Sandbox / Monster: Film (M to N)

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• Machete Kills: Luther Voz, the founder and head of Voz Tech—"the world's premier space technology and weapons manufacturer"—first shows up in disguise during an arms deal and kills Machete's Love Interest, ICE Agent Sartana Rivera. He's also given a missile to crazed Mexican revolutionary Marcos Mendez, which is attached to a Dead Man's Switch and which Mendez plans to use to destroy Washington, D.C. Voz claims to "have a Mendez everywhere"—including North Korea and Russia—and plans to have them all fire missiles, as he believes the "world must end in order for a more perfect one to emerge"; Voz plans to take his followers and start said perfect world up in space. While the missiles are stopped, saving millions if not more, Voz manages to escape to space with his supporters; Luz, who's frozen in carbonite; as well as surviving members of the Network, who he plans to use for slave labor, along with the current Mexican migrants who are already slaves.
• The Mad Ghoul (1943): Dr. Alfred Morris, experimenting with his nerve gas, turns his assistant Ted Allison into a ghoul that must subsist on human hearts to remain alive. Allowing him to perform a series of murders, including a journalist who was a potential problem, Morris centers in on his assistant's former fiancée Isabel Lewis, obsessed with forcing her to be his so much that he attempts to have her lover murdered by his ghoul before planning to eliminate the latter.
• The Madman Chronicles (2012): The Video Killer is a Serial Killer who records his murders and posts them online. He is suspected to have killed over 100 people over the course of a year, with the police unable to catch him due to his habit of constantly changing his MO, as well as him always committing the murders when there are no witnesses around. Throughout the film, he murders various people, and kidnaps a girl named Kelly Wells after killing her mother. He locks Kelly up in his basement with another girl named Jennifer Abaid, with it being revealed that he occasionally kidnaps girls and locks them up for long periods of time before killing them. Jennifer states that there were several other women down there, but that he killed them all over time. The killer eventually murders Jennifer, and steals clothing from a home to force Kelly to wear, stabbing an officer in the neck on the way out.
• Mad Max: Fury Road: Immortan Joe is an elderly, sickly, brutal tyrant who has forged a kingdom in the Wasteland. In the prequel comic, it is revealed Joe was a marauder who murdered others for their supplies, enslaving the women and killing the men and children. Upon founding his kingdom, Joe selects people to join it, but forces the women to become breeding slaves so their milk may be harvested, and the men to run along treadmills to power the turbines. Joe indoctrinates the strong young men into the Warboys: drug-addicted cultist fanatics who long to die in his cause. The most beautiful women are kept as Joe's personal sex slaves and forced to bear his children; after three failed attempts at bearing a healthy boy, they find themselves exiled to certain death in the desert wastes. When several of his wives escape, Joe spares no resource to hunt them down and return them, though he is willing to kill one rather than allow her to be rescued, showing that he views them solely as his property.
• The Mad Monster: Dr. Lorenzo Cameron is a medical doctor who was ostracized by his peers for wanting to create werewolves via blood transfusion. Plotting vengeance, he experiments on his gardener Petro to give him lycanthropy. Declaring his experiments a success after his werewolf slaughters a child, Cameron returns to his hometown for revenge. After killing the first professor, Cameron notices that Wolf!Petro is starting to break control. Only not killing Petro due to needing him for the scheme, Cameron orders him to cause a car crash, mortally wounding another of his targets, and later plans to kill three more professors.
• Madhouse (1974): Herbert Flay becomes enraged when Paul Toombes is cast in Dr. Death as the title role over himself. Failing to get the part after killing Toombes's fiancée to cause him a mental breakdown and leave him unable to act, Herbert tries again years later, convincing Toombes to try for the part again in a TV series about Dr. Death. Causing a slew of serial murders based on Dr. Death, Herbert tries to frame and then kill Toombes to take advantage of a clause that he would get the part if anything happened to Toombes.
• Magadheera (aka The Great Warrior): Ranadev Billa is the power-hungry nephew of King Vikram and jealous cousin of Princess Devi, who not only lusts after the princess, but also wants the throne for himself. After Ranadev tries forcing Princess Devi to accept him at knifepoint, only to be caught red-handed by the warrior Kala Bhairava, Ranadev attempts to have Kala Bhairava killed in a chariot race by sending mercenaries to sabotage Bhairava's chances of winning and knocking Bhairava into quicksand. Losing the race and subsequently expelled, Ranadev Billa defects to the rival Shere Khan Empire and personally leads the Shere Khan army to invade, days before the wedding of Kala Bhairava and Princess Devi, with Ranadev personally killing King Vikram and ordering his army to massacre everyone in the palace. Even after Kala Bhairava accepts a challenge to battle a hundred Shere Khan warriors and winning, convincing the Emperor of Shere Khan to withdraw, Ranadev still insists on fighting the badly injured and exhausted Kala Bhairava. When Ranadev ultimately loses the duel, in a last act of spite, he kills Princess Devi with a flung dagger, forcing the lovers Kala Bhairava and Princess Devi to be separated for 400 years.
• Maggie Moore(s) (2023): Kosco is a sadistic hitman contracted by Jay Moore to scare the latter's wife Maggie after she finds out about Jay's criminal activities. Killing Maggie and grinning about it to the panicked Jay, Kosco takes more contracts when Jay comes up with a plot to murder another woman named Maggie Moore to mask his own wife's death as an accidental killing. Dispatching the second Maggie, Kosco goes on to murder a man to frame him as the killer. Posing as a civilian and attacking his interviewing officers when they turn their backs, Kosco shoots the younger of the two policemen dead. Killing Jay in a rage, Kosco takes Jay's neighbor Rita hostage to escape, cruelly gloating to his captive that he will kill her after getting away.
• The Magic Serpent (1966):
  • Daijo Yu{u}ki is the evil ruler of the Omi Kingdom. Previously Lord Ogata Samanosuke's power-hungry general, he organized a raid on the Ogata clan that killed everyone, with Daijo killing Ogata himself. With Ogata's son Ikazuchimaru escaping, Daijo orders Orochimaru to kill him. As ruler, he has women kidnapped from villages to serve as his sex slaves. Finding out that Ikazuchimaru is still alive, he arrives at a village and kills the farmer Zenbei, ordering his men to behead his daughter and young son in front of the village as a lesson for anyone who dares try and help Ikazuchimaru, be it woman or child, before kidnapping Saki to add to his harem. Cornered by Ikazuchimaru, he begs for mercy and tries to kill him.
  • Orochimaru is Daijo's shape shifting second-in-command, and Ikazuchimaru's Arch-Enemy. Assisting in Daijo's raid on the Ogata clan, he murders Lord Ogata's wife and tries to kill the young Ikazuchimaru. Ordered by Daijo to kill his own mentor Dojin Hiki, he poisons and fatally wounds him. Desiring to kill Daijo in order to secure the throne himself, he spreads the news of Ikazuchimaru's arrival so that he can kill and pose as him for when he becomes ruler. Finding out that Tsunade iss his daughter, he takes advantage of her closeness to Ikazuchimaru by ordering her to poison and stab him when he's unconscious, insulting and disowning her when she refuses to do so. Killing Momobe for betraying him, he heads to Ogata castle and tries to kill Ikazuchimaru himself.
• The Magnificent Seven:
  • Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969): Colonel Diego is a mass-murdering Mexican colonel cracking down on revolutionary activity. Diego kills prisoners by the dozens, having them dragged behind running horses until they die, or burying them up to their necks and having their exposed heads trampled by horses. Diego even forces one of the heroes to watch one of these "ceremonies" while promising more and more for each day he doesn't talk.
  • 2016 film: Bartholomew Bogue is a ruthless, amoral industrialist who, seeking to add even more wealth to his criminal empire, takes over the mining town of Rose Creek, murdering the citizens willing to stand up to him. After the titular Seven liberate the town from Bogue's goons and dispatch the dirty sheriff to tell him about it, Bogue, after shooting the sheriff dead, returns in force, sending his mercenary army to destroy the resistance. When the heroes start winning, he has Rose Creek shot up with a Gatling gun, willingly mowing down his own men for a chance to win. Even when alone and on the verge of defeat he remains vile, never straying from his ideology that the weak are to be dominated by the strong.
• The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines: Kamawas was once a proud student of a martial arts school, but since turned to the side of evil after discovering the power of Black Magic and sorcery and how it can make him invincible. Turning all the pupils of the school to join him as killers, with those who oppose him hunted down and killed, Kamawas will establish his own legion of pirates called the "Garuda" (Eagles), where they spend decades terrorizing the straits of Malaysia and Indonesian islands, killing and raping by the hundreds. It was during one of those raids where Kamawas kills the hero Merong's family, turning Merong into a drifter, and in another raid Kamawas rapes Merong's Love Interest Embun before leaving her for the dead, simply for fun. As Merong and the heroes leads a brave final assault on Kamawas's island stronghold, Kamawas personally kills several resistance fighters and takes pleasure in killing Admiral Liu in a long, slow, extensively drawn-out way before ripping out Liu's throat.
• Malignant: Gabriel is a psychopathic, vestigial twin inhabiting the body of Madison "Emily" Lake. After being imprisoned in the back of Madison's mind during an operation, Gabriel subliminally attempts to direct Madison to commit violent acts, including nearly carving her unborn sister Sydney from her adoptive mother's womb. Replenishing himself by feeding on Madison's fetuses—thus being responsible for her miscarriages—Gabriel pilots her body to exact his bloody vengeance, gruesomely killing the doctors responsible for the operation and massacring his way through a police department to accomplish his final act of revenge unopposed. Gabriel kidnaps his birth mother and holds her hostage, and later forces her to watch him gleefully kill Sydney before finishing her off.
• A Man Alone (1955): Clanton is the hired gun of Stanley. When Clanton, together with Stanley's partner, Luke Joiner, robs a stagecoach, Clanton murders all five passengers, including a little girl, to keep them silent. Clanton and Stanley murder Luke after he expresses disgust at what Clanton did, and proceed to lie that Wes Steele is responsible for the stagecoach massacre and Luke's murder. Finally, along with Stanley and his gang, Clanton tries to kill Steele during the climax.
• A Man Called Blade, aka Mannaja (1977): Theo Voller is the right-hand man to mining magnate Ed McGowan, using his position to abuse power and threaten anyone he pleases. Revealed to actually be out for his own power, Voller betrays McGowan and slaughters a stagecoach group to kidnap McGowan's daughter Deborah as a "hostage", truthfully a willing lover and partner to Voller. When the outlaw Blade stands in his way, Voller tortures the man, threatens Angela for information from him, then stabs Angela to death anyway and buries Blade alive after nailing his eyelids open. Voller goes on to ramp up his abuse of the mining community until they demand better treatment, which Voller responds to by having many of them shot dead and using the ensuing massacre as a distraction to murder McGowan and secure his own power.
• The Man from Nowhere:
  • Original film:
    • Jong-seok is the younger brother, and junior partner, of the crime lord Man-seok. While his icy older brother may care for his well-being, Jong-seok only cares about having as good a time as possible. Sent to recover drugs stolen by Jeon So-mi's mother, Jong-seok sadistically tortures her with a blow dryer and then kidnaps the mother and daughter, killing the woman to traffic her organs and having the girl brought into the brothers' drug ring, using children as runners. After he and Man-seok betray their former boss, Jong-seok sends their bloodthirsty mercenary Ramrowan to sadistically murder him and his remaining followers. When a little girl involved in their drug operation passes out, Jong-seok has her dragged off so her organs can be harvested and sold, as they have done to countless others. Jong-seok even uses his last moments alive to brag to Cha Tae-sik about how he has failed So-mi as badly as the Seok brothers have.
    • Oh Sang-man, aka "500", is the Seok brothers' wicked surgeon in their organ trafficking business. Having chosen his moniker to reflect his number of intended victims, 500 cuts up countless men, women, and even children for the Seoks, mocking one little girl for having killed her mother before planning to operate on her as well.
  • Rocky Handsome (2016 Bollywood remake):
    • Luke Ferriera is the brother of Kevin and a ruthless drug dealer who usurps control of the operation from his boss by leaving him to be killed by the hero Kabir Ahlawat, aka Rocky Handsome. Luke, finding that a woman named Anna has stolen their drugs, kidnaps and tortures Anna's young daughter Naomi, before murdering her to feed their other trade, organ harvesting. Luke uses child slaves for his drugs before harvesting them and other innocent people to make money on the Black Market, attempting to harvest little Naomi.
    • The Ferriera brothers' surgeon cuts up still living people for their organ trafficking operation. When the young girl Naomi asks what became of her mother he killed, the surgeon mockingly says she's "with God" before trying to cut out the girl's eyes.
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015): Rudi von Trüsch, known almost entirely as Uncle Rudi, is the uncle of Gaby and secretly an unrepentant Nazi in league with the Vinciguerra crime family. Once a bullied little boy who concluded from his torment that the masters of life were pain and fear, Uncle Rudi put his skills to use in the second World War, using the carnage to torture as many people to death as he could in as many possible ways to document them in his scrapbook. So prolific his name has been mistaken for three different artists, Trudi has no care as to what his employers want, torturing Napoleon Solo purely for the fun of it when he has him in his clutches and cowardly selling off everyone tangentially connected to him when he's captured.
• The Man in the Iron Mask: King Louis XIV himself is a hedonistic brat who lives lavishly in Versailles while his people starve and suffer. Engaging his forces in bloody wars throughout Europe, when Louis lusts after the beautiful Christine, he has her fiancé Raoul sent to die in battle so he may coerce Christine into being his mistress by promising help to her family. Upon ordering rotten food sent to the people, Louis deflects blame by ordering his chief adviser executed for it and then orders the next rioters be shot. Upon the legendary Musketeers trying to replace him with his twin Philippe, Louis attempts to murder them and send Philippe back to the Bastille in his hated iron mask. Knowing it will be a Fate Worse than Death for Philippe, Louis angrily demands he "wear it until you love it" and later accidentally murders Captain D'Artagnan while attempting to murder Philippe when he thinks he's lost.
• Man of Tai Chi: Donaka Mark, a corrupt businessman and violence aficionado who runs an underground fight ring, and sells his audience, not on the fights themselves, but on the chance to watch a good person become a killer. When Chi-Tak, one of his fighters, refuses to kill his defeated opponent, Donaka enters the ring and personally breaks the neck of the loser. He then stabs Chi-Tak to death in the locker room, as his refusal to murder makes him a rat in Donaka's eyes. Discovering Tai Chi specialist Tiger Chen, Donaka convinces the government to sell off his master's temple, to make Tiger desperate for money; he then offers him a job in his fight ring. Placing cameras throughout Tiger's home, Donaka gives his audience the opportunity to watch Tiger's mental disintegration as the fights take their toll on his psyche. When Tiger, driven to the brink, still refuses to kill mercenary Uri Romanoff, Donaka executes Uri. He sends Tiger into another fight, with an Indonesian fighter; when Tiger tries to back out, Donaka gives the Indonesian the kill order. He also sends assassins after Detective Sung Jinshi, when she closes in on his ring. Ultimately found out by the police, Donaka flees and leaves his men in the lurch, only to reappear at Tiger's temple and force him into a Duel to the Death, declaring, "You owe me a life!" When Tiger is forced to kill him, Donaka displays only a sense of satisfaction at having made Tiger a murderer.
• Man of Vendetta (2010): Choi Byeong-chul is a Serial Killer with an affinity for targeting children and appreciating classical music whose sole motive is wanting enough ransom money to buy a rare sound amplifier. Taking advantage of his job as a church acoustics specialist to kidnap Pastor Joo Young-soo's daughter, Hye-rin, Choi raises her for eight years, giving her dirt for lunch and forcing her to chew on rocks. Kidnapping other children, Choi uses Hye-rin to lure another little girl into his car and murders her even after her mother gives him money, keeping mementos from his victims as trophies. When a pair of workers find Hye-rin, Choi brutally murders one with a hatchet and runs over the other in their truck. After finally obtaining the money he needed to buy the sound amplifier, Choi visits its owner and murders him when he refuses to sell it to him, later killing a police detective who was suspicious of him. After Joo discovers where his daughter is being held, Choi tries to strangle Hye-rin to death out of spite.
• The Man Who Saves the World: The Wizard is an evil, immortal sorcerer who deigns to destroy Earth no matter what. The Wizard has enslaved, tortured, and mass-murdered innocents for centuries and seeks a special golden brain to complete his conquest and destruction of the Earth. The Wizard also sustains his immortality in a particularly cruel way: kidnapping children after murdering their parents, then drinking their blood to sustain himself.
• The Man with the Iron Fists 2: This sequel brings us the cruel taskmaster Master Ho, master of the Beetle Clan. Ho rules the village with an iron fist, forcing the people to toil in the silver mines. In his opening scene, when several miners have made complaints about the tools, Ho publicly beheads one. When several assassins try to kill him, Ho uses two members of his harem as human shields before daring the killers to face him in the arena. When they do, Ho just has his soldiers butcher them, and later has a miner murdered who defeated a Beetle Clan member in the ring. When the man's brother tries to challenge Ho, Ho has him stabbed before the match to give himself an advantage. Ho also preys on the village women, selecting young women to join his harem, and even gives some women to the mysterious Lord Pi, who proceeds to drain them of life.
• The Man with the Iron Heart: After being kicked out of the German Navy, Reinhard Heydrich is hired by Heinrich Himmler to join the SS. After the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Heydrich is tasked with annihilating Hitler's enemies in the German political sphere. Having been made Governor of Bohemia-Moravia for his efficiency and competence, Heydrich begins a brutal campaign of war crimes to make his territory the first to exterminate its Jews, ordering the crimes filmed for his later enjoyment. After setting his methods up in the rest of Germany, thus kickstarting The Holocaust, Heydrich works to put down a rebellion against his governance, killing enough resistance fighters to fill up a mass grave and torturing many more.
• Manborg: Count Draculon, the demonic ruler of Hell, seeks to eradicate humanity and replace it with demons. Having been accidentally summoned by Dr. Scorpius to Earth, he leads a war against humankind that kills billions of them, personally murdering Manborg and his brother. Becoming the ruler of Earth, he turns it into a dystopia where demonic cops arrest humans and place them in gladiator pits, where the humans' blood is used to give Draculon power, with his demons having taken the lives of thousands. Desiring Manborg's death, he has Dr. Scorpius capture him, later electrocuting him to death when he frees Manborg. Having kidnapped a friend of Mina's, he brainwashes her, names her Shadow-Mega, and forces Mina to fight her. When Manborg invades his lair, Draculon tries to murder him, eviscerating the entire stadium audience watching the fight, and even murders Mina, causing Manborg to sacrifice himself to resurrect her.
• Mandrake the Magician film serial (1939): The evil criminal mastermind the Wasp, real name Dr.Andre Bennett, seeks to dominate the US's communication grids, using a series of bombings that target populated areas, including a dam. He also seeks a special radium device to give him the ultimate power he desires. When he tries to eliminate Mandrake, the Wasp even targets populated areas such as a train or large building with his bombings. In addition, the Wasp is also a terrible boss, gassing his subjects for failing him or even for knowing too much about his organization, willing to stop at nothing to Take Over the World.
• Mandy (2018): Jeremiah Sand is the vicious, cowardly leader of the Children of the New Dawn cult. Having murdered his parents and moved to Los Angeles to indulge in music and drugs, Jeremiah would form countless cults centered around himself to satisfy his narcissism. Working with the demonic Black Skulls biker gang, he makes them his personal attack dogs and allows them to murder and rape whomever they please, holding their chemist hostage to help continue their murder sprees. Taking an obsessive liking to Mandy Bloom, he has the Black Skulls kidnap her and her husband Red Miller, sacrificing one of his men to them as thanks. With the couple in hand, he has Mandy drugged and tries to rape her, while he has Red hung up with barb wire and stabbed in the side, and is Forced to Watch Mandy burned alive after she tarnishes Jeremiah's ego by laughing at him.
• Maniac Cop 2: Steven Turkell is a Serial Killer who targets and stalks strippers before breaking into their homes and strangling them. After his failure to claim a victim, Turkell is rescued by Matthew Cordell and teams up with him to use him as a bodyguard while he's out on his own killing spree. Escaping from police captivity, he drives Cordell to Sing Sing Prison in the hopes of releasing and building an army of death row inmates to terrorize the city, recklessly hitting other cars on the way. Once Cordell makes it clear that he has no interest in his ambitions, Turkell attempts to stab him with his own blade.
• Manos trilogy:
  • The Master is an undead, immortal occultist who serves the evil god Manos by happily performing human sacrifices for his deity, keeping a harem of wives which he disposes of as he sees fit. Having killed his first servant Vassago for stealing one of his wives, the Master later brainwashes a man named Torgo to act as his newest servant. When a small family is later lured into his Lodge by Torgo, the Master kills the family dog, before chopping off Torgo's hand for touching his wives in their sleep. He later forces both Michael's wife Margaret and his little daughter Debbie to become his new brides. Keeping people's spirits in a perpetual limbo, the Master's spirit continues to loom over the Lodge, brainwashing more women to become Manos's brides, having forced Debbie to become his replacement as she continues to sacrifice those in the name of Manos.
  • The Rise of Torgo: Manos himself, God of Primal Darkness, is the instigator for everything that happens in the trilogy. Having chosen The Master to become his immortal slave, Manos has him carry out his desires for Human Sacrifice, having him brainwash women to serve as the wives of Manos. After the Master kills his servant Vassago, Manos chooses the innocent Torgo as his new servant, brainwashing and threatening him with 1,000 deaths of darkness should he go against him.
• Marathon Man: Christian Szell, known as the White Angel because of his hair, was a Nazi dentist working at Auschwitz, and used to falsely promise protection to the Jewish prisoners in exchange of their gold hidden in their teeth, before sending them to the gas chambers. After escaping World War II, Szell sells out most of his Nazi comrades to a shadow government agency in exchange for protection and assistance in his diamond smuggling—the ones he stole from the Jews. When Szell goes to New York to claim a box of diamonds, he becomes increasingly paranoid for his safety, ordering the couriers working for him killed and having Thomas "Babe" Levy and his girlfriend beaten and robbed, and then killing Babe's brother Henry "Doc" Levy, one of his collaborators, believing him to be a traitor. Szell then kidnaps Babe and, wanting to know "(i)s it safe," cruelly tortures him with his dental instruments, first digging a hole in his cavity and then drilling a healthy tooth "until (he) reach(es) the pulp", all the while maintaining a friendly attitude. After Szell convinces himself Babe doesn't know anything, he orders the latter to be killed anyway, later using a retractable knife to slash the throat of a Holocaust survivor who recognizes him.
• Marauders (2016): Jeffrey Hubert is a callous banking executive who uses murder to get ahead in life. When his sensitive brother Alexander was poised to inherit the bank, Hubert manipulated a special ops team to slaughter a host of innocents to also catch Alexander in it before having the team massacred as well, with only one survivor he tries to have murdered to cover his dealings.
• Mardi Gras Massacre (1978): John is a Serial Killer who considers strippers and prostitutes evil for the sinful ways they use their bodies to make money. John ties them to a table in his apartment to torture them by cutting them with a blade, driving it through their right hands and digging deep into their left feet, before cutting out their hearts in ritual murders to serve as sacrifices to a Peruvian god. John murders three women in this manner, and is intent on murdering three more before the police arrive and stop him.
• Marighella (2019): Lúcio, the chief torturer of the Brazilian Military Regime, is a cruel detective who joined the Secret Police to satiate his thirst for racist violence. Introduced murdering a pair of petty thieves solely because they were Black, Lúcio leads the manhunt for Carlos Marighella, torturing and murdering several people along the way. Not satisfied with leaving corpses on the streets, Lúcio also lords over a house of pain where dissidents are taken to be tortured.
• Mark of the Devil:
  • Lord Cumberland, the mentor of protagonist Christian von Meruh, is a notorious witchfinder whose façade of piety decays as the film goes on. Cumberland tortures his way from town to town on spurious accusations of witchcraft, leaving in his wake victims who are both physically and psychologically maimed. An impotent sadist who is losing the battle against his own lust, Lord Cumberland sexually assaults a woman to take out his frustration, then orders Christian executed when he finally chafes under Cumberland’s evil. When he's attempting to escape, Cumberland spitefully orders his soldiers to butcher anyone who fights back against his oppressive policies, whether they're man, woman, or a mere child.
  • Albino, Cumberland’s predecessor as the local witchfinder, is a licentious sadist who doesn't even care about due process before sentencing his victims to death. Albino uses his position as witch hunter to coerce women to his bed or burn, attempting to have his way with the maid Vanessa and vowing to see her burn when she rejects him. Albino tries to rape a woman in her own house—having killed her husband shortly before this—and is only stopped by Cumberland, whom Albino sees as a rival to his evil.
• Marked for Death: Screwface is a feared Jamaican crime boss rumored to have supernatural powers. Known to savagely murder anyone who he feels crosses him, Screwface has the members of a rival gang shot up in an occupied bar by his men and later murders with his own hands the woman who helped the gang's leader. When retired cop John Hatcher subdues one of his men, Screwface orders a hit on him and his entire family, succeeding in almost fatally wounding his young niece and stripping and marking his sister Tracy for death in her own home. Screwface continues to mercilessly torment Hatcher, attempting to burn him alive and vowing never to stop until his entire family is dead. Screwface uses murder, sacrifice, and immoral drug trade through his posse, and his cruelty is so immense his own minions prefer suicide rather than confronting him for their failures.
• Marrowbone (2017): Simon Fairborn, a Serial Killer known as The Beast of Bampton, was betrayed to the authorities by his eldest son. When his wife flees with their four children, Simon eventually breaks out of prison to hunt them down at his wife's childhood home. When his son Jack attempts to return Simon's money, Simon tries to kill him and breaks into the home where he murders his three younger children, only to be sealed in the attic by Jack. Surviving six months there, Simon murders the first man to open the attic and then tries to kill both Jack and Jack's Love Interest, showing absolutely no feeling or guilt in massacring his own children.
• Marshland: Sebastián Rovira Galvez and Joaquín "Quini" Varela are a pair of twisted Serial Rapists and killers stalking the marshlands for teenage victims. Quini seduces young girls into being his lovers, then manipulates them into participating in underage pornography so he can blackmail them into sexual slavery with Sebastián. When they grow tired of their slaves, Sebastián and Quini heinously torture them to death and discard their naked bodies for police to find. When police investigate their activities, Sebastián tries to murder the trio who attempt to arrest him.
• Martial Law (1991): Dalton Rhodes is a crime boss and Arms Dealer who opens the film brutally executing a subordinate for power. Killing many victims with his bare hands and organizing illegal fighting tournaments, Rhodes happily kills any minion to keep cover, executing the hero's troubled younger brother who has been working for him. When the time comes to steal a gun shipment, Rhodes has his men kill the crew transporting them, before massacring all the men with him on the job just to ensure he doesn't have to split any money with more middlemen than necessary.
• Masked Avengers: Lin Yung Chi is the leader of the masked cult, and leads his men in the rape, pillage and murder of everyone they encounter in the countryside. Flashbacks reveal the group ostensibly formed as an order of martial arts using assassins, but he made his true intent clear by kidnapping a man and his sister, torturing the man to death, and instructing his soldiers to rape the woman, disgusting his second-in-command, who promptly fled the organization. When a group of inspectors investigate, he steadily murders members of the group, along with innocent hostages and civilians, even employing horrible traps such as acid, to kill his enemies when they attack his hideout.
• The Masked Marvel (1943): Mura Sakima is a Japanese saboteur who is trying to thwart America's efforts to win a war. He has his men murder Warren Hamilton and steal documents that could have exposed Sakima. Sakima goes on to have his men try and mix a chemical compound with gasoline that will be delivered to America's allies, making it so that when the people go to use the gasoline in their planes, they will explode. Sakima also has his men blow up a cargo ship and attempt to destroy a train. He has his men kidnap Alice Hamilton and threaten to crush her under an elevator if she dose not tell them where they can find the diamonds she has hidden, and has a henchman executed so he can't be interrogated by the enemies. Finally, he activates a bomb to try and kill The Masked Marvel along with himself.
• The Mask of Fu Manchu:
  • The wicked Doctor Fu Manchu intends to rule the world upon stealing the blade and mask of Genghis Khan. Taking the Egyptologist Lionel Barton, Fu Manchu tortures him with ringing bells to gain information, eventually causing his death. Capturing Lionel's daughter, and her fiancé Trevor, Genghis Khan has Trevor savagely tortured by his sadistic daughter Fah Lo See and intends to have him become Fah Lo See's broken slave. Intending on sacrificing the beautiful Sheila, Fu Manchu intends on using his doomsday weapons to rally his warlords and slaughter the Western World, with their women given to his lieutenants.
  • Fah Lo See, Fu Manchu's equally twisted daughter, is a torture enthusiast who delights in being the enforcer of her father. Upon capturing her victims, Fah Lo See has them brutally tortured and whipped, being implied to force herself upon them after in what her father describes as her "customary" procedure. Upon subjecting Terry to this and stopped before she can complete her plans, Fah Lo See plans to subject him to a potion to break his mind and keep him as a plaything until she grows bored of and "discards" him.
• Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985): China is the leader of an illegal mining camp in the Amazon jungle. Taking precious stones with the help of his own militia, China also runs a slavery operation to force other people into working in the mines under terrible conditions; those who try to escape are put behind cages and left without water or food for days. Seemingly friendly when he's introduced, China invites Kevin, Eva and Belinda to stay at his base, revealing himself to be sadistic monster who plans on using the girls as sex slaves, informing Kevin that he could either work in the mines or get slowly Eaten Alive by pigs. Setting his eyes on Eva, China rapes her and gives Belinda to be molested by his henchwoman; when Belinda tries to escape, China executes her with a smile on his face.
• Master Z: Ip Man Legacy: Owen Davidson, seemingly a kind pillar of the community, is a racist criminal and crime lord who does business by forcing a gangster to shoot his friend to join him, before laughing and admitting he didn't actually care or need the test. Later abducting one hero, Fu, Davidson tortures and brutally beats him to death, with his goal being to flood Hong Kong with heroin heedless of the deaths and ruined lives this will cause.
• Matar para Vivir (Kill to Live) (2013): The Captain and Torres are members of the Sinchis that appear in a rural village and kill a elderly man to kidnap local children, who are savagely beaten in the process. Before leaving the town, the Captain orders Torres to frame the old man as a Shining Path terrorist, a order that Torres obeys while mocking the corpse. The Sinchis then force the children to travel across the wilderness while Torres constantly subjects them to physical and psychological torture, and the Captain shows complete apathy as they starve. When Hans proves to be too sturdy, the Captain orders his execution to set a example and force the children to watch as the soldiers hang him. Once the children decide to rebel and kill in self-defense, the Captain kills Chucho and mocks the surviving children as he prepares to kill them. While the children managed to survive, the epilogue reveals that a surviving Torres continued to hunt the children, leaving Benjamin with permanent scars across his body.
• Matilda films:
  • 1996 film: Agatha Trunchbull has all of her book crimes, plus some ones unique to the movie. When Mr. Wormwood sells her a dodgy car, the Trunchbull blames Matilda for it and throws her into the Chokey. When Matilda and Ms. Honey sneak into her house, the Trunchbull grabs her hammer-throwing equipment and hunts them down with the intent to kill them—albeit she didn't know it was them. When Matilda humiliates her for the final time, the Trunchbull throws a boy out a window and charges at Lavender a few minutes later, intending to injure or even kill her. When Ms. Honey stands up to her, she threatens that she broke her arm once and can do it again.
  • Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical: Agatha Trunchbull is the despotic headmistress of Crunchem Hall and the abusive step-aunt of Ms. Jennifer Honey. In the past, Trunchbull forced her pregnant stepsister and brother-in-law to perform a deadly acrobatic act, which resulted in her stepsister falling to the ground, and her eventual death while giving birth to her daughter. Trunchbull abuses her step-niece, and it's heavily implied that she killed her brother-in-law when he went to confront her about it. As Headmistress, Trunchbull would subject the students to horrible torture, with her regularly sending them to the claustrophobic outhouse known as the Chokey. When Trunchbull promises to forgive Bruce Bogtrotter for eating her cake If he ate every last crumb of another cake, she sends him to the Chokey anyway after he finishes it. After Matilda destroys her Chokey, Trunchbull forces Matilda's class to do a spelling bee and threatens to send them to a new Chokey, and when they stand up to her, Trunchbull unveils a dozen Chokeys to put the students in. An utterly horrible woman, Trunchbull admits she's cruel and likes troublemakers because she can break them, both emotionally and physically.
• Mat Kilau (2022):
  • The cruel warrior Toga is an easterner who knows the Malay people well, utilizing his knowledge to exploit and murder them for the British colonizers. Opening the film by laying siege to a village and torturing the people for information, Toga happily leads the slaughter of them when none will talk. Toga is seen to manage slave quarries, regularly torturing and killing workers while also attempting to draw Mat Kilau out by slaughtering innocent Malaysians across the nation.
  • Haji Muhammad, one of Captain Syer's top-ranked soldiers, leads several village massacres in his quest to help the British colonize Malaysia. Humiliated by Mat Kilau at a jetty marketplace while trying to oppress the villagers, Muhammad later leads an assault on the marketplace, killing countless people there. Seeking information on Mat Kilau's rebellion, Muhammad abuses Wahid's pregnant wife for information, allowing Toga to kill her for refusing to cooperate.
• The Matrix franchise:
  • First film: Cypher, the treacherous member of Morpheus's crew, ends up selling out his comrades and Morpheus so he may reenter the Matrix as "someone important" without his memories. Setting up his team to die and Morpheus to be abducted by the Agents, Cypher is fully aware of the machines intending to wipe out the final bastion of humanity, Zion, while beginning to murder the remaining team members with nothing short of sadistic relish.
  • Resurrections: The Analyst is a manipulative and power-hungry program that usurps control of the Matrix. After he takes over, the Analyst conducts a purge of programs, killing the Architect, the Oracle, Kamala, and Rama Kandra, an event that orphans Sati. Reviving Neo and Trinity to power his new Matrix, the Analyst traps them in new identities and takes pleasure in his efforts to keep them separated. Assuming the guise of a therapist, the Analyst traps Neo within the Matrix, prescribing him blue pills to suppress his reality-questioning doubts. Upon Neo's awakening, the Analyst torments Neo by revealing his scheme before ultimately unleashing a horde of suicidal bots to kill an awakened Trinity. Defiant and lacking remorse for his actions, the Analyst arrogantly declares that he won't be deleted and demonstrates a firm belief in the superiority of control over freedom.
• Maximum Conviction (2012): Chris Blake is a corrupt mercenary concerned solely with lining his own pockets. Arranging for the death of a CIA courier named Samantha with valuable information and sending Samantha into a private military prison, Blake invades the prison and takes control of it to find Samantha. Torturing the warden by hacking off his finger, Blake has his men make their way through the prison and kill whomever they come across, later murdering the warden himself and coldly ordering Samantha killed when he gains the information. Ditching his own men to die in the final shootout, Blake sneers "I'm the fucking bad guy" just before he meets his own death.
• Maximum Force (1992): Max Tanabe, CEO of Tanabe Industries, secretly controls all the crime in Los Angeles through his funds and connections. He enforces police brutality; makes sure fellow criminals—like child rapists—walk untouched by the law; and presides over the arms and drugs trade and prostitution throughout the city, with whoever witnesses his illegal schemes brutally murdered. Making a point of his ruthlessness by randomly suffocating one of his unfaithful minions to death, Tanabe further orders the family of a man whose partner he had killed murdered before having the compound of the heroes destroyed, with two of them dying to slake his lust to make them suffer.
• Maximum Impact (1992): Mr. Huntsacker is the head of Huntsacker Industries, a criminal organization that supplies people with whatever twisted entertainment they want, from child pornography to snuff films. Introduced fondly recounting a story to his underling Bernie about how he once castrated a man and gutted him during his time as a Mafia hitman, Huntsacker used his ties to the pimp Jameson to secure the young Tonya for himself, having also sold her younger brother to child pornographers. After a snuff film goes poorly, resulting in Tonya's escape with the salesman Jerry, Huntsacker shoots Bernie and sends his men out to get her back, resulting in the death of Jerry's girlfriend. Viewing his men as mere tokens, Huntsacker later holds Tonya at gunpoint in an attempt to kill Jerry.
• Max Payne: B.B. Hensley is chief of security of the Aesir Corporation and proves himself to be worse than his game counterpart. Near the end of the movie, it was revealed that he was responsible on selling a drug known as Valkyr across New York; Valkyr causes horrible side effects and result in the consumer Driven to Madness. It was also revealed that he killed Max Payne's wife and his infant child by sending 3 junkies to his house, sadistically enjoying murdering them. B.B. is also responsible for the atrocities of Jack Lupino, the former test subject of Valkyr. After Max discovers his secrets, B.B. then tries to drown Max in the river under the pretense that the latter died by a drug-induced suicide in the river.
• May the Devil Take You Too (2020): The Satanist Bak Ayub learned how he could sacrifice children to Satanic forces for power, and after his wife died, had free rein to delve into pure evil, torturing the children in his care regularly. Returning as a ghost and corrupting one of the children into serving him, Ayub tortures and kills one of the now-grown children before attempting to do the same to the others to deliver their souls to damnation for his own benefit.
• The Maze Runner Series: Assistant Director Janson, debuting in The Scorch Trials, is a cold, self-serving man who serves as the chief operative of WCKD, helping to oversee the Maze experiments with many dozens of children immune to the Flare virus exposed to the horrors of WCKD's Mazes, with countless numbers of them killed. Trying to trick the survivors into letting their organs be harvested under the false pretense of giving them refuge and aiding in an attack on the Right Arm while personally executing Mary, one of their leaders, Janson comes into his own in The Death Cure, where he becomes even more ruthless in trying to procure a cure to the Flare. Janson orders a crowd of protesters fired on by cannons to get at Thomas, smugly implores Thomas to shoot Teresa when he takes her at gunpoint, and having Thomas's friend Minho exposed to horrible, potentially lethal psychological experiments to lure him out. Janson ultimately murders WCKD's head Dr. Paige himself and, with the cure revealed to be in Thomas's blood, reveals his true goal to build a future of his own design by selecting who gets to be cured while leaving all the rest of humanity to be driven insane and slowly die from the Flare. Even in an organization of mad scientists with little regards to how far they have to plunge to root out a cure to the Flare, Janson stands out as an utter sociopath with no scruples or benevolent intentions whatsoever.
• Meatball Machine duology: The unnamed alien duo, appearing at the end of the first film, are two intelligent extraterrestrials who stand out amongst their chaotic race as the masterminds behind the NecroBorgs. Creating the NecroBorgs as a source of entertainment, the duo send their parasitic kind out to take over humans' minds and transform them into rabid killing machines that kill plenty of humans of all ages. At the end of the first film, the duo create the titular Meatball Machines from protagonist Yoji and Sachiko's corpses, making sure to keep their consciousnesses intact in order to enhance their emotional drive to make more entertaining fights. In Kodoku, the NecroBorgs would go on to assist other aliens with their plan to destroy over 300 cities to create energy drinks, massacring Tokyo before everybody is murdered completely.
• Mechanical Violator Hakaider: Gurjev is the angelic dictator of Jesus Town, ruling it as a totalitarian state. A firm believer in The Evils of Free Will, Gurjev orders his State Sec to capture any dissenters for him to lobotomize—even innocent children—removing all of their emotions and willpower. Revealed to have been Hakaider's original creator, Gurjev saw the android as a "failure" and abandoned him, replacing him with an obedient and loyal weapon. After successfully massacring La Résistance, Gurjev tries to kill Hakaider even after the latter had spared his life.
• Medieval: Torak, mentor of Jan Žižka, is a soldier and supporter of the vicious Sigismund. With Sigismund's ruthless attempts to control Bohemia, Torak is the enforcer of his will. Murdering Jan's child nephew, Torak proceeds to wage a campaign of terror and slaughter against the local peasantry. Innocents are butchered, impaled on stakes, and children taken hostage, with one having his throat slit by Torak as a message.
• Meeting Evil (2012): Richie is a psychopathic assassin who shows up at John's door after his car is stalled. Upon John giving him a push, the two pull over at a convenience store where Richie gets into a confrontation with the manager that ends with him killing everyone inside. When a phone dealership clerk refuses to let him and John use the store phones, he kills her and runs over her husband. When they find a seemingly abandoned home Richie kills the old lady inside as well as her grandson. He kills a sheriff and takes his car and uniform. Upon entering a diner he kills the waitress as well as a navy veteran. He makes it clear that he is quite willing to kill John's family. Despite claiming John to be his "friend"—even refusing to kill him like he was hired to because of such—he only cares about him in the sense that he sees potential in molding him to be as psychopathic as him and has no problem having John take the fall for his crimes.
• Megan is Missing: Josh is a disturbingly brutal example of an online predator. Josh masks himself as a charming individual who meets the titular Megan online. Exploiting her desire to be loved, Josh convinces Megan to see him behind a diner. When she goes missing, her friend Amy decides to prop further into it, even after Josh directly threatens her. Josh ends up kidnapping Amy from under a bridge, tossing away her camera, and taking her to his cellar where the extent of his horrible deeds is revealed. Josh force-feeds Amy dog food, viciously rapes her, then shoves Amy into a barrel with Megan's rotting corpse, who he tortured to death, and buries her alive in the middle of a forest. Josh is a twisted excuse for a human being who represents the dangers of meeting people online.
• Memoir of a Murderer (2017): Officer Min Tae-ju is a depraved Serial Killer of women who stands in stark contrast to fellow serial killer Kim Byung-Su. With a body count of three women by the film's start, Min becomes obsessed with Kim, who suspects him of being a murderer. Seducing Kim's daughter Eun-Lee to get closer to his adversary, Min attempts to play into the man's dementia to turn Eun-Lee against him, and when this fails, he simply decides to frame Kim for his own murders and expose the man as a serial killer. Killing an acquaintance of Kim's and kidnapping Eun-Lee, Min pins the blame on Kim, and when Kim supplies evidence of Min's guilt to the chief of police, Min coldly strangles the chief to death. When confronted by Kim, Min sadistically beats him down, and tries to force Kim to watch as he kills Eun-Lee. Though he attempts to justify his actions by claiming his father abused him, Min subverts this excuse by targeting innocent people who have nothing to do with this abuse, and thus reveals himself to be nothing more than a misogynistic brute who kills others for personal satisfaction.
• Men in Black 3: Boris, known as the Animal, is by far the most murderously sadistic villain in the films, and easily the most personal. He is introduced being freed from prison by his girlfriend, whom he lets die when she is blown out into space, and kills another prisoner whom he promised to take with him. He travels back in time to eliminate K as personal revenge for destroying his arm when he was captured, causing a present day invasion by his race of Boglodites to consume everyone on Earth, which is his ultimate goal. Boris despises his nickname of the Animal, and will kill anyone who refers to him by it. A remorseless butcher who isn't afraid to kill anyone in his way, he kills a number of targets in the past, finds his past self so pathetic he only refrains from killing him because he would be erased from time, and murders J's father out of spite for being thwarted by K.
• Men of War: Keefer is a former Special Ops soldier who once served alongside Nick Gunar. Introduced overseeing a local police force, Keefer shoots one of his men dead to pin a murder on Nick and goad him into a fight. Keefer has his men aim their guns at the villagers he was "protecting" as well as Nick's team, threatening to kill them all if Nick tries to fight back, using this opportunity to brutally pummel him. After Nick refuses to carry out his employers' orders to strip mine an island of innocent natives, Keefer strong-arms Nick's employers into hiring him instead, seeing there's money to be made. Teaming up with his former superior and father figure Colonel Merrick, Keefer leads an army of mercenaries to storm the island. He takes sadistic delight in the slaughter of the natives, women and children included, as it reminds him of the glory days in Angola. However, when Merrick decides to pull out his forces after seeing the futility of such carnage, an enraged Keefer deems Merrick's actions as cowardice. Keefer shoots Merrick with a rocket launcher before proceeding to challenge Nick to a final duel to the death, showing he's nothing more than a bloodthirsty sadist who can't live without war.
• Mercenaries: Grigori Babishkov is a former mass rapist and Ulrika's sadistic right-hand man who joined Ulrika to satisfy his bloodlust and sadism. Introduced leading an ambush slaughtering Elise's security detail and capturing Elise, Grigori later taunts a captured Elise by slashing open the throat of a lunch lady who showed kindness towards Elise while sniffing the woman as she bleeds out; when the lunch lady's teen sister was caught breaking in, Grigori had her raped before imprisoning her. Capturing two of the mercenaries, Kat and Mei-Lin, Grigori tortures them in a prison filled with his personal sex slaves, and when the mercenaries manage to free everyone, Grigori grabs a minigun to gleefully massacre all his captives, even trying to force himself upon Kat when she relieves him of his weapon.
• Mercenaries from Hong Kong: He Ying, the only child of a wealthy executive, had her father assassinated for his wealth and then hired the titular mercenaries to execute her potential competitors in Southeast Asia under the pretense of investigating her father's death. When the mercenaries return to Hong Kong, having suffered casualties among their ranks, Ying instantly has them double-crossed and tries to kill them all. She manipulates Sing into turning on the other mercenaries, the closest he have to a family, and make the mercenaries kill each other. Ying's worse act is the kidnapping of Lei's Delicate and Sickly daughter whom she used to intimidate the mercenaries, only to have the child killed when things don't go her way.
• Mercury Rising: Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow is an NSA superior who oversaw the creation of the military code Mercury, which protects overseas American undercover agents. His ego is hurt when he finds out that 9-year-old autistic boy Simon Lynch can read it easily and later calling him "one of Nature's mistakes," claims that he needs to die to protect National Security. Kudrow sends Peter Burrell to Simon's house and has his parents Martin and Jenny killed. Burrell continues to hunt Simon and Art Jeffries, the FBI agent protecting him, on Kudrow's behalf. When Dean Crandell tries to inform Jeffries about what's going on, he's shot and killed, and when Leo Pedranski tries to inform the Senate Oversight Committee, he's killed too. Kudrow eventually tries to personally kill Simon himself, has Burrell shoot at FBI agents when they show up to try to stop him, and tries to kill Jeffries when he interferes again. Despite its purpose, Kudrow's only rooting interest in the code is proven to be that he gets all the credit for how effective it is and would take the blame for its failure as well.
• Mermaid Down: Dr. Beyer is the head of a mental health clinic for women, and a predatory Serial Killer using his position to prey on his patients. Happening upon a fishing boat that captures and maims a mermaid, Beyer kills her captor to steal her for himself, keeping her in a tortured state for his morbidly curious study. Beyer uses his basement as a torture dungeon for his victims, who he'd feed to his ravenous guard dog. When the mermaid soon regrows her tail, Beyer soon realizes the jig is up and begins coldly gunning down his fleeing and hiding staff and patients. Taking the restored mermaid aboard his boat, Beyer plans to dissect her "fish parts" to see how they work, desperately trying to take her rescuers down with him when beaten.
• The Message: Amr ibn Hisham, better known as Abu Jahl, the father of ignorance, is one of the leaders of the Quraishyi tribe that resides in Mecca and one of the biggest dissenters of The Prophet Muhammad's teachings. Introduced threatening Muhammad's uncle, Abu Talib, by trying to restrain Muhammad by himself, he then also threaten to whip one of Muhammad's followers, Amar, if he still follows Muhammad's words. After Muhammad's followers began a revolution, Abu Jahl then instigated the Mecca citizens under the pretense that their religion will be destroyed in order to pit them against Muhammad's followers. Seemingly stopped, Abu Jahl then captures all of Muhammad's followers who started the rebellion, planning to torture them one by one. He also physically and mentally tortured Amar by whipping him and forcing him to watch as his mother was racked by Abu Jahl. When the mother spit on Abu Jahl's face, he then impaled her with a spear. Merciless and fanatical to the old tradition that he devotes himself into, Abu Jahl represents the worst ancient Arabic culture has to offer.
• Message from Space: Emperor Rockseia XXII is a tyrant who grew to lead the Gavanas Empire after overthrowing the rightful rulers. Leading the Gavanas on a campaign of conquest, Rockseia ensures that any world that resists is all but annihilated by his forces. After having destroyed the latest, Rockseia attempts to conquer Earth and destroys the moon to show how serious he is, with a threat to do the same to Earth should they resist.
• Message from the King: Paul Wentworth is heavily involved in Duke's prostitution ring with many of his patients also prostitutes; one of them is Bianca King. Hired by Mike Preston to deal with Bianca, Wentworth viciously tortures her before beating her to death. Wentworth would then hire cops to kill Bianca's brother Jacob and would kill Preston's employee when he arrives at Preston's home to collect the money for killing Bianca.
• Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn: The titular Jared-Syn and his cold cyborg son Baal are two intergalactic criminals who come to the planet of Lemuria to establish themselves as complete rulers. Manipulating the native Cyclopean people into waging a "holy war" against the humans of the planet, Jared-Syn and Baal drain the souls of hundreds of people, either killing them personally or having their Cyclopean followers slaughter them, and keep them locked within a crystal in perpetual agony. Jared-Syn's rhetoric about bringing glory back to the Cyclopeans is only a ruse meant to secure the Cyclopeans' loyalty before he enslaves them, and even the eventual death of Baal fails to upset him much.
• Midnight (2021): Do-shik is a sadistic killer who stalks the streets looking for victims. Do-shik uses a variety of bladed implements to mutilate his victims to death, and he murders people just for fun. When his latest attack on a woman named Seo-jung is spotted by Kyung-mi and her elderly mother, both deaf women, Do-shik begins a cruel cat-and-mouse chase across the city in which he drags out his terrorizing of them and psychologically torments them. After tricking Jong-tak into abandoning Kyung-mi in exchange for information on his sister, Seo-jung, Do-shik reveals that Seo-jung is bleeding out and refuses to actually fulfill his promise, just mocking Jong-tak that his sister will die due to Do-shik's attack on her. After he fails to kill Jong-tak and Kyung-mi, Do-shik tries to spitefully force Kyung-mi to watch as he kills her mother.
• Midnight Express: Hamidou, the brutish and abusive chief guard of the hellish Sağmalcılar prison, uses his job as a mean to frequently beat, torture and rape the inmates. When the American Billy Hayes steals a blanket during his first night in prison to cover himself from the cold, Hamidou sadistically beats him and then hangs him upside down in order to rape him. He forces his two sons to watch him while he tortures some young boys by hitting them on their feet with his stick. When Jimmy, one of Billy's friends, is caught trying to escape, Hamidou beats him so bad he causes him a severe hernia and makes him lose a testicle. Toward the ending Billy tries to bribe him to into taking him to the sanitarium. Hamidou takes the money, but he brings him instead in another isolated room where he prepares to beat him and rape him once again.
• Midnight FM (2010): Han Dong-soo is a psychopathic stalker obsessed with radio host Ko Sun-young, and, when she makes the claim that she appreciates the character of vigilante Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, Dong-soo becomes a Serial Killer of petty crooks and pimps to gain the attention of Sun-young. When Sun-young plans to leave radio hosting after one last show to spend more time with her deaf child Eun-soo, Dong-soo murders Sun-young's replacement before taking Sun-young's sister, Ah-young, plus her daughter and Eun-soo hostage. Forcing Sun-young to broadcast increasingly harder content as the night goes on, Dong-soo first motivates her by sending her a video of him lopping off one of Ah-young's toes, following up her next failure by slashing Ah-young's throat and threatening Sun-young's daughter and niece next. After rmurdering two police officers and a bystander to escape with Eun-soo and her cousin, Dong-soo locks the two children in a cage that is slowly dropping in temperature, before ordering Sun-young to execute a man he claims is a criminal lest he let the kids freeze to death. Once the kids escape and Sun-young refuses to kill the likely innocent man, Dong-soo murders the man himself, attempts to gun down the children, then makes one last attempt on Sun-young's life, proclaiming that if he can't have her, no one will.
• Midnight Man (aka Blood for Blood) (1995): Prince Samarki is the vicious hitman of the Cambodian mafia who demonstrates his ruthlessness by executing a failed minion while forcing the man's uncle to watch. Ruthlessly competent in his job of assassinating all the mafia's enemies, Samarki demonstrates none of the honor of his boss Mao Mak and his counterparts, butchering a series of cops to send a message and even killing any other innocents he finds on the premises. Samarki graduates to snapping the neck of protagonist Detective John Kang's best friend, kills Mao Mak to take power himself, and kidnaps Lang's wife and child to goad him into a proper final fight.
• The Midnight Man (2016/2018): The Midnight Man is a vicious bogeyman and Pagan entity who relishes torture. Bound by the Midnight Game, the Midnight Man opens the film sadistically murdering a group of children before taking the only survivor and making her a mind-ravaged shell of herself, using her to lure victims to him, including her own daughter years later. In a new Midnight Game, the Midnight Man targets the players with their worst fears, even cheating at his own game to get his way, boasting it only matters they can't stop him. The Midnight Man uses his former victim as a proxy to kill those not playing the game, even changing time on the clocks to lure his victims into a false sense of security while gloatingly telling him their tears "mean nothing to me!"
• Midnight Mass (2003): Father Alberto Palmeri, once a Pedophile Priest who ruined Father Joseph "Joe" Cahil's life by framing him for the rape of a young boy, sold out humanity to the incoming vampires and became "the worst of the bunch". Now acting as the leader of the New Jersey vampires, thus responsible for all the bloodshed and mayhem throughout the city, Palmeri regularly hosts human sacrifices, with the bodies of his many victims littering the congregation. Sensing Joe trying to kill him, Palmeri kidnaps him and gives him the choice to either become a vampire or watch as Palmeri drops Joe's friend Gwen on a wooden stake.
• Midnight Movie: Ted Radford, creator and star of the horror film The Dark Beneath, was institutionalized after he began killing people to instill true fear. Conducting a ritual to possess his film, Radford became the killer he once played, then killed all the patients and staff of the psychiatric ward. Resurfacing when a theater plays The Dark Beneath, Radford uses his Psychic Powers to seal the exits, then begins slaughtering the moviegoers and staff, including a child. Radford pulls his last two victims into the film world, where it's revealed he keeps the spirits of the people he kills alive and tormented from their mortal wounds, then proceeds to remove Bridget's gag so he can listen to her screams as he tortures her.
• Midnight Runners (2017): Yang-choon is a menacing criminal who darkens the tone of the film immensely. A human trafficker who deals in high school girls, Yang-choon kidnaps dozens of girls to imprison, drug, and abuse while routinely harvesting their eggs to sell on the Black Market to fertility clinics. When the girls inevitably wear out and approach death, Yang-choon has them cut open and all of their organs harvested. When Park Ki-joon and Kang Hee-yeol discover the trafficking ring, Yang-choon viciously beats them unconscious, sets them up to be carved into for their organs, and tries to hurriedly harvest his latest batch of eggs so he can dispose of all his prisoners.
• Mighty Joe Young (1998 remake): Andrei Strasser is a poacher who establishes his ruthlessness by killing the titular ape's mother as well as mortally wounding Dr. Ruth Young. Twelve years later, Andrei runs a supposed wildlife preserve wherein he sells organs of the animals he's harnessed over the black market. When he recognizes Joe as the ape that bit his fingers off years prior, Andrei—intent on selling the primate's body parts for a profit—goads Jill Young—Ruth's daughter—into giving him Joe, claiming he would be safe at his refuge. Strasser demonstrates his indifference towards the lives of others when a missed shot intended for Jill causes a deadly fire to spread throughout the carnival, endangering a child trapped in a Ferris wheel. Believing that he won, Strasser gloats whilst preparing to finish what he started with Jill's mother by murdering her. Valuing monetary gain above all else, Strasser exemplifies everything wrong with illegal hunting.
• Mikey: Mikey Holt is a 9-year-old Self-Made Orphan, who previously murdered his families and filmed them. Put into the care of his foster mom's sister, Mikey starts anew with his new family, acting as the perfect son. After becoming infatuated with his best friend's sister, Jessie, Mikey targets her family and friends. Personally killing Ben's frog and Jessie's cat, Mikey makes it appear Jessie's boyfriend David had accidentally killed the cat. He murders David, and later kills his foster mom Rachel, his principal, and his teacher once they become suspicious of him. Mikey tries to kill Jessie after being rejected by her. Lastly, filling his house up with gas, he murders his father by blowing him and the house up. While the police believe Mikey died in the resulting explosion, Mikey survives, posing as an amnesic kid named Josh already in the care of a new family, who prayed for a son like Josh.
• Mile 22: Axel is the Indocarrian agent in charge of catching Li Noor. When Overwatch is escaping with Noor, Axel blows up one of their trucks, killing several agents. When Overwatch hides in a cafe, Axel blows it up, killing all of the civilians inside, including a little girl. Axel later executes agent Douglas when he makes a stand against Axel's agents. In the following fight, Axel's men nearly kill agent Alice and a little girl. Despite his friendly persona, Axel is continuously shown to not care who he has to hurt to get the job done.
• Militia (2000): George Armstrong Montgomery, "Mad Monty", is a far-right radio host plotting the overthrow of the US government. Set on overturning the natural order, Montgomery is happy to kill anyone in his pursuit of a powerful strain of anthrax and missiles to deliver them. Plotting a strike to kill the President and his closest advisers, Montgomery plans for the attack to kill half of LA, intending on a massive government crackdown so he can lead a Civil War to conquer the nation.
• Millennium Series film adaptations:
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): Much as in the original novel, these members of the Vanger clan are utterly depraved:
    • Martin Vanger is a polite, charming CEO who uses his position in society to cover up the fact that he is a Serial Killer and rapist of women, kidnapping them and spending days raping and torturing them before ending their lives. Martin has been committing his atrocities for decades, and his victim count handily reaches into the hundreds. Even worse is the reveal that Martin was raised to be a killer by his equally repulsive father, Gottfried, and though potentially tragic, it is made explicitly clear that Martin just enjoys raping and killing, made all the more obvious by turning his own sister into his personal sex and torture slave after his father is out of the picture. Martin tries to subject Mikael Blomkvist to the same torments of his previous victims in the end, and simply excuses his crimes by proclaiming it is his hobby and he is living a "complete life".
    • Gottfried Vanger is a fanatical Nazi with an obsession for mimicking and mocking the Bible. Gottfried murdered more than 6 women in horrific ways resembling punishments from the Book of Leviticus, always subjecting them to brutal rape and torture beforehand. Be it by bashing their skulls in or raping them to death with farming tools, Gottfried perpetrated his acts with zeal, and took his own personal sadism to such a level that he sexually abused his own son and daughter, helping the former—Martin—realize his love for killing while turning the latter—Harriet—into his toy to be tortured until he finally tired of this and attempted to murder her.
  • The Girl in the Spider's Web: Jan Holtsen, once a subordinate of Lisbeth Salander's Human Trafficking, mass murdering father Zalachenko, is now the right hand of her twin sister Camilla. Mutilating and torturing anyone who gets on his bad side, Holtsen murders a programmer who created Firefall, which gives access to the world's nuclear codes. Leading further death and torture, Holtsen plans to deliver it to Camilla to burn the world for his own advancement, and happily tortures Mikael Blomqvist for the end result.
• Mindcage (2022): Arnaud Lefeuvre is a Serial Killer called "the Artist", who murdered his mother and began targeting women who engaged in sex work. Arnaud would kill women and then hang their bodies up as "art" across the city, and when he was finally caught, Arnaud used his latent psychic powers to force an arresting detective to burn himself alive. Though imprisoned, Arnaud's mental capabilities enabled him to possess the body of Detective Doyle, using him as a puppet to carry out more slayings as a "copycat". After mentally tormenting Detective Kelly, Arnaud forces her to kill Doyle and complete the Frame-Up, planning to then continue his spree by possessing Kelly's body.
• Mindhunters: Lucas Harper, Sara Moore's best friend, infiltrates and plays cat and mouse games with a group of FBI profiler trainees on a field mission to a deserted island used as a training ground by the bureau, where the trainees must solve a case involving a fictional serial killer called "the Puppeteer." He sets the island up with an array of booby traps and puzzles to kill the trainees, while watching from within the group to turn them against each other and give himself good sport. His cruelest murders include a victim being slowly killed with liquid nitrogen from the feet up, and another one burned to death from the inside out by way of acid-laced cigarettes. He kidnaps the trainees' supervisor, who had been monitoring the group in secret, and proceeds to torture him for days before preparing his corpse and hanging it up for the trainees to find as a sort of perverse puppet. It's only after his identity is revealed that the true level of his manipulation becomes apparent, and Lucas frankly admits he started his murder spree by killing his parents as a child and now simply enjoys a good hunt for new and more intelligent victims.
• Miner's Massacre (originally titled Curse of the Forty-Niner): Jeremiah Stone is a gold miner driven mad by Greed. Having become a Serial Killer, he's implied to have eaten his wife and child before kidnapping the local preacher's daughter. After a search party find the two, Stone brags about raping the girl before slicing her neck open. He's gunned down for his crimes, but binds his soul to his stash of gold. Having thusly become a phantom called "the Forty-Niner", Stone kills anybody who takes his treasure. His cursed soul pursues the protagonists of the film, killing them in sadistic ways which demonstrate precisely why Stone calls himself the Devil.
• The Minion (1998): The Minion is a demonic entity with a penchant for hijacking bodies. Desiring to release The Antichrist from his imprisonment, the Minion gleefully sets out to acquire a key, knowing that doing so would result in the destruction of the world. The Minion takes possession of several hosts during its pursuit of the key. Whether it's using a police officer to massacre the entirety of the police department or forcing a possessed Bernhard into decimating The Knights Templar, the Minion left a trail of death in its wake. Realizing that Lukas Sadorov and Mohawk archaeologist Karen Goodleaf were intending on disposing of the key at a nuclear waste facility, the Minion murders Michael Bear—Karen's grandfather—and masquerades as him in a feeble attempt at deceiving Lukas into giving him the key. Fanatical and vicious, the Minion desired nothing less than pure, unadulterated chaos.
• Minnesota Clay (1964): Fox, arch-nemesis of the titular Anti-Hero, framed Clay for murder and had him locked away in a silver mine for 20 years, all because he was jealous that Clay's wife Elizabeth preferred him over Fox. During the 20 years that Clay rots in prison, Fox worms his way into becoming sheriff of a town and reduces it to a Wretched Hive with a giant Protection Racket, keeping Ortiz, the leader of the local bandits, in his pocket while allowing him to indiscriminately terrorize and murder innocents. Believing the only way to rule is through fear and force, at one point, Fox even has a man randomly shot dead just to make an example to anyone else who might defy him. Fox disposes of Ortiz and his gang when he decides they've outlived their usefulness, then when Ortiz's girlfriend has a change of heart, Fox guns her down too. Fox stoops to his lowest at the end when he takes advantage of Clay's ailing eyesight to try and trick him into shooting his own daughter.
• Miracle at St. Anna (2008): Rodolfo Berelli is far from the patriotic Italian Partisan rebel he presents himself as. Having betrayed the village of St. Anna to the Nazi forces, Rodolfo is responsible for the total massacre of nearly everyone there. Betraying another village to see it slaughtered, Rodolfo kills the partisan leader and a German defector to escape, emigrating to America with none aware for decades that he is a war criminal.
• Misconduct (2016):
  • Arthur Denning is a a morally bankrupt pharmaceutical executive who only cares about money and his pride. For years, Denning has run illegal, illicit drug trials that cover up the dangerous qualities of the medicines so he can release them to the public and rake in the dough. These faulty drugs have killed hundreds of people in horrifying ways, something Denning cares nothing about, as he only values the profits his drugs bring him. Denning is also an emotional abuser to his girlfriend, and he works with his ally Abrams in using murderous methods to cover up their actions.
  • Charles Abrams is a seemingly benevolent attorney, but is actually in league with Dennning. Abrams has used his position to destroy evidence and throw cases against Denning for years, helping Denning's heinous pharmaceutical crimes run rampant simply so Abrams can line his pockets with bribes. When rookie lawyer Ben begins investigating Denning, Abrams tries to frame him for murder, then dispatches "the Accountant" to kill Ben, his wife Charlotte, and an innocent neighbor to silence them all.
• Missing (2009): Pan-Gon is a brutal serial kidnapper of young women who he keeps as "pets" until they start to bore him, at which he brutally kills them. Starting the film by kidnapping Hyeon-ah, Pan-Gon kills her boyfriend with a shovel before turning the girl into his slave to be raped and abused at his leisure. Giddily noting that he has done this same thing to three other women before, Pan-Gon later pulls out all of Hyeon-ah's teeth before feeding her into a meat grinder while she is still alive, ending the girl's life. Later viciously killing two men who attempt to thwart him, Pan-Gon kidnaps Hyeon-ah's sister, Hyeon-jeong, and, after failing to rape her, spends his final moments gleefully boasting about what he did to her sister.
• The Missing: The evil Native American "witch" Pesh-Chidin, aka El Brujo ("The Sorcerer"), is a sadistic murderer who leads a group of killers through the territories where he ritualistically murders those he encounters and kidnaps attractive young ladies to sell into sex slavery in Mexico. Chidin has the women mistreated, his only concern being he fears seven is an "unlucky number, " making him opt to capture an eighth girl before they go to Mexico. When he learns a girl has killed herself thanks to the aid of another, Chidin restrains himself from beating the girl only because he won't gain money for a swollen face, but forces sand into her mouth while snarling "this is what the rest of your life will taste like." Chidin murders a photographer via a powder that makes him bleed out through his ears, eyes, nose and mouth, slaughters his Mexican partners when they anger him and finally simply attempts to murder the heroes. A vicious, brutal monster feared even by other Native tribes, Chidin is a loathed figure to all who know him.
• Missing in Action series:
  • Missing in Action 2: The Beginning: Colonel Yin is the sadistic Vietnamese commander of the POW Camp where James Braddock is sent. Yin mistreats and routinely tortures the prisoners of the camp, a favorite tactic of his being to play Russian Roulette with his prisoners. Having spent most of his supply of prisoners over years of torture, Yin is determined to completely break Braddock and those remaining. Yin tortures Braddock in a variety of ways, from forcing a sack over his head with a savage rat inside, to making Braddock watch as he burns a fellow prisoner dying of malaria alive—with the extra kick that Yin had earlier promised to save him. Yin also murders a photographer who stumbles across the camp with his Russian Roulette game, and kills his own partner just to acquire his helicopter.
  • Braddock: Missing in Action 3: General Quoc is another evil Vietnamese commander who, in the first half-hour of the movie, murders Braddock's wife in front of him and his estranged son Van. After capturing Braddock and Van, Quoc boasts about his long history of torture and has Van and Braddock subjected to his specialty: suspending Braddock by a rope and gleefully electrocuting him, all whilst attached to a trigger that, when Braddock submits, will blow his own son's head off. After Braddock and Van escape, Quoc takes Reverend Polanski's orphanage of American-Asian children hostage to lure Braddock into his clutches, all of which he's happy to murder to get to Braddock.
• Mission: Impossible Film Series: Ethan Hunt and company have faced numerous terrorists and other criminals. The following, however, are the worst of the worst:
  • Mission: Impossible III:
    • Owen Davian is a sociopathic, powerful international Arms Dealer who is notorious for selling to different terrorists. Davian wants to find the Rabbit's Foot, a highly dangerous weapon which Davian is going to give to John Musgrave and start a war in the Middle East which would kill many people. When he captures an agent who is spying on him, he brutally tortures her and plants a bomb inside of her head, detonating the bomb when she is finally rescued. When Davian is interrogated by Ethan Hunt, he gloats about killing the agent, saying that the only real reason he did it was because it was fun, before threatening to do the same to Ethan and his wife, no matter what, which he attempts to do multiple times, even going as far as to disguise his own security chief as Ethan's wife, and then killing her, just to torture Ethan. In his final moments, he keeps his promise, and decides to kill Ethan's wife, with Ethan Forced to Watch.
    • John Musgrave, the IMF's Director of Operations, poses as a friend to Ethan while plotting for war in the Middle East out of racism. Contracting Davian to locate the Rabbit's Foot, Musgrave intends on reporting the weapon's sale to terrorists to justify an invasion, while ready to replace Davian with any other merchant of death should Davian fail. Callously manipulating his fellow IMF colleagues, Musgrave boasts of his plan to a captive Ethan while threatening to have Davian kill his innocent fiancée.
  • Ghost Protocol: Sabine Moreau is a cruel contract killer who introduces herself by shooting Agent Hanaway to swipe his briefcase, leaving him on the cusp of death so he'll die in his lover's arms. The contents of the briefcase are nuclear launch codes that Moreau plans to sell to Kurt "Cobalt" Hendricks, so he can use them to kickstart a nuclear holocaust. When she meets who she believes to be Cobalt, Moreau tries to have his henchman executed to prove she's serious about the deal. Moreau doesn't care about Cobalt's cause or the billions who will die from the nuclear codes, simply wanting diamonds for her services.
  • Rogue Nation & Fallout: Solomon Lane is a former MI6 operative who, after realizing his own sociopathic nature, became enraged and went rogue with the Syndicate to cover up his own deficiencies. Using the Syndicate to carry out devastating terrorist attacks while committing murders himself, Lane was defeated and arrested by Ethan Hunt and his team. Two years later, Lane uses his ally John Lark—aka August Walker—to get free, now hell-bent on revenge against Ethan. To that end, he uses stolen plutonium to rig two nuclear bombs to go off in Kashmir, at a medical site where Ethan's ex-wife Julia is working just out of spite. The nukes will irradiate the water supplies of China, India and Pakistan, affecting a third of the Earth's population while Lane is fine dying in the blast so long as he knows Ethan is framed for being Lark and will rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life haunted by the guilt of Julia's death. Abandoning all pretense of good intentions, Lane shows that he is a dark mirror to Ethan himself, stopping at nothing to achieve his ends, no matter how many have to die.
• Mission Kashmir (2000 Bollywood film): Hilal Kohistani is a brutal Islamic terrorist dedicated to carrying out "Mission Kashmir." Brainwashing young boys who have lost people to violence, Kohistani has them carry out terrorist attacks for him to kill the innocent. When one is injured, Kohistani murders him to deceive the authorities with fake plans on the corpse and tells the other young men the victim killed himself for the cause. It is revealed Kohistani's Mission Kashmir is to bomb the holiest Muslim and Hindu sites in Kashmir when they are full of worshippers so as to start a religious war to rip India apart.
• Mission of Justice: Somi, previously Chiang Tai Su, and his ever-grinning right-hand man, Hans, are a pair of drug and weapon smugglers on the run from the Hong Kong military. Hiding out in the Golden Triangle, Hans is introduced massacring the Quincy gang for stealing his and Somi's "stuff". Seeking to expand his operation from Thailand to China, Somi partners with the pimp Yie Feng to take him to a river to conduct his latest deal. Arriving at a village to rest up, Hans rapes and murders a mute woman and tortures and kills her mom, while Somi rapes Feng, having developed a morbid crush on her. Upon reaching their destination, Hans double-crosses Somi and Feng, partnering with a goon to steal their briefcase of money, not even caring when his newfound partner is killed by Feng.
• Mississippi Burning:
  • Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell has long used his position to enable and encourage Ku Klux Klan hate crimes to happen across Jessup County. Pell regularly holds Black men in jail cells until nightfall, then releases them so that the Klan can ambush and brutally assault the men. When the order is passed down from the Grand Dragon to eliminate three young activists promoting equality, Pell takes charge and works with Frank Bailey in murdering the three men and disposing of the bodies. Pell continues to oversee various Klan hate crimes even as the FBI investigates, and he viciously beats his wife to the point of hospitalization when he learns she talked to the FBI.
  • Frank Bailey is the worst of the street-level Klan members in Jessup County, leading his gang in routine assaults on minorities. Bailey is the one who, alongside Pell, pulls the trigger on the trio of young activists, sneering antisemitic and racial slurs as he kills them. Bailey further takes part in an ambush of an entire church of Black people, brutally kicking a small child praying for mercy while his men sexually assault and beat adults around him. In his determination to ensure Black voters' voices are never heard, Bailey firebombs a variety of churches and voting booths to silence them, and even lynches a farmer after setting his home ablaze and nearly burning his wife and children alive.
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: Mr. Barron is a shapeshifting Peculiar who strives for immortality. Once a Peculiar who was part of a splinter group who sought to live outside the loops, Barron and his minions were mutated into the monstrous Hollowghasts as a result of a failed experiment involving stealing the essence of an ymbryne. Barron, however, finds an especially vile manner of regaining his humanity: raiding loops, killing all the Peculiars within—specifically children—and devouring their eyes. Barron repeats this process with several other loops, with the ultimate goal to find the loop of Ms. Peregrine and use her and several other ymbrynes to start the experiment anew. Once he does, Barron coerces Peregrine into coming with him under the threat of Jacob's life, and soon leaves all the children under her care to the mercy of the approaching Hollowghasts. Even the deaths of his closest minions don't sadden, faze, or even annoy him in the slightest.
• Mister Frost: Mister Frost is a charming, ruthless figure who claims to be Satan made flesh, out to destroy his doctor Sarah. A Serial Killer who tortured dozens to death, children included, Frost allows himself to be arrested and sets to ruining and manipulating others, causing suicides and madness to prove his power and the nature of evil. At last swaying Sarah into corruption to murder him, Frost promptly possesses her in his victory.
• Molly (2017/2018): Deacon, a smug, arrogant leader of some of the last bastions of civilization in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, keeps control by kidnapping others and injecting them with drugs to turn them into feral "Supplicants", which are then made to fight to the death for the amusement of Deacon and his followers, which he demonstrates by destroying the minds of a couple who came to beg him for medicine for their daughter. Deacon tries to capture the heroine Molly to turn her into a superpowered Supplicant, even having the process done on a loyal minion just because he's running short on fighters. When things collapse around him, Deacon murders his loyal right-hand woman before going after Molly again, with every supplicant being a reminder of a life Deacon has destroyed.
• Mom (1991): Nestor Duvalier is a monstrous "flesh-eater" and Serial Killer who opens the film attacking a pregnant woman and ripping her apart agonizingly to eat her unborn child, something routine for him in his murders. Later turning his sweet old landlady Emily into a monster like him, Duvalier leads her to murder others for meat, and later kills a neighbor for the sport and food in it. When Emily's son Cody confronts him, Duvalier attempts to gleefully murder him as well.
• Momentum (2015):
  • The Senator is a Corrupt Politician scheming his way into the Oval Office no matter what it takes. He concocts a plan to blow up a large chunk of Chicago and "make 9/11 look like Macy's parade", frame it on another country, and ignite a blood war so he can be elected. After hiring a group of thieves to rob the bank that the flash drive containing his plans is located in, the Senator orders them all be killed, unleashing his elite hit squad to torture and murder anyone in their way to retrieve the drive. When his squad fumbles in their quest, the Senator dispatches another agent to silence them, too.
  • "Mr. Washington" is a sadistic, cheerful killer hired to retrieve the Senator's flash drive. After executing a woman, Washington subjects her partner, Fuller, to horrible torture to learn the location of the flash drive. Washington calmly threatens to have Fuller's wife raped to death and his child sold to Human Traffickers; when Fuller dies from the torture, Washington tries to follow through on the threat. Capturing Alex, Washington has her electrocuted, her leg crushed in a vice, and her thigh gashed open to extort information on the drive out of her, and later tries to kill her while murdering multiple bystanders to tie up all loose ends.
• Money Talks: Raymond Villard is a violent French gangster who has a penchant for killing people and stole millions of dollars worth of diamonds in London before getting arrested. In order to escape, Villard had his men raid the transfer bus he was on and blow up the bus, setting all the prisoners on fire, and to slaughter all other surviving prisoners and police officers. When a prisoner cuffed to his arm, Franklin Hatchett, proves to be irritating, Villard and his men attempt to throw him out of a helicopter to death and shoot him when he makes it to water. Putting the lives of Hatchett and a journalist named James Russell in danger, Villard makes many attempts on their lives through his henchmen, as well as even shooting an innocent store owner to death and framing Hatchett and James. When Hatchett and a rich friend outbid him at the Auto Expo where Villard had previously hidden the diamonds, Villard has his right hand lead a public car chase through the streets to catch Hatchett, but not before Villard kidnaps and tortures Russell in order to get back the diamonds. When Villard meets Hatchett at a stadium and runs into numerous groups wanting the diamonds, Villard has his men open fire on them all and attempts to get away in a helicopter and leave his men to be arrested when the police arrive.
• The Mongols (1961-1966): Ogatai Khan is a man defined by his perpetual lust for war and the bloodthirsty legacy his father has left him. When his father attempts to make peace with Europe, Ogatai sabotages the effort, slaughtering his own allies just to make his Frame-Up of the local Polish ambassador seem more convincing. Under Ogatai's command, countless hundreds are processed to the dungeons to be tortured to death, hundreds of thousands more are slaughtered as Ogatai leaves entire cities behind him as ruins, and eventually he forsakes conquering Poland for the option of annihilating it out of spite. Even after his father dies and he's left to caretake the Khan legacy, Ogatai admits he only cares about what he himself wants in the end, and he dies after his dreams of conquering the world and drowning it in blood are dashed.
• Monkey Man:
  • Baba Shatki is an insidious spiritual guru who hides his cruelty behind a mask of faith. A celebrity amongst the populace who rose from nothing, Baba uses his ties to the rising Sovereign Party to spread corruption across India, encouraging violence against trans citizens and non-Hindus in order to purify his country of undesirables, while secretly profiting off of Queenie's prostitution and drug running operations. Baba has several villages wiped out by his police squads in order to build factories over the lands, even converting surviving villagers into members of his cult and using them for slave labor. Baba's thirst for power has ultimately ruined the lives of many, with Kid's village being one of many he's destroyed.
  • Rana Singh is the crooked chief of police who assists Baba Shatki in his plans. Carrying out Baba's corruption by allowing his cops to abuse trans civilians and Muslims in return for drugs and women, Rana also leads the massacres of several villages in order to build Baba's factories over their land. Rana even attempted to rape Kid's mother during a previous pillage, and when she retaliated, Rana angrily strangled her to death and burned her body for good measure.
• The Monster: Dr. Gustave Ziska is an escapee from an insane asylum who took the place over. Having once been a surgeon who went mad, Ziska began to kill multiple people to discover the source of immortality and swapped souls between bodies, which inevitably resulted in the death of his victims. Running out of victims in the asylum, Ziska resorts to trapping passersby to use for his ghastly experiments.
• Monster (2014): Tae-soo, the titular monster, is hired to recover a cellphone from a blackmailer and makes the simple operation a living hell for everyone involved. A natural born killer since he was a child, Tae-soo is fond of murdering people for no reason, cremating the bodies, and then using their ashes to make pottery for his vast collection of trophies, claiming over a hundred victims. Properly introduced killing a couple in front of his own brother, Tae-soo sabotages the mission by killing the blackmailer and trying to do the same to her 10-year-old little sister for fun, slaughtering any obstacles and witnesses along the way. A soulless savage in human skin, Tae-soo was even willing to murder his own adoptive family.
• Monster Hunt: Lord Ge Qian Hu is the regional warlord and owner of the Heaven Restaurant. Disgusted by the Monster Hunter Bureau's fall into obscurity and wishing to revitalize it, Hu places a bounty on the Monster Queen's unborn child, relishing in the potential chaos that would ensue. Discovering that monsters were hiding in the Yongying Village, he captures the monsters, and takes them to his restaurant, where his employees would cook them into several dishes. Hu intended to eat the young monster king, Wuba, only to be stopped by Tianyin and Xiaolan. Taking Xiaolan and Tianyin's grandmother hostage, Hu gives Tianyin the option of either giving him the baby before he stopped counting, or to let both of his loved ones die a gruesome death. As the Monster King, he was responsible for orchestrating a civil war, and disguised himself as a human in order to eradicate the remnants of the old king's supporters. Hypocritical and having a taste for power, Ge wished to suppress his fellow monsters and humans alike.
• The Monster Project: Devon Adams is revealed to be Satan himself, having staged a ritual to unleash Hell on Earth as a documentary where he and a film-making crew interview three supposedly real monsters. Over the course of the film, he has Bryan kill the demon-possessed Shiori, leaves Murielle to die alone after she is bitten by a vampire, and mocks Bryan's beliefs when he reveals his true nature. When questioned if he actually loved Murielle, he claims that love is about sacrifice, but it's clear he saw her as nothing more than a tool to use and dispose of, and then has one of his followers slash Bryan's throat to complete the ritual.
• Monstrous (2020): Alex is a friendly young woman with knowledge of Sasquatch and is apparently an expert in avoiding the beast even as "Squatch" claims numerous bodies. In truth, Alex herself is the murderer who enjoys seducing, abducting, and eventually brutally beating her victims to death. When heroine Sylvia tries to find her missing friend Dana, Alex turns out to be the murderer who records her killings as sick trophies and has another victim imprisoned for later. When she later executes the other woman before trying to kill Sylvia, Alex's only explanation of her crimes is "why not?"
• Moon Warriors: The 14th Prince, Lord Lan-ling, is the treacherous brother of the 13th Prince who desires to kill his good-hearted brother and rule as an unabashed tyrant. Lan-ling has the entire population of a fishing village put to the sword in order to kill the Prince and his allies and personally manages to kill the innocent Princess Moon. A hideously heartless boss, Lan-ling introduces himself using his bowstring to decapitate an unfortunate minion and later kills his abused second-in-command the second she redeems herself.
• Mortal Engines: Thaddeus Valentine is the Deputy Lord Mayor of London who seeks the weapon MEDUSA for his own twisted ambitions. Prior to the story, Thaddeus murdered Pandora Shaw, the mother of his daughter Hester, before scarring Hester's face. To stop the heroes from interfering with his plans, Thaddeus unleashes the dangerous criminal Shrike to tail and dispose of them. Thaddeus's ultimate plan with MEDUSA is to use its power to turn the settlement of Shan Guo into his hunting ground, later killing London's Lord Mayor Magnus Crome when Crome discovers his plans. With his plans of utilizing MEDUSA rendered for naught, Thaddeus has the London control crew slaughtered and attempts to ram London into Shan Guo's wall, uncaring of the countless innocents that would be wiped out in the ensuing destruction.
• The Mortuary Collection: Charlotte Gibbons, the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy, is a twisted murderer who preys on children, with over ten victims murdered and cannibalized with a tooth removed as part of her trophy collection. Revealed as the "babysitter", under the guise of Sam, babysitting a boy named Logan, Charlotte murders the real babysitter and kills Logan before setting him in the oven for her dinner. Coming to the Raven's End mortuary to retrieve a trophy, she attempts to murder mortician Montgomery Dark before becoming the new keeper of the Mortuary and its stories, still preying on the children who fall into her clutches when she can.
• The Most Assassinated Woman in the World: Jean De Lancry is a Serial Killer who murders women and sells their corpses to the Grand Guignol theatre for the special effects. Having tried to rape the actress Paula Maxa in the past before raping and killing her sister Aimée, Jean regularly sends her death threats and has her perform a scene based on her tragedy. After trying to kill Paula, Jean successfully escapes justice and continues to murder women who resemble the actress.
• The Most Dangerous Game: Count Zaroff is an Egomaniac Hunter who grew bored with big game, and decided to go after humans instead. To this end, he periodically shifted signal buoys to cause ships to wreck on his island, and takes any survivors to hunt, ostensibly letting them go if they evade him until sunrise. Before the hunt, he locks his victim in his trophy room for a few hours so the victim will be scared enough for a sporting chase. When Sanger "Bob" Rainsford becomes his latest foe, he threatens to make Eve Trowbridge into his sex slave if he wins. After Rainsford wins and he and Eve escape the island, Zaroff tries to shoot them both, showing that he has no honor at all.
• The Mother: Hector Alvarez and Adrian Lovell are, respectively, an Arms Dealer and former SAS agent introduced to one another via their mutual lover, "the Mother". Allying to distribute arms for money, the two soon realized some clients liked "something extra" and began engaging in mass child sex trafficking for the money. When the pregnant Mother tried to give them up to the FBI, the two slaughtered a group of agents to silence her. Years later, the two mastermind a kidnapping of her daughter Zoe to draw her out of hiding, murdering her FBI friend William Cruise with no compunction over killing Zoe as well.
• mother! (2017): Him, Mother's husband, is a poet who values only the insatiable adoration of all around him. Hungry for the love of his fans, Him lures in numerous fans and allows them to descend into violence, slavery, sexual assault, and murder. Abusing his devoted wife, Him takes their child and allows his followers to rip the baby apart and eat it. At the end, with everyone dead, Him murders Mother as well and begins the cycle over again, as he has done countless times before.
• Mother/Android (2021): Arthur is the worst of the android servants who have turned against humanity and declared war on the human race. Arthur pretends to be a human and kindly stranger who helps people in need. He helps a pregnant woman Georgia escape from attacking androids and saves her boyfriend Sam from being tortured by the androids, but Arthur ordered Sam to be tortured and allowed Georgia to save Sam to gain their trust. Arthur helps Georgia and Sam go to Boston and get past the city's defenses to get safety. Arthur plans to disable Boston's defenses so the androids can overrun Boston and kill everyone in the city, and threatens to kill Georgia's baby if she tries to stop him.
• Mr. Hell (2006): Harold "Harry" Eugene Loveless, the titular Mr. Hell, is a Serial Killer in service to Satan, promising him souls in the form of eyeballs in return for immortality. Traveling from city to city and racking up a high body count, Harry regularly carves out the eyes of his victims, keeping them inside a container as he relishes their screams. With his latest stop being a bio lab in Houston, Harry kills his boss for letting his daughter Tyler off the hook after she tries to steal his eyeball container, then tries to kill Tyler himself. Returning many years later after being presumed dead from an acid bath, Harry initiates a mass killing spree among the lab foremen and invading terrorists, hoping to finally murder the now adult Tyler and continue his murders.
• Mulan: Rise of a Warrior: Mengdu, prince of the Rouran tribes, is first seen ordering some prisoners slaughtered for fun. After being forced to stop by his father, Mengdu suggests that they use their recently-united army to conquer China, kicking off a war that's so severe that China must conscript one man from every military family. After twelve years of fighting, and the men tired of war, Mengdu kills one general who tried to convince the others to go home, kills his father to take over the army, declares that the war will continue, and forces his sister to marry him. After Mengdu finds Mulan's army weakened by a sandstorm, he decides to stop them by torturing his POWs to draw the soldiers out and killing them as they do. Soon, Mengdu gets impatient and orders the prisoners slaughtered, only stopping when a prince who happened to be in the army offers himself as a hostage.
• Murder, Inc. (1960):
  • Louis "Lepke" Buchalter is the head of Murder, Inc. who recruits Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Bug Workman to the group and sends them out to murder a resort owner. With Murder, Inc. as his weapon, Lepke has dozens, if not hundreds, murdered throughout his reign, piling so many bodies the police and local politicians are absolutely aghast. When the police close in, Lepke has his own gangs wiped out and the hero Joseph "Joey" Collins's innocent wife Edith "Eadie" Collins murdered to cover his tracks.
  • Abe "Kid Twist" Reles is a member of Murder, Inc. and a hitman who strong-arms hero Joey Collins into helping with a murder. Building an empire for Lepke on countless innocents killed, Reles also rapes Joey's wife Eadie when she insults him.
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974): Lanfranco Cassetti is a notorious murderer and blackmailer who kidnaps people, murdering them when the authorities close in but still collecting the ransoms, Cassetti was the murderer of a little girl named Daisy, having continued to exploit her family days or even weeks after he had already killed the girl. Uncaring of how this killed four innocent people, from Daisy's mother dying from grief in premature labor with her new baby, to her father's suicide and an innocent maid killing herself when she was falsely accused of complicity, Cassetti cares only for escaping justice and was so evil that even the heroic Poirot feels obliged to cover for his killers.
• Murderous Trance (aka The Guardian Angel) (2018): Bjørn Schouw Nielsen is a smug hypnotist who loves controlling others. Once a Nazi collaborator who helped arrange the capture of a group of Jews trying to flee from the hateful regime, Nielsen takes up hypnotism to satisfy his lust for power. He subjects Palle Hardrup to months of indoctrination and brainwashing, forcing the man to live through a vision of murdering his own mother over and over again; Neilsen then "tests" Hardrup's conditioning by forcing him to let Nielsen brutally assault and rape Hardrup's wife. Nielsen then uses Hardrup to carry out a bank robbery and double murder of innocents for cheap thrills, and when he risks being caught, Nielsen threatens to plunge Inspector Olsen's wife into a permanent coma unless he frames Hardrup solely for the crimes.
• Murder Party: Alexander is a sinister, seemingly wealthy man who organizes the titular "Murder Party" that lures in Chris Hawley, before taking him hostage. Alexander then asserts his dominance over the group of artists present and instructs them how to murder Christopher in a group effort. As the night goes on, Alexander plays sadistic mind games with the group and eventually reveals he's just a fry cook named Tim who planned to trick them all into committing a gruesome murder before killing all of them to steal their artwork and make it more valuable to sell when they were all dead. He immediately attempts to kill everyone present following this revelation.
• Murders in the Zoo: Eric Gorman is a millionaire zoologist and big game hunter who is homicidally possessive of his wife Eveleyn. Introduced sewing closed the mouth of a colleague who kissed Evelyn and leaving him out in the wilderness to be slaughtered by wild animals, Eric plots to dispose of Roger Hewitt after he catches Evelyn's eye and fatally poisons him with mamba venom at a feast. When Evelyn threatens to expose his crimes, Eric tosses her into a pit to be torn apart by alligators with not an ounce of hesitation. Eric quickly poisons Dr. Woodford afterwards once he catches onto Eric's murders and tries to kill his assistant in a fit of rage after she saves Woodford's life. Even in spite of his charms, Eric is a senselessly violent psychopath whose crimes shocked audiences back in the 1930s and continue to stand out in depravity years later.
• Murphy's Law (1986): The psychopathic Joan Freeman, upon being released from jail, intends on bloody retribution against detective Jack Murphy for putting her behind bars. Murdering Murphy's ex-wife and her boyfriend and framing Murphy for it, Freeman begins systematically slaughtering everyone who had anything to do with her incarceration, with the intention of destroying Murphy's good name and leaving him for last. Finally, Freeman tries to kill Murphy's friend Isabella with an arrow, proclaiming her undying hate for Murphy before attempted to kill him with an ax.
• The Musketeer: Febre is a sadistic Blood Knight who lives for combat and destruction. Murdering D'Artagnan's parents in front of him as a child, Febre becomes the pet psychopath of Cardinal Richelieu and carries out his unsavory work. Febre murders many who cross his path and incites a riot to create political tension. Febre blackmails the queen by threatening a child's life to lure her and the Duke of Buckingham together to murder them both and frame the King of France. Febre then reveals his true goal: to start a giant war between France, Spain and Britain simply for the laughs of all the lives that will be lost. When Richelieu calls him mad for this, Febre remarks this is the third time he's been called insane in a night. "It must be so!"
• Mutant Girls Squad: Kisaragi is the mutant leader of a HILKO resistance group who only cares for himself. He takes in HILKO girls shunned by society, training them to become soldiers. Sacrificing innocent humans for Izanami in return for power, he later leads an attack on an anti-HILKO meeting, forcing Rin to kill three innocent humans afterwards, disappointed when she refuses. The next morning, he sends all of his girls out to act as suicide bombers, killing thousands of humans in the process. During the attacks, Kisaragi kidnaps the anti-HILKO Prime Minister, using his blood to make Izanami grant him a mutant power suit. When the police lead a raid on the HILKO hideout, Kisaragi, using his new suit, gleefully kills them all, declaring himself the new leader of Japan. After Rin and Rei figure out his motives, Kisaragi tries to kill them, seeing them as having served their purpose.
• Mute (2018): Duck is an underground doctor who works alongside Cactus Bill to use their services as torture technicians for mobsters. Though seemingly a kind prosthetic doctor for children in public, Duck is a pedophile who uses his position to abuse the children in his care. When Bill finds out and threatens Duck over it, Duck sets up Bill to die and forces him to watch with his last breaths as Duck kidnaps Bill's daughter to molest. Duck then horribly tortures Leo while mocking him over the death of his lover.
• Mute Witness (1995):
  • The Reaper is the head of a powerful ring of snuff filmmakers. A seemingly kind old man, the Reaper organizes massive operations where poor or immigrant women are lured in for pornography only to be beaten and painfully murdered on camera, with a truly massive operation. Ordering a mute woman killed when she is a witness, the Reaper later tries to have his seemingly loyal police mole killed with a car bomb to keep things as secret as possible.
  • Lyosha & Arkadi are the most prominent of the henchmen that the Reaper employs. Lyosha is the brains of the operation, making sure to capture every grizzly detail, while Arkadi kills the unexpecting targets. Both also work as crew members for a low-budget slasher film being made in Russia. One night, mute make-up artist Billy Hughes is accidentally left behind and catches the duo filming their snuff film. The duo stalks Billy throughout the empty film studio, nearly catching her a few times. Lyosha is able to convince the police that the "murder" was staged, showing the police a "fake" knife, and manages to give the slasher film being filmed in order to evade suspicion. Arkadi kills the night janitor that finds him burning the body of the woman he's killed and later tries to kill Billy, stalking her in her own home.
• My Bloody Valentine 3D: Harry Warden, the original Miner, is a lot more violent and brutal than his counterpart in the original film. Already a thoroughly unpleasant man from the beginning, Warden murdered his fellow miners to conserve his own oxygen after an explosion in the mine, butchers the patients in a hospital, and slaughters a number of partygoers at the mine all while making his way towards Tom, who he blames for the explosion. His attempted murder of Tom traumatizes the latter, inspiring him to go on another Valentine's Day killing spree years later while seeing Warden committing the murders.
• My Name Is Pecos (1966): Joe Clane, "murderer of women and babies", is a cruel bandit who reinvented himself as the Small-Town Tyrant of Houston after he wiped out the titular hero's family. Clane turns Houston into a virtual ghost town, either running out or killing the majority of the population, extorting and terrorizing the few who remain. When Clane gets his hands on Pecos' Love Interest, he tortures her, makes her watch as her father is killed in front of her, and gloats that he plans to strip her nude and force her to serve him and his gang hand-and-foot for his evil pleasure.
• My Soul to Take: The Riverton Ripper is a malevolent spirit ^note Either the soul of a killer or a split personality who became a separate being who caused a schizophrenic man named Abel Plenkov to unknowingly commit a series of murders in his town. When Abel discovered him, the Ripper took full control, killing Abel’s doctor and pregnant wife, and attempting to kill several others, including Abel’s young daughter before seemingly disappearing, but actually jumping into the body of a baby. Sixteen years later, when the Riverton Seven, the teenagers who happened to be born on the day the Ripper vanished, fail to complete a ritual meant to keep the Ripper away, the Ripper returns and begins killing them off. After killing five of the seven, leaving only Bug and his friend Alex, and having also killed Bug’s foster mother and a policeman, the Ripper reveals that his soul had been in Alex, and he tries to make a deal with Bug to kill Bug’s sister and pin the murders on the recently-deceased Jerome so that they would be seen as heroes. When Bug refuses, the Ripper tries to kill him as well.
• Mysterious Skin: The coach is a seeming friend to all children, but in reality is a despicable pedophile who uses his position to molest boys in his care. The coach has subjected many boys to his depraved actions, brainwashing young Neil and forcing him to lure in other boys and engage in sexual activity with Coach. Though The coach has since disappeared from the lives of the boys he abused, his vile actions tainted and tormented them all for life.
• Mystery Men: In the otherwise-comedic film, the vicious Casanova Frankenstein is released from the asylum he's been in for twenty years. Showing he hasn't changed in the slightest, Casanova promptly blows the Asylum up and abducts his old nemesis Captain Amazing, who had him released in the first place out of boredom. Planning to create the greatest act of evil Champion City has ever seen, Casanova unveils the Psycho-Frakulator that will painfully warp reality and kill every citizen in the city. Delighted by his own evil, Casanova even kills his own henchmen just to prove a point to the heroes when they try to stop him and abducts hero Mr. Furious's girlfriend with obvious lewd intentions before attempting to annihilate the city with them.
• Mythica series: Szorlok the Necromancer killed many people to find the Darkspore, which grants ultimate power over the death, even sacrificing his loyal acolytes to power it. Defeated, Szorlok went into exile, but later kills many to recover the separated fragments of the Darkspore. Upon taking center stage, Szorlok drains the life of his former friend and mentor Gojun Pye, raising armies of the undead to slaughter all in their path while Szorlok destroys the Gods to take their place, intending to make everyone worship him or die. When the heroine Marek resists him, Szorlok attempts to drain the life of every mortal on the planet to fuel himself, laughing how he will rule over a "world of death".

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• The Naked Cage (1986): Smiley is a prison guard who moonlights as a part-time pimp and vile sexual predator. Prowling the prison and raping his prisoners as a way to keep himself entertained, Smiley loves hearing his victims scream, with his latest victim Ruby killing herself afterwards, to Smiley's apathy. Harboring a grudge against Michelle for calling him a "Penitentiary Pansy Man", Smiley does what he can to rape her, and when that fails, he happily goes along with the warden’s plan to murder Michelle, killing the Black prisoners' leader Brenda as a distraction to do so, along with several other prisoners when they chase after him in retaliation.
• Naked Fear: Colin Mandel is an egomaniacal sadist with an enjoyment for hunting humans like animal prey. Having over half a dozen victims who he viciously tortured, stripped, and chased down in the wilderness before executing, Colin kidnaps Diana Kelper as his latest target and murders an entire family—even the children—when they interfere in his hunt of Diana. Colin later tries to shoot two motorists dead for helping Diana while making one last attempt to continue his killings.
• Naked Weapon: Madam M, real name Madeline Ho, is the leader of a mysterious organization of female assassins. After killing her own top assassin, she seeks a replacement by kidnapping young girls from all over the world and bringing them to her island, where they are shot should they try to escape. After 6 years of grueling training and kill-or-be-killed exercises, the girls are forced by Madam M into a deathmatch that leaves only three of the original 40 alive. Afterwards, she drugs the surviving girls and has them brutally raped in order to "prepare" them for having to use their bodies to commit assassinations. She has them commit many murders all over the world, and when one of them tries to reconnect with her long-lost mother, Madam M tries to have said mother killed.
• Nam Angels: Chard is a former member of the Nazi "Devil's Legion" who, after being rescued from near-death by an indigenous Vietnamese tribe, convinces them to prop him up as a god. His rule is brutal and isolationist, slaughtering any outsiders who stumble upon his tribe and selling POWs to both sides of the ongoing civil war. His men treated little better, Chard orders a village of his own loyalists slaughtered when one of them helps Lieutenant Vince Calhoun rescue his men, whom Chard had captured earlier. When Calhoun and the Hells Angels he's recruited attack Chard's hideout, the tyrant decides to sell them to the North Vietnamese Army in the hopes they'll be hunted for sport, while murdering one of the bikers himself and bringing his tattered coat back to taunt Calhoun.
• The Nameless Knight (Adsız Cengaver) (1970): Shah Al-Kabbar is the tyrannical Lord of Bukhara who rules the kingdom with an iron fist. Learning of a prophecy that his newborn son will take over his throne, Al-Kabbar orders his son to be executed, and when his concubine who bore him his child sent the baby in a cradle down a river, Al-Kabbar personally chokes and drowns his concubine with his bare hands. Brutally reigning over the kingdom for decades, when finding out his baby son had grown into adulthood as the titular Knight, Adsiz, Al-Kabbar sends his soldiers on a killing spree, slaughtering innocent families in order to flush Adsiz out of hiding, killing Adsiz's adoptive family in the process, as well as having a failed mercenary thrown into a burning pit. Al-Kabbar's tyranny even disgusts his captain, Altinay, who eventually defects to support Adsiz and the rebels and saves Adsiz whom Al-Kabbar had arrested and is intending to execute; in the penultimate duel, after Adsiz had defeated Al-Kabbar and opts to spare the tyrant's life, Al-Kabbar tries to stab Adsiz In the Back.
• The Name of the Rose (1986): Inquisitor Bernardo Gui is the sadistic fanatic whose savagery forced William of Baskerville to leave the Inquisitors. Roaming the countryside, Gui takes those he believes might be "heretics" or witches and tortures them into confessions before burning them alive. Arriving at the abbey, Gui tortures the hunchback Salvatore into a confession, accusing him, an innocent peasant girl, and another man of witchcraft to burn them while also jumping at the chance to declare William the murderer and kill him as well.
• Nate and Hayes: Ben Pease was once the partner of William "Bully" Hayes until Bully caught Ben subjecting innocents to slavery. The resulting fight had Bully shoot off Ben's private parts, and as a result, Ben has left a trail of murder across the seas to frame Bully for his crimes. Attacking a mission, Ben murders everyone except those he abducts to sell into slavery, and when the heroine Sophie takes one of his men hostage, Ben simply shoots the man to deprive her of a hostage. Allying with imperial Germany, Ben intends to supply them with slaves for their mines while also making an alliance with a cannibal tribe by giving them barrels full of severed heads and Sophie to use as a Human Sacrifice. Even at the end, Ben attempts to frame Bully for everything and see his nemesis hang in Ben's place.
• The Nativity Story: King Herod the Great is the tyrannical and blasphemous ruler of Judea, who ruthlessly taxes his already impoverished people to fund the construction of his own temples and palaces, and orders that anyone who cannot pay have their families forced into slavery or their animals slaughtered. However, he is most concerned with a prophecy that a Messiah will arise from the town of Bethlehem, ordering a census so he may track any men of power returning there, outlawing speak of the prophecy by punishment of crucifixion, and even threatening his own son with death if he does not continue to prove himself useful. When The Three Wise Men tell him that the Messiah they seek is a child, Herod lies and says he is looking for the Messiah too, and that they should return to him after he is found. When the Wise Men do not return, Herod commands that all the children under the age of two in Bethlehem be slaughtered.
• Nazi Overlord: Dr. India Eris is a British scientist who defected to the Nazis and was tasked with making bioweapons. She had them stage a kidnapping so the Allies would send her test subjects in the form of rescue teams, meanwhile also experimenting on civilians near the base she's stationed in, children included. These experiments are meant to create a plague to spread amongst non-Aryan peoples so that they'll go mad and eat each other alive. She intends to transfer the virus via bug bites, but those test subjects keep exploding. After Captain Adam Rogers and his team are captured by her benefactors, Eris has them be Forced to Watch as she conducts these experiments, eventually setting some zombies on them when they break free. While she is killed in this final battle, she managed to infect Rogers beforehand, thus ravaging the Earth even after death.
• Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012):
  • Adolf Hitler himself, resurrected in a new mechanical body, seeks to restart his genocidal campaign by establishing a Fourth Reich. Upon resurrection, Hitler decapitates one of the kidnapped researchers, and leads his army to conquer the planet. Hitler would blow up a military aircraft and its pilots with it, and tries to kill the rest of the researchers when they tried to escape. His ultimate plan is to infect the planet with flesh-eating bacteria, with which he'll bombard several countries to further his megalomaniacal goals of conquest.
  • Josef Mengele is a genius scientist and military commander who seeks to bring Hitler back to life and create the Fourth Reich by bombing every non-Aryan country with a flesh-eating bacteria and an army of technologically advanced Nazis. Escaping to Antarctica during World War II, Mengele prolongs the lifespan of his organization and forces a doctor named Riestad to bring a "constant supply" of victims to him, so he could vivisect them to keep him and his army alive. Abducting a group of researchers, Mengele keeps a skinless man alive for hours and executes another who he suspected was a Jew. Selecting a group of women, Mengele gives one to be raped by his men and lobotomizes another, removing her brain with his own hand in a fit of anger. After reviving Hitler by allowing Riestad to kill his own unborn child and take his stem cells, Mengele plans on bringing the rest of the researchers to surgery so they could not be liabilities anymore.
• Needful Things extended edition: Leland Gaunt seems to be a charming, kindly old salesman, but is actually the Devil himself. For centuries, Gaunt has walked the Earth and sowed all manner of mayhem, from plagues; to world wars; to the atom bomb, feeding off the mass misery he instills. In his latest form, Gaunt travels to small towns and slowly corrupts the population by offering them magical, valuable items that they feel compelled to own, and requesting a "favor" in return. Gaunt uses these "favors" to force the citizens to hurt and turn on each other, culminating in citywide chaos and murder that Gaunt revels in. Arriving in Castle Rock and beginning his usual procedure, Gaunt uses the young boy Brian as a stooge to carry out his will, and when two women kill each other thanks to Gaunt, Gaunt goads Brian into attempting suicide out of guilt for his part in things. After raping the fiancée of Sheriff Pangford, Gaunt tries to drive Castle Rock into tearing itself apart and, failing at this, tries to use another corrupted puppet to simply kill the entire town in a suicide bombing.
• The Neon Demon: Hank the motel owner is a sleazy and callous predator who pimps out young runaways, showing a delight over doing so to a 13-year-old who falls into his clutches, which he refers to as "real Lolita shit." Jesse receives a premonition of Hank violently assaulting her with a knife and locks the door to keep him out, only for Hank to attack and rape the young teen girl next door.
• Never Too Young to Die: Velvet Von Ragner, the Arch-Enemy of the Stargroves, is an evil transvestite crime lord: 50% man, 50% woman, 100% wicked to the core. Velvet opens the film bombastically announcing his intention to poison the water supply of L.A. with a "worse than lethal" toxin that will contaminate it for 10,000 years, demanding extravagant ransom to stave that threat off. A gleeful sadist and murderer besides, Velvet guns down Lance Stargrove's secret spy father while attempting to have Lance's girlfriend cooked and Lance himself beaten to death. Velvet demonstrating a recurring nasty liking for "the finger", using his poisoned nails to fatally gouge out the throats of captured secret spies and his own failed minions alike–-a nail that ends up jammed in his own neck on his battle with Lance atop a dam, mere minutes after gloating he'll ensure all of the millions of homes downstream will obliviously be receiving the toxic water after his ransom plot is foiled.
• New Dragon Inn: Both versions of the classic wuxia villain Tsao/Cao Siu-yan count:
  • Dragon Inn (Dragon Gate Inn) (1967): Tsao is an asthmatic, merciless eunuch and the chief of the Dong Chang, allowing them to murder and terrorize people with full impunity. Besting and executing his political rival, the noble Minister Yu, Tsao has Yu's children ruthlessly hunted down, having his men conduct a full massacre of the people within and around the titular inn to set up an ambush. Revealed to have castrated and press-ganged two of Yu's remaining sympathizers after they paid respects to the late Minister's grave, Tsao ultimately murders the border officer with his own sword en route to the inn and tries to slaughter everyone between him and the children himself.
  • Dragon Inn (New Dragon Gate Inn) (1992): No less evil than his original incarnation, Tsao here is a power-hungry eunuch who subverts the Emperor's authority to pursue power himself, having prisoners used as target practice by his men and having all of his politically rivals systematically captured and horribly killed. Personally torturing Minister Yang Yu-xuan to death and having his entire family murdered, Tsao spares only his two young children for the purpose of luring in the noble general Chow and his men so he can wipe them all out at once. His men pursuing Chow and the children to the Dragon Gate Inn, Tsao rides in himself and has his archers fire through both rebels and Dong Chang soldiers alike, ultimately coming down himself to kill the children and all of their sympathizers and successfully killing Mo-yan himself before his own death.
• The New Kids (1985): Eddie Dutra is a smug, homicidal Jerkass who goes above and beyond the norm for 80s high school bullies. The cruel leader of a gang of rednecks who he keeps in line with threats and abuse, Dutra becomes obsessed with bedding the young teenager Abby McWilliams, responding to her rejection by assaulting her brother Loren and slitting the throat of her pet rabbit. Eventually escalating in his evil, Dutra kidnaps Abby and attempts to gang-rape her while setting parts of her on fire, later trying to force her to watch as he has her beloved uncle Charlie mauled to death by Dutra's pet dog. Shooting both Charlie and his own dog when things get out of his control, Dutra callously gets one of his gang members killed without remorse, and tries one last time to kill Abby and Loren by burning them alive, cackling all the way.
• The New Legend of Shaolin: Ma Ling-Yee is a brutal government enforcer. Once a close ally of Hung Hei-Kwun, Ling-Yee betrayed his former friend and sided with the corrupt government out of greed. He led the government army in slaughtering Hei-Kwun's village, with his infant son being the only survivor. After seemingly being killed by Hei-Kwun, Ling-Yee was healed and made "invincible". Years later, Ling-Yee and the government forces sought out a map tattooed on the backs of several children, hoping it would lead them to the rebel treasure. In his quest, Ling-Yee and the government forces wiped out a temple of monks, personally killing his old master. He tracks the children to a village and captures them, including Hei-Kwun's son. When the children are freed, Ling-Yee pursues them to a rebel hideout, wiping out the rebels living there. Even when the government forces are defeated, Ling-Yee continues to pursue Hei-Kwun and the children to a ghost village and tries to kill them all.
• New York Ninja (2021): The Plutonium Killer is an ex-CIA agent who was caught in a radiation experiment. Becoming an international criminal afterwards, the Plutonium Killer establishes an international prostitution ring, where women are kidnapped and sold to sadists and torturers. In his spare time, the Plutonium Killer prowls the night sadistically murdering women with his radiation and leaving their rotting bodies for the police to find.
• The Next Kill (2018): The Time Keeper and the Cutter are a pair of killers who cause wanton mayhem throughout Lincoln City. Eager to complete a hit list in a short span of time, the Time Keeper broke the Cutter out of prison, threatening to kill him with a bomb if he didn't finish the list. Once free, the Cutter goes around the city slaughtering dozens of people, while the Time Keeper forces the mayor to prevent police interference or else he'll set off multiple bombs around the city. Hoping to tie off loose ends, the Time Keeper tries to kill the Cutter anyway once he completes his tasks. After the Cutter discovers the Time Keeper's treachery, the Cutter kills the Time Keeper with his own bomb and tries to flee the city.
• The Nice Guys: "John Boy" is a ruthless hitman hired by the Detroit mob to silence Amelia Kuttner and tie up loose ends connected to her. Arriving in Los Angeles and immediately murdering two businessmen who had dealings with Amelia, John Boy tracks Amelia to the home of Holland March, where John Boy threatens and nearly murders March's daughter and her best friend for standing in his way. Killing Amelia with wry amusement, John Boy later stages an attack on the Los Angeles Auto Show to prevent Amelia's filmed exposure of Detroit's criminal dealings from airing, brutally beating the teenage film projectionist and leaving him for dead in his search. Tossing a grenade into a crowd and killing innocents to cause panicked chaos, John Boy tries to kill March and his partner Jackson Healy, as well as anyone else who gets in his way, notably executing three harmless security guards after dispatching them.
• Nick of Time: "Mr. Smith" is a psychopathic assassin who, with his compatriot Ms. Jones, strongarms everyman Gene Watson into carrying out a political assassination under the threat of his little girl Lynn's life. The nastier and the more unstable between himself and Ms. Jones, Mr. Smith beats, threatens, and hounds Gene at every opportunity, clearly intending to leave him to face the heat regardless of whether or not he successfully carries out the hit. When his target's assistant clues into too much for her own good, Smith shoots her in the head without blinking, and when his target escapes, Smith fires wildly into a populated crowd just to get her, hitting numerous other innocent people. To do nothing more than blow off some steam after the plan goes up in smoke, Smith tries to personally kill Lynn as well. Even when Gene shoots him in retribution for this, Smith is nothing but happy he's made the man take a life, proudly claiming "I told them I could make a killer out of you!"
• Nightbreed:
  • Dr. Philip Decker is far eviler than any of the actual monsters in the film. He masquerades as a renowned psychologist, but is actually a masked, bayonet-wielding Serial Killer who butchers families—including the children—women he comes across; and anyone else he can get his hands on. He sees himself as a Death-like figure on a mission to stop the continuation of mankind. After Decker's psychiatric patient Aaron Boone tells him his dreams of the Nightbreed civilization, he frames Aaron for his crimes and gets Aaron killed by the police. When he learns of Aaron's resurrection and the existence of the Tribes of the Moon, he tries to exterminate the civilization of magical creatures as the ultimate extension of his mission to cleanse the world.
  • Director's cut: Police Captain Eigerman is the worst humanity has to offer alongside Dr. Decker. A Glory Hound who cares nothing for the truth of Decker's murders, Eigerman later leads his forces into the city of Midian with intent to slaughter the Tribes of the Moon. Initiating a brutal purge of even the Nightbreed women and children, Eigerman uses explosive charges, flamethrowers, and guns on Nightbreed civilians, gleeful about the chance to butcher as many as he possibly can before demanding the transformed Reverend Ashberry follow him in murdering the survivors.
• The Night Comes for Us: Chien Wu is a cruel member of the Six Seas who happily takes orders from his unseen bosses. Having a helping hand in orchestrating the massacre of a "shithole village" because they were siphoning his gang's money, Chien Wu tries to have the traitor Ito killed alongside the survivor Reina. Getting Ito's crew killed in an apartment massacre, Chien Wu tasks Ito's former friend Arian to kill him in return for a position in the Six Seas, only to have him viciously gunned down once he fails to do so.
• Nightcrawler: Louis "Lou" Bloom is what is known as a "Nightcrawler", a reporter who prowls the nights for the most gruesome footage he can gather. Louis is also a total sociopath who opens the film by attacking and perhaps murdering a security guard for his watch. Once he discovers the money in reporting, Louis devotes himself wholeheartedly to the endeavor. He blackmails his boss into sleeping with him once his position is secure, knowing that she needs his footage. Lou sabotages the brakes of a van belonging to a rival so he can film said rival dying on a stretcher. Lou later reports gang violence as a home invasion so he can create a panic-laden story of urban crime creeping into the suburbs, and later engineers a confrontation with the police in a crowded diner so he can film the resulting carnage as gang members, police and innocent civilians die. Finally, Lou follows a car chase and when one of the gang members crashes, Lou lies to his assistant Rick that the gangster is dead, causing Rick to be shot dead by the gangster once he goes over to film the body; the motive was Rick wanted more of the profits. A media sensation with his new company of Video Production News, Lou covers his lack of humanity with a seemingly friendly mask, all the while promising his new employees he'd never ask any of them to do something he wouldn't do himself.
• Nighthawks: Heymar Reinhardt, alias "Wulfgar," is a terrorist who manipulates everyone around him and kills the people who help him. Even his employers don't like him, as evidenced by one of them refusing to pay him because several children were killed by his last attack at the beginning of the movie. He doesn't care who his actions injure or kill, even if the victims are children. He takes a frail old woman hostage at a subway, and before that, he killed the flight attendant he was staying with after she looked in his briefcase, calmly telling her that everything was okay, before killing her offscreen. Later on, he takes more hostages, including an eight-month-old infant. The only reason that he lets the infant live is because he knows that doing so would make him seem more employable to future or potential terrorist organizations, provided he can escape his current predicament alive.
• The Nightingale (2019): Lieutenant Hawkins is a representation of the worst of the British soldiery. After heroine Clare Carroll requests he free her from servitude, Hawkins rapes her, later leading a gang rape of her and murdering her husband Aidan when he blames her for losing out on a promotion, resulting in one of his men murdering her baby Bridget. When heading to Launceston to secure a captaincy, Hawkins accepts his Sergeant Ruse abducting a native woman named Lowanna to use as a Sex Slave, raping her before leaving her for Ruse. Abandoning his men and murdering Lowanna during an Aboriginal attack, Hawkins tries to have Clare's guide "Billy" Mangana murdered. When a young boy convict named Eddie cannot shoot Billy, Hawkins abandons the former, mocking him over extending his sentence, and finally shooting Eddie dead when the latter won't stop begging for another chance.
• Nightmare Alley (2021): Clement "Clem" Hoately is a seemingly avuncular carnival operator who controls his carnies with special moonshine so they might never leave him. To obtain his Geeks, the lowest of the low, Clem finds men who have nothing left and painfully addicts them to opium, using withdrawal to torture them into the mistreated, barely human Geeks until addiction and ill treatment take their toll, whereupon he abandons them to die and begins breaking in a new Geek.
• Nightmare at Noon: The enigmatic foreign agent simply known as "the Albino" is a mute Mad Scientist who infects the water supply of the small town of Canyonland to drive them all into murderous insanity. The Albino oversees countless dozens turn upon and kill each other with a clear air of pleasure, having a harmless witness to his schemes executed and even murdering all of his minions when he decrees they're a liability to him.
• Nightmare Cinema (2018): Mashit, from the story of the same name directed by Ryūhei Kitamura, is a demon drawn to lust and incest, punishing the perpetrators and torturing all around them for sheer sadistic glee. Coming to the home of Father Benedict Abuelo, who is having an affair with the nun Patricia, Mashit forces a child's suicide and begins to torment the duo until they believe a girl named Dani is possessed. Instead, Mashit takes her mother Cindy and tortures Dani while also mentally dominating the other children to use them as weapons to die against Father Benedict until he is killed. Mashit has Cindy kill herself before taking over Sister Patricia, gleefully planning to move on and continue the evil work.
• The Nightmare Never Ends: Olivier, a demonic Man of Wealth and Taste—heavily implied to be the demon Moloch—and leader of a Satanic cult, has been involved in many wars over the centuries. He's introduced interrupting a Nazi dinner party to inform a man that he hasn't met his quota with Hitler for three weeks before gunning down the women onstage. He kills the alleged clairvoyant who showed Claire Hansen the vision of him in Nazi Germany. Weiss, a survivor of The Holocaust who lost his family to Olivier, attempts to hunt him down when he finds out that he sees him on TV, only for Olivier to brutally murder him. Olivier then rapes a girl, Annie, in his club and kills her boyfriend when he goes looking for him. He then sets his sights on the Claire's husband, Nobel Prize-winning atheist author, James Hansen, who just released a book entitled God Is Dead. He forces James into a meeting and attempts to recruit him to his cult, and melts his face when he refuses. When Lieutenant Sterne investigates him, Olivier kills his partner by filling his car with smoke and causing it to blow up when Sterne gets near. Then he goes after Claire, who's been tasked to kill him and remove his heart. She—along with Annie—captures him and tries to cut his heart out on an operating table, but Claire discovers that she killed Annie in his place, and Olivier murders her.
• The Night of a Thousand Cats: Hugo, disturbed playboy Serial Killer, routinely stalks the women of Acapulco in his helicopter, seducing them and bringing them to his mansion whereupon he strangles and kills them. Hugo, as an avid collector in the fashion of his ancestors, keeps the heads of his victims in glass cases in his basement, feeding the rest to his pen of ravenous cats—saving the bits he eats himself. Hugo further murders a doctor in fury who causes him to lose one of his victims, and even tosses his loyal servant Dorgo to his death for beating him in chess.
• The Night of the Generals: Wilhelm Tanz is a fanatical Nazi and an unrepentant Serial Killer who targets women and uses knives to kill them in sexually depraved manners. Tanz's first known victim to the German army at large is in 1941, initiating an investigation by the far saner and more humane Major Grau. Tanz's brutal tactics with civilians make him stand out among his fellow officers, but Grau is alerted three years later when Tanz kills another woman and frames his driver Hermann for it. When Grau confronts Tanz, having deduced he is the killer, Tanz murders him and frames him as a member of a coup against Hitler. Finally, in the 1960s, Tanz's murder of another woman prompts a reopening of the cold case, finally resulting in Tanz brought to justice.
• Night of the Hunted (2023): The Sniper is a sadistic and misogynist conspiracy theorist who stalks Alice for seemingly no reason other than wanting to. Setting up on a billboard across a desolate gas station, the sniper murders the cashier clerk and Alice's affair partner John before he sadistically toys and taunts Alice through a radio as he fires at her, spending hours raving misogynistic and patriotic rants as he attempts to kill her, giving the woman false hope before ripping it away each time. Killing any help that arrives to try and save her, the sniper kills an elderly couple stopping for gas, making their suffering last as he coldly kills them, before he attempts to have Alice decide to either have herself be killed or the elderly couple's granddaughter murdered, before he decides to go down and kill them himself. A Psychopathic Manchild who has multiple reasons on why he could be like this, in which all are debunked, the sniper is a hateful coward who simply hates the state of the world and wishes to be left alone to do what he wants.
• The Night of the Hunter: Harry Powell, a Serial Killer and self-appointed preacher, is introduced reminiscing about his previous murders as he was fleeing the sight of his latest murder. After sharing a cell with a bank robber, he gets out of prison and marries Willa, the bank robber's wife, believing her children knew where the stolen money was hidden. He skillfully endears himself to the town, and practically brainwashes Willa into believing his every word. When she overheard him asking the children about the money, he slits her throat as she was laying in bed, dumps her body into the river, and makes up a story to cover for it. In order to get the children to tell him where the money was, he threatens to murder the son, John, while his sister watched. While pursuing them, he kills a farmer, steals a horse and chases them across the state. Believing that God wanted him to murder women, Powell was a chilling psychopath who is unfettered when it comes to what he wants.
• Night of the Running Man (1995): Sadistic hitman David Eckhart is introduced in bed with a lover, only to snap her neck when she attempts to ask him personal questions. Later blinding a mugger for amusement and wasting his time, Eckhart goes on the trail of cab driver Jerry Logan who, by chance, has ended up with a million dollars. Capturing a waitress Logan befriended, Eckhart dangles her over a dam's edge and drops her even when she gives him what he wants to know. Having Logan tortured by his partner Mills to keep him from running, the promise of the money eventually makes Eckhart murder his employer and his employer's wife and kill the "snitch" who informed him to get back in the local mob boss's good graces while keeping the money. Eckhart promptly betrays Logan's deal, tries to kill him and his girlfriend, and even murders Mills as not to share the wealth, gloating all the while about the "rush" he is getting from his excitement.
• The Night Stalker (1986-1987): Chuck Summers is a former mercenary who discovered an ancient Chinese way of healing himself. Finding out that killing others grants him immortality, Chuck became a Serial Killer, gleefully murdering innocents to transplant their souls and strength into him. Moving to LA, Chuck started killing prostitutes for his rituals, murdering countless others who stand in the way on his quest for eternal life.
• Night Swim: The nameless creature is a demonic entity that actively hunted mankind since the 17th century. Dwelling within the spring that provides water for the family pool, it has made deals with countless humans desperate to heal their sick at the cost of the sacrifice of a loved one. In 1992, it lures and drowns Rebecca Fuller, trapping her soul in another dimension alongside the hostile spirits of its previous victims. When the Waller family moves into the Fullers' former residence, the creature kills the family cat and targets Elliot as its next victim. After "healing" Ray, it takes full possession of him, compelling him to nearly drown a boy during a neighborhood pool party, and attempts to violently kill his daughter Izzy, all while sadistically delighting in its cruelty.
• Night Teeth: Victor is a vampire lord who, tired of abiding by the human-vampire truce, seeks to overthrow his superiors to hunt humans with impunity. Violating the truce by slaughtering humans in Boyle Heights and kidnapping Jay's girlfriend, Victor uses the subsequent chaos to allow him and his followers Zoe and Blaire to pick off the vampire lords and anyone else who gets in their way. Meeting Jay, Victor reveals he had all his men killed and his girlfriend ground up into meat, before capturing him and locking him away as a living blood bag, of which he has multiple. When Blaire turns on him in defense of Benny, Victor casually orders her killed before biting Benny, infecting him with vampirism.
• Night Terrors (1993): The charismatic cult leader, Paul Chevalier, is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade himself who has dedicated his life to embracing and upholding his ancestor's deranged teachings. Chevalier leads sadomasochistic orgies among his cult while fixating on a young woman named Genie who bears resemblance to de Sade's own lover, terrorizing her by sadistically murdering her friends and tormenting them with her bodies. Chevalier eventually has Genie kidnapped, her father murdered and his head brought to torment her, while killing the man who brought Genie to him in the first place. When Genie remains defiant of him, Chevalier decides to torture her to death in whatever way his whims decree, horribly murdering even his own lover who tries to protect Genie from Chevalier's psychopathic intentions.
• Night Trap (1993): "Bishop" is an enigmatic Satanist who has been alive for over 800 years, murdering women as human sacrifices each year around the time of Mardi Gras. Introduced hurling a woman out a window after tearing out her tongue, Bishop goes on to make a personal game of destroying the life of Mike Turner, the cop who pursues him, killing Turner's partner and then forcing Turner into a Sadistic Choice involving the lives of his ex-wife and his friend. Bishop murders several other innocent people throughout the movie, only too happy to drag anyone near Turner to their demise, all out of sadistic spite.
• Night Wars (1988): McGregor is a sadistic U.S. soldier who became a mercenary for the Viet Cong. Betraying his own platoon, McGregor served as the Torture Technician of a POW Camp, gleefully tormenting his former comrades. Trapping Jhonny in the camp with him for nine years, McGregor regularly tortures Trent and Jim when they go back in time to save their friend, taking advantage of the camp's supernatural properties in an attempt to torture the three for eternity. Invading the present, McGregor sexually assaults Trent's wife before stabbing her to death.
• Nightwatch (1997): Inspector Thomas Cray is a despicable Serial Killer with a fetish for dead people. Once a nightwatchman for a morgue, Cray was fired for having sex with the dead bodies as they came through, and, after trying to sate his desires by hiring hookers to play dead while he had sex with them, decided to escalate his fantasy. Cray began murdering prostitutes, having sex with their corpses, then scooping out their eyeballs as trophies, something he repeats 5 times across his career, and, when getting tired of evading police, prompts to frame an innocent man for his crimes. After murdering a 17-year-old prostitute and framing the hapless Martin Bells as the killer, Cray tries to kill both Martin and his girlfriend with a buzzsaw to their skulls after beating his police partner to death with a baseball bat. A psychopath with a disturbing fixation on the dead, Thomas Cray's evil ran so deep that he actively defied having any reason for his crimes.
• Nine Dead: Coogan shows himself to be the worst of the nine captives. A self-admitted child molester and Serial Killer whose "travels" have taken him all over the country, he does a bit in San Quentin for grand theft auto since the authorities couldn't find the bodies he disposed of. Having infected the Shooter's son with HIV by raping him in prison, Coogan is a remorseless piece of work who disgusts every other person in the room, even otherwise hardened criminals like Sully and Leon.
• Ninja: Masazuka was the second-best student of the Takeda ninja dojo until he was expelled for trying to kill Casey Bowman. In response, Masazuka became a hitman in the employ of Temple Industries. Later, he tries to claim the Yoroi Bitsu, a box containing the Takeda school's founder's weapons, slaughtering most of the school in the process. After killing Sensei Takeda in his interrogation, Masazuka learns that his quarry is in New York City, and has Temple send some assassins after them. Killing the sole survivor of the goons' failed attempt, he seeks Casey and Namiko Takeda, killing most of the police precinct they're in and capturing the latter. During the final battle, Masazuka poisons Namiko just to get an edge on Casey.
• Ninja III: The Domination (1984): The evil, unnamed Black Ninja opens the film by killing a couple at a golf course and everyone else he sees. When the police arrive, the ninja spends his time killing them as well before being mortally wounded. Stumbling upon a young woman, the evil ninja possesses her and begins using her body to murder the police officers who killed him and anyone nearby to witness him. Being barely stopped from killing his host's boyfriend, the Black Ninja is exorcised by the ninja Yamada, whose father was murdered by the Black Ninja, and takes his old body as an undead killer who immediately attempts to mind control or massacre everyone in the temple they're in before engaging Yamada in a final battle.
• Ninja Assassin: Lord Ozunu is the ruthless leader of the Ozunu clan, a clan which takes in orphaned children and raises them as Child Soldiers by putting them through intense training regimes, where he routinely abuses them. Such abuse includes whipping them to the point of leaving scars on their bodies and forcing them to compete in brutal sparring matches where they beat each other to a bloody pulp, all for the purpose of making them the perfect ninja assassins. These assassins would go after their targets via black sand in a letter as a calling card, striking in the dark or dimly lit places killing not only the targets but anyone allied or unfortunate enough to be in the same room as the target as to leave no witnesses. Years prior to the film, when Kiriko had tried to leave the clan Ozunu had her captured and killed and nearly does the same to Raizo when he betrays him as well. During his final confrontation with Raizo, Ozunu he nearly kills Mika by stabbing her where her heart is supposed to be, with a cold, apathetic look on his face.
• The Ninja War of Torakage (2014-15) has both halves of the Big Bad Ensemble:
  • Rikuri is the chancellor for Princess Mizuki, and, despite his goofy personality, proves himself to be a reprehensible figure. Murdering Mizuki's father to secure his position, Rikrui brainwashes Mizuki with magic water that allows him to easily manipulate her. Through Mizuki, Rikuri imposes cannibalism and slave labor upon the citizens of Jesus city, and has rebellious citizens of all ages sacrificed to non-existent gods in order to keep everyone in line. When Torakage and Tsukikage attempt to snatch Rikuri's golden scroll, Rikuri accepts Torakage's plan to keep Tsukikage hostage while he steals him the silver scroll, casually attempting to molest Tsukikage in the meantime. When Tsukikage harms him, Rikuri attempts to sacrifice her, and even strangles Mizuki when she defects against him.
  • Gensai Shinonome, Torakage's former master, is a greedy ninja leader who desires both the silver and golden scroll to obtain hidden treasure. Assigning one of her ninjas to steal the silver scroll, she kills him for accomplishing his task and seeks Torakage. Previously torturing Torakage for fun, she threatens to kill his son should he and Tsukikage fail to steal the golden scroll. With the scrolls in hand, Gensai doesn't care if she has to slaughter the people of Jesus City to gain the treasure. Attempting to kill Torakage after he steals her scrolls, she floods Jesus City by blowing up their dam, and holds Tsukikage hostage in exchange for Torakage's life.
• Ninja Zombie (1992): Spithrachne is a zombie spider cultist who seeks the Urn of Prometheus to restore his body and Take Over the World. Spithrachne murders the titular ninja, Alex—who is quickly resurrected as a zombie bound to a magic ring—and soon after sets about sending his minions, the "Eight Legs", against Alex and his friends, ruthlessly executing any of his Eight Legs who fail. In his spare time, Spithrachne sucks the life from prostitutes and webs their bodies up like dead flies. When he has the heroes under his control, Spithrachne tries a variety of ways to torture them; he makes the ninja zombie's human friend Orlan eat spider eggs that hatch inside him and slowly eat him alive, then tries to subject him to leech torture. When both of these fail, Spithrachne whips out a red-hot iron poker and attempts to rape the zombie's girlfriend with it.
• No Contest duology:
  • Original 1995 film: "Oz", real name Raymond Brice, is a former drug lord out for revenge on Senator Donald Wilson, his former partner who sold him out to the police. Attacking a beauty pageant Candy, Wilson's daughter, is entered in Oz's men massacre the staff, Oz himself killing the pageant queen before taking the other contestants hostage. Fitting the hostages with explosives, Oz laughs when a terrified girl tries to run and is blown apart. When one of Oz's men is seduced by a captive and she escapes, Oz sadistically tortures him before killing him. Even after Senator Wilson pays him his demanded ransom money, Oz still spitefully tries to kill Candy.
  • Face the Evil 1997 sequel: Erich Dengler, posing as a philanthropic art donor named Eric Dane, is really a criminal trying to steal nerve gas canisters hidden in a museum statue. Each canister having the power to wipe out a country, Dengler plans to sell these to terrorists, thrilled at the potential bloodshed and profit. Taking a film crew as hostages, Dengler sadistically has one actor recite Shakespeare lines and shoots him whenever he finds the performance lacking before finally killing him. Keeping two hostages alive to demonstrate his horrific gas, Dengler is a greedy sociopath who would endanger the whole world just for profit.
• No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh is a hired assassin defined by his fatalistic personal code. Compared to the Bubonic Plague by his former associate Carson Wells, Chigurh is an emotionless killer with no regard for human life, occasionally deciding his victims' fates with a coin toss. Introduced by strangling a police officer to death with handcuffs, Chigurh proceeds to murder an innocent man to steal his car, repeating this crime later in the film. Employed to recover $2 million lost in a drug deal gone bad, Chigurh murders two of his employer's men and relentlessly hunts for Llewelyn Moss to retrieve the money. Along the way, Chigurh murders several Mexican criminals who are also pursuing Moss, shooting one of them as he surrenders, and later kills a hotel clerk and a random motorist who get caught in a gunfight between Chigurh and Moss. Chigurh later kills Wells and the man who hired them both, intending to keep the money for himself, and promises to kill Moss's wife Carla Jean unless Moss surrenders the money, making it clear that he intends to kill Moss regardless; Wells had previously commented that even if Moss gave up the money, Chigurh would kill him anyway for "inconveniencing him". After Moss is killed, Chigurh murders Carla Jean, attempting to justify this senselessly cruel act by claiming to be keeping his promise. A chilling psychopath devoid of humanity, Chigurh is presented as an unstoppable force of evil, a monster without empathy or remorse.
• No Dead Heroes: General Ivan Dimanovitch is introduced at a Viet Cong base, taking pleasure in tormenting captured American and South Vietnamese captives, gleefully abusing prisoners, beating captives to death with his bare hands, and ripping out an American POW's fingernails with pliers. After the botched POW rescue mission where Ivan captured William Sanders's best friend Harry Cotter, Ivan later had Harry converted into his personal killing machine via microchip in the brain, whose effectiveness Ivan executes firstly by sending Harry back to America to execute his entire family, and later on controlling Harry into firing an Uzi in a church full of people, slaughtering everyone. Using Harry as a pawn for covert assassination assignments, Ivan intends to frame the CIA for the murders while overthrowing entire governments for him to reshape the world in his own image, and when William gets captured trying to stop Ivan, Ivan had William's Love Interest Barbara subjected to being raped while William is forced to listen.
• No Disrespect (2023): Bull is a drug lord who runs his city's streets with an iron fist, causing the deaths of several people. Prior to the events of the film, Bull's abused girlfriend Loretta ran away with her lover, Malcolm. Bull, having tracked Loretta down, forces her to kill Malcolm under threat of killing their baby. Bull would later go on to regularly beat Loretta because of this. Fifteen years later, Bull, upon being released from jail, seeks to regain his control over the streets, and intends to kill all of his sons. Starting by killing Milk's gang and continuing his beatings on Loretta, Bull, when Zay stands up to him, strangles Zay until he almost dies and kills his other son by manipulating his wife into shooting him and the woman he was sleeping with. Bull attempts to have Milk killed by the girlfriend Bull paid to get close to him, gleefully gloating about how he wanted to kill Milk since he was born.
• No Escape (1994): Walter Marek is the cultured, yet savage, leader of the Outsiders on the prison island. Keeping them savage and devoted to violence and cannibalism, Marek also forces others into gladiator fights for amusement, and to keep a brutal system going. When he is humiliated before his men, he promptly kills one who questions him and heads to massacre the more peaceful Insiders. After being repelled, he later forces two of the heroes to fight to the death, before attempting to slaughter the Insiders once again.
• No Good Deed (2014): Colin Evans is a narcissistic murderer who kills a prison guard and driver on his escape from jail. When he flees, he tracks down his former fiancee who had cheated on him and brutally murders her for it. Later, Terri allows Colin into her home after he'd been supposedly lost in the rain. Colin proceeds to toy with her best friend Meg before beating her to death with a shovel and taking Terri and her young children hostage. Colin shoots a police officer who comes to investigate and brings Terri and the kids to where he left his own fiancee's body with the revelation that Terri's husband was cheating on her with Colin's fiancee. For the sake of his offended pride, he plans to kill Terri and her children before he kills her husband just as a harsh lesson about how nobody touches what's his.
• No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Colonel Yuri is the leader of the Spetsnaz supplying weapons to insurgents, deliberately prolonging a war in the Cambodian-Vietnamese border causing dozens of POWs to be executed on a daily basis. Introduced interrogating a group of POWs near a crocodile pit, Yuri, upon learning one of the prisoners is a fighter, offers the captive the chance fight for freedom, only to deliver a long and brutal beatdown, where Yuri is clearly prolonging his victim's suffering for fun, before allowing the prisoner to leave only to change his mind mere seconds later, shooting the prisoner twice In the Back and throwing him to the crocodiles. Kidnapping Scott's girlfriend Sulin Ngyuen to force General Ngyuen to sign a treaty allowing the Soviets to continue their involvement in the war, Yuri had Sulin, and later Terri, hung by their wrists above the crocodile pit and slowly lower them, coldly telling them they will be eaten "from the legs first". As Scott and Mac raids the base in a daring rescue mission, Yuri abandons his troops, only to show up later trying to ambush the protagonists with a machine-gun, killing Terri in the process.
• No Tears for the Dead: Byeon/Byun is the main villain John Lee's second-in-command and serves him and Ventura Corporation in return for a promised massive payday. When they fear their corruption is exposed, Byeon immediately puts hitmen on the job to murder the wife of an attempted whistleblower who he already had murdered by the protagonist Gon—also resulting in the death of the couple's young daughter. Byeon carries out multiple murders of suspected leakers himself and organizes a team of hitmen to go after Gon when he betrays them to save the widow, resulting in numerous innocents dying. When Byeon's liaison in the police force, implied to be his brother, demands more money for his efforts, Byeon stabs him to death and later even murders Lee when it turns out he won't be paid. He then proceeds to try to rape the heroine Mo-gyeong out of spite and retribution for the trouble she's caused him.
• Nocturnal Animals: In the titular in-universe novel, Ray Marcus is a sadistic thug hiding behind a veneer of smug innocence. Running the Hastings family off the road on an abandoned highway, Ray terrorizes the family alongside his gang before kidnapping, violently raping, then murdering Laura and her teenage daughter India. Attempting to kill the father, Tony, in the process, Ray goes on to continue his crime spree before feigning ignorance when confronted by Detective Andes on his past rape charges and attack on the Hastings. Upon finally dropping all pretense of innocence, Ray cheerfully brags to Tony that he raped and killed the man's family out of mere pride and because "killing is fun", before trying to bludgeon Tony with a fireplace poker.
• No Exit (aka Fatal Combat): Houston Armstrong is the billionaire host of No Exit, an illicit underground fighting tournament where reluctant contestants are kidnapped and forced to fight to their deaths for the entertainment of Armstrong and his paying clients. After John Stoneman becomes a media sensation, Armstrong arranges Stoneman's abduction alongside Stoneman's teen student Jason, forcing Stoneman to fight for his and Jason's freedom, attempting to break Stoneman's will by ordering his henchman Darcona to maim and beat up Jason, gleefully mocking Stoneman by claiming to be "a reasonable man... because Jason is still breathing". Eventually ordering Jason killed in a failed escape—despite promising to spare the boy]]—Armstrong had Stoneman's wife kidnapped as well, making Stoneman partake in a rigged cage fight where he's expected to lose, even forcing Stoneman's wife to watch her husband being subjected to a beating, casually gloating that he sends multiple people to their deaths with each No Exit tournament all the time if it means maintaining his large subscriber base and subsequent income.
• Non-Stop: Zack White sends anonymous text messages to Bill Marks demanding $150 million, threatening to kill someone every 20 minutes if the money is not transferred. While his boss, Tom Bowen, is trying to cause a catastrophe that will inspire people to increase air security, Zack is Only in It for the Money. After causing the deaths of three people, the two activate a bomb to blow up the plane and kill everyone on board. Zack goes to get parachutes so he and Tom can escape and leave everyone else to die. Although Zack does try to stop Tom when he learns that Tom planned for them to die on the plane as well, it's only out of concern for his own safety, and after Tom dies, Zack tries to kill Marks to get a parachute, once again attempting to leave the other passengers to their fate.
• None Shall Escape: Wilhelm Grimm is introduced as a bitter, crippled German soldier returning from World War I who, disillusioned with his country, takes out his frustration by raping a college student and framing a young man who insults him for the deed. Fascinated by the blooming Nazi Party, Grimm eventually demonstrates his loyalty by selling out his own brother Karl into a concentration camp. Grimm takes Karl's son and his nephew Willie to corrupt into an extension of his legacy, and climbs the reins of the Nazi Party until he becomes Reichskommissar of western Poland, destroying thousands of lives either in the camps or in sexual slavery to "entertain" German officers. Grimm shoots rabbis, has protests mowed down with machine guns, tries to toughen up Karl by sending his girlfriend to the officers' club, and finally shoots his own nephew dead when Karl recants the Nazi ideology in disgust. Those who have survived Grimm's tortures paint him as a monster who chose the path he walked down out of pride, and he ends the film as a perfect study of a man's evolution into the quintessential Nazi.
• North Star (1996): Sean McLennon is a ruthless land baron who murders other landowners to steal their land. Seeking to murder a group of Native American landowners, the family of hero Santeek, McLennon later sees his wife abducted by Santeek. While initially seeming concerned by her, upon her recovery, McLennon denounces her as a "whore" and banishes her into the woods to die, even killing his own men when they ask to turn back, and murdering an entire posse of law enforcement officers and his own Native American guide when the man discerns McLennon is part Native American himself. Later arrested, he breaks out of jail by murdering his guards and heads to murder his wife himself.
• Northmen A Viking Saga: The vicious Hjorr is the sadistic second in command of The Wolf Pack under his older brother Bovarr. Hjorr's opening scene in the film is to seize a soldier Bovarr was chastising for leaving a battle alive and shove his head into an open pit of flames until he is dead. When they learn Vikings have kidnapped their patron's daughter, Hjorr, knowing her disfavor towards the Wolf Pack and wanting to keep his employment, comes up with the idea to simply murder her. Hjorr informs his soldiers the King's orders are to simply murder his daughter. When the Vikings and their warrior priest try to hold off the Wolf Pack with a wall of flames, Hjorr grabs one luckless soldier and shoves him through the fire to get to them. Hjorr constantly relishes dealing as much pain to his victims as he can before killing them and even when dealt a mortal wound, spends the final moments of life trying to drag the Viking leader to the grave with him.
• Nosferatu: Count Orlok, the eponymous "Nosferatu," one of the earliest examples of vampires in cinema and one of the most terrifying. When Thomas Hutter arrives in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, the locals speak Orlok's name in hushed whispers and don't dare to venture out at dark. Upon meeting Orlok, Hutter is attacked and the count tries to feed from him fatally before being repulsed. Hutter witnesses Orlok loading up several coffins to be transported across the sea, and Orlok later kills the crew of the schooner transporting him. The other coffins are revealed to also contain plague-bearing rats, and Orlok's arrival spreads a deathly plague all over Europe. He uses the plague as cover to feed on the people of Hutter's home village of Wisborg without suspicion before Hutter's innocent wife Ellen catches his eye. Orlok attacks Ellen, draining her to death in her Heroic Sacrifice to keep him distracted before the sun rises to destroy him. Orlok had spawned a legion of imitators and while later vampires were portrayed as sophisticated, urbane and charming, Orlok is nothing more than a cunning, evil and ravenous beast that can barely pass as a human being.
• Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013): Benno is a mood-swinging sociopath who serves as a toxic influence on everyone around him. Befriending Tore and accepting him into his home, Benno initially presents himself as a loving family man to hide his obsession with breaking Tore's spirit and making him lose faith in Jesus Christ, molesting his fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, Sanny, for spending time with Tore. Gradually revealing his true personality as a possessive and abusive monster, Benno does his best to make Tore's life a living hell by using every form of torture at his disposal; Benno drowns his cat in front of him and force feeds him rotten food after having starved the man. After Tore returns from the hospital, Benno begins leaving him at an erotic nightclub to be a Sex Slave, gladly mocking the sexual abuse. Challenging Tore to suffocate him with a pillow, Benno tries to attack Sanny for trying to kill him and then savagely beats Tore for defending her even after he had saved him, culminating with his murder.
• The November Man: In this film, based on the seventh book (There Are No Spies) of Bill Granger's series, Arkady Federov is a ruthless Russian military man turned politician who is running for President of Russia. In order to do so, Federov begins purging associates and witnesses of his atrocities during the Chechen War. As a commander in Chechnya, Federov was part of a False Flag Operation that killed thousands of his own soldiers so he could have an excuse to go to war and profit from an oil pipeline. Federov killed many civilians, including the family of a surviving victim whom Federov kept as a sex toy to rape and abuse. When confronted by her in the present, he gloats "making her a woman" is his fondest memory.

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