guilt, Bergmann orders her to be locked and sentences Don Pietro to death. Bergmann represents the fanaticism and the utter cruelty of the Nazis during World War II hidden under a fake image of charisma and affability.
• Rottweiler (2004): Warden Kufard is the man responsible for the eponymous killer Rottweiler. A lascivious, sadistic Spanish warden who takes pleasure in imprisoning, torturing, and murdering illegal immigrants, Kufard murders and rapes the protagonist's girlfriend while gloating "she wasn't even a good fuck!" later on. When his dog is killed, Kufard repurposes it as a soulless robotic killer and has it slaughter countless innocent people. Kufard is also a sex slaver with a well-known proclivity to selling women in brothels; one of his former girls is killed by the Rottweiler.
• Rough Draft (1998): Stefan killed his first victim when they slept together and she laughed at him. Gaining a brutal hatred for women, transwomen and transvestites, Stefan wins their trust before painfully butchering them, where he is caught by journalist Nelson Keece and decides to force Nelson into documenting his crimes before he decides to punish Nelson by murdering his lover and then him.
• Rough Justice (1970): "Crazy" Johnny Laster is a psychotic bandit and shameless Serial Rapist who opens the movie trying to rape a random woman he meets. Allying himself with a conspiracy to kidnap a wealthy heiress and steal her identity to achieve a payday, Johnny kills one random man, later tries to rape their hostage and when she gets the better of him and escapes, he hunts her down and murders her before gunning another man down for questioning him. Johnny continuously proves himself a danger to any man and woman he meets and when his supposed friend's girlfriend helps him escape a trap so he can assist her, Johnny later murders her as well before trying to kill said friend.
• Royal Deceit (aka Prince of Jutland) (1994): Fenge intends to usurp the throne from his effective and noble brother. After murdering any who refuses to follow him in his group of conspirators, Fenge murders his own brother and nephew, seducing his brother's widow to claim her as his own. Trying to murder his remaining nephew Amled, sending him to an ally with instructions to murder him, Fenge ensures Amled must watch his own lover murdered as he departs for nothing but sheer spite.
• Rumpelstiltskin: The titular Rumpelstiltskin is portrayed much more evil than in the fairytale. Lacking a soul, Rumpelstiltskin made a deal with a miller's daughter, spinning hay into gold for her in exchange for her firstborn son, so he could suck out his soul and make it his own. Foiled in his attempt, Rumpelstiltskin is turned into a jade figurine, and freed centuries later to continue his goal. After being inadvertently freed by Shelly Stewart and having sex with her while disguised as her dead husband, he begins targeting her infant son John, killing everyone he comes in contact with along the way. He slaughters an entire police station to get to John in an attempt to steal his soul.
• Run All Night: Andrew Price is a feared, psychopathic assassin hired by Shawn Maguire to kill Jimmy Conlon and his son Michael. Andrew tracks them down to an apartment building where he stabs a cop to death in the neck, killing 5 more along the way in his pursuit for Conlon while callously disregarding potential civilian casualties. Near the climax of the film—despite Shawn having been killed—Andrew hunts the Conlons down to the forest, planning to kill Jimmy's son, with strong implications he will kill the whole family, right down to the children. He had already mortally wounded Jimmy, who manages to kill Andrew before succumbing to his wounds.
• Runaway: Dr. Charles Luther is a genius roboticist and hacker who creates spiderbot assassins, a gun with heat-seeking bullets, and a chip that can turn any regular robot into a weapon; all for sale on the black market to the highest bidder. Luther kills almost everyone he encounters over the course of the movie in increasingly brutal fashion. Additionally, he regularly beats his girlfriend, tries to kill her when she's taken by the police to keep her from talking, and ultimately puts a knife through her skull the second she is returned to him as part of a hostage exchange. His final encounter with Sgt. Jack Ramsay is designed to psychologically torture the cop as much as possible—he kidnaps his son Bobbie, sets up the exchange on top of a high rise to play to Ramsay's acrophobia and vertigo, then releases Bobbie—only to inform Ramsay that his robots are waiting to kill the first person who exits the building.
• The Running Man: Damon Killian, host of The Running Man and head of the network in the dystopian future, runs a TV network where shows are aired that feature innocent people climbing ropes for dollars while vicious dogs lurk below; most of them fall. The star attraction, though, is The Running Man, where supposed criminals are released into a labyrinth to be hunted down by the vicious Stalkers and murdered. Blackmailing hero Ben Richards into playing the game, Damon then forces his friends to play despite his promises otherwise, and when a young woman digs into Richards's past, Killian manufactures a criminal history for her and throws her into the game as well. Even winning the game is no guarantee of safety, as the winners are disposed of while Killian lies about their survival. Sociopathic and indifferent to human suffering, Killian defends himself by claiming that people just love television, and as a TV star, he is giving them the violence they crave, no matter how many lives are ruined or ended.
• Running Scared (2006): Dez and Edele Hansel are a wealthy couple who use their free time to abduct, molest, and murder children. They've converted their spacious apartment into a dual playing ground to distract the children and a killing lair. They've also built an immense child pornography collection out of the victims before they killed them. They kidnap Oleg along with two other children, then tie up Oleg and wrap his head in plastic to suffocate him when he proves too much trouble. Teresa arrives to rescue Oleg and the other two abducted children, and is horrified to discover the couple's killing tools and a cabinet containing dozens of videotapes marked with children's names. As a stand-in for the Witch from Hansel and Gretel, their choice in victims makes them stand out by far as the most depraved villains in a crime-ridden setting.
• Run Sweetheart Run: The ancient Fallen Angel known to the world as "Ethan Sacks" is a vampiric monster that seeks to enforce his own brutal form of patriarchy. With contacts across the city, Ethan has wealthy attorney James Fuller "tithe" him women so Ethan may murder them and erase their entire bloodlines. This is the fate of countless women before he encounters heroine Cherie, with Ethan making a game of his pursuit that if Cherie can survive until sunrise he will let her go. Ethan proceeds to murder anyone in his way with violent relish and full intent to murder Cherie's young daughter once he finally catches her.
• Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins:
  • Takeda Kanryu presents as an affable and successful businessman while hiding his true nature as a brutal drug lord. To keep himself from facing the law, Kanryu has informants murdered and left in the open as a warning to others, and even has his right-hand hitman, Jin-e Udo, massacre a police department. Forcing the goodhearted Megumi Takani to make a new kind of heroin for him, Takada kidnaps and tests it on the drug users of the city, watching with glee as they degrade. Discovering Megumi is hiding at the Kamiya Dojo, Kanryu poisons the surrounding area, willing to kill countless to force Megumi's hand.
  • Jin-e Udo is Kanryu's top killer who serves his boss for the joy of committing murder. Having piled and proudly stood atop a literal mountain of corpses at the Battle of Toba Fushimi, Jin-e goes on to take up hero Himura Kenshin's old blade and happily butchers people in the reformed Kenshin's name for a decade. Delighted to murder all the officers in the station Megumi flees to, even slowly impaling one to savour his death, Jin-e later kidnaps another of Kenshin's allies in the finale, maiming her and even paralyzing her lungs to spite Kenshin before their fight.

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