Sandbox / Monster: Film (C)

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• Cage (1989) & The Arena of Death (1994): Tin Lum Yin is the money-hungry organizer of an illegal fighting ring were combatants regularly beat each other to death and those who can't pay their debts to Yin are murdered. When two debtors bring in Billy Thomas, a giant Vietnam vet with brain damage that left him with the mental age of a child, Yin forces him into 3 fights in a row, hoping that he will die in the cage. When Billy's friend Scott Monroe wins the third match in his place, rather than let them go as promised, Yin orders Billy and his friends, as well as a man he just lost 1 million dollars to, killed. In the sequel, having escaped death, Yin has his agents kidnap Billy and try to kill Scott. Yin makes Billy his new champion and pretends to take care of him in the wake of Scott's supposed death, while actually giving Billy injections to make him more aggressive. His response to learning that said injections will likely kill Billy soon is to raise the cost to view the fights. When Scott and the police show up he runs off, killing his henchman Dr. Wo when he tries to steal his money, then shooting and nearly killing Billy and his Love Interest Mi Lo.
• Caged Fury (1989-1990): Sybil Thorn is the warden of the Honeywell State Prison for Women. In truth an actress in charge of a massive prison set, Sybil partners with a team of pornographers to falsely commit their models to her prison, where they’re raped by her and her guards into submission and auctioned off to potential buyers. Any prisoner who dares to escape her prison are either raped by her guards or murdered. After Kat and company release her prisoners, Sybil orders her guards to murder everybody to ensure no one escapes.
• Caged Heat: Superintendent McQueen is a sadistic warden who rules the prison as a brutal fiefdom. The women in the prison are subject to beatings, starvation, and regular mistreatment for real or imagined offenses, with inhumane conditions being extremely common under her rule. When any step out of line or try to escape, McQueen will have them tortured or subject to a painful lobotomy at the hands of the sadistic Dr. Randolph.
• Caged Heat 3000 (1995): Reitman is the ambitious and sadistic chief-of-security of the asteroid penal colony on which the film takes place. The Dragon-in-Chief to the warden, Reitman tortures and rapes the female prisoners whenever he wants, encouraging the other guards to do the same. Among Reitman's evilest crimes is the use of the coffins, confinement devices that force the victim's mind into a state of helpless hypersensitivity, allowing Reitman and his guards to do whatever they wants to their victims.
• La California (2022): Gualtiero Malagoli is the sleazy owner of a polluting ceramics factory, which he inherited after killing his wife and father-in-law by tampering with their car. Lusting after the twins Ester and Alice ever since the latter were teenagers, Malagoli preys on Ester's emotional fragility after she overhears him letting slip his crimes—which include trafficking cocaine—promising her a huge sum of money to leave the titular town in exchange for a night with him. When Alice shows up at the intended place pretending to be Ester and tries to take the money, Malagoli forces himself on her, revealing to have done so to other women before as this is his only way to get aroused. When his henchman tries to defuse the situation, Malagoli shoots him before strangling Alice and trying to set up the death as a suicide. Willing to do anything to satisfy his lust and greed, Malagoli stands out as a totally corrupt individual that darkens the atmosphere of the while film.
• The Call (2020): Oh Young-sook initially appears to be a woman abused by her adoptive shaman mother, but after help from heroine Seo-yeon in the future in saving her life, Young-sook murders her mother and discovers a joy of murder. Killing an innocent farmer who discovers the killing, Young-sook tries to force Seo-yeon to help her by murdering her father; torturing her as a child with boiling water; and proceeding to kill anyone who gets in her way, surviving to become a prolific serial killer in the present while attempting to murder Seo-yeon's mother and her in both present and past.
• Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014): Sebastian Sudyum is the head of the Church of Starry Wisdom and a madman seeking to end the human race. Desiring to raise the Great Old Ones, Sebastian murders several prostitutes while searching for one with the birthmark of Cthulhu, turning many of them into zombies and gleefully feeding a pimp and his charges to them after getting the information he wants out of them. Sebastian hacks out the tongue of his "old pupil" Edna Curwen while forcing her to watch Riley, his selected prostitute, be violated by Cthulhu himself to bear his apocalyptic spawn. Sebastian murders Edna's protege afterwards, gleeful to give his own life to ensure the end of the world.
• The Calling (2000): Elizabeth Plummer is a refined woman who is also a remorseless Satanist. Seeking to make Dylan St. Clair into The Antichrist to destroy the world, Elizabeth murders her own child in a Satanist ritual, running parties where she also has others who might prove problematic murdered. Manipulating Dylan's mother Kristie into killing him with the help of Satan himself, Elizabeth plans for the world to see Dylan's revival, so he may lead the world to an apocalyptic future.
• Call Of Heroes (2016): Cao Shaolun, the vicious son and second-in-command of the warlord General Cao Ying, uses his position to murder at will. After a career of killing, Shaolun arrives in the town of Pucheng where he murders a young woman, her cousin and a little boy, resulting in the town sentencing him to death. When his father's army arrives, Shaolun taunts his captors with the horrible death that awaits them and even attempts suicide to force them to save him or risk the destruction of the whole town. Upon being freed, Shaolun promptly begins looting the town and slaughtering people at a whim before torturing one of the heroes, vowing to kill everyone in Pucheng and leave him for last. Using his father's name to get out of trouble, Shaolun is a spiteful, sadistic brat who enjoys nothing so much as killing randomly for fun.
• Cannibal Ferox: Mike Logan is an unstable and sadistic drug dealer who fled New York City after stealing $100,000 from The Mafia. When introduced to Gloria, Rudy and Pat, Mike tells of how he and his wounded partner Joe were attacked by the natives while looking for emeralds. In addition to repeated attempts to leave Joe to die, Mike seduces the naive Pat with drugs and encourages her to torture a young native girl, before eventually shooting said girl. Joe soon reveals that during the hunt for emeralds, Mike took the tribe hostage, torturing their guide—-castrating him and cutting out one of his eyes—and killing one of his hostages, and natives are hunting them down in retaliation. Mike later leaves Joe behind to die and steals the group's map and money. When the natives capture them, during Mike's final escape attempt, Mike cuts a rope that Gloria and Pat were trying to climb to leave them to their fates.
• Cannibal Holocaust: Alan Yates is a traveling filmmaker with a sadistic streak. Not above staging events for his documentaries, Yates and his crew embark to South America in search of cannibalistic indigenous tribes. When Jack wounds a Yacumo man, they follow him to his village. Once there, Yates forces the tribe into a single hut and sets it ablaze. Locating the Yanomamo, or Tree People, Yates and his crew take advantage of the fact that the tribe wouldn't attack them lest provoked by partaking in filming themselves gang-raping a helpless Yanamomo woman. When they later learn that she had been impaled—crotch-first— as punishment by the natives, Yates—unfazed by the sight before him—is thrilled by what he had done. He also has no qualms with sacrificing his own crew when it suits him as he shoots Jack so that he could film the vengeful tribe desecrating his body. Xenophobic, sociopathic, and desiring fame above all else, Monroe puts it best when he wonders who were the real cannibals.
• Cannibal Mercenary (1983):
  • Colonel Nikum Promclair is a former ranger turned merciless drug lord in charge of the Kankoom Empire, as well as the leader of the Draculas, an army of cannibalistic soldiers. Hanging anyone who invades his territory, Nikum orders his men to invade a village and kidnap Wilson Manna. Taking Wilson and his men hostage, he has one walk through a line of exploding firecrackers, buries his body, and drives a spike into his head to be fed to his soldiers, later clawing out Namchoke's eyes and having his soldiers feed on him before strapping lit dynamite to Wilson and his remaining troops.
  • Nikum's bald, nameless Co-Dragons, one wearing striped pants, the other wearing a jacket, are a brutal, sadistic duo. Ordered by Nikum to find Wilson and his squad, Striped Pants leads a raid on a village and has his men kill everyone there, with Striped Pants killing a child to lure Wilson out. Taking them back to base, Jacket forces a man to walk through a series of firecrackers exploding under his crotch, later killing Jumpa when she tries to protect Wilson. With Wilson and Bun-yun making an escape, Striped Pants shoots at them, succeeding in killing the already wounded Bun-yun and heavily traumatizing Wilson.
• Cape Fear: Max Cady from both versions Would Hit a Girl…and more:
  • 1962 original: Max is a smug, slimy sociopath who went to jail for rape and returns later to destroy Sam Bowden, a man who testified against him. He kills the family dog, relentlessly stalks the family and destroys those around them, planning to rape Bowden's wife and daughter before he kills them. He also rapes and beats an innocent woman for no reason just as a means of asserting his power over her and Bowden's helplessness to do anything. He's out for nothing but revenge and doesn't care that he deserved to go to jail for what he did.
  • 1991 remake: Max Cady, fourteen years before the film began, brutally raped and savaged a sixteen-year-old girl so horribly that his lawyer Sam Bowden sabotaged his defense. Seeking revenge, Cady poisons the Bowden family dog; stalks Bowden repeatedly to drive him insane; rapes a friend of Bowden's; and later murders his housekeeper and a private investigator. Cady attempts to seduce Bowden's teenage daughter, his plot being to torture Bowden while raping his wife and daughter, all while Bowden is Forced to Watch in Cady's attempt to "teach him loss" in revenge for a prison sentence he richly deserved.
• The Captain:
  • "Captain" Willi Herold starts out as a young German deserter during World War II who finds the suit of a German officer and, exploiting the confusion of fellow deserters and soldiers who assume him to be real authority, steadily shows himself to be just as horrible as the actual Nazi captains he ends up with. Introduced miming himself gunning down a running victim as an early peek of the fantasies in his head, Herold graduates to real murder when he executes a looter to prove his gumption to the soldiers he's rallied, and soon after happens upon an Emslandlager camp, whereupon he swiftly moves to "solve" the dilemma of the overabundant POWs. In five days, Herold murders well over ninety people, having them tortured and gunned down by Private Kipinski en masse while psychologically torturing them himself, even forcing Freytag, the one soldier with a conscience, to kill a wounded soldier himself to break Freytag's spirit. When the camp is bombed to oblivion, Herold walks out of the dust with an utter lack of emotion on his face, briefly taking over a small town by killing its mayor before finally being taken before Germany's court—who decide to give him a second chance based on the sheer, tactical viciousness and lack of empathy he showed while impersonating an officer. Showing the snake he really is by once again deserting at the end, Herold perfectly represents the idea of a nobody who walks into the skin of a monster and gets utterly lost in the role.
  • Private Kipinski is a sadistic drunk who knows Herold is a fraud, but goes along to satisfy his sadism. Showing what kind of man he is by savagely and brutally beating a prisoner to death for no reason, he begins tormenting the other prisoners, mentally and physically torturing them while being Herold's chief executioner, all for the joy of murder. Growing increasingly unhinged, Kipinski relishes death and even delights in tormenting his fellow soldiers, even giving implied threats to Herold himself when he tries to beat one of his own allies.
• Captain Blood (1960): Rinaldo is the sneering, cowardly hatchet-man of the evil English noble Concini. The main man tasked with committing political assassinations for his master, Rinaldo far prefers to stab a man In the Back than confront them in direct battle, dispatching the Marquis of Tyrenac in this manner after having slain his entire family and every living soul within his castle. While his master is done in offscreen, Rinaldo initiates the final battle himself, attempts to massacre a large group of influential nobility and throws a knife into the gut of Concini's Double Agent when she tries to repent.
• The Card Counter (2021): John Gordo, real name John Rodgers, is a psy-ops specialist from the infamously brutal SERE program. Gordo is brought aboard CIA black sites to "reverse-engineer" the methods used to train recruits in the SERE program as actual torture techniques for actual prisoners. Under these parameters, Gordo becomes a government-backed Torture Technician and helps to develop "Advanced Interrogation" techniques, exporting these tortures to places such as Abu Ghraib. Gordo's tortures dehumanize both the prisoners and the soldiers he's in command of, to the point at least one of the latter commits suicide. Despite all his claims of patriotism, Gordo has no problem leaving these soldiers to take the blame when the Abu Ghraib atrocities are leaked. When he's finally confronted, Gordo remorselessly tells an ex-recruit of his that they have to accept their moral responsibility—while, every step of the way, dodging any responsibility of his own.
• The Car: Road to Revenge:
  • James Caddock is an egotistical District Attorney who institutes summary, painful execution for violent offenders and acts as an emotionally abusive boyfriend to Daria. After Talen's gang kills him, Caddock possesses his car and becomes far worse. Running over an innocent worker on his way out of the junkyard, he proceeds to hunt down and kill Talen's gang, starting with only those on Talen's payroll, but soon targeting Detective Rainer when he learns Daria has become involved with him. After being severely damaged, Caddock kills the mechanic who fixed him and runs down several more innocent people on his way to a nightclub that he drives through, killing several patrons in an attempt to kill Rainer. After Daria calls him worthless, Caddock abducts her and tries to kill them both by driving off a cliff, declaring through his radio that she belongs to him. Caddock may have targeted criminals, but his selfishness, pettiness, and total disregard for innocent lives expose him as a sadistic narcissist.
  • Talen, leader of the Night, is the city's premier human trafficker, who has built a cult for himself out of criminals he's cybernetically enhanced. Talen sends his sadistic enforcers—under threat of mutilation—to kill DA Caddock when Caddock gets his hands on a chip that could expose him, resulting in several deaths of innocents and officials alike. When "Cardock" begins killing his men, Talen orders his gang to find Caddock, Caddock's ex-girlfriend Daria, and "anyone who ever smiled at Caddock", offering "full use of merchandise", implied to be the women he traffics, if they succeed. When Talen captures Daria, he attempts to sway her to his brand of violent anarchism and orders her to torture a DA in his pocket that failed him. When Daria escapes, he casually orders her killed, and sets the DA on fire himself on the way out.
• The Card Player (2004): The titular Card Player, a Serial Killer who is also a police officer, kidnaps women and tortures them to death, before sending a recording to the police. He lies that the killings are live, and that the women can be saved if the police beat him in an online poker game. When the police hire a skilled poker player, the killer, realizing that the police would win and, if the woman was still killed, realize that the killings are prerecorded, reluctantly releases the woman before the game, but later kills the player. He lures an officer into a Booby Trap to kill him. Finally, he handcuffs the protagonist to the train tracks to get run over. He appears to have some honor at first, handcuffing himself as well and offering the key to whichever one of them wins a poker game, but when she beats him, he reveals that he has a spare to free himself so he can kill her personally, showing he has no honor at all.
• The Carmilla Movie: Elle Sheridan was a noblewoman who, discovering her lover Carmilla was a vampire, betrayed Carmilla to her mother before her death. Unable to cross into the afterlife with the other sacrifice victims, Elle became resentful of Carmilla and Laura's life, tormenting Laura with nightmares, luring her, Carmilla, and their friends to her mansion. Elle gathers the other ghosts, manipulating them into preparing a ritual that would help them move on, with Carmilla willingly giving up her human life. Elle plans to steal Carmilla's life for her own, and condemning the rest of the spirits back into the hell dimension. When it's pointed out she wasn't the only victim and she's condemning all the others, Elle admits to her jealousy and selfishness, with disdain and indifference for everyone else. Elle picks off the group, trapping them in their nightmarish hell, with Carmilla's being constantly reliving Elle's betrayal. When Laura rescues her friends and the ghosts to prepare the ritual, Elle makes one final attempt to disrupt them, holding a knife to Carmilla's throat. Originally seen as a tragic figure of Carmilla's past and even a benevolent spirit, Elle ended up becoming a dark far cry from her previous self.
• Carnage Park (2016): Wyatt Moss is a deranged survivalist who runs the titular "Carnage Park" where he waylays travelers and passers-by, imprisoning them in the stretch of land he owns while he hunts them at his leisure. When the hostage of a pair of robbers, Vivian, is taken there by accident, Wyatt kills the surviving robber and places Vivian in the park, killing a survivor in front of her while she sees the results of his sadistic hunts and massacres, nobody before Vivian having ever survived Wyatt's hunts. When Wyatt's own brother, the local sheriff, decides he's had enough and is killed by Vivian by accident, Wyatt's only response is hysterical laughter before he resumes trying to murder his quarry, sadistically ranting at her and laughing all the while.
• Carnosaur: Dr. Jane Tiptree from the original is an amoral geneticist seeking to eradicate humanity to return Earth to a series of artificially-engineered dinosaurs. Tiptree, believing humanity to be a "disaster", creates a virus to forcibly impregnate human females with raptors, causing them to give birth to the specimens in a painful and eventually fatal manner. This virus is unleashed on her own subordinates, the surrounding countryside, and eventually herself, with the ultimate goal of this to kill off every human female and starve out the rest of the male population. Tiptree's experiments in breeding raptors lead to one of her specimens prematurely breaking loose and going on a rampage in which dozens are killed, while Tiptree coldly has the father of someone who's daughter was killed by her creations killed off by a tyrannosaur. Though Tiptree is soft-spoken and amicable, ultimately she's little more than an omnicidal misanthrope who seeks to wipe out mankind based on her own delusions.
• The Carpenter: Edward Byrd appears at first to be a charming if brutal repairman who saves the film's lead Alice by slaughtering a would-be rapist. Only after having fallen for him does Alice discover "Ed" is the ghost of an obsessive Serial Killer who haunts his perpetually unfinished house. Stirring Alice to murder, Ed convinces Alice to kill her husband's pregnant mistress with a nail gun, shortly before he personally crushes the husband's head in a vise. Ed even threatens Alice's innocent sister in the climax when she finally starts to bend out of his control.
• Case 39: Lilith "Lily" Sullivan is a demon in the form of a little girl. With the ability to force people to hallucinate their worst fear, Lily sadistically murders those around her for her own amusement. Tricking social worker Emily Jenkins into taking her under her custody, ostensibly to escape her Abusive Parents, Lily takes the opportunity to continue her reign of terror. She manipulates a boy named Diego into killing his parents, and murders her psychiatrist, Douglas. She then targets her incarcerated parents, fatally burning her mother and causing her father to get stabbed in the eye. When a detective catches on to Lily's involvement in the deaths, she tricks him into shooting himself. After Emily makes a failed attempt to kill her, Lily forces her to hallucinate a childhood memory of her mother driving fast in a rainstorm. Upon her defeat, Lily attempts to drag Emily with her to her death.
• The Castle of the Living Dead:
  • Count Drago is a Man of Wealth and Taste with a fascination for the "beauty" inherent in preserving and stuffing animals in an almost-living death. Developing a chemical that instantly kills and paralyzes its victims, Drago turns to serial murder to slake his obsession, building up a room full of dozens of petrified "statues" while killing several members of a circus troupe that visits him, either poisoning them or permitting the sadism of his right-hand Sandro. Drago, lusting over the beauty of the female heroine, shows her his gallery and all her dead friends at gunpoint before attempting to kill her to preserve her forever.
  • Sandro is the right hand of Count Drago. A grinning, sadistic monster of a man, Sandro lures in victims to be killed and embalmed as the "living dead" by his master. Not content with this, Sandro is the chief instrument of death for his depraved master, hunting down the victims and killing them in cruel and inventive ways. Sandro begins to do the same to the hapless troupe, even throwing the one dwarf from a tower when he gets in Sandro's way.
• The Cat and the Canary (1978-1979): Charlie Wilder and his accomplice Dr. Hendricks are a pair of murderers seeking the fortune of Cyrus West. The two proceed to murder the other potential heirs to terrify the prime heir Annabelle, gaslighting everyone to believe in a murderer escaped from Hendricks's asylum and also to make them doubt their sanity. After numerous kills, the two attempt to torture Annabelle to death.
• A Cat in the Brain (1990): Professor Egon Swharz is a psychiatrist who moonlights as a sadistic Serial Killer. With Lucio Fulci as his patient, Swharz takes advantage of Fulci's degrading sanity by hypnotizing him to view himself as a murderer, all so Swharz can savor his pain and use him as a scapegoat for his murders. Killing over seven people with a grin on his face, Swharz makes sure to commit murder close by Fulci to gaslight him into thinking that he killed people, with Swharz even killing his own wife after finding out she cheated on him.
• The Cell 2: The Cusp, Officer Duncan, kidnaps women and tortures them to death, repeatedly reviving them from the brink of death for more torture. His methods include suffocation, electrocution, and cutting out his victims' hearts. All the while, he records their screams and pleas for mercy. Protagonist Maya Casteneda, the only person to survive his torture, was nearly killed by him six times. He is said to have killed 23 women, and he attempts to kill another woman named Penelope, torturing her to near death seven times. He frames the lead cop, Harris, for his crimes, and when he recaptures Maya, he declares that he will torture her so bad that he completely destroys her mind.
• Cellular:
  • Original film: Detective Ethan Greer is the most ruthless of the cabal of crooked cops. Incidentally filmed by realtor Craig Martin brutally beating and executing two rival drug dealers as his boss watches in their latest power play, Ethan has Craig's wife Jessica kidnapped after killing her housekeeper. Beating Jessica and threatening to kill the Martins' young son, Ethan also kidnaps Craig to retrieve the video and opens fire on the young hero Ryan, who is helping the couple within a crowded bank. Preparing to execute the family until Ryan talks him into meeting to exchange the family for the video, Ethan enjoys hunting down Ryan, beating him down before preparing to shoot him dead and kill the Martins. Savage, sadistic, and more than willing to use violence at a moment's notice even against children, Ethan's personal cruelties make him a more vicious adversary than even the leader of the murdering conspiracy underneath his coldblooded, icy exterior.
  • Connected (2008 Hong Kong remake): Inspector Fok Tak-nang leads a group of corrupt Interpol agents, murdering drug dealers to steal their product. Incidentally filmed by college student Roy Wong, Fok captures Roy's sister Grace after breaking into her home and savagely slitting her maid's throat. Setting his eyes on Grace's young daughter, Fok torments Grace, killing Roy's young friend in front of her and kidnaps her daughter, threatening her life as well, and after obtaining the footage of his crimes, prepares to kill everyone who helped Roy to avoid facing repercussions for his misdeeds.
• Cemetery of Terror: Devlon, in life, murdered 17 people, including his parents. After being resurrected, he brutally murders the six teenagers who inadvertently revived him. He proceeds to try and murder five children who enter his home, and creates an army of zombies to prevent them from escaping. He tries to kill Dr. Cardan when he tries to rescue the children, and eventually transfers his soul into Cardan to escape death.
• Chained Heat 2 (1993):
  • Stanley Goff is the secret financier of the brutal Razig Penitentiary, having turned the prison into his own criminal enterprise. Goff has countless women framed and sentenced to his prison, even participating in the trials himself, whereupon the prisoners are forced to partake in drug trafficking and prostitution to line his pockets, while also facing constant physical and sexual abuse from the staff. To get away with his crimes, Goff supplies his judge with plentiful women for him to torture to death.
  • The Judge is an associate in Goff and Warden Kassar's criminal operation. Harboring a fetishistic love of torturing women to death, the Judge promised Goff to keep quiet of his crimes as long as he's allowed to torture his prisoners. Having done this for many years, the Judge slowly kills Tina at a party, and tries to do the same to Carla.
• Chain of Command (1994): Rawlings is a former CIA agent turned corrupt warmonger out to help his far more pragmatic boss Benjamin Brewster seize control of the oil fields of Qumir. Opening with an attack on a military encampment, Rawlings massacres everyone there before hunting down surviving counterterrorism agent Merrill Ross, who he attempts to murder in a crowded hotel with no regard for collateral damage. Intending to start a massive war in Qumir, Rawlings kidnaps Ross's Love Interest, undercover Mossad agent Maya Robenowitz, intending to sexually torture her, just for kicks.
• Chain Reaction: The brutal Lyman Earl Collier has the genius Dr. Alistair murdered, having his generator sabotaged so an explosion wipes out eight entire city blocks of Chicago. Threatening everyone around him with death for the slightest provocation, Lyman is gleeful at the prospect of murdering others, killing Dr. Lu Chen for spite before locking the heroes underground to perish in a massive explosion.
• Chainsaw Cheerleaders (2008): Lucinda is a Wicked Witch from the 16th century with a love of eating organs and sacrificing virgins. Supposedly burned to death after murdering one of her executers, she’s brought to the present day by some loyal summoners, thanking her summoners by murdering one and forcing the other to take her place in the burning. Proceeding to possess Bambi and murder random innocents, Lucinda decides to frame cheerleader Dawn for her murders by killing her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend, later forcing a cop to kill himself. With Dawn and a friend in her grasp, Lucinda ponders on whether or not to kill them, send them to Hell, or possess them.
• Chamber of Horrors (1966): Jason Cravette/Cravatte is a murderer who targets women, introduced having strangled one with her own hair before marrying her in a disturbing necrophiliac ritual. Later caught, Cravette escapes by severing his own hand and returns as Jason Caroll to enact revenge. Working his way down the list, Cravette tortures and kills those who exposed him before, attempting to finally murder hero Anthony Draco at his wax museum.
• Chandu the Magician (1932): The evil Roxor is a black-clad overlord seeking world domination. Capturing the scientist Robert Regent, Roxor threatens his family to have him build a Death Ray, even threatening to sell his daughter to a slave market before trying to murder Robert's family when Robert will not submit. A merciless leader, Roxor has one failed minion's eyes burnt out with hot metal, and when his death ray is completed, Roxor tries to wipe out major cities, gloating in the loss of life he will inflict as "Roxor the God".
• Changeling:
  • Chief James E. Davis is responsible for the entire corruption of the Los Angeles Police Department, enabling the city's crime for profit, while even having the mayor in his pocket. Creating The Gun Squad made up of the most violent officers, Davis encouraged and led a massacre of dozens of people without trials to be murdered on the streets to build up their profits, while sending any women who cause problems to a ward where they are drugged and shocked to keep silent. After having Captain J.J. Jones deal with Christie Collins when she tries to uncover their scandal, Davis attempts to throw Jones under the bus to ensure he's kept safe.
  • Dr. Johnathan Steele runs the ward that the women, including Christie, are sent by the police, where he shows himself to be an unethical sadist. Gaslighting and manipulating the women into thinking they're crazy, Steele has them abused and drugged to keep them submissive and even electrocutes them further, leaving some women brain dead. With Christie the next intended victim, Dr. Steele attempts to get her to sign a waiver confirming she was wrong about the police department and, despite being forced to let the women go, received no further consequences for his actions, and even attempts to force Christie to sign the waiver one final time.
• Chaos (2005): In this pseudo-remake of The Last House on the Left, Eddie "Chaos" Cooper, the leader of a brutal pack of miscreants, commits multiple murders, and rapes a girl with his knife when she tries to escape him. Another girl is tortured, killed and has her corpse violated by him. He later kills several more people in the film's final fight.
• Chaos Walking (2021): David Prentiss is the seemingly reasonable mayor of Prentisstown, who is revealed to be a sexist, egotistical mass murderer. In the past, he grew to distrust the women of Prentisstown because they had no Noise, so he eventually led the men to kill all of them, leaving the town a Childless Dystopia that will eventually die out. When a colonist woman named Viola crashes near Prentisstown, Prentiss seeks to capture her to prevent her from bringing more colonists to New World. Pursuing Todd Hewitt as he protects Viola, Prentiss is uncaring when one of his own citizens and a man from another town are killed in his pursuit. When Todd's father betrays him, Prentiss holds him hostage and kills him when Todd refuses to surrender Viola, before trying to kill Todd.
• Chappie: Vincent Moore is a former soldier turned engineer and the designer of the Moose robot. Envious over Deon Wilson's police Scout robots overshadowing his funding for the Moose, Vincent conspires to sabotage Deon's reputation. After threatening Deon to give up a guard key controlling the Scouts' programming, Vincent tracks down rogue Scout Chappie before cutting off one of his arms and extracting his guard key. Afterwards, Vincent permanently shuts down all of the Scouts in Johannesburg, endangering all the civilians and police officers in the subsequent mass rioting solely so he'll be able to take the credit for rescuing them later. When Vincent's supervisor gives him permission to use the Moose, he tracks down and mercilessly mows down several criminals, not caring that both Chappie and Deon are nearly killed in the ensuing shootout.
• Charlie's Angels trilogy:
  • Full Throttle: Madison Lee is a former Angel who became treacherous and turned rogue because, rather than take orders from Charles "Charlie" Townsend and work with her team, she wanted all the glory for herself. Teaming up with turncoat US Marshal Ray Carter, Madison plots with him to steal the two rings needed to access the HALO list which contains the names of everyone in the Federal Witness Protection Program, and arranges to meet with four different crime families to sell it off to the highest bidder. To obtain the ring that Carter doesn't have, Madison murders the agent who possesses it along with several others. She has volatile mob boss Seamus O'Grady, who has a personal history with Angel Dylan Sanders, released from prison so his gang can not only work for her, but target and murder another witness and then try to kill a second one, teenager Max Petroni. Once Carter arranges for the gangs to meet and gives Madison the rings back, she shoots him dead when he calls her "partner". She shoots and nearly kills Dylan and fellow Angels Natalie Cook and Alex Munday and then near the climax, she blows up the roof they're on and then spitefully tries to escape by throwing a grenade into a crowd of people at a Hollywood premiere.
  • 2019 film: John Bosley is Charlie's close friend and collaborator to the Angels who bitterly becomes an Arms Dealer after being forced to retire instead of taking over the agency. Bosley seeks to possess the energy-saving source Callisto so he can turn it into a biological weapon that can induce fatal seizures, which he plans to sell for his own profit, contacting terrorists and crime syndicates as potential buyers. Bosley hires the cold-blooded assassin Hodak to murder whistleblower and future Angel Elena Houghlin and ends up killing Edgar "Bosley" Dessange instead. Bosley then has Elena's boss Peter Flemming killed for not knowing how to work Callisto and attempts to kill Angels Sabina Wilson and Jane Kano by blowing up the agency; he also nearly kills former Angel Rebekah "Boz" by shooting her; and has Hodak threaten both Elena and Alexander Brock for access to Callisto, threatening Elena's friend and co-worker Langston when she refuses. Bosley then attempts to activate Callisto so he can leave Elena and Langston to die.
• Charlie Says (2018-2019): Charles Manson is a narcissistic cult leader with messianic delusions. Using his charisma to charm impressionable young people into following him, Manson is controlling and possessive, and keeps his "family" in line with regular emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Intending to sic his followers on a record producer who'd previously declined to sign him to a label, Manson instead has them murder the home's new occupants when he learns that the man has moved away. Six people die in this attack, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, followed by two more in an additional attack Manson orders. Manson instructs his followers to make the killings look like hate crimes perpetrated by black people in order to kickstart a race war that would destroy civilization and ultimately see him ruling over black people, whom he sees as being incapable of creating a functioning society. A master manipulator, Manson's hold on his followers is so strong that they remain brainwashed even after being separated from him in prison, and when they eventually realize that Manson's "revolution" was nothing but a sham, they are mentally broken by what they have done.
• The Chase (2017): Na Jung-Hyuk is a vicious Serial Killer who once preyed on elderly citizens before moving on to targeting young women who he would molest then murder. After racking up thirteen confirmed kills, Jung-Hyuk continued his spree after stabbing a detective to death, and escapes without punishment for thirty years. When he is spotted decapitating a woman by a copycat killer, Jung-Hyuk frames him for the crime and later murders him to draw suspicion from himself. Jung-Hyuk's new scheme is to kidnap another young woman who he will paralyze and may keep her as his personal sex and torture toy, hoping to begin their "fun" by first butchering his current wife with a buzzsaw for "being annoying".
• The Chaser: Je Yeong-min, also known as Ji Young-Min or Young-min Jee, is a perverted Serial Killer who murders women to make up for his own impotence. A vicious lunatic even before his killing spree, Young-min brutally assaulted his own child nephew while babysitting him, leaving the boy lobotomized. Once he began to kill, Je tried various murder methods before deciding upon driving a chisel into his victim's skull to simulate sex, and goes on to murder around a dozen women through this method, burying them all in his garden. After attempting the same on Mi-jin, Je butchers an elderly couple who comes snooping around his property looking for a man Young-min is implied to have killed. Though Mi-jin manages to escape him temporarily, Je finds her at a grocery store, at which point he brutally murders both the store manager and Mi-jin with a hammer before decapitating Mi-jin and sticking her head on display in his fish tank. In his final depraved act, Je murders a dog with a shovel to prevent it from digging up his many victims, firmly showing himself to be nothing but a sadistic creep who covers up his insecurities with cruelty.
• Chastity Bites (2013): Elizabeth Bathory murdered numerous virgins in an attempt to obtain eternal youth. Foiled by heroine Leah's ancestor, she returns in modern day to finish her ritual. Having already killed five schoolgirls in another town, she moves to Leah's town to find the last girls needed for her ritual. After murdering several virgins, she poses as an abstinence counselor named Liz Batho at Leah's high school to lure girls to her home to kill. She invites five girls to her home to kill, including Leah's best friend, Katharine. When one of the girls reveals that she isn't a virgin and is of no use to Bathory, Bathory kills her anyway to "avoid loose ends". After Bathory kills the other three girls and Leah and her boyfriend Paul arrive to try and stop her, Bathory decides that she will make Leah watch as she kills Katharine and Paul before torturing her to death, and, when it's pointed out that she's one virgin short, she decides to use her assistant, Ilona, who she had kidnapped from her country and been forcing to work for her for years, promising to let her go when she reached her goal, stating that she never intended to let Ilona go, and was going to kill her when she was no longer needed anyway.
• Cherry Tree (2015): Sissy Young appears at first as a Reasonable Authority Figure to Faith, but in truth is a scheming witch who seeks to supplant her master and rise to power through any means necessary. Coercing Faith into having a baby in exchange for her father Sean's health, she soon makes her true intentions clear when she kills Faith's lover after he impregnates her; threatens to undo her spell that saved Sean; murders Faith's best friend; locks Faith and Sean in a car, which she sets ablaze before taking the baby, with only Faith escaping the fire. At the end, Sissy stabs the baby to death as Faith attempts to rescue him.
• Child Eater (2016): Robert Bowery, the titular child eater, is a blind, sadistic ghoul of questionable origin. Seeking a way to cure his blindness, Bowery would feast on eyeballs, preferring children's because they taste better fresh, while also collecting his victims' teeth. Kidnapping children for over 25+ years, he would bring them to an abandoned school to play hide and seek with them, knowing where they will hide and killing them once he found them. Prior to this, he was a mythical stork who would eat children and babies after pecking their eyeballs out. Taking Lucas Parker from Helen Connolly, he eats her friend Tom's eyeballs while trying to search for Lucas, murders three cops trying to stop him, and kills Helen, her unborn child, and Lucas after eating one of Helen's eyeballs.
• Child of Peach (1987): The Demon King invades the Garden of Magic Peaches right at the start of the film, in order to steal the enchanted golden sword, killing Momotaro's parents, who were keepers of the garden, and causing Momotarō himself to be cast out of Heaven. After obtaining the sword, the Demon King then uses it to release an entire legion of Oni from the depths of Hell to be unleashed into the human world, firstly having them wipe out a fishing village, and then massacre the entire population of Kyoto, with the Demon King abducting the princess forcing her to be his bride as demonstration of his dominance. As the grown-up Momotaro embarks on a quest to stop him, the Demon King has another village destroyed to lure Momotaro and friends into a trap, culminating in the Demon King's ambush, which nearly kills Momotaro in the process.
• Children of the Corn series:
  • He Who Walks Behind the Rows is an ancient demonic being who corrupts the children of Gatlin into murdering their parents and enacting a cult of blood and sacrifice with any follower sacrificed to him when they grow too old, with outsiders also sacrificed. Loyalty means nothing to him, He Who Walks Behind the Rows even claiming his loyal prophet Isaac Chroner. In the sequels, the dark god corrupts more children with mass casualties, attempting to spread the cult global. In Isaac's Return, he incarnates into the body of the first child of Gatlin's children, Gabriel, to seduce and impregnate the heroine with the first of a "new race" with which he intends to replace humanity.
  • First film & Isaac's Return: Isaac Chroner, the prophet of He Who Walks Behind the Rows, is the word and giver of his laws. Swaying the children of Gatlin into killing their parents and setting up a brutal cult where many are sacrificed, Isaac is betrayed by his bloodthirsty subordinate Malachai and ends up in a coma for 19 years. Awakening as a ruthless murderer who freely brags of his own lack of soul, Isaac learns he is a father and intends his son Matt to be the fulfillment of the prophecy for the sake of his own ego and legacy. Isaac restarts the cult, disowning Matt when he cannot complete the sacrifice Isaac carries out, and intends to start the apocalypse, forsaking all loyalty to his monstrous god in favor of believing himself eternal and almighty.
  • Original film: Malachai Boardman is the sadistic right-hand to Isaac. Coordinating the slaughter of Gatlin's adults, Malachai is the one who personally kills his way through any threat or outsiders, cutting the throat of a little boy who tries to escape and pointlessly murdering not only the one adult that Gatlin spared, but his dog too. Malachai eventually betrays and sacrifices Isaac to He Who Walks, disappointed and disillusioned that Isaac doesn't simply kill and kill as much as he can for fun.
• Children of the Night: Czakyr is a Romanian vampire who emigrated to the US and terrorized the town of Allburg in the 1930s. He ended his terror by seemingly killing a bunch of kids and himself, but secretly sealed himself away. In the '90s, he is freed by two teenage girls, whom he repays by turning into vampires. He then proceeds to do this to the entire town before being stopped by Mark. Near the end of the film, it is revealed that Czakyr never killed the children, but instead kept them alive and conscious so he could feed on them.
• Child's Play series: Charles Lee Ray, later known as Chucky, was a notorious Serial Killer when alive, and in death has used Hollywood Voodoo to possess a doll to escape his fate. Chucky proceeds to murder his owner's babysitter because she annoys him, and hunts down, tortures and murders his old voodoo teacher to get information on how to become human again before trying to tear out his ten year old owner's soul and possess him. Throughout the films, Chucky commits many more murders for his own amusement and replaces blanks with real ammo at a military camp war games training solely to enjoy the chaos. Even when the films briefly turned comedic, Chucky remained heartless as ever, murdering his own wife when she tried to leave him, with no remorse. When Curse of Chucky brought the series back to horror, Chucky sends himself to unsuspecting families to destroy them and was revealed, as Charles Lee Ray, to have even stabbed a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances. Despite his sense of humor, Chucky has always remained a sadistic, murderous monster and has only grown worse over time.
• A Child's Voice (2018): Rudolph is the head of a Human Trafficking ring that opens the film kidnapping and murdering young Jacob. To maintain his network's position, Rudolph has rival traffickers tortured and later abducts Tim and Kristy, torturing the latter by driving a knife into her leg and forcing Tim to watch to get information out of him.
• Chinatown: Noah Cross is a seemingly jovial, charming businessman who is working to stop a drought impacting Los Angeles. In truth, however, Cross is a ruthless sociopath who is purposefully enabling the drought to work towards creating fertile land he can sell for real estate. Cross murders anyone who could stand in his way, be it random innocents or his own son-in-law, and is revealed to have ignored serious warnings about the stability of the St. Francis Dam, showing zero remorse for the hundreds left dead when the dam inevitably burst due to his Cross's own greed. The true extent of Cross's evil is put on display as his daughter Evelyn is revealed to have been raped as a teenager by Cross, and in the present, Cross is attempting to get his hands on Evelyn's Child by Rape, Katherine. In the end, after Evelyn is killed, Cross fakes horror at the scene before swiftly dragging Katherine away, planning to use her as Evelyn's replacement for Cross's pleasure. Noah Cross has stood out for decades as one of cinema's most memorable, and depraved, villains, a reputation handily earned.
• A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tree Demoness is a fiendish monster, known as "Old Evil", who enslaves the soul of the heroine Nip after her body is buried near its roots. Using Nip as bait, the demon has her lure in men so it can devour them, sadistically holding their screaming souls in tortured thrall. When Nip finally attempts to help the heroes, her master tries to banish her to hell while attempting to murder the heroes Monk Yin and Scholar Ning.
• Christmas Blood (2017): Santa Claus is presented as a psychopath, out to commit bloody justice. Keeping a list of hundreds of lawbreakers across many towns and villages, each year on Christmas Eve he would kill several people and evade the police, having done this for 13 years. Santa killed 121 people, including a little girl before being apprehended. Escaping prison, where it is heavily implied he killed the guards. Santa sets his sights on the home of one of the ladies on his list, killing several people and police officers along the way. Breaking into the lady's house he attacks the group of college girls, killing all but two of them—including one who was almost a rape victim—before seemingly being shot dead.
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) extended cut: Lord Marshal Zhylaw was once given a prophecy by the air elemental Aereon that a Furyan would one day kill him, so he exterminated their entire race in a "private war" and personally strangled newborn infants. After becoming the holy half-dead Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, Zhylaw continues their genocidal campaigns, wiping out millions of colonists and forcibly converting the survivors. When one man objects to his demands for submission, he rips out his soul to make an example. Discovering that Riddick is the one prophesied to kill him, the Lord Marshal orders his death before trying to bargain with Riddick out of fear. He has Aereon captured to provide him with further revelation, charitably promising to spare her world "for last". During his final fight with Riddick, he also kills Riddick's close friend Kyra. While Zhylaw professes to the Necromonger creed, he was still willing to throw his warrior ideals out the window as soon as he felt truly threatened, prompting Commander Vaako to believe that he was no longer fit to lead them.

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• City Limits: Mister Bolo is the cold-blooded right-hand man of Carver, the Corrupt Corporate Executive responsible for the reconstruction of a post-apocalyptic Baltimore, and with his boss hatches a plot to press-gang the bands of roving bikers that haunt the city as slave labor to speed up the construction. Bolo cuts a deal with one of the two most powerful gangs, the DAs, to help him with this in exchange for not enslaving them too, only for his brutal tortures and executions of helpless prisoners to revolt even them. Bolo's cruelty ultimately climaxes in luring the DAs' chief rivals, the Clippers gang, to a supposed peace conference only to massacre them, and by the end of the film his pointless cruelty has cost him the loyalty of even his own men.
• City of Ember: Mayor Cole is a greedy, gluttonous coward who takes advantage of Ember's declining health for his own gain. Ordering the citizens of Ember to never leave under threat of imprisonment, Cole secretly steals countless amounts of emergency supplies from the storerooms while assuring his constituents that they will be safe when Ember finally faces apocalypse. In truth, Cole plans to abandon every last person to die and hide away with a luxurious bunker of his own design, willing to order the criminalization and arrest of children for trying to expose his deceit and betray even his closest allies to death so long as it assures himself a comfortable life once everyone else is dead.
• City of Life and Death: Second Lieutenant Osamu Ida is the soldier in charge of conquering Nanjing for the Imperial Japanese Army. Under his military command, Nanjing is turned into a slaughterhouse where people are raped, tortured and killed in a variety of sadistic ways, disgusting even John Rabe, a man affiliated with the Nazi Party. After over 500 prisoners are executed en masse and the Nanjing Safety Zone is established, Ida and his men frequently force themselves into the zone to rape more women and children, and uses a collaborator, Mr. Tang, to get information on incapacitated Chinese soldiers, invading the hospital to cowardly execute them when they were unable to fight back; Tang is rewarded by having his daughter thrown out of the window to her death. Promising to call his troops and destroy everything in the zone if Rabe doesn't give him at least a hundred Sex Slaves, his soldiers murder some of the "comfort women" in the process, with Ida personally raping and killing Tang's sister-in-law, later executing Tang himself. Sending Chinese soldiers to execution when they were promised to be spared if they turned themselves, Ida allows civilians to claim at least one prisoner for each after an American missionary interfered, but sent a woman to be gang-raped when she tried to save more people.
• City of the Dead: Elizabeth Selwyn is the leader of a witch coven in the ghost town of Whitewood, Massachusetts. She and her followers offer two sacrifices a year in exchange for immortality. Prior to being burned at the stake, she had sacrificed many victims, including children, and cursed the town to degenerate into Unholy Ground. She sacrifices Nan when she finds the underground tunnel, and then goes after Nan's brother, Dick, her boyfriend, Tom, and acquaintance, Patricia, once they arrive in Whitewood. Selwyn orders the mute servant girl she abused, Lottie, murdered for trying to tell Dick the truth about her. At the film's climax, she takes Patricia away with the intention of sacrificing her, and throws a dagger at Tom's back while he's trying to lift the cross in the graveyard, and he dies shortly after. Leaving her own followers to die at the film's climax, Elizabeth Selwyn is a murderous witch obsessed with her own self-preservation and immortality.
• City of Joy (1992): Ashok Ghatak is a cruel slumlord who shows off his callousness by depriving a farmer named Hazari of his rickshaw license, knowing full well he's condemning the man and his family to starvation. When his father dies, Ashok can't even pretend to be sad and takes over the slums, and immediately starts working out to drive the foreign doctors treating people in the slums, including those suffering from leprosy. To make his point heard, Ashok threatens to murder children, then later on initiates an episode of savage violence against dozens of innocent people, including watching with a smile as a legless leper is set on fire. Ashok also loves cutting Glasgow Grins into people, doing this to an innocent woman the doctors befriend, and later on trying to force Hazari to watch as he cuts another grin into his daughter. When Hazari begs him to stop abusing his people, Ashok retorts that they're his people and he can do as he wants with them.
• The City Of Violence: Jang Pil-Ho is a former childhood friend of the heroes turned ruthless mob boss. With designs on buying up and developing property, he kills his own brother-in-law when he objects to Jang's plans. He shows a willingness to capture, blackmail and torture landowners until they give him what he wants, and when his other old friends find out, Jang has one of them savagely beaten by his men before saying he's too far below Jang to be considered killing. When one man decides to inform on Jang, Jang has him burnt alive in a holding cell.
• Cjamango (1967):
  • El Tigre is a grinning, sadistic bandit who opens the movie, alongside fellow gang leader Don Pablo, massacring a saloon full of people to steal thousands in gold. El Tigre soon betrays Don Pablo and makes away with the gold himself, kick-starting a gang war that kills dozens of people, including an innocent old man. Tigre ends up wiping out Don Pablo and his gang to the last man, and when he learns Cjamango has absconded with his gold, Tigre threatens to blow up a little boy named Manuel with dynamite unless Cjamango gives it back.
  • Don Pablo is a lecherous bandit leader who works with El Tigre to gun down an entire saloon to swipe a load of gold. In a jealous lust for the beautiful Pearl, Pablo burns her husband alive after framing him as a plague carrier. When Pearl's son Manuel was burned while trying to save his dad, Pablo framed the boy as having contracted the plague so he would be ostracized and left to die by the town. Eventually trapping Pearl, Pablo tries to rape her, and though she pulls a gun on him, one of Pablo's minions shoots her In the Back, at which point Pablo leaves her to die. Pablo later kills his right-hand man just to make his own escape from justice go smoother.
• A Classic Horror Story: "Fabrizio" fakes the backstory of a cruel cult to lure in victims, while in fact setting everything up to craft a Snuff Film so he can "direct" it and prove his artistic genius. Fabrizio has his victims tortured, mutilated, and eventually killed, with many lured into the plot so they may be killed on camera, Fabrizio bragging about his genius and how successful his movie will be.
• Class of 1984:
  • Peter Stegman and his gang run Lincoln High School with an iron fist. Even the teachers are understandably scared of him, as he's a brutal sociopath who runs drug and prostitution rings and has kids stabbed for ratting out his criminal activities. After teacher Andy Norris refuses to let Stegman play piano in his band due to Stegman's attitude problems, Stegman makes it his mission to torture him. He attacks Norris's friends, has a lab full of animals skinned alive just to hurt Andy and his fellow teacher friend, and eventually leads a gang rape of Andy's wife before kidnapping her to lure Andy in with the intention of killing them both.
  • Patsy is Stegman's girlfriend and the most involved of his gang. Scouting girls for Stegman's prostitution ring, Patsy is a sexual sadist who enjoys making the drug addicts she finds go through "tryouts" with her male cohorts while she watches. Using Andy's address to allow for the gang to rape his wife, Patsy photographs the assault to taunt Andy, hoping to lure him out to be beaten to death.
• Class of 1999: Dr. Robert "Bob" Forest is the greedy head of Megatech and the creator of the malfunctioning teaching droids. Wanting a multi-billion dollar contract with the Department Of Education Defense, Forrest creates three shoddy education androids, which are in reality military surplus droids with a teaching module inserted in them. When an experimental test run of the droids goes wrong, he refuses to shut down the program, occasionally blaming their victims in the process. When Principal Langford tries to shut the experiment down, Forrest has the droids kill him. When surviving teens confront him in their school, he takes Langford's daughter Christie hostage, gunning down one of the survivors when he tries to stop him.
• The Cleansing Hour:
  • Satan himself masterminded the entirety of the plot. Using Aamon to kill several crew members and torture Max and gain enough viewers, he revealed himself by possessing the corpse of a crew member. With millions of viewers tuning into the show, Satan corrupts them, driving them to murder everyone in their sight all across the globe, with the strong implication that he has initiated The End of the World as We Know It.
  • Aamon, one of the top demons in hell, possesses Lane to enact the Devil's plot. Proving his power by burning a crewman on the show alive and murdering anyone else besides Lane, Drew and "Father" Max, Aamon proceeds to torture them physically and psychologically for the duration of the show so Satan himself may seize a foothold and cause the potential end of the world through countless deaths.
• Cliffhanger: Eric Qualen is a military intelligence officer turned infamous terrorist who is defined by sadistic cruelty. Trying to steal $100 million, killing three agents and one pilot, and casually tossing an injured minion off his plane, he loses three cases full of money and crashes his plane into a mountain. Taking Gabriel "Gabe" Walker and his friend Hal Tucker as hostages to help him find the cases, Qualen tries making Walker freeze to death by removing his coat and plans to kill him once he comes back. Qualen has his men try to murder two teenagers who accidentally stumble upon him, succeeding in killing one and mocking Tucker about it. Qualen coldly shoots his lover and pilot Kristel to ensure that he'll be the only person alive to pilot the helicopter to safety, planning on killing Tucker as well, and later kidnaps Walker's girlfriend Jesse to drop her in the ravines if Walker won't give him the case. When the helicopter hangs on a deep chasm, Qualen attempts to make the helicopter fall to take Walker with him.
• Closet Land: The unnamed interrogator is an ice-cold member of the Secret Police tasked with getting a children's author to admit she put anti-government messages in her stories. Subjecting the author to all sorts of horrific, increasingly painful tortures and psychological mind games to get her to crack, the interrogator is also implied to have molested her as a child.
• Cloud Atlas's "Luisa Rey" story: Bill Smoke is a psychopathic hitman who shows little regret for anything he does. Hired by Lloyd Hooks to kill anyone who knows about his company's nuclear reactor conspiracy, Smoke sets out to murder anybody who gets in his way. He kills a much older Rufus Sixsmith and makes it look like a suicide, and almost kills an unaware Luisa, backing off when she ends up not discovering him. When a man named Isaac Sachs gives Luisa a copy of the nuclear report Sixsmith tried to give her, Smoke kills Sachs by blowing up the plane he's in, along with the people inside it, later attempting to murder Luisa by running her car off a bridge. After discovering that Luisa survived the crash, he tries to murder her again, along with her partner, Joe Napier. Before his death, Smoke shoots an innocent Mexican woman's dog and calls her a "stupid fucking wetback" for not telling him where Luisa and Joe are.
• The Clovehitch Killer: Don Burnside seems a wholesome family man, but is in fact the Clovehitch Killer, who ties up women with a Clovehitch knot, takes pictures as trophies, and then murders the women. Don had stopped years ago, but his son Tyler finds his father's trophies and begins to suspect he is the Killer, along with a girl named Kassi who witnessed the Killer murder her mother. Don begins to get his urges back and assaults another woman, tormenting her, tying her up and trying to murder her as he has so many others. When Tyler intervenes, Don plays the part of a loving father, only to try to emotionlessly murder his son, removing his mask to reveal a remorseless, conscienceless monster underneath the kindly facade.
• Clown: The Cloyne was a clown-like being that ate five children a year for each month of winter. In the present day, it exists as a costume that allows it to possess whoever wears it, forcing the wearers to either decapitate themselves or eat five children. After it possesses Kent McCoy, it forces him to eat a child who bullied his son, Jack, before making him attack a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant and eat two more kids. After it gains complete control over Kent, it tries to use his body to kill his entire family, solely out of petty cruelty. It snaps the neck of Kent's father in law, before trying to eat Jack and tear open the stomach of Kent's wife Meg to eat the fetus of their unborn child.
• The Clown at Midnight (1998-1999): Harlan Caruthers, the owner of an opera house, killed Lorraine Sedgewick after she rejects her advances, framed her lover Lorenzo Orsini for the act, ruining his life, and kept him prisoner in the theatre. Seventeen years later when a group of high school teens comes to clean up the opera house, Caruthers, in order to cover up his crimes, dresses as a clown and sadistically starts brutally killing them one-by-one. When Lorenzo tries to stop him, Caruthers kills him as well by throwing him off a catwalk before making a pass at Kate Williams, actually Lorenzo and Lorraine's daughter, calling her mother a "fool" for having rejected him. After Kate tries to resist him he tries to stab her, showing that his supposed "love" was nothing but obsession and possessiveness.
• Clownface: The titular Clownface is a Serial Killer. At one point, a young boy named Owen witnessed him after one of his killings, so Clownface would start stalking Owen and his family. Eventually, Clownface would kill Owen's father and take his mother, keeping her locked up in a room until she eventually went insane. Clownface would continue killing for a long time, eventually finding Rick and Zoe, killing the former and taking the latter captive. During the film, Clownface kills a man in the woods by skinning their face off and massacres a bunch of people at a party.
• Cobra: The Night Slasher is a psychopathic Serial Killer responsible for terrorizing the streets of Los Angeles at night. He starts the New Order, a nihilistic murder cult of psychopaths so he can indiscriminately kill dozens of victims of whatever background, including children. He prefers to carve up his victims and perform the kills himself to satiate his sadistic nature. He pursues a woman for witnessing one of his murders, and orders his army to lay siege to an upstate town for the sole purpose of killing her. He sees himself as killing off the weak and his movement as heralding the start of a new order where violent killers such as himself rule through terror.
• Code 8: Marcus Sutcliffe is a dapper drug lord and Loan Shark whose specialty, Psyke, is made by extracting the spinal fluid of powered individuals. After one of his drug farms is raided, Marcus recruits Connor Reed in multiple robberies at the behest of his subordinate, Garrett Kent, in order to pay off a debt to the cartel known as the Trust. Nia eventually reveals to Connor that Marcus forced her into a position as a healer. Falsely offering Nia's services under the pretense of having her heal Connor's mother, in exchange for the crew stealing his supply back from the police escort, Marcus has his men turn their guns on the crew and steal the supply back for him, resulting in the deaths of two crew members and four police officers. When Nia confronts Marcus about the others, he threatens her imprisoned father, who is in debt to him.
• Cold Hell (Die Hölle) (2017): Saeed el Hadary is a Serial Killer who targets prostitutes. Believing all Muslim prostitutes are sinners, Saeed would travel around the world kidnapping them before skinning them alive and pouring boiling oil down their throats. After Özge Dogruol stumbles upon Saeed shortly after he killed his eighth victim, he tries to kill her in order to silence any witnesses, and inadvertently kills Özge's cousin, Ranya, during his pursuit. After officer Christian Steiner and his partner Petrovic find out his identity, Saeed stabs Petrovic in the throat and flees, before uncovering Steiner's residence and taking his elderly father and Özge's niece hostage. After finally finding Özge, Saeed ties her up and tries to burn her alive, not caring that she isn't a "sinner" like all his previous victims.
• Cold in July: Freddy Russell, a former member of the Dixie Mafia hiding under the Witness Protection Program, is the son of Ben Russell, and a maker of snuff films. Taking advantage of his protection status, Freddy and his crew take in illegal immigrant prostitutes and film home movies containing footage of them killing them in various sadistic ways, one of which involves brutally beating one up with a baseball bat. Having made dozens of these films, Freddy sells the tapes through the video store he works for. When his father discovers the tapes, he and his friends invade Freddy's headquarters in order to kill him. When Ben and the crew encounter Freddy, Freddy wastes no time trying to kill them, mortally wounding Ben in the process.
• Cold Mountain: Captain Teague is a vicious, opportunistic man who uses the war as an excuse to take the Home Guard in the town of Cold Mountain, formed to defend the people from the war, and turn the group into a marauding band of villains. Under Teague, the Home Guard relentlessly pursue and kill "deserters" and anyone suspected of harboring them, while Teague confiscates their properties for his own. In one instance, Teague has the family patriarch murdered and the wife tortured to lure out her sons before gunning them down. Later, Teague executes a man, who is clearly mentally handicapped, even though he was clearly enjoying his music, and then shoots the man's partner in the back before abducting and torturing the final musician so he'll have an excuse to steal the property of Ada, and take revenge on Ada for rejecting his advances.
• The Collector (2009) and The Collection: The titular Serial Killer breaks into families' homes, turning them into deadly traps and torturing the residents, including the children, before "collecting" one he likes best and taking them for gruesome experiments, abducting Arkin for such a fate. When his crimes are uncovered, it's estimated he's killed hundreds. Opening the sequel, the Collector massacres dozens of partygoers at a dance club with his traps, including a harvesting combine which grinds up numerous victims, and an elevator which crushes many more, kidnapping Elena while Arkin escapes. The Collector sends a hospitalized Arkin a note about coming after his family next. During a rescue mission for Elena, it's revealed the Collector drives his captives to feral madness through extensive torture and drugs; while killing off a group of mercenaries that Arkin led to his hideout, the Collector uses them as attack dogs, before trying to burn down his hideout when the police arrive.
• The Colony (2016): Paul Schäfer, the leader of a German cult that immigrated to Chile, kills anybody who tries to escape their compound via Booby Trap. After his military coup, General Augusto Pinochet contracts Schäfer to use the compound as an extrajudicial prison. Schäfer agrees, and institutes a system of psychological torture and human experimentation on any prisoners he gets a hold of. His cult fares no better, as he works them all day in the hot sun without any water. Meanwhile, he molests their young boys while simultaneously claiming that Sex Is Evil and the genders should be kept separate at all times.
• Color Me Blood Red: Adam Sorg is a ruthless sociopath hell-bent on becoming a world-famous painter. Growing a fondness for the color of human blood, Sorg decides to become a Serial Killer to collect the blood he needs to "bring his art to the next level"; he starts by murdering his girlfriend and painting his masterpiece with her blood. After brutally killing a teenage couple, Sorg lures a girl to his house, planning to murder her, as well as her friends to eliminate any witnesses. When confronted, Sorg coldly attempts to justify his actions by stating that a person is nothing more than an empty shell; when he paints with a person's blood, that person becomes "immortalized". An ambitious narcissist who chooses to abandon his humanity in his quest for fame, Adam Sorg sees nothing wrong with killing others so long as it allows him to stroke his own ego.
• Colossal: Oscar is a childhood friend of Gloria's, getting her a job at his bar and inviting him to his circle of friends. When Gloria discovers she has a giant monster avatar, Oscar's true colors quickly show, from threatening to beat up his friend Joel; ending another friendship in a drunken argument; and mocking Gloria's remorse for the accidental destruction she causes. Oscar discovers he has a mechanical avatar of his own, making himself feel special. Revealing himself to be a controlling and entitled stalker to Gloria, he demonstrates his hold over her by setting off fireworks in his bar to intimidate her ex, gloating that she'll never leave him. When Gloria stand up to him, Oscar beats her down, forcing her to watch as he has his avatar rampage through Seoul, killing hundreds of people; he threatens further rampages for every day that Gloria isn't with him, a threat he attempts to make good on and start off by attempting to crush a child to death.
• The Colossus of Rhodes (1961): Thar, the wicked right hand of the gluttonous King Serse, devotes himself to torturing and killing rebels, burning a ship alive and taking any survivors to be tortured, with one man put in a bell that is beaten so that his eardrums begin bleeding. Thar then pulls off a coup, slaughtering Serse and many innocents before trying to kill all the rebels, intending on a brutal conquest so he can rule all the known world.
• Come and See: The nameless young Obersturmfuhrer is an ice-eyed Nazi who stands out as the most distinguished even in his sadistic SS troop. Descending on a small town with his unit, the Obersturmfuhrer rounds up the entire populace in a church and gives them an ultimatum: any can leave, but they must abandon their children. The Obersturmfuhrer then torches the entire building to the ground with the screaming population still inside; the one woman who attempts to escape with a child is sent off by the Obersturmfuhrer to be gang-raped into insanity after her child is tossed back into the church. When he's finally confronted at the end of a gun, the Obersturmfuhrer defiantly spits that his victims deserved it all and need to be wiped out, even remarking he singled out the children to kill because "problems always start with the kids".
• Commando Leopard (1985): Colonel Silveira is the right-hand of President Homoza, helping to rule an unnamed country through oppression and violence—much of which Silveira dishes out himself. Silveira has his forces slaughter an entire village for cooperating with rebels while trying in earnest to hunt the rebels and the remaining villagers down, torturing those who fall into his hands and burning down an occupied hospital when one of its patients spits on him, heedless of the pleas of one of his own wounded men inside. To turn public sympathy against the rebels, Silveira has a plane full of hundreds of the country's own children destroyed, killing everyone aboard, solely to frame the rebels. When Homoza flees the country, Silveira and his forces start massacring their way through a town to draw the rebels to them, killing the priest who tries to stop him and eventually gunning his way through numerous rebels before he's finally cornered and killed.
• The Commuter: Joanna is a manipulative criminal seeking to kill the teenaged "Prynne" for threatening to expose her corrupt superiors' murder of Prynne's cousin. Stringing along ex-cop Mike MacCauley by bribing the desperate man and threatening his family, Joanna tries to have him locate and then kill Prynne for her. When Mike refuses, Joanna angrily tries to crash the train carrying Prynne and kill everyone on board and when Mike foils this plan, attempts to have another of her pawns execute Prynne and the other passengers before framing Mike for the murders.
• Compound Fracture (2013): William is the boyfriend of Michael Wolffsen's sister, Chloe. An abusive scumbag in life, he often berated Chole and physically abused their son, Brandon, even giving him a compound fracture. One night, Chloe & Brandon leave him to live with her brother and his girlfriend. William broke into their home and stabs Chloe to death, forcing Michael to kill him. Returning as a ghost due to Chloe using a family mark to return after death, William constantly haunts Brandon and continues to harm his son, almost killing him several times. William also gives Michael nightmarish visions of him killing Brandon, Chloe, and Juliette. After he has killed Michael's mother Annabelle, her niece, and two cops, William manages to break Brandon's arm again and thrashes Michael around to a bloody pulp. A man with a sadistic streak, William stops at nothing, even long after death, to keep on killing those closest to him out of malice.
• Con Air: "Johnny 23", real name John Baca, is the slimiest, vilest member of the cons that Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom breaks out to take over the Jailbird. A Serial Rapist who takes his name from the number of victims he's attained, Johnny boasts "they'd call me Johnny 600" if they knew the true depth of his depravity, and proves he's pure evil by twice attempting to rape the one female guard on the plane. Even his fellow murderers give Johnny 23 a wide berth, with Cyrus proclaiming he'll kill Johnny should he attempt anything perverse toward the hostages.
• El Conde (2023): Augusto Pinochet was born in 18th century France as Claude Pinoche, a vampire with full agency over his actions and a penchant for assaulting and killing young women. Faking his death many times to change identity and take part in various reactionary organizations for two centuries, Pinochet would ultimately lead the 1973 US-backed coup, plunging Chile into a brutal dictatorship in which thousands of people were tortured and murdered. After apparently dying in 2006, Pinochet fled to a remote farmhouse, still feeding on human hearts. Despite his attempts at self-pity, Pinochet continuously proves to be the worst element in his corrupt family—whom he's willing to leave destitute so that he alone can enjoy the riches he has stolen during the years—and perfectly encapsulates the worst traits of vampires as a classist, bloodthirsty parasite.
• The Condemned (2007):
  • Ian "Breck" Breckel is a morally bankrupt TV producer who recruits death row inmates to film them mutilate and fight each other to the death and broadcast it over the internet as a reality show. Breckel orchestrated the whole thing, gave weapons to the psychopath McStarley, and obviously placed less value on human life than entertainment and money. During the sickening rape scene of Paco's wife by McStarley, the latter's only expressed concern to his crew is to zoom in to "give the viewers what they want". Breckel shows himself to have absolutely no standards or lines he wouldn't cross, eventually murdering another producer himself when the guy objects to what they're doing.
  • Ewan McStarley is a solider who was on death row for burning down a village and raping, torturing, and murdering its inhabitants. When he's placed in a death match on the island, McStarley happily agrees with the producer to "put on a good show" by doing his usual thing for an audience. McStarley initially teams up with another contestant named Saiga, with whom he attacks Paco and breaks his knee, chains him up, and forces him to watch McStarley beat, rape, stab, and blow up his wife. Then McStarley tracks down the wounded Paco, brutally beats him with Saiga's help, shoots him with an arrow as he lies helpless, then sets him on fire. When they think all other competition is dead, McStarley turns on Saiga just as easily and tries to kill him. Near the end of the movie, McStarley machine-guns the crew of the show, except for Breckel, who escapes the slaughter.
• Confession of Murder (2012): The Serial Killer known only as J begins by killing an innocent woman and then slashing the face of police detective Choi Hyeong-goo before making his escape and ending his killing spree of nearly a dozen women for 15 years. When another man claims credit for J's murders after the statute of limitations expires, J's ego is unable to bear it, so he releases a video showing a murder of Choi's fiancee where he taunted her by having her listening to Choi's voice over the phone before he killed her. J reveals she was pregnant at the time of her death from his raping her and thought it'd spare her, only for J to reveal he hated children more than anything. When he is exposed, J tries to beg forgiveness only to reveal he is mimicking Choi's fiancee's last words before trying to make his escape and kill who gets in his way.
• The Conjuring Universe:
  • Valak ^Appearances The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun, The Nun II is a shapeshifting demonic entity that revels in the murder and corruption of mankind. Once an angel before rebelling against God, Valak formed a unique fixation on Saint Lucy, playing a role in her mutilation and murder before committing itself to the eradication of her bloodline. After being freed by a Satanic duke, Valak proceeds to haunt and eventually massacre the nuns of the Abby of St. Carta, all while taking the guise of a blasphemous nun to mock their faith. Possessing a farmer named Maurice, Valak begins a killing spree of clergy across Europe, purging St. Lucy's lineage before taking its evil to a boarding school, where it murders a teen girl and the school's headmistress out of petty cruelty. After failing to slaughter the students and burn St. Lucy's decedent Irene Palmer alive, Valak is sealed away inside Maurice, but manifests years later and attempts to force him to kill his wife. Desiring revenge after being exorcised by Ed and Lorraine Warren, Valak mentally assaults Lorraine with visions of Ed's death. Later possessing Ronald DeFeo Jr. to committing the mass murder of his family at the Amityville house, Valak then moves on to haunt the Hodgson family, taking control of the innocent spirit of Bill Wilkins to have him terrorize the family and prevent him from moving on into the afterlife. After trying numerous times to kill various members of the Hodgson family, Valak tries to force the youngest girl, Janet, to impale herself in front of her entire family, then tries to force Lorraine to watch as it attempts the same on her husband.
  • Annabelle films: Malthus is a ram-like demon worshiped by the perverse Disciples of the Ram. Desiring a soul, Malthus masquerades as the daughter of the grieving Samuel and Esther Mullins until the ruse was discovered, ending with Malthus gouging out Esther's left eye. Being forced to inhabit Annabelle, Malthus sets its sights on the polio-stricken Janice, and possesses her before gruesomely murdering the Mullins by slicing Esther in half and crucifying her upper body, and contorting Samuel's fingers until they broke in a crude fashion. Compelling Janice into killing her adoptive parents, Malthus threatens to steal the soul of Mia Form's baby daughter unless she forfeits her own. After failing to kill the Warrens in a vehicular accident, Malthus is released by Daniela Rios, and it sends several spirits to kill the girls in order to prevent them from re-locking the Annabelle doll back in her case. When the girls started to get the upper hand, Malthus grabs Judy Warren and nearly tears her soul out of her body.
  • The Conjuring: Bathsheba Sherman is a sadistic Satanist who, having tried and failed to sacrifice her own newborn son before her suicide, shows her devotion to Satan by possessing mothers to murder their own children before forcing their own suicides. Bathsheba torments the most recent family to inhabit her lands until the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren arrive. When Bathsheba's attempts to drive them off fail, she heads to their house and frees a demon trapped in a doll named Annabelle so the two can murder the Warrens' young daughter. When she succeeds in distracting them, Bathsheba possesses the original family's mother to try to murder her own children and tries to drag the mother to death with her while being exorcised.
  • The Devil Made Me Do It: Isla the Occultist, daughter of the priest Kastner, is a witch seeking to avoid her own deserved damnation. Summoning a demon and promising it a soul, Isla has an 8-year-old possessed in agony to corrupt his soul, only failing when the demon is taken into the body of his sister's boyfriend Arne whom Isla uses to commit murder. Having an innocent college girl possessed to murder her friend and kill herself, Isla then attempts to wipe out the Warren family, murdering her own father when he tries to help the Warrens and trying to finish her corruption of Arne by forcing his suicide. Isla then attempts to corrupt Ed Warren to murder his own wife with her demonic patron, intending on damning her victims as a price for her own soul.
• Conspiracy Theory: Dr. Jonas, once the head of MK Ultra, is a psychiatrist who tortures people mentally, having used horrific techniques to break innocent men and turn them into assassins, while other innocents become framed patsies with their lives destroyed. Jonas uses his agents to kill anyone he deems troublesome, including Jerry Fletcher, who balked at one assassination of a judge he befriended whereupon Jonas had the man killed anyways. attempting to torture Jerry and brainwash or kill him and all connected to him, Jonas has continued his actions long after his operation has been shut down only to satisfy his scientific curiosity.
• The Constant Gardener: Sir Bernard Pellegrin is a British diplomat who runs affairs in Africa. In truth a high-ranking member of a nightmarish conspiracy and corrupt to the core, Pellegrin oversees the testing of an unstable drug on numerous innocent civilians that leads to their horrible deaths. Upon the probing of human rights activist Tess and her doctor friend Bluhm, Pellegrin has them murdered. Feigning sympathy for Tess's widower, Pellegrin later has him murdered when he investigates the conspiracy.
• Contracted duology: Brett "BJ" Jaffe is a misanthropic Serial Rapist and a carrier of the zombie virus who seeks to bring about the end of humanity. He seeks out women and violates them, infecting them with the disease and causing them to deteriorate both mentally and physically over the course of three days, after which point they reanimate, and he lets them spread the plague further. BJ is introduced in the first movie giving a woman a spiked drink and raping her, leading to her descent into madness and zombification. Later, he's shown to have claimed many more victims. In Phase II, he infects a prostitute and chain her up in his basement. BJ stalks a witness to one of his rapes, threatening to bring harm to his family and to him. When the witness is hospitalized, BJ straps a bomb to his own chest and tracks him down, threatening to blow up the hospital, and gunning down a few cops, patients, and doctors in the process.
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: The brutish Albert Spica, the titular thief, is a tough mob boss with delusions of grandeur and sophistication who frequents an upscale restaurant, bringing along his abused wife Georgina. Albert shows his nastiness whenever he is even mildly irritated by people: brutally beating them, stabbing a man's innocent wife in the face with a fork and humiliating his own men. When he discovers his wife is having an affair with a kindly, bookish man, Albert viciously tortures a little boy to obtain their location and murders his wife's lover by stuffing the pages of his books down his throat until the poor man suffocates. Albert even threatens Georgina before the murder that he plans to cook and eat her lover.
• Copycat:
  • Peter Foley, obsessed with his own fame and ego, accepts a mission by infamous Serial Killer Daryll Lee Cullum to kill Cullum's arch-nemesis, Dr. Helen Hudson, so as to use the opportunity to make himself a legend. Foley began killing people in ways reminiscent of serial killers of the past, from The Boston Strangler to The Son of Sam, murdering numerous women throughout the film. When the police locate Foley after he killed Helen's best friend, Andy, Foley murders his own wife and tries to blow up dozens of police officers while they search his house. Kidnapping Helen, Foley reenacts her traumatizing experience at the hands of Cullum, hanging her by a noose and killing a police officer, planning to torture her to death. In the end, when an officer gives him the chance to surrender, Foley still attempts to gun her down.
  • Daryll Lee Cullum himself is a sadistic serial killer who was arrested years ago for burning two women alive, and although he tried to get off easy with an Insanity Defense, Cullum was revealed to be totally cognizant by Dr. Helen Hudson's analysis. Enraged at Hudson for exposing his ruse, Cullum escaped custody, killed her police bodyguard, and viciously assaulted her after hanging her from a noose. Still holding a grudge years later even after Hudson was left traumatized by the attack, Cullum is revealed to have been the one who pushed Peter Foley into becoming a serial killer himself, hoping to use him as an agent of vengeance against Hudson with no care to the extra bodies Foley leaves in his wake. Cullum ends the film by shrugging off Foley's defeat and death, going on to draft another of his "disciples" into hunting down and killing Hudson for him.
• Copshop: Anthony Lamb is a psychopathic hitman whose wacky sense of humor highlights his giddy sadism. Tasked by Detective Schier to wipe out Theodore "Teddy" Muretto and potential witnesses at her police station to cover up her corruption, Lamb casually kills every cop in his way in his attempt to kill Teddy. Responsible for killing Teddy's ex-wife and son, Lamb at one point forces his partner Huber to kill a cop because he was his friend, promising to kill them both should he refuse.
• Cornered!: Morty, the seemingly affable deliveryman, turns out to be the Convenience Store Killer, a Serial Killer who breaks into shops after hours and torture-murders everyone still inside them, stealing the security tapes afterward so he can use them to relive his crimes. When the film's protagonists unknowingly discuss how they would deal with the killer right in front of him, an annoyed Morty decides to target them next, slaughtering each of them using the same methods that they had bragged about using against him: eye gouging; stabbing; chainsawing; and decapitation; plus a "bonus" bisection for the vagrant who happened to live behind the store. Before finishing off the shop's last employee, who he force-feeds donuts, Morty reveals that he is motivated by simple contempt and disgust for his victims, who had to pretend to be friends with and listen to day in and day out as they lived and "whined" about their pathetic, irrelevant lives.
• Corpse Mania (1981): Lin Bin is secretly the killer in the guise of a man he murdered in service to brothel owner Madam Lan. Keeping the prostitutes enslaved by murdering those who are on the verge of freedom, Lin Bin violates their corpses and murders bystanders and police alike to keep his crimes secret, but also for the vicious kicks. Enraged at Madam Lan holding out on him, Lin Bin kills her daughter before killing her as well.
• Corridors of Blood (1958):
  • Black Ben is a cruel crime lord out to make his money in the worst ways: using his lodge house as a trap, Ben lures in drunks, the sick and elderly and has them murdered to sell their corpses to science for a profit. Manipulating the kind old doctor Thomas Bolton, Ben reveals he has murdered huge amounts of people with death certificates. Intending on disposing of Bolton as soon as he proves a liability as well, Ben also abandons all his followers and even his wife when the police arrive.
  • Ben's right-hand man, Resurrection Joe, is a key figure in Ben's operation as the chief murderer. Using a pillow, Joe gleefully smothers all the victims to make it appear as if they died naturally. At one point, Joe is seen attempting to rape a waitress at the lodge house and when he accompanies Bolton to gain his notes from the university he works at, Joe coldly murders the night porter after he spots them. At the end, Bolton decides to murder Bolton before escaping the police, enjoying the profits from his murders as well as just the act of killing itself.
• The Corruptor: Henry Lee and Bobby Vu are, respectively, a traitorous member of the Tung Fung Benevolent Alliance and the sadistic leader of the Fukienese Dragons. To take control over Chinatown, the two plot to assassinate Lee's mentor while Lee also corrupts cops to stay above the law. To trick Detective Danny Wallace into trusting him, Lee tips him off to one of their isolated brothels, where it is shown dozens of girls are forced to stay by Vu's enforcers and gruesomely murdered if they try to flee. When Lee betrays Vu to his death in a trap to kill Wallace after discovering he is a federal agent, Vu is found aboard a ship containing hundreds of people the duo intend to use in their trafficking empire.
• Cosmos: War of the Planets: The evil computer has dominated its ancient civilization, with dissent punishable by death. Seeking to expand its rein by forcing the recently arrived earthlings to build it a new device so it may roam the cosmos, destroying and subjugating all it comes across, the computer later possesses a crew member and goes on a killing spree to make sure it kills all the "earthlings" it can.
• Count Dracula (1970): Dracula himself is a bloodsucking fiend as always. An ancient being that has feasted upon the blood of innocents for years, Dracula turns multiple women into his monstrous "brides", feeding them a crying baby in one scene. Draining Jonathan Harker's blood and planning to kill him, Dracula targets Jonathan's lover Mina and her best friend Lucy, turning Lucy into one of his brides and siccing her on a small child to kill. Dracula uses the insane Renfield as his puppet, having driven the man to madness after killing his beloved daughter, and tries to force Renfield to kill Mina for him. After a failed attempt at claiming Mina as his next victim, Dracula tries to destroy Van Helsing and his allies once and for all.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2002):
  • Fernand Mondego is the former friend of Edmond Dantes. In order to marry Edmond's fiancée Mercedes, Fernand frames Edmond for treason, sending him to a hellish prison to suffer and die while murdering the father of the corrupt prosecutor Villefort. Becoming a corrupt wastrel, Fernand kills a man he cuckolded, ruining his wife in the process, while taunting Mercedes over the affair. After being outed for what he is and learning Edmond is the true father of Mercedes's son Albert, Fernand tries to manipulate father and son into a death match to save himself. When cornered by Edmond, he tries to shoot Mercedes out of sheer spite before engaging Edmond, stating he cannot bear to live in a world where Edmond has everything while Fernand has nothing.
  • Armand Dorleac is the sadistic warden of the Chateau d'If. Despite knowing all the prisoners within the prison are innocent, Dorleac subjects them to horrific conditions and mistreats them all regularly, pronounced by torturing and whipping them upon the anniversary of their incarceration, which begins on the first day of their internment. Visiting Edmond every year to torture and flog him, Dorleac mocks the very idea of punishment, once telling Edmond to ask God for help with the taunting promise to "stop the moment he shows up."
• Count Yorga duology: Count Yorga is a vampire who has already turned two women into his vampire brides. After a couple drives him back to his castle, he proceeds to turn the girl, Erica, into his third vampire bride, and murders her boyfriend, Paul, when he tries to intervene. Capturing the female lead, Donna, he transforms her as well, and when the human protagonists, Hayes and Michael, arrive to try and save her, he feeds Hayes to his brides, and kills one of them to distract Michael. In the sequel, The Return of Count Yorga, he transforms numerous women into vampires and kills various people, all while planning to transform/feed on an entire orphanage, and than the whole town. Though he dies, he succeeds in dooming the town by creating an undead army and closing off all escape routes.
• Counter Measures (1998 Direct to Video): Captain Petrov hijacks a nuclear submarine and murders the crew via nerve gas, even stealing a gas mask off one of his comrades when an invaluable crew member loses his own. Petrov then takes American hostages, killing as he wishes with the intent to launch nukes on his own Russian homeland so he can spark a war between Russia and the old Soviet territories to reclaim them and ignite a new Cold War. Petrov destroys an American sub with a hundred sailors on board, and then murders a man who objects to killing their own people and kills the crew member he saved earlier when the man's usefulness is at an end.
• Countess Dracula: Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy is a vain noblewomen who learns blood may restore her youth. Murdering a servant for her blood, Elisabeth slowly begins to murder others while impersonating her daughter Ilona to have an affair with young Captain Toth, blackmailing him into staying her lover and betrothed when he discovers her secret. Steadily abducting and slaughtering more women for her blood, Elisabeth eventually tries even to murder her own daughter for her blood as well.
• The Covenant: Chase Collins is a young warlock descended from the bloodline of a wizard banished from a 17th-century magic covenant for using his powers for evil. When he discovered his abilities, he enjoyed the power rush, and used his father's pain to convince him to kill himself and grant him more. He killed his foster parents in a car accident when they learned too much. He wants to cannibalize the other descendants for their magic to counteract the aging effects of magic use, even when told that it won't work. He puts death spells on their loved ones to get them to grant it, for which he needs verbal consent. He kills other students for kicks. His only motives for his crimes are power and fun.

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• Crackerjack (1994): Ivan Getz is a sadistic former Gestapo officer turned mercenary. Already responsible for the murders of policeman Jack "Crackerjack" Wilde's wife and young children, Getz, looking to fund a new army of Nazis to Take Over the World, leads the hostage takeover of the mountain resort where mob boss Sonny LaRosso is hiding with a stash of diamonds. Relentless in his search for the diamonds, Getz murders the resort's security, kills his inside man in LaRosso's mob, blows up a helicopter and then a cable car full of marines, and executes an innocent man when Wilde interferes with his plans. His ultimate plan is to cover his escape by using explosives to trigger an avalanche, burying over 100 hostages alive. He later shoots Wilde's brother, leaving Wilde alive so he can watch the man die, and kills several of his own men once they outlive their usefulness to him. A calculating psychopath with delusions of grandeur, Ivan Getz proves that he is willing to cross any boundaries to impose his own inhumane vision on the world.
• Crash Dive (1996 Direct to Video): Richter is a vicious terrorist from the former Yugoslavia who takes over a nuclear sub, murdering most of the crew. Intending on wreaking revenge on the United States, Richter intends to nuke Washington, D.C., blowing up a Navy ship when they try to stop him. Imprisoning the surviving crew, Richter decides to let them drown by slowly flooding their chamber, watching with barely restrained sadistic glee before attempting to "test" the nukes by firing one at New York City.
• Craze (1974): Neal Mottram is a murderous antiques dealer making sacrifices to the idol Chuku for wealth and power. Luring in women, Neal murders them in ways ranging from brutal axe murder to burning them alive. Deciding to murder his aunt for her money, Neal scares her to death and proceeds to attempt to kill more women to satisfy his never-ending greed.
• Crazed: Although no villains have any redeeming qualities, the following few are the worst Harbor City has to offer:
  • Damien Logan is the leader of Hector Luna's sex trafficking operation, and Ronan Pierce's Arch-Enemy. Once Ronan's special ops partner during a raid in South America, Logan proceeded to cause carnage for fun, even attempting to rape a young woman. After getting shot by Ronan, Logan survives and plots his revenge. Kidnapping Ronan's wife and having Lukas Lodder rape and kill his daughter, Logan sends DVDs to Ronan bragging about her suffering, with some containing footage of her being tortured, which goes on for seven years. Having his men kidnap and brand numerous women, he sells them to abusive misogynists and the Hell's Gate Hospital to have their organs taken, while also letting Lodder torture them. Planning to take Harbor City as his own, Logan tries to kill Ronan when he arrives to save his wife.
  • Lukas Lodder, the half-brother of Hector Luna, is a psychopathic, pedophilic Mad Artist who takes great pleasure in causing pain and torment. Working with Logan on ruining Ronan Pierce's life, Lodder proceeded to rape and murder his young daughter Sarah, later torturing Ronan's wife for seven years. Kidnapping a girl named Lizzy, he lures Ronan to his hideout to save her, only to knock him out and leave him for dead. Having access to multiple women, he keeps them caged and tortures them to death, calling the corpses "works of art". When Rex Galliger invades his hideout, Lodder tries to have him killed for interrupting his fun. Promising Ronan that he'll rape Lizzy, he brags to him about raping his daughter.
  • The Mad Doctor is a sadistic surgeon who's the leader of an organ harvesting operation where organs are sold for money. In charge of securing Hector Luna's funding, the Doctor has various people, criminals, and sex slaves brought to him, where he and his doctors proceed to wrap them in ceramic wrap and have them injected with a serum that prevents them from moving or screaming, performing the operations while the victim's awake and in pain.
• Creature with the Atom Brain: Frank Buchanan is a gangster who was deported for his crimes. When he returns to the country, he funds experiments to resurrect the dead and uses the zombies as his slaves to kill his prosecutor and his associates who sold him out by beating them to death with their superhuman strength. When two of his victims are placed in protective custody, Buchanan has his zombies go on a killing spree, slaughtering such varied targets as a factory, a train and a school bus before he captures a cop and zombifies him to kill his last two targets. The police finally manage to catch up to Buchanan, so he kills the scientist who made the zombies and orders them to massacre the officers.
• Crepitus: Crepitus is a twisted, child-eating abomination that masquerades as a clown. Targeting children on their 10th birthdays, he takes them down to his Torture Cellar and mutilates them, eating each severed body part one by one before the child dies in order to sustain himself. With a history of depravity that goes back centuries, Crepitus has corrupted his descendants for generations, even sinking to raping his own daughter, Brandi, to father a pair of daughters for him with the intention of eating one and breeding the other to continue his food supply, turning Brandi into an insane, horribly abusive alcoholic and holding her captive in his house, using her to occasionally supply him with cops as snacks. In the end, he murders Brandi and possesses her younger daughter after he disintegrates, then chains down the older daughter to be raped and to continue his feeding cycle.
• Crimes at the Dark House (1940 adaptation of The Woman in White): The nameless Spook taking the identity of "Sir Percival Glyde" is a grinning, cackling madman who murders his namesake by hammering a tent peg into his skull, all to impersonate him and inherit his estate. "Glyde" kills anyone who exposes his secret or so much as inconveniences him, from a corrupt doctor he hangs from a bell rope to the pretty young maid he strangles for wanting to elope with him. "Glyde" takes advantage of his Marital Rape License over his new bride Laurie the second he has her in bed, and even threatens to "break in" her sister as well. To gain Laurie's dowry, "Glyde" murders the mother of a local madwoman named Anne who looks just like Laurie, and passes Laurie as Anne to see her locked for the rest of her life in an asylum, while personally ensuring Anne herself freezes to death.
• Criminal (2016): Xavier Heimdahl, a Spanish industrialist-turned-anarchist, tortures a CIA agent to death so that he can steal a specific computer worm designed by the man's contact to give him access to the world's nuclear codes. Having multiple people killed in pursuit of the codes, Heimdahl tries to hunt down the man with his victim's memories, even taking his victim's wife and daughter hostage. Upon recovering the codes, Heimdahl attempts to launch a missile at said wife and daughter out of spite before he nukes every population center on the planet.
• The Crimson Ghost (1946 Film Serial): The Crimson Ghost—actually Professor Parker—is a vicious skull-faced criminal mastermind hell-bent on obtaining the Cyclotrode, a machine that can short out any electrical device, in order to extort businesses. Using a drug that forces the affected person to obey him and a radio collar that kills the user when anyone who isn't the Ghost removes it, he sends some of his men to grab the Cyclotrode after a demonstration. When this fails, he kidnaps the inventor Dr. Chambers, puts a collar on him, and forces him to get a spare Cyclotrode. When the Cyclotrode's range isn't far enough for the Ghost's liking, he forces Dr. Chambers to make a larger one, threatening to destroy his mind if he refuses. When Chambers dies in a trap he set for the Ghost, the latter decides to use the model he has as a blueprint. Needing money, he heads an armored car robbery, killing two guards. When the Ghost is unable to gain heavy water for the Cyclotrode due to Dr. Duncan Richards shutting off production, he tries to plant a collar on Richards before trying to kill him. Later kidnapping Diana Farnsworth, he orders her to kill him when a fight breaks out in Richards's lab. When this fails, he orders her to tear out the collar. Leading Richard to his base, the Ghost leaves him to die in a fire. Deciding to sell the larger Cyclotrode to a foreign government, he demonstrates its powers by destroying a plane before attempting to send a city into chaos before the machine is destroyed.
• The Crimson Pirate: Baron José Gruda is sent to the island of Cobra to repress the rebellion of El Libre, luring the pirates of Captain Vallo into assisting to result in El Libre's death before betraying the pirates to turn them over for execution. Becoming a tyrant to Cobra, Gruda intends to force El Libre's daughter Consuelo to marry the governor, threatening to kill every civilian if she does not while having an old man brutally flogged to show how serious it is. Gruda then makes even tearing down his edicts punishable by death, having an entire crowd massacred as "accomplices".
• Crocodile 2: Death Swamp: Max is the leader of a gang of trigger-happy bank robbers. After robbing a bank and killing several police officers, Max and his gang board a plane to flee to Mexico. When the pilot is forced to deviate from the flight path, Max and his minions hijack the plane, inadvertently crashing it and killing most of the passengers in the process. Once everyone has recovered, Max forces the survivors to haul his suitcases of money to his destination or else he'll kill them all. When a crocodile starts killing the survivors one by one, Max continues to put the survivors and even his own gang in harm's way, not caring in the slightest as more of them perish. After Sol becomes fed up with Max's schemes and tries to leave, Max shoots him In the Back and leaves him to die. Even with a crocodile terrorizing the survivors, Max shows that he's an even bigger threat than the actual monster.
• Cross Wars & Cross: Rise of the Villains:
  • Konrad/Conrad is a scientist who works with the immortal viking Gunnar in his goal to eliminate all life on Earth. Building a machine that will wipe out every living organism in the universe, Conrad tests it on his two girlfriends by tricking them both into getting disintegrated. Leaving Gunnar to his fate at the hands of Cross, Conrad returns to assist Muerte in his plan to hold L.A. hostage for $2 billion, creating a bomb for him with the promise of nothing remaining but a few cops and cockroaches.
  • Muerte is a villainous gangster who hopes to control all of L.A.'s criminal underworld. Willing to allow his goons to be killed, Muerte forces a gang to work for him by killing their strongest member, having them eliminate every other gang in town to lessen the competition. Handing Callan's girlfriend Riley over to Gunnar to help him wipe out all life in the universe, Muerte returns to hold downtown L.A. hostage with a plutonium bomb, threatening to activate it and wipe out millions if he doesn't get $2 billion.
  • Rise of the Villains only: Drago is a criminal hired by Muerte to assist him in his plan to hold L.A. hostage. Able to wield the Red Amulet, Drago uses it to kill a bunch of people to acquire the plutonium needed for Muerte's bomb. Killing Callan's new girlfriend Sloane's squad to send a message to Team Cross, Drago kills Sloane himself on a video call to Callan, promising to do the same to her sister if Callan doesn't show up for a fight. Drago also reveals to hold a plutonium bomb of his own, threatening to blow up L.A. for kicks.
• Cruiser (2016): The titular "Cruiser" is a religious fanatic who believes that God Is Evil and gleefully embraces his murderous actions as "God's will". The Cruiser arrives in a small Georgia town and immediately murders a cop to steal his uniform and prowl the streets for further victims. After kidnapping an innocent woman named Tara, the Cruiser forces her to watch as he shoots a man in the head; butchers two teenagers; terrorizes and humiliates a group of kids; and uses a hatchet and pistol to slaughter an entire convenience store of people. The Cruiser wipes out the police squad sent to stop him, and then murders Tara and vanishes into the night to continue his spree across the country.
• Crush the Skull (2015): The Killer is a Serial Killer who kidnaps women and either tortures them or films himself killing them, having done so for decades. Imprisoning a child named Mary in his basement and killing her mother in front of her, he adopts her, renames her Vivian, and has her assist in his murders. Designing his basement as a torture maze, he kills anybody who breaks into his house. Once Blair, Ollie, Connor, and Riley sneak into his place, he tries to kill them, later managing to decapitate Riley. When Sheriff Dennis comes over to investigate, the Killer tries to pin the blame on Ollie and Blair, then stabs the sheriff to death alongside Vivian.
• The Cry of the Children: The unnamed mill owner profits on the suffering of those he forces to work for poverty-level wages in his brutal textile mill while he and his wife lavish, exploiting in particular brutal child labor and working all of his employees to the point of starvation and disease. When his workers go on strike, the mill owner waits them out until they've been starved to a point where they're forced to return to work, and, after failing to convince the family of one child to hand him over their child Alice for his wife's pleasure, sees her worked to death in his factory. An early example of a film CM, the mill owner was and is a poignant reminder of the very real evils of child labor.
• Cthulhu: Reverend Marsh is the current leader of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and a man awash in his own fanaticism. The father of professor Russell Marsh, Reverend Marsh presides over the Order's secretive machinations through the town of Rivermouth, kidnapping dozens of children and sacrificing them en masse to the Deep Ones. Heavily hinted to have murdered his own wife once she tried to steer Russ away from Marsh's plot, Marsh has a blind child raped, murdered, and nailed to a house once he defies the Order's contro,l and orchestrates his own son's rape to birth him an heir in preparation for the coming apocalypse as the world is swallowed by the sea. After gunning down Rivermouth's sheriff and his partner and showing Russ his eldritch child, Marsh ends the film goading his son to succeed him by having Russ murder his lover Mike as the Order succeeds in awakening the Deep Ones and dooming the world; it is not revealed if Russ kills Mike or the Reverend.
• Cub (aka Welp): "Stroper" dwells in the woods filled with booby traps. With Kai working as his lackey, the two of them kidnap, torture, and murder any wanderers who enter their domain. When Sam comes across Stroper's horde of bodies in his underground lair, Stroper chases after him, killing one of Sam's counselors before murdering several of the boy scouts accompanying Sam. After he captures Sam and another counselor, Jasmijn, Stroper tries to force Sam to murder her. When Sam and Kai are both knocked into a pit, Stroper makes them fight to the death, which ends with Sam murdering Kai. Later, Stroper and Sam chase after Jasmijn when she tries to escape, and Stroper successfully manipulates Sam into murdering Jasmijn.
• Cube: Quentin, a police officer, is one of several people who are mysteriously trapped inside a giant cubical maze which is composed of smaller cubical rooms, some of which are booby-trapped. He initially presents himself as a levelheaded leader and assists in navigating the group to the maze's outer edge, but is slowly revealed to be a cruel, violent man who proves to be a bigger threat to the group's survival than the deadly maze itself. He drops Holloway to her death merely because he dislikes her, then lies about it to the others. He tries to rape Leaven not soon after. He's stopped in time by Worth, for which Quentin savagely beats him. When the others finally try to leave him behind for what he did, he finds a way back to them at the exit room. He quickly stabs Leaven to death, fatally wounds Worth, and prepares to do the same to the mentally disabled Kazan before he is stopped by the dying Worth.
• Cure: Kunihiko Mamiya is an amnesiac who's obsessed with hypnosis. He goes around hypnotizing people via Hannibal Lecture to commit brutal homicides, all of which feature an X carved into the victims' necks. When the police capture him, he tries to hypnotize Detective Kenichi Takabe, growing obsessed with him after he fails. He eventually escapes, killing a guard and making Takabe's best friend kill himself. This lets him succeed in breaking Takabe, who kills him and becomes his successor.
• A Cure for Wellness: Dr. Heinrich Volmer is a seemingly-kindly doctor running a wellness center in the Alps. In truth, Volmer is a centuries-old baron who survived his own people's attempt at killing him in revenge for murdering so many of them to discover the secret to immortality. Obsessed with blood purity, Volmer raped his sister into submission until she married him. In the present, Volmer uses the center to lure in patients, who are brainwashed and subjected to macabre experiments where a certain breed of eel is inserted into them so that their fluids are filtered out and used for a drug that extends long life. The effects are inevitably fatal, and Volmer has the desiccated corpses fed to the eels after. It is revealed a young woman named Hannah is Volmer's own daughter, and when she reaches puberty physically, Volmer attempts to rape her as well after having subjected the film's hero Lockhart to brainwashing and torture when he tries to find out the truth. When Lockhart interferes, Volmer reveals his true elitist psychopathy and tries to feed Lockhart to the eels, but not before brutally drilling through one of his teeth.
• The Cursed (2021-2022): The nameless Captain, a mercenary in service to landowner Seamus Laurent, is the man who carries out the eradication of the Roma who have the rightful claim to the land that Seamus wants. Leading a full-on slaughter of the Roma men, women, and children, the Captain gleefully has the last leaders tortured, having the matriarch Buried Alive and the last man's limbs sawed off before crucifying him as a scarecrow.
• The Curse of El Charro: El Charro was an Old West land baron known for his cruelty. After a working class woman spurned him, El Charro slaughtered her family and placed a curse on her bloodline before he was himself executed. Waiting in the desert for her family to return, El Charro tormented them with nightmares, causing at least one to be Driven to Suicide. Meanwhile, he keeps the spirits of his victims in a Fate Worse than Death as his slaves, forcing them to carry out his whims despite their constant protests. When El Charro finally gets a victim of his curse to show up in the town, he heads out to kill her and make her his eternal Sex Slave. Anybody who stands in the way is brutally murdered, even if all they did was see him.
• The Curse Of The Wraydons (1946): Philip Wraydon was sent to an asylum for murdering his brother's wife. Later freed and murdering those who can identify him, Philip proceeds to assist the corrupt Squire George Heeningham in spying for Napoleon, hoping to frame his nephew "Springheel" Jack by becoming a Serial Killer, killing a sentry and then numerous women to pin the crime on Jack. Plotting to ruin the Wraydons and send Jack to the gallows, Philip shows he is an enthusiast for torture who eventually tries to kill his own brother via a crushing wall trap, hoping to arrange Bonaparte's invasion so England may be destroyed as punishment for his years in the asylum.
• Curtains: Patti O'Connor is a comedian auditioning for the role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. In order to ensure she wins the role, she decides to murder the other five auditioning actresses. Patti starts by murdering Amanda Teuther, before killing Christie Burns and placing her head in Brooke Parsons toilet to scare her. She proceeds to murder Laurian Summers, and, after killing the director's assistant Matthew for no apparent reason, she pursues and kills Tara DeMillo. After finding out that the director has been murdered by Samantha Sherwood out of revenge for leaving her in an asylum, Patti murders her too. Willing to commit multiple murders to win a role, Patti is a good representation of how far people will go to get what they want.
• Curve (2015): Christian Laughton is a hitchhiking Serial Killer with a taste for tormenting women. Picked up by Mallory Rutledge on an isolated road, Christian tries to abduct her while making graphic and sexual threats, and when Mallory crashes her car off a cliff to avoid Christian, Christian leaves her pinned in her car to slowly rot and die, returning to her on a daily basis to mock her predicament and inhibit her attempts to save herself. Eventually giving Mallory a hacksaw just so she'll saw her own leg off to potentially escape the car, Christian tortures and murders a nearby elderly couple and their son, then takes their granddaughter Katie as a bound hostage, planning to torture and rape her while threatening to sew her mouth shut. Christian then tortures a cop to death with a nail gun, and steals his uniform to begin planning his next scheme to stop a woman's car and kill again.
• Cut (2000): Brad, once an actor in the slasher movie Hot Blooded!, became enraged when he was fired from his role as the movie's villain, Scarman. He kills the director by cutting out her tongue, and almost rapes and kills his co-star Vanessa before she kills him. After his death, he becomes part of a curse on the film, killing anyone who views or tries to finish Hot Blooded! as the villain Scarman. This includes a student director who viewed the work print, and electrocuting the film's producer when he tried to finish the film. When a group of student filmmakers try to complete Hot Blooded!, Brad starts killing everyone involved with the production, from the directors to the projectionist who screened them the work print. When unmasked, Brad mocks those who he is trying to kill, and wastes no time killing two police officers who encounter him. Seemingly destroyed, he survives in another print of the film, ready to kill a theater full of people at the end of the movie.
• Cut and Run: Colonel Brian Horne is a disgraced US soldier and former right-hand of Jim Jones himself, with the indication Horne personally came up with the idea of the Jonestown massacre while fleeing the scene himself. In the present day in Venezuela, Horne indoctrinates a local tribe of savages into a cult while having them come down in a wave of mutilation, rape, and horrific slaughter onto cocaine plantations all across the region with countless dozens killed and ravaged. Horne's ultimate intention is to seize control of the cocaine industry and purge the weak of the world through a wave of terror and dominance.
• Cut, Shoot, Kill (2017):
  • Edward Shipman is the executive producer of director Alabama Chapman's horror films. Obsessed with injecting "realism" into his movies, Shipman has Chapman and his goons murder their actors on camera, and is responsible for the deaths of dozens as a result. In the past, he grew jealous of Chapman's relationship with his lead actress Nicole Heally, and lashed out by raping Nicole, and then having her tortured on camera, culminating in her suicide. He keeps his lackies in line by threatening to expose their activities to the police, believing himself to be untouchable due to his vast fortune. He laughs at footage of the murder of one of his actresses, calling it "great", and later kidnaps another one to be his personal Sex Slave. Despite never killing anyone directly, Edward Shipman is nevertheless an utterly repugnant psychopath with the blood of countless innocents on his hands.
  • Walter stands out as the only one of Chapman's cronies to completely lack any redeeming qualities. Always cast as the deranged killer in Chapman's movies, Walter carries out the murders for the films, torturing and dismembering the hapless actors for fun. He's responsible for torturing Nicole Heally on Edward Shipman's orders, driving her to commit suicide. Going all-out for his feature film debut, Walter stabs Chloe to death; cuts off the limbs of Francis and leaves him to slowly die a torturous death; murders an investigating policeman; and forces Candice to inject herself with a drug of his own invention that turns her into Shipman's personal Sex Slave. When the murder of another actor ends in the death of one of his fellow crew members, Walter is completely indifferent, demonstrating that he has no value for anything other than his own sick enjoyment.
• Cutthroat Island: Douglas "Dawg" Brown is the Black Sheep of the Adams pirate brothers and the captain of the ship Reaper. Each of the four brothers has a piece of a map to a fabulous treasure and Dawg wants it all to himself. The first thing we learn about him is he murdered one brother and has another hostage to murder after he gets his piece of the map. When his brother gives his map to his daughter Morgan, Dawg stops at nothing to kill his niece. He attacks his last brother Mordecai and threatens to run him through if Mordecai doesn't give up the map. When a luckless mook accidentally falls into Mordecai and impales him on Dawg's knife, Dawg kills the man growling that he killed Dawg's brother, though he's only angry Mordecai died before Dawg got the map. He tries to torture Morgan by trying to let an eel eat her face, guns down a crewman when the man complains they're running out of food and stops at no crime short of trying to steal the treasure from Cutthroat Island.
• Cyberjack: Nassim is an criminal and international terrorist described by one character as "an albino lab rat on steroids". When Nassim was a regular crook, he took as a hostage the female partner of cop Nick James, promising to let her go before proceeding to shoot them both when Nick lowers his gun. Nick survives the encounter and becomes a janitor at a computer tech firm several years later. Nassim and his new crew take over the building to steal a developmental super-virus that had earlier caused 47 casualties in a plane crash, killing several security guards in the process. He subsequently shoots both the chairman of the board of directors to demonstrate who's in charge, as well as the father of the project's leading scientist, Dr. Alex Joyce's father, for attempting to destroy the virus, then forces her to finish breaking the code in his stead. He shows multiple times that his threats of killing the hostages aren't idle, casually murdering some of them just to blow off steam. When the police force surrounds the building he uses the laser defense system to kill several cops and later mind-controls a SWAT team to have them turn their guns on their colleagues. He just shrugs off the deaths of any of his men taken out by Nick, ultimately intending to merge himself with the virus so he can brainwash the entire planet at once and become god.
• Cyborg series:
  • Cyborg (1989): Fender Tremolo makes the most of a world After the End where he can do whatever he wants. The leader of a group of vicious marauders called The Pirates, Fender seems to want nothing so much as to wipe out every survivor he can. Fender murdered the girlfriend of hero Gibson Rickenbacker and her son, kidnapping her daughter as a pet and servant. He kills nearly everyone he comes across and takes special delight in tormenting Gibson himself. When he finally captures Gibson, he crucifies him on a mast. While he wants to cure himself of the plague that's infected so many, Fender has no compunction slaughtering everyone else and scenes set before show he was just as evil before the widespread plague hit; he just needed something to set him loose.
  • The Recycler (1994 Direct to Video In Name Only sequel): Anton Lewellyn is a "Recycler", a bounty hunter of Cyborg parts. A sadist who regularly brutalizes prostitutes for fun, Lewellyn hunts down innocent cyborgs, mutilating and killing them before having his partner Jocko murder them. Even worse is that Jocko was a kind protector until Lewellyn captured him and had him brainwashed into a killer just for extra muscle. Lewellyn keeps their eyes as trophies on a necklace he shows off to future victims to taunt them. Upon learning the cyborg Cash is miraculously pregnant and fleeing to the cyborg haven Cyworld, Lewellyn pursues them, raising an army to massacre every cyborg there and cull them for parts to feed his greed and sadism.
• Cyborg Cop: Professor Joachim Kessel is a drug lord who plans to corner the Cyborg market. Killing plenty of people and having their faces removed to be placed on his cyborg assassins, Kessel sells these cyborgs to criminal organizations for hefty profits, uncaring of what they do with them. Killing Phillip Ryan and his men as they storm his base, Kessel has his body converted into a cyborg, planning to kill his brother Jack to sell them both. Preparing to sell a cyborg to a terrorist organization planning to kill their president, even smiling when it kills a man as a demonstration, Kessel later chooses to sell Phillip instead, having him crush the hand of his former captain and snap his neck. Once Jack storms his base, Kessel holds his Love Interest Cathy hostage, promising to kill her if Jack doesn't die first.
• Cyborg Soldier: Dr. Simon Hart is the diabolical creator of the I.S.A.A.C. program. Seeking to create an army of cybernetic warriors alongside his partner Wesley Hall, Hart values his own fame and fortune to such a point that he betrayed and murdered Hall's wife and children before turning Hall himself into the first subject of the program. Hart sought to test the new "Isaac" cyborg's capabilities by slaughtering inmates, and when Isaac escapes captivity, Hart sends his trigger-happy goons to hunt Isaac down and kill any witnesses in their way. After many deaths thanks to his schemes, Hart recaptures Isaac and subjects him to horrible Electric Torture, personally executing his own partner and shooting Isaac's Love Interest in front of him as well. Hart intends to tear out Isaac's mind and turn him into a perfect killing machine, after which Hart will subject countless unwilling people to the ISAAC program to reap the profit of a robot armada.
• Cy Warrior: Colonel Hammer is a ruthless killer who stops at nothing to obtain the runaway Cyborg CB 3. Killing several innocents in his way, Hammer tracks his quarry to a crowded restaurant and opens fire upon the place, massacring multiple people inside with orders to slaughter them all. To lure the now emotional cyborg into a trap, Hammer has a little boy rigged with a bomb, intending to kill him as part of the plan.

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