Sandbox / Monster: Film (W to Z)

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• Waar: Ramal is a ruthless terrorist and killer-turned-agent for India's secret service RAW aiming to foment chaos in Pakistan. Upon being captured by agent Mujtaba Rivzi, Ramal murdered his wife and child. Ramal infiltrates northern Pakistan and begins carrying out murders and assassinations for RAW, notably killing Ejaz Khan, a popular Pakistan politician, by fatally stabbing him, then letting him crawl to his lover in bed whose throat Ramal has slashed. Organizing more attacks, Ramal's true plan is to bomb the Jinnah Convention Center in Islamabad with a Deadly Gas, which will kill the hundreds gathered there, any civilians nearby, and completely destabilize Pakistan and enable Taliban terrorists to continue to terrorize the country, all to ensure that Ramal will always have a job in the ensuing chaos. Having no true loyalty or illusions about what he does, Ramal even takes the time to brag to his nemesis Mujtaba that he'll triumph because "evil always wins!"
• The Wailing: The seemingly-friendly shaman Il-Gwang and the Japanese hermit—actually a demonic entity—are revealed to be in league with each other and responsible for the horror plaguing the rural village that is the film's setting. The two send in a Hate Plague to the village, which results in those infected murdering those around them before dying. When the police officer Jong-Goo investigates, they mislead him, resulting his young daughter being infected. Showing almost no emotion when his guard dog is beaten to near-death, and letting him get picked apart by crows, the hermit revives a dead man as a walking corpse to kill Jong-Goo and his friends. Meanwhile, Il-Gwang feigns at being helpful while weakening the protections of the village's actual guardian spirit, finally resulting in Jong-Goo's death when his daughter kills him before snapping photos of the bodies, revealing that he keeps pictures of the victims as souvenirs of his deeds, while the hermit does the same to a church deacon, unveiling his true form before killing him.
• Waist Deep: Big Meat is a psychopathic crime boss who recently burned a woman and her family—including children—to death. Having betrayed Otis "O2" Samuel for his share of a robbery, Meat now spends his days torturing and murdering residents lest they pay him protection money. Kidnapping O2's son, Meat intends to cut apart the young boy by machete unless O2 manages to pay him his hidden stash.
• Waiting for the Barbarians (2019):
  • Colonel Joll is a detached, emotionless man who arrives at the Magistrates's town and immediately begins subjecting the native "barbarians" to heinous torture that leaves many dead or crippled. In one instance, Joll tortures a father and son until the father dies so the son will talk; in another, Joll has a woman raped, her ankles broken, and her eyes blinded while forcing her father to watch. Using the information he forces from his victims as impetus to go to war, Joll leads a military expedition with intent to wipe out the nomads and pave the way for further expansion of the Empire.
  • Officer Mandel is Joll's sycophantic right hand, who takes over the Magistrate's town in Joll's absence. Mandel has his men frequently abuse the native population while Mandel works to strip the Magistrate of his title for being sympathetic to the natives' plight. Supporting Joll's brutal methods, Mandel has a group of nomads strung up with barbed wire impaled through their mouths and hands so they are forced to remain prostrate while Mandel and Joll have them beaten to death. When the Magistrate tries to stop the horror, Mandel breaks his arm, strings him up by it, and beats him further. When Joll's genocide campaign fails, Mandel immediately flees the town to save his own life, leaving his men to tear the city apart in a last ravishing of the natives.
• Wait Until Dark (1967 film): Harry Roat is an ice-cold sociopath out to find a doll filled with heroin, which has ended up in the possession of a blind woman named Susy Hendrix. Roat romances and kills a woman, then brings her two exes in and sets them up so they'll be forced to work for him. He then makes Susy think that her husband's an adulterer and uses his partners to psychologically torture her and make her afraid to leave her own home. Roat happily murders his way through anyone in the path, and when his unwilling partners attempt to finally be rid of him, Roat disposes of them before. Roat then spends the climax of the film psychologically torturing Susy before trying to murder her. Even at the end, Susy realizes the money is simply an excuse: Roat is a natural sadist who enjoys evil for the sake of evil.
• Wake of Death: Sun Quan is a ruthless triad leader operating a Human Trafficking ring, who personally kills his mistress after she tries to leave him. When Sun's illegitimate daughter Kim tries to flee from him as a stowaway on a vessel and ends up being adopted by Ben and Cynthia Archer, Sun Quan leads his mobsters from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, killing most of the Archer family, including slashing Cynthia Archer to death while having his men gun down Cynthia's adoptive parents and numerous staff in a restaurant. Later in the film, it's revealed through an autopsy that several of the dead trafficking victims are being used as drug mules by Sun Quan's syndicate, having capsules of heroin forcefully grafted into their bodies. Stopping at nothing to eliminate his own daughter to keep the nature of his business secret, Sun Quan had Cynthia's brother Max and most of the lawful police officers assisting Ben murdered; tries to eliminate Ben, resulting in several staff of a hospital getting killed in the process; kidnaps Kim and Nicholas to force Ben out of hiding; and later uses Nicholas as a hostage while trying to shoot Ben.
• A Walk Among the Tombstones: Ray and Albert are a pair of serial rapists and killers with a penchant for abducting the loved ones of drug traffickers before raping, brutally killing, and dismembering them, regardless of whether or not their victim's ransom is paid. They dupe a groundskeeper who was romantically obsessed with a woman into kidnapping her on the pretext of "rescuing her" before killing her and leave her body parts behind for the groundskeeper to find at his work. They also leave the remains of Kenny's wife behind in packages resembling bricks of heroin, along with a tape of her being raped and murdered for Kenny's "listening pleasure." They eventually kidnap the fourteen-year-old daughter of a drug trafficker with the intent to kill her. They even start cutting off her fingers before they're informed they won't get any money unless they prove she's alive. Ray is a smug sadist while Albert is an emotionless sociopath. Even though they live and kill together, they don't care for each other as shown when Albert murders the grievously wounded Ray, then calmly goes upstairs to eat dinner before cleaning up and moving on.
• Wander (2020):
  • Victor Canton is a greedy scientist who designed microchips to control minorities and immigrants in America. Falsely promising the lower class housing and funding in exchange for having the chips planted inside them, Canton was able to experiment on and torture various civilians; anyone who was deemed expendable or disobedient was killed by the microchip. When Arthur Bretnik investigates one of Canton's victims, Canton tries to have Arthur murdered, only to accidentally kill Arthur's daughter and render his wife paraplegic. Years later, Canton continues his microchip operation, using the small town of Wander as his testing grounds. When Canton is finally confronted by Arthur after his operation is destroyed, Canton attempts to get Arthur to spare him by selling out some of his own employees solely to pass the blame onto them.
  • Jimmy Cleats and Elsa Viceroy are two of Canton's top enforcers secretly plotting against him. After Canton botched his assassination of Arthur, Jimmy and Elsa conspired to eliminate him for being a liability. Jimmy, posing as Arthur's trusting friend, convinced him to look into various murders around Wander, all while he and Elsa disposed of any evidence linking them to Canton's crimes and killed anyone who could incriminate them. After Jimmy fakes his death, Elsa helps Arthur ambush a meeting with Canton, killing her own minions and the town's sheriff before allowing Arthur to execute Canton. After Arthur is framed for the murders and imprisoned, Jimmy and Elsa visit him in his cell and inform him that he was nothing but their patsy, and that they'll be free to continue Canton's work while Arthur rots in an asylum.
• Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986-1987): Introduced slitting a driver's throat, Malak Al Rahim is a sadistic terrorist who infiltrates the US for the pleasure of watching his work up close. Bombing a movie theater, Rahim proceeds to murder his way across LA, planning on more bombings so he can enjoy the sight of it. When hero Nick Randall's good friend Danny is on the case, Rahim murders Danny's girlfriend and has Danny tortured, shooting him in the feet for information before having his throat cut, intending on launching more explosives with sadistic relish.
• War (2007): Rogue opens the film slaughtering a host of gangsters. A former CIA assassin who murdered his handlers to go freelance, Rogue has no compunction brutally killing women and children, having killed the families of victims before. When agent Tom Lone almost kills Rogue, the assassin returns to murder Tom's wife and child while forcing Tom to watch.
• War Camp (aka POW Deathcamp) (1988): Lin Jing is one of the VC commandants in charge of the film's titular camp. Lin Jing routinely precedes over a sadistic game; he forces prisoners to arm wrestle with their arms connected to a switch that will activate a gun to fire upon the loser. When a young woman's family is found to have helped American soldiers, Lin Jing has the woman's parents executed and attempts to rape the woman himself. Lin Jing is heartless even to his own side, manipulating one of his soldiers into hating American soldiers for the massacre of his village—said massacre caused by Lin Jing himself.
• War Crimes (2005): Lieutenant Brcko personifies the brutality of the Chetniks. A greedy and xenophobic Blood Knight employed by a Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) captain, Brcko gleefully participates in the massacre of civilians. Capturing one of the foreign peace protesters, Brcko tortures and executes him while on the radio so his friends could hear his death. After a heroic Muslim rebel kills one of his men, Brcko stops his execution just to fight with a "Muslim shit" to death himself. Frustrated by the lack of payment, Brcko promises to eliminate his superior and beats a Chetnik fighter for arguing that they can get paid on their own without having to suffer casualties, threatening to kill his own men if they confront him again.
• War Dog: Colonel Spacek is the director of the War Dog program and by extension the commander of the War Dogs. Obsessed with creating Super Soldiers, Spacek conscripted several of the soldiers who served under him during The Vietnam War into his project, resulting in dozens of men going missing and then declared KIA by the army. Brainwashing his soldiers with drugs and turning them into mindless killing machines, Spacek unleashes them on a gas station as an "exercise", killing even children. Sending the War Dogs to assassinate those who might expose them, they kill numerous civilians and police officers in their path. When Charles invades Spacek's base to rescue his brother who had been converted into a War Dog, Ricky, Spacek tortures him with hooks and forces Charles to fight with him. Even after his death, Spacek's influence still drove Ricky to slit the throat of a family friend and almost kill his sister-in-law before being gunned down by the police.
• War, Inc.: The Viceroy, the head of Tamerlane, Inc., is in truth the former CIA agent Walken, who has gleefully had countless innocents across the world killed to prop up dictatorships in the defense of American interests. In Tamerlane, Walken directs the resources of war and death, using the agent Brand Hauser to assassinate others to open an opportunity for war. Seeking revenge against Hauser for years earlier, Walken had his wife murdered and daughter kidnapped so he might force Hauser to see her wedding before wiping her and everyone present out in a tactical strike.
• Warlock series:
  • Warlock (1989): The titular Warlock serves Satan and seeks to re-assemble the Grand Grimoire, a book which can be used to unmake all of creation and for which the Devil will reward him with unimaginable power. In the 17th century, the Warlock escapes from the custody of Giles Redferne into the 20th century to complete his task unimpeded. After being taken in by Kassandra and Chas upon his arrival, the Warlock chops off Chas's fingers and bites out his tongue to kill him, and casts a Rapid Aging curse on Kassandra to extend her suffering by forcing her to see her own life go by in a matter of days. The Warlock also possesses an unwitting medium to channel his master and then carves out her eyes to use as a compass; skins a child and boils it down for the fat so he can use it in a flying spell; and threatens to kill a priest's unborn children to compel him to provide the location of the last pages of the Grimoire.
  • The End of Innocence (3rd film): The Warlock, also known as Phillip Covington, has committed himself to satanic Black Magic, seeking to sacrifice a "special" child born on a blue moon and birth a race of evil to spread across the world. Attempting to do so to a young Kris in the early 1700s, the Warlock bides his time after her witch mother transported her to the future to protect her from him. Killing many people over the years, the Warlock eventually lures Kris and her friends to the mansion built atop the Warlock's catacombs. Slowly possessing and torturing Kris's friends, he forces them to abandon her one by one to end their own suffering, before finally attempting to sacrifice Kris herself to bring the End ever closer.
• Warlords (1988): The Warlord, real name Billings, is the vicious leader of an army of mutants who seeks to populate the Earth with them and rule over a new world. Kidnapping a veterinarian and making him his chemist, the Warlord uses his own soldiers as experiments for genetic mutation, uncaring that fourteen of them have died as test subjects. Having his men raid and pillage villages for weapons and women for his harem, when Dow arrives searching for his wife, Warlord has him kidnapped and tortured for fun and for government information.
• The Warrior and the Sorceress: Zeg the Tyrant is one of the film's main villains and the worst in the city. A slaver and murderer, Zeg regularly has people tormented and killed while enslaving others in a brutal trade. For entertainment, Zeg also regularly selects attractive slaves and has them placed in tanks to drown while he watches in amusement. When he finally has enough of his rival Bal Caz, Zeg massacres him and his men before unleashing his own soldiers on the city to massacre everyone until the city submits to the rule of Zeg.
• Warriors of the Wasteland: One, leader of the Templars, and his right-hand Shadow, believe only in the destruction of any remaining human beings in the post-apocalyptic future. Regularly leading their forces to massacre innocent colonies, Shadow also takes great pleasure in making his victims' deaths as painful as possible. When their old comrade Scorpion resurfaces protecting innocent colonies, the pair instantly target him, and after capturing and torturing Scorpion, Shadow assists One in raping him before having him left for dead. The two then attempt to massacre the colony Scorpion was protecting, with Shadow gleefully gunning down every innocent person he sees before Scorpion manages to stop them.
• The Warrior's Way: The nameless Colonel is a vicious warlord who preys on isolated towns. A Serial Rapist who fancies women with healthy teeth, Lynne's flashback shows the Colonel selecting her, shooting her when she splashed his face with hot grease, and killing her parents and young brother. In the present, the now hideously-disfigured Colonel continues his activities. He tortures a clown by having objects put on his head and having his men shoot at them; drags the town drunk through town on a horse with a rope around his neck; and selects a woman for his pleasure. When the woman's husband protests, the Colonel guns them both down and selects their daughters. When the Lynne attempts to kill him, the Colonel tries again to rape her then escapes by tricking her into killing one of his own men. The Colonel later returns with an army to wipe out the entire town, and when he's cornered by Yang, he attempts to murder an infant.
• War Witch:
  • Great Tiger is a warlord fighting an unidentified African government. Seeking manpower, Great Tiger abducts children and conscripts them into his army, forcing some to fight and some to mine coltan under threat of severe beatings. When led to believe a child named Komona is a witch, Great Tiger orders her brought to him, where she witnesses him bury a guy up to this neck for stealing from him. After massacring a group of soldiers for their guns, Komona learns she's Great Tiger's fourth war witch, the other three having been killed for failing him.
  • An unnamed commander in Great Tiger's army is introduced slaughtering Komona's village and forcing her and nine other children to kill their parents so he doesn't torture them. Said children are forced to kill government soldiers with beatings and hallucinogens while going days without food. After Great Tiger sends the commander to get Komona back, he tries to make her kill her husband before doing so himself. After capturing Komona, he forces her to fight even more while also being his Sex Slave.
• The War Zone: Dad seems like a kindly family man, but is actually a vile creep who represents familial abuse at its worst. Dad has been raping his teenage daughter Jessie for years, Gaslighting and manipulating her to internalize the shame. When his wife has a newborn, Dad begins abusing the baby, too. This drives Dad's son Tom to expose his father as the monster he is, to which Dad violently beats Tom, continues to gaslight Jessie, and even mocks the children over being unable to stop him.
• The Watcher: David Allen Griffin was a Serial Killer who stalked women before murdering them with piano wire. After causing the death of Agent Joel Campbell's lover in L.A., he followed him to his new home in Chicago and started killing women there. Griffin sends Campbell photos of his next victims three days before murdering them as part of a game. He successfully murders three young women this way while in Chicago, as well as three police officers during a chase. Near the end of the film, he kidnaps Campbell's therapist and sets the room she's in to explode should the police try to breach it. When Campbell doesn't thank Griffin for "making his life interesting," he attempts to strangle Campbell's therapist, and when the police do end up breaching the room, the explosives go off in their faces. Driven by nothing but the thrill of the kill and the attention that it gets him from Campbell, Griffin cemented himself as a truly psychotic murderer.
• Waterworld: The Deacon is the leader of the Smokers who pillage and destroys atoll villages in search of the Dryland. Leading an assault on an atoll village, the Deacon has his men massacre the villagers in order to scavenge it and find the map, leaving no one alive, including children. The Deacon interrogates two captives in search of the map, promising to spare one of them should they give him the info he needs, only to go back on his word and kill both of them anyway. The Deacon soon sets up a trap using the corpses of the villagers as puppets to lure the heroes into an ambush, so he can capture the girl in possession of the map to Dryland.
• Watcher: Daniel Weber, aka the Spider, is a Serial Killer who loves to stalk and murder women. When heroine Julie begins to realize something is amiss in Bucharest, the Spider has claimed five victims, taking their heads as trophies with one victim having escaped him. Steadily stalking Julie to drive her insane and paint himself as the victim, the Spider murders her friend Irina before ambushing her to murder her as well and gleefully savor her final moments.
• The Wax Mask (1997): Boris Volkoff is the murderous owner of a wax museum. A Mad Artist by trade with elements of a Mad Scientist, Volkoff began his killing spree with the double-murder of his ex-wife and her new lover as revenge for throwing him into a vat of his own wax after replacing his damaged body with mechanical parts to more easily eviscerate his victims. Over the next few years, he claims many more victims and turns them into figures for his wax museum—children included—and others into cyborgs like himself, which he uses to kill for him. He takes special interest in the daughter of his first two victims, attempting to transform her into his newest model, and beats up his own assistant who looked up to him as a father figure.
• Waxworks: Ivan the Terrible, from the second segment, is a cruel tyrant who is described as turning entire cities into cemeteries. A sadist who poisons his victims, Ivan visits them nightly to enjoy their agony and torment them with an hourglass to represent the slow passing of their lives. Ivan turns on his poison-maker when he suspects the man of disloyalty before attending a wedding where he sacrifices the bride's father against an assassination attempt, kidnaps the bride for himself and attempts to send the groom to his torture room.
• Weapons of Death (1977): Santoro is an up-and-coming mob kingpin who conducts robberies while slaughtering everyone around him. After a hit on a train that leaves numerous people dead, Santoro callously kills a subordinate who falls behind. When other mobsters try to kill him, Santoro begins killing them, heedless of collateral damage, hitting a bank where he kills a great many more innocents. Relying on his connections with chief mafioso Don Alfredo, it turns out Santoro murdered the latter's son to comfort Alfredo through his grief and make himself untouchable. Later arriving to kill the witness to his crime, Santoro ends the film murdering a little boy who calls out his hiding place.
• The Web (1947): Andrew Colby embezzled a million dollars from his company. Tricking an associate into taking the rap, Colby left the guy imprisoned for five years while he built a business empire off the dough. When his associate got out, Colby decided to weasel his way out of their deal by arranging things so his bodyguard, Bob Regan, would kill the man in apparent defense of his boss. As Regan investigates, it's learned that Colby killed the engraver he had counterfeit the stolen money at the time of his original scheme. Deciding Regan has come too close to exposing his crimes, Colby kills his henchman and has Regan and his Love Interest framed for the murder. When deceived into thinking his henchman is still alive, Colby tries to strangle him before being caught by the police.
• Web of Death: Liu Shen, second-in-command of the Snake Clan, convinces his master, the Snake Clan Leader, into restarting a war in the clans which ended decades ago, fully intending on betraying his superiors once all is said and done. Seeking the titular Web of Death, Liu Shen convinces the Golden Dragon Security Chief, Xie, into getting the Web for him, only to kill Xie the moment he got the Web in his hands, as well as slaughtering everyone in the Golden Dragon Security Bureau to Leave No Witnesses. Revealing his intent to usurp leadership, Liu Shen unleashes the Web on the Snake Clan's higher-ups, gruesomely killing everyone who opposes his rule, as well as killing the Snake Clan's Leader by burning him alive. Having the rest of the clan leaders tricked to a meeting in the Wudang Mountains, Liu Shen goes on an unstoppable killing spree, killing dozens upon dozens of clan members while sadistically gloating of his unstoppable power with the Web of Death.
• Welcome to Hard Times: The Man from Bodie is a vicious, voiceless stranger who, by the start of the film, had been terrorizing the peaceful settlement of Hard Times for days. He rapes and later murders a tavern prostitute and kills the two men who stand up to him, along with spreading general mayhem and stealing a horse after killing his own. When Mayor Will Blue tries to trap him, the Man catches on and shoots another man before raping Blue’s friend Molly, gleefully setting the whole town on fire and escaping. Eventually, after the town had begun to be rebuilt, the Man returns and kills another woman along with the town’s sheriff, sets the saloon on fire and tries to kill Blue.
• Welcome to New York (2014): George Devereaux is a wealthy, slovenly politician driven by nothing but lust. Treating women as nothing but sex objects, Devereaux has a history of abuse and harassment of any woman around him. He rapes a hotel maid who walks into his room; forcibly strips and molests a journalist after luring her to his bedroom; and manipulates a woman into sex by lying that he can boost her career. Even when he is taken to court for his crimes, Devereaux openly proclaims no remorse nor regret for any of his crimes, believing that he did nothing wrong and it is his privilege to abuse women however he sees fit.
• Werewolf Castle:
  • King Vortigern is the true monster behind the werewolves. An elderly despot who wishes to replace humankind with a race of his choosing, Vortigern unleashes the wolves upon innocent villages to slaughter them all and sets up an encampment so that travelers become meat for his wolves. Upon capturing the heroes, the savage Vortigern has them tortured to force them to become werewolves, even murdering his own kin with no remorse.
  • Wolfstan, Vortigern's chief enforcer, is a sadistic beast who relishes in the power of lycanthropy. Under Vortigern's vision of replacing mankind with werewolves, Wolfstan leads the pack in slaughtering entire villages, laying waste to Thorfinn's village and personally killing his young brother. Killing the knights attempting to seek help, Wolfstan captures Vortigern's son Hal and hands him over to his father to be tortured and killed, forcing Thorfinn to watch in an attempt to break him and coerce him into rejecting mankind and joining them as a beast.
• Werewolf: The Beast Among Us: The seemingly kind "Doc" is really a vicious Knight Templar who wants to rid his village of vagrants. Doc uses the powerful werewolf Daniel to kill all manner of "lowlifes" he despises and personally guns down anyone infected by the werewolf to cover his tracks. Keeping Daniel's mother sedated to avoid her catching onto him, Doc plans to eventually use the werewolf to take revenge on the academics who looked down upon his research. When discovered by Eva, Daniel's girlfriend, Doc tries to force Daniel to kill her.
• Werewolves of the Third Reich: Dr. Josef Mengele and his head of security, SS Officer Hess, are the leaders of Camp 9, a nightmarish experimentation prison where Jews and subjected to brutal experiments that often results in their deaths. While Mengele carries out the experiments and has any who put up considerable resistance executed, Hess regularly exerts his position to brutalize and murder anyone he wants, notably forcing a man to kill himself to save his wife and teen daughter, then killing the women anyway just for fun. When Mengele learns that his wife has cheated on him, he transforms her lover into a monstrous werewolf after Hess giddily beats him to a pulp, and, while Hess takes time to torment Mengele's wife with the knowledge, Mengele himself sets Camp 9 to explode when the enemy soldiers raid the base, uncaring that his wife, the Jewish prisoners, and his entire squadron of soldiers will all be killed in the blast.
• Werewolves on Wheels: One is a cult leader who claims to speak for Satan himself. When a biker gang arrives near his compound, One has them drugged so he can sacrifice a female member to be the bride of Lucifer. During the sacrifice ritual, One stabs a cat to death. After the gang rescues her, he places a lycanthropy curse on his victim, which she then passes onto her boyfriend. After the werewolves kill a few of the gang members, One tormenting a psychic member of the gang all the while, the rest are forced to kill them. They then go to confront One, who steals the male werewolf's body, sacrifices the female as planned and makes the rest into his mind slaves.
• We Summon the Darkness: Pastor John Henry Butler is a fanatical televangelist on a crusade against heavy metal, and the founder of the Daughters of the Dawn, a front he uses for taking in destitute women and brainwashing them to murder three metalheads a week, setting up their murders to look like they were committed by a Satanic cult. He's shown to have abused and brainwashed his daughter Alexis from an early age, driving her to kill her own stepmother alongside her intended targets, killing the remaining survivors of her massacre, "rescuing" her at the only to attempt to kill her for nearly blowing his cover so she'll "die a martyr". At the end, after Alexis has been killed, he pins the murders in his house on her, using her death to garner sympathy for his message.
• Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969): Claire Marrable is a seemingly sweet old women who decides to make money by hiring on a series of companions and housekeepers, taking them for all they have and then murdering them before burying them in her garden. When a friend of one of her victims investigates undercover as Claire's new housekeeper, Claire eventually murders her by drowning her. When Claire fears that her tenant Harriet and Harriet's young son Jimmy may be getting close to the truth, she drugs them and attempts to burn them alive.
• What Josiah Saw: Josiah Graham was a twisted, abusive family patriarch who subjected his children to beatings and torture. Josiah was also an abusive pedophile who regularly raped his daughter Mary and fathered a child with her that soon died. So horrific was his abuse that his eldest son Thomas is unable to let go of Josiah haunting him even decades hence.
• What Keeps You Alive: Jackie, real name Megan, is a vicious and depraved Serial Killer who murdered her childhood friend when she was young. Developing a love for killing, Jackie seduces other women and brings them to her childhood home in the woods, giving them a locket of them together before murdering them for fun and keeping the locket as a trophy. When her current wife Jules survives her initial murder attempt, Jackie psychologically torments her and murders her former neighbors Sarah and Daniel, taking time to mock Sarah with how their childhood friend "fought harder" before attempting to murder Jules again, who discovers Jackie has a great deal of victims that she has betrayed and killed for sport.
• Wheels of Fire (1985): Scourge is a sadistic road pirate who leads a band of bandits to slaughter and rape as they will through the post-apocalyptic world, coming into conflict with Trace by kidnapping his sister Bo, cruelly murdering her boyfriend, and keeping her as his personal Sex Slave—and allowing all of his men to have a go at her whenever they feel like it. Put under pressure by the Ownership that rules the communities set up in the world, Scourge provokes them into an attack by massacring a settlement of pacifists they're funding before attempting to destroy their army and cripple their rule over the land. When Trace finally finds him, Scourge mocks him over having raped his sister into near-insanity, stating that he's almost a member of the family now.
• When a Killer Calls: Richard Hewitt initially seems like a normal suburban father, but after raping his children's babysiter Trisha, he proceeded to slaughter his own family, a neighboring couple and their daughter, two police officers, and three bystanders—nearly cutting the breasts off of one of them while she was still alive—before capturing, torturing, and sexually abusing Trisha—who he had spent the night taunting with calls and emailed pictures relating to his crimes—and her boyfriend, Matt—whose face he mutilates with a pipe—before fatally impaling him. No motive is given for his actions beyond the implication that he was a closeted psychopath whose sexual assault of Trisha prompted him to finally snap and embark on a sadistic rampage that left himself and a dozen other people dead.
• When a Stranger Calls (2006 remake): The Stranger is a Serial Killer who stalks, terrifies and eventually murders young women just for the joy of it. He prefers to target babysitters, having no compunction about killing the children they're watching over either. He kills a random babysitter and two kids on the other side of town, then preys on Jill for the rest of the film, killing her best friend Tiffany in the process. He's eventually stopped and arrested, but the trauma from the experience is so great that Jill suffers a psychotic break, dreaming that the Stranger is still there to torment her.
• While the City Sleeps (1928): Skeeter Carson is a gang leader and slimy Smug Snake responsible for a series of murders and robberies throughout the city. Nicknamed "Mile-Away" for his penchant for always having an alibi to his crimes, Skeeter works as an undertaker as a front for his criminal activities and cashes in on his own crimes by picking up the bodies of his gang's victims, subtly taunting the police the whole while. Skeeter murders his own girlfriend after she rats out on him, then after the girlfriend of one of his own mooks catches his eye, Skeeter sets him up to die in a hit so he can have his girlfriend to himself. Skeeter promptly tries to rape her as soon as she's in his clutches, and coldly shoots dead a cop who tries to stop the deed.
• The Whip and the Body (1963): Kurt Menliff is the disgraced son of Count Menliff, exiled from his castle home after his affair with Nevenka drove his bride-to-be Tania to suicide. Showing pride at the knowledge he took Tania's life, Kurt holds Nevenka under his thrall, constantly whipping her to near death. Returning from the dead after Nevenka kills him, he possesses her and kills his father, dividing the castle's inhabitants against each other. Ultimately, he forces Nevenka's hand, and she kills herself so he dies for good.
• Whisper (2007): David Sandborn is a demonic child who possesses the ability to "whisper" thoughts and ideas into people's minds to force them to do whatever he wants; he has already killed his father, and controlled wolves to chase his nanny onto oncoming traffic. When his mother tries to rid herself of him by arranging him to be abducted by Max and his friends, David torments his captors, killing one by inducing a heart attack; luring another into a frozen lake where he drowns; and plaguing Max's girlfriend Roxanne with nightmares despite her showing kindness to him. David also enjoys using his power on innocent bystanders, forcing them to commit murders to damn their souls to Hell. After forcing his mother to kill herself, David attempts to kill Max by trying to have him torn apart by wolves, but not before tricking him into killing Roxanne.
• The Whisperer in Darkness : P.F. Noyes, an enigmatic Bostonian gentleman who greets protagonist Albert Wilmarth in his trip to Vermont, is actually the leader of a cult dedicated to the extraterrestrial Mi-go. Noyes lends his full aid to having loose ends murdered by the Mi-go and luring those too much in the know—like Henry Akeley, and Albert himself—to extract their brains and keep them locked away in jars for the Mi-go's uses. Noyes fully intends to let the Mi-go gain passage to Earth and doom humanity in the process, all for the sake of the knowledge he'll gain in return, and tortures one of the people the Mi-go have kept in jars when he expresses horror at this, up to the point where his brain is agonizingly burnt out.
• The Whistleblower (2010): Ivan and Tanjo are a pair of Bosnian Human Traffickers who are the worst Kathryn Bolkovac ever faces. Running an outfit that has enslaved dozens of women and young girls, the duo have the women regularly beaten, starved, and raped for profit. When one of their captives, Raya, tries to escape, Ivan and Tanjo rape her with a steel rod while forcing the other women to watch, scaring them into further submission. Ivan later shoots Raya in the head out of petty annoyance, and threatens any other women who disappoint him with similar fates.
• White Ghost (1988): The unnamed commander of the Vietnamese prisoner camp during the war subjects prisoners to various terrible punishments and brutal executions. Determined to capture the mysterious American known as the White Ghost, the camp commander brutally tortures the captive Thi Hau in front of the American mercenary who he believes is the White Ghost in order to gain information on why he's there. When the torture fails, the commander executes the mercenary, shooting his kneecaps first as revenge for the mercenary insulting him. After the real White Ghost, Steve Shepard, tries and fails to save Thi, the commander attaches explosives to her, planning on setting them off when he comes to save her. Later, when he starts losing a fight with Shepard, he makes one last attempt to blow Thi up just to spite him.
• White Sun of the Desert: "Black" Abdullah is a ruthless Basmachi warlord who embraces life as a bandit. The first we see of him is him abandoning his many wives to death in the desert and when they are saved, he is absolutely furious they have survived. Upon meeting them again, Abdullah attempts to kill them himself before the heroes subdue him. Abdullah convinces one of his wives to free him, before promptly murdering her and a young soldier and escaping. Seeking a path to the sea, Abdullah and his men murder a museum curator before attempting to burn the heroes alive in an oil carrier when they pursue him.
• White Zombie: Murder Legendre is an evil voodoo practitioner who runs his sugar plantation with the zombies who are corpses of former rivals or those who got in his way. When he becomes obsessed with the heroine Madeleine, Legendre ostensibly promises her admirer to help win her own by poisoning her and turning her into a zombie, before poisoning him as well and coldly rejecting his plea for help. When her fiancee shows up to save her, Legendre attempts to have him murdered, intending to claim Madeleine as a mindless shell of herself as he has done to so many others.
• Whiteout (2009): Russell Haden is an Australian biologist who, along with Anton Weiss, John Mooney, Michael Rubin and Dr. John Fury, uncovers diamonds that they plan to smuggle out of Antarctica, only for Haden to decide to resort to murder to keep them all for himself. Haden uses an ice ax to brutally murder Weiss; cuts Mooney's throat and then harshly stabs him again; and then hunts down and breaks Rubin's neck. On multiple occasions, he tries to kill US Marshal Carrie Stetko to keep her from interfering and taunts her after one of those attempts results in her getting frostbite and losing two fingers. After he escapes, he wounds and nearly kills pilot Delfy and attempts to abandon everyone still left on the base for the whole winter, including Fury, to flee for his life. He also tries to kill UN agent Robert Bryce when he tries to protect Carrie.
• The Wicked: LaDean LaRene survived the Salem Witch Trials by feeding on children. For centuries, LaDean has haunted the town, devouring children in order to stay young and beautiful. When a young girl named Amanda throws rocks at her house, LaDean kidnaps her with the intention of killing her as well. When a group of teenagers arrive to save Amanda, LaDean kills two of them and eats them. She also murders a ranger by tearing out his throat. She later kills a police officer inspecting her house. She finally attempts to suck out the souls of the teenagers when they try to stop her.
• Widows: Jatemme Manning, the top enforcer for his brother's criminal organization, is a terrifying sociopath who approaches violence and murder with a laid-back serenity and goes out of his way to make his victims suffer. After two of his men failed to prevent Harry Rawlings from stealing his brother's money, Jatemme forces them to recite the rap they were found singing. First staring them down before briefly pretending to like it, he finally shoots the singer mid-verse, orders the beat boxer to run, then shoots him too after he makes it only a couple steps. Later on he tortures a handicapped man for information by repeatedly stabbing him in the shoulder and legs to see where he can and can't feel pain, and has his men beat the "simple" Bash O'Reilly to death while he calmly watches football. At the end of the movie, he betrays the widows and tries to steal their entire haul, leaving them behind for the cops to arrest.
• Wild Wild West: Arliss Loveless is a former Confederate slaveholder and a technology expert with no allegiance to anyone but himself. He kidnaps a group of scientists to build new weapons of war for him, decapitating one of them for trying to warn the President. He slaughters General McGrath's men in front of him with a tank prototype as punishment for surrendering to the North during the Civil War and to use the General's men as target practice. He kills the General himself when the latter demands that Loveless stop the massacre. He plans to destroy the United States unless the President surrenders to his new alliance, and firebombs a random frontier town to prove his point. He sells out the former Confederacy that he fought for when he presents his plan to carve up the whole country amongst himself and a collection of foreign powers. It's revealed that he previously used his tank to wipe out a settlement of free slaves, including Jim West's family, also for target practice.
• Willy's Wonderland: Jerry Robert Willis was the owner and founder of Willy's Wonderland, using the entertainment center to mask the fact that he was one of the 20th century's most twisted, sadistic serial killers. Originally a serial killer who butchered 4 families, Willis recruited other murderers at a mental asylum before staging a breakout that saw the entire staff slaughtered. Working with his depraved staff, Willis would butcher and cannibalize entire families for years, eventually committing suicide in a Satanic ritual that transferred the souls of Willis and his employees into the animatronics populating Willy's Wonderland. Becoming "Willy Weasel", Willis continued to kill children and even slaughter his way through Hayesville's schools and shops before striking a deal with Sheriff Lund to spare Hayesville in exchange for regular sacrifices. With a body count unfathomable and a lack of care for his fellow killers, Willis spends the film having a group of teenagers picked off one by one before bisecting Lund herself for failing him.
• Winnetou series, based on Karl May's novels:
  • The Treasure of Silver Lake: Colonel Brinkley, leader of the bandit group the Tramps, murders several people to steal a treasure map belonging to one. Upon learning the dying man had fled to a homestead, Brinkley takes his men to massacre the region, driven off only by the heroic Apache warrior Winnetou bringing reinforcements. Brinkley later attacks an Indian village and has the women and children gunned down while the men are away, while also forcing one victim's son to lead him to the treasure by threatening the safety of the young man's Love Interest. Brinkley also proceeds to murder his own gang when it appears he has the treasure in his grasp, planning to keep the wealth entirely to himself.
  • Last of the Renegades: Bud Forrester is a ruthless oil baron who leads an attack on a group of innocent natives so he can seize their land and steal the oil underneath. Forrester later stages a massacre, which he blames on the Assiniboin Indians in order to disrupt a peace between them and the US Army and in order to cause a massive war to wipe the natives out. When the Assiniboin women and children take refuge in a cave, Forrester leads his men after them, intending to kill them before Winnetou and Old Shatterhand come to the rescue.
• Wisely Series:
  • The Seventh Curse: Sorcerer Aquala is the High Priest of the Worm Tribe, a small society that worships a demon known as Old Ancestor. Every year, he condemns at least two people to be fed to Old Ancestor, using this ability to get rid of his enemies. One year this included a girl who would not marry him, who was then rescued by Dr. Yuen. In pursuit of the girl, Aquala has Yuen's companions slaughtered and personally puts seven blood curses in Yuen that will kill him slowly. When Yuen returns a year later to stop the curse, Aquala is in the process of crushing 100 children to death and draining their blood to maintain a vampire beast he controls. In the process of stopping Yuen, Aquala massacres a bunch of villagers with booby traps and curses a reporter with homicidal insanity, before ultimately decoding to just feed Yuen and all his allies to Old Ancestor.
  • The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002): "Kill" and "Rape" are two parasitic alien assassins intending to wipe out the entire population of the Dark Blue Planet, including refugees and non-combatants. Responsible for untold thousands of deaths across the universe centuries before the movie's events, Kill and Rape, tracking one of the peaceful aliens, Fong Tin-ai, to Earth, then land in the Mohave Desert, assimilating two policemen by dehydrating their bodies alive to infiltrate human society. Locating Fong Tin-ai in a government facility in San Francisco, Kill and Rape massacres the personnel, culminating in the facility's self-destruction. When Fong Tin-ai and Wesley escaped to Hong Kong, Kill and Rape followed them across the world, manipulating Fong Tin-ai's long-lost brother, Tan, into setting up his sister for a meeting in an industrial plant, only to betray Tan after he's no longer of any use, with Kill impaling Tan In the Back via tentacles while Rape intends to do the same to Fong Tin-ai. It's also revealed that during the rendezvous, Kill and Rape had slaughtered and assimilated all the workers in the plant, planning to use Hong Kong a base for their invasion.
• Wishmaster & Evil Never Dies: The Djinn, pseudonym Nathaniel Demerest, is one of the cruelest of his race. Granting wishes and stretching them to their worst outcome based on the word choice of the wisher, intending to grant three wishes from his "waker" to bringing eternal damnation and suffering to the human race. Millennia ago, the Djinn granted a sultan's wish to be shown wonders by transforming his people into hideous monsters. In present-day Los Angeles, the Djinn afflicts a pharmacist with cancer; turns a woman into a mannequin; blows up an entire plane to kill one woman; and keeps the souls of the wishers in his hellish realm. The Djinn causes an art gallery to come to life and slaughter a party, attempting to coerce the lead heroine into making her final wish by threatening her sister's life. In the second movie, the Djinn collects souls in prison, telekinetically pushes a man through the bars of a holding cell, and forces prisoners to beat each other to death. When he escapes, the Djinn kills his partner, crucifies a priest, and unleashes hell upon a casino.
• Witchboard trilogy:
  • First film: Carlos Malfeitor in life was an infamous Serial Killer known for having killed nine people with an axe. In death his spirit communicates with the world via an Ouija Board that accidentally falls into the hands of Jim Morar. Seeking a vessel so he can walk on Earth once again and restart his murderous campaign, Malfeitor torments Jim's girlfriend, invading her dreams and at one point assaulting and hospitalizing her. He also viciously kills Jim's friends, leaving him as the prime suspect, and also kills a medium who tried to exorcise him. When he finally manages to possess Linda, Malfeitor reveals that Jim has always been his portal and killing his friends and torturing Linda was simply a way to mess with him. When Jim tries to shoot himself after having learned this, Malfeitor cruelly mocks his intended sacrifice, by asking him if Linda is really worth it.
  • The Possession (third film): Kral is a demon who seeks a demon child of his own. Having possessed Brian's landlord Francis, after taking an interest in Brian, he kills Francis and possesses Brian, keeping his soul locked up, aware, and silent. Desiring to have sex with Brian's wife Julie to birth his child, at one point killing Julie's friend Lisa for refusing his offer of sex, Kral later kills the mystic Finch for going against him, and tries to rape Julie once more after losing patience.
• The Witches films: The Grand High Witch counts in both films:
  • 1990 film: The Grand High Witch, the most wicked woman in all the world, is the leader of the Witches who promotes a system of constantly disposing of children. Losing her patience with slow progress, the Grand High Witch decides to have all the children of England turned into mice to have them exterminated, transforming young Bruno Jenkins and young protagonist Luke into mice after attempting to trap Luke by almost murdering a baby.
  • 2020 film: The Grand High Witch is the leader of the witches, a demonic species that terrorizes and kills children. Unsatisfied with only targeting poor, underclass children, the Grand High Witch aims to wipe out every child in the world, killing one of her subordinates merely for asking what her plan was. The Grand High Witch schemes to transform every child into a mouse to eliminate them, demonstrating this on the protagonist and his friend Bruno. She's also revealed to have cursed Grandma's childhood friend Alice into the form of a chicken long ago, something she taunts Grandma with in the present.
• The Witches Hammer: Madeline Renoir is a vampiric wizard out to summon the Souls of the Damned to bring Hell on Earth. Killing and turning a researcher's wife to introduce him to the supernatural, she enlists him to help her find the Malleus Maleficarium, which can summon the Souls to Earth. After finding the book, she has the British monster hunting organization massacred, leaving only Rebecca, who she intends to use as a sacrifice for the ritual, as the Sole Survivor. As our heroes take the book to Madeline, she sends a bunch of vampire assassins to kill them and take the book, causing much collateral damage along the way. After her ritual is thwarted, Madeline declares that she'll just use the magic of the book to wreak mass destruction on Earth.
• Witchfinder General:
  • Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General himself, travels from town to town torturing false confessions out of victims to see them executed. Forcing a priest into doing so by stabbing him with needles, Hopkins offers to spare him only when the man's niece offers her body to the licentious Hopkins. When the woman is raped in his absence, Hopkins kills the priest and abandons his subordinate John Stearne for having his way with her before Hopkins could. Later capturing the woman along with her fiancé, Hopkins viciously tortures both to insanity, hoping to force yet more confessions in the name of lining his pockets.
  • John Stearne, Hopkins's right-hand man, makes no pretense at his reasons for assisting the Witchfinder General; he is simply a sadist who enjoys hurting others. Stearne helps find "witches" and brutally tortures them for fun and profit, having them executed after. Torturing the priest Lowe, Stearne is annoyed when Hopkins orders a pause thanks to Lowe's niece Sarah prostituting herself to Hopkins, only to rape the woman himself and happily resume the torture after. Later torturing other suspected witches, Stearne attempts to frame the hero Marshall and his lover Sarah as witches to torture and kill them as well.
• Witchhammer (1970): Jindřich František Boblig of Edelstadt is a callous judge who leads the horrific Northern Moravia witch trials. Having had dozens tortured and executed, Boblig clashes with the heroic Lautner and resolves to destroy him. Having women tortured and executed, while also framing the wealthiest men for witchcraft to steal their belongings, Boblig destroys those close to Lautner with torture and eventually has Lautner condemned to burn while gloating that he has divested himself of all scruples and risen above other ordinary men.
• Without Warning (1980): The unnamed alien is a towering extraterrestrial arriving on Earth for big-game hunting. Using living projectiles, the alien kills anyone it encounters, staking out a rural stretch of land as a hunting ground and revisiting the area to murder whoever arrives. Taking the corpses as [[Creepy Souvenir sick trophies, the alien enjoys playing games with its victims, evidently making the hunt more exciting while having no compunction in targeting helpless victims.
• Wizards of the Demon Sword: Lord Khoura is a sorcerer who seeks the Blade of Aktar so that he can plunge the world into darkness. To do this, he kidnaps the Blade's keeper and takes the Blade. In his attempts to figure out how to access the power, he sacrifices at least three virgins. He has Melina, the keeper's daughter, kidnapped in order to force one of them to reveal the secret, and sends her to his torture wall when they refuse so that the keeper can hear his daughter's screams. At the torture wall, Khoura makes Melina watch him burn another woman with a hot knife, and threatens to do unbelievable torture to her should she refuse. When the heroes invade his castle to rescue his captives, Khoura manages to slay Damon before going down.
• Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2: The wicked Donar is the vilest of the three sorcerers. Killing many in the kingdom, and having villages raided and slaughtered for slaves, Donar also forces slaves to participate in gladiator matches for his amusement. Fond of Human Sacrifice, Donar attempts to sacrifice a woman for failing to seduce the hero Tyor before trying to corrupt Tyor himself.
• Wolf: Stewart Swinton is Will Randall's slimy, manipulative "best friend" who spends the film scheming to get Will demoted or fired so Stewart can take his job, and, upon gaining the powers of a werewolf, Stewart becomes an absolute monster. Butchering Will's wife Charlotte and framing Will for it, Stewart eventually tracks Will down to the house of Laura, murdering his way through her security guards. Upon getting his hands on Laura, Stewart tries to "fuck her to death," planning to make Will watch as he rapes and murders Laura and, when Will overpowers Stewart, Stewart takes advantage of Will's mercy and tries to stab him in the back.
• Wolf Devil Woman (1982): The Blue Devil is a demonic sorcerer and Master Chu's evil brother who wants to become king of the world. After a ritual sacrifice of his scares away two parents and their newborn daughter, Blue Devil sends his men out to murder them, the parents perishing afterwards. Allowing his men to kill innocents over the next twenty years, including Lee's father, Blue Devil has him kidnapped in an attempt to brainwash him into servitude. Blue Devil also has those who refuse to bow to him killed and preserved in his throne room to serve his zombie army, the warriors alive, yet frozen. While burning to death, Blue Devil transforms into Lee's deceased father in an attempt to goad Lee into saving him.
• Wolfguy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975): Kato is a sadistic J-CIA member who plans to use Akira "Wolf" Inugami and Miki Ogawa's powers for his own benefits. Kidnapping the two, Kato takes advantage of the mentally unstable Miki's psychic powers by having her kill a person whom he claimed was one of her rapists before having her kill a random politician on live television. When Akira refuses to partake in his plans, Kato forces him to have one of his organs surgically removed without anesthetics, planning to create an entire army of powerful wolf soldiers with Akira’s DNA.
• Wolfman: Reverend Leonard is a Devil-worshipper masquerading as a priest. After the head of the Glasgow family reneges on a Deal with the Devil, Leonard curses him with lycanthropy. He conspires with other relatives so that the curse passes down through three generations by the film's start, causing countless innocents to be killed by the werewolves, and killing them when they get too old. When Colin Glasgow's doctor and girlfriend confront Leonard, he kills the doc and takes the Love Interest so he can frame Colin for her murder.
• The Wolfman (2010): Sir John Talbot is a literal and figurative monster. Cursed with lycanthropy decades before the film, Sir John murdered his wife accidentally and allowed his young son Lawrence to be sent to an asylum to have the memory of the werewolf tortured out of him. When Lawrence's brother was going to leave the Talbot home, John didn't lock himself up on the full moon with the express intent of transforming and tearing his son apart. He allows himself to transform outside his cage shortly after, killing many innocent people and infecting the returned Lawrence. He allows Lawrence to transform and go on a killing rampage so he'll be blamed for the killings and be sent back to the asylum for more torture and insanity. Sir John had given his Indian manservant Singh a gun with silver shells to stop him should he ever lose control, but upon Lawrence's return to the manor to settle things with his father, he finds Singh's butchered corpse and John gleefully informing him he'd removed the powder from the shells years ago. Seeing his curse as power, John Talbot believes that he is the superior species and can do whatever he wants to anyone, even his own sons who he views as nothing more than possessions.
• The Wolf of Snow Hollow: The titular "wolf", Paul Canury, is a sadistic killer who dresses as a werewolf to murder people. Tearing apart a vacationer and later a skiing instructor, Paul proceeds to murder a woman who had an unfortunate encounter with her three-year-old daughter and then a police officer before attempting to murder the first cop who finds him.
• Wolf Warrior 2: "Big Daddy" is the head of the Dylan Corps mercenary group who are helping the Red Scarf rebels take over a country in Africa. Seeking a doctor who has the cure for a viral outbreak, Big Daddy's mercenaries storm the Prime Minister's palace and murder him and his entourage after he refuses to disclose the doctor's location. Once they find his location, Big Daddy's mercenaries accidentally murder the doctor, and later execute dozens of innocent medical workers and civilians. When Big Daddy realizes the cure for the outbreak is in Pasha's blood, he and his mercenaries storm a factory and murder several workers and guards in an attempt to kidnap her. Big Daddy later kills General Inuwa, his employer, and takes control of his rebels. Hell-bent on killing Leng Feng and kidnapping Pasha, Big Daddy sends his mercenaries and rebels back to the factory, where they indiscriminately slaughter dozens of civilians trying to run to safety. While General Inuwa was hesitant about killing the Chinese and tried to stop the outbreak, Big Daddy only cared about completing his missions and causing as much chaos as possible.
• The Woman King:
  • General Oba Ade is a high-ranking member of the Oyo Empire who seeks to expand said empire. Raiding villages during his journey of conquest, Oba would have anyone who opposes him slaughtered, while selling the woman and children as slaves. When raiding the village of Nanisca, Oba takes her for himself and has her violated repeatedly. Conspiring with the slaver Santo, Oba tries to convince the Dahomey Kingdom to join the trade, later attempting to wipe them out when they refuse. Escaping with numerous slaves, Oba tries to have them sent away before killing them off when the heroes try to intervene.
  • Santo Ferreira is a ruthless slave trader from Europe who tries to coerce multiple kingdoms into joining his trade and have them provide slaves for him. Slaves captured by him are forced into horrific conditions, with them repeatedly being brutalized, something Santo takes glee in so long as it reels in profit for him.
• Women In Cages (1971):
  • Sadistic guard Alabama lords over the women she has trapped in her prison. A ruthless sadist, Alabama subjects the women to a variety of tortures, coercing several to share her bed, only to abandon them when her interest wanes. Alabama takes a special interest in heroine Carol "Jeff" Jeffries, hoping to brutalize and break her as well, even discarding her lover Theresa to further mistreatment.
  • Jeff's former boyfriend Rudy Diaz frames her for drug running and seeks to have her murdered to keep her quiet. Upon Jeff's escape, it becomes frighteningly apparently how monstrous Rudy truly is: Using multitudes of women, Rudy sometimes has them addicted to drugs, and turns them into sex slaves aboard his ships, even forcing Jeff into it when she returns to him.
• World Gone Wild (1987/1988): Father Derek Abernathy is a charismatic cult leader roaming the remains of the Earth to form a Cult of Personality for himself. His brutality only preceded by his shallow charm, Derek goes from community to community and decimates them all, raping the women and molding the children into his mindless followers. Derek cheerfully has his cult murder their way through Lost Wells whilst nonchalantly sipping a glass of water, molesting a women's young daughter before kidnapping, raping, and ultimately murdering the mother after she resists him, and fully intending to butcher the rest of the populace after he's warded off. Derek's methods of directly punishing those he perceives as enemies are even worse, as Derek castrates an unfortunate mercenary who tries to deal with him and leaves him tied up to slowly die of exposure in the desert. A narcissistic sociopath, Derek lives purely to slather his own ego with praise and glory whilst savagely murdering all those who don't worship him.
• The World of Kanako: Kanako Fujishima is an empty sadist behind her sweet face. Having abused her boyfriend Ogata to his suicide, Kanako lures another student to be raped and joins a mob-affiliated trafficking group where she abuses and bullies students, convincing some to prostitute themselves or setting up others to be violated by older men for nothing but the complete thrill of her actions.
• Wrath of the Titans: Ares, the god of war, is the disloyal son of Zeus, who sides with Hades as the Titans awaken. While Hades is motivated by his fear of death and ultimately redeems himself, Ares is completely unrepentant and is Driven by Envy of Zeus showing favor to his demigod son Perseus. Ares and Hades sell out Zeus and the other gods to die to awaken Kronos in exchange for being spared, during which Ares needlessly beats and tortures Zeus in captivity. Ares later kills some of his mortal followers, impaling and tossing aside a devout worshiper who prayed to him for salvation and tried to appeal to him. When Zeus manages to reach out to Hades, Ares immediately tries to kill Hades and proceeds with awakening Kronos to wipe out the world, mortally wounding Zeus in the process. During the final battle, Ares takes Perseus's young son Helius captive intending to force him to watch as he kills his father.
• The Wretched: The wretch herself is a demonic entity with a horrific MO. Killing women to wear their skins, the wretch manipulates her host's husbands into forgetting their family and eats their children before killing the parents and moving on. With a body count to the point of infamy on the internet, the wretch begins killing people around young hero Ben Shaw, even making him forget his younger brother while she tries to consume the child.
• Wyrmwood:
  • Road of the Dead: The Doctor is the nameless Mad Doctor employed by a group of extremists trying to figure out a cure to the zombie virus ravaging Earth. The Doctor performs his job more for the thrill of hurting people rather than helping humanity; he dances to Kool & the Gang while torturing numerous innocents strapped up in his bloody laboratory, injecting innocent people with zombie blood to see what will happen, which always results in gruesome death. When he captures one of the main protagonists, Brooke, the Doctor puts her through prolonged medical torture, at one point pointlessly murdering one of his prisoners so he can torment Brooke by pretending he's about to inject her with his blood.
  • Apocalypse:
    • The Surgeon General is a power-hungry medical genius who rivals his predecessor in sadistic mania. The Surgeon General performs heinous experiments on countless innocent people and zombies alike to create "hybrids", engaging in regular torture and vivisection of his subjects for his research. Once his victims have attained hybrid status, the Surgeon General hands them off to the Colonel's soldiers to be ground up and transformed into a temporary cure for the zombie plague. Caring only about his own spreading infection and lust for power above all else, the Surgeon General betrays and murders several of his military allies so as to become a hybrid himself before gleefully trying to devour the brains of his former ally Rhys, cruelly mocking Rhys for his unintentional assistance in the Surgeon General's experiments.
    • The Colonel, lacking the redeeming qualities or Well-Intentioned Extremist traits of the Captain from the first movie, seeks a cure to the virus solely to cure himself. The Colonel sanctions the Surgeon General's deranged experiments, feeding dozens of people to the meat grinder so he can mulch their bodies into temporary cures. When one of his own men realizes the Surgeon General is infected, the Colonel pretends to go along with an execution before murdering his own soldier to ensure his own sickness isn't found out. After forcing Rhys to provide him with victims—including a teenage girl—the Colonel is fed up with Rhys's moral qualms and tortures him, trying to leave him for the zombies which he promises will give Rhys the slowest, most agonizing death possible as he's Devoured by the Horde.

X - Z

• X-Cross: Keiichi Asamiya, Shiyori Mizuno's ex, leads the cult in Ashikari Village. Asamiya's cult practices Human Sacrifice, regularly performing ritual dismemberment of women as living sacrifices, as well as putting the corpses of the sacrifice victims on display when they eventually die. Convincing Aiko Hiuke to take Shiyori to the village, and claiming to want a fresh start with the latter, Asamiya pretends to rescue Shiyori from his cultists and frames Aiko as untrustworthy, then captures Shiyori and prepares her as a sacrifice. Displaying possessiveness towards Shiyori, when Shiyori kicks him in the face, Asamiya grabs an ax, with the intent of starting the ritual immediately, only for Aiko to intervene. With the arrival of Reika, the scorned paramour of one of Aiko's conquests, into the fray, Asamiya ignores the casualties among his cult in favor of keeping a grip on Shiyori. After Shiori and Aiko's rescue by Akira Mononobe, the brother of one of Asamiya's previous victims, Asamiya chases their car, intending to capture Shiyori once again.
• XX's Her Only Living Son: Satan himself fathers Andy to bring about the end times. Having spent his child's entire life tormenting the boy so he inflicts suffering upon others, when Andy refuses his destiny on his eighteenth birthday, Satan kills him along with his mother Cora in a rage.
• Yakuza Hunters duology (both 2010):
  • Duel in Hell:
    • Murakawa is the sadistic new leader of the Shoryu gang. A greedy psychopath, Murakawa plans to turn the entire Sagawa district into a casino, ordering his men to kill/scare off the district's citizens, with around 70 people killed. With his wife Reiko disobeying him, he has her groin sliced with a chainsaw. When Miki refuses to leave her apartment, Murakawa has her hand and foot shot off, and orders Akira to kill her baby son Takashi in front of her before he blows her brains out. He then kidnaps Inokuma to let his men torture him, leaving his men to die when Asami invades his hideout.
    • Akira is a silent, cold-blooded assassin. A killer since birth, she decided to use her combat skills for evil and joined the Shoryu gang. Akira slays both civilian and Yakuza alike, casually killing Miki's baby son Takashi on Murakawa's orders. Fatally wounding Yuji when he tries to kill her, she possibly kills Asami during a duel.
  • Final Death Ride Battle: Junko is the psychopathic Yakuza leader of the Shoryu gang, and Asami's Arch-Enemy. Growing jealous of Asami after joining her gang, Junko betrayed her by allowing Murakawa to use Asami's women as drug mules in exchange for money, making him her Sex Slave so that she can control his Shoryu gang. Using her new leadership, she kills the women in Asami's gang who won't join hers, shows no care for her own henchmen, and kills Asami herself. Doing whatever she can murder the resurrected Asami, she sends a country singing trio to gun down a bar she's at, and orders her men to kidnap Yayoi as bait. With Asami in her grasp, she has her men rape and torture Yayoi while she tortures Asami by cutting her with a bouquet of rose thorns. When Asami and her gang invade Junko's hideout, Junko slits Reiko's throat in front of Asami and tricks her into chopping off the fingers on her left hand before trying to kill her again.
• Yakuza Weapon (2011): Kurawaki is a rich Yakuza CEO who wants to unite every Yakuza group in Japan under his name, coming into power after having assassinated Boss Iwaki. Having a lustful obsession with Sister Nayoko since she was in high school, he later kidnaps her, making her dress up as a schoolgirl. When Shozo Iwaki comes to rescue her, Kurawaki and his brother make a getaway, shooting off Shozo's arm and knee with their helicopter. After surviving a helicopter crash that leaves him severely crippled, Kurawaki plans vengeance on Shozo, forming a gang of brainwashed homeless people that includes Shozo's blood brother Tetsu. Kidnapping Nayoko again, he plants a nuclear warhead inside the body of Boss Iwaki and forces Shozo to fight him, having a transmitter beacon ready to activate the warhead should Shozo kill him instead.
• Year of the Dragon (1985): Joey Tai, the sociopathic rising star of the Tongs, has the chief Triad leader of Chinatown murdered before also executing an elderly Italian candy shop owner connected to the Italian mob for not paying protection money. Having his young proxies massacre a nightclub to sow unrest, Tai also has two of his loyal men killed after they're injured in the attack. Framing the Triads' heroin supplier White Powder Ma for the attack, Tai kills him and presents his head to the prime source in Thailand to inform them things have changed. Arranging for more potent drugs to be shipped directly so Tai can deal it to desperate junkies, Tai orders a hit on his nemesis police chief Stanley White and White's wife, killing the latter. He then has White's informant in his outfit killed and orders the gang-rape interrogation of Stanley's reporter lover.
• Yojimbo: Ushitora, rival of Seibei, is one of the two gang leaders in the nameless town. Elevating the corrupt sake brewer Tokuemon to mayor, Ushitora murders a government official to keep his business secret and keeps Tokuemon's loyalty by having enslaved a man's wife from gambling debts and allows Tokuemon to use her as a Sex Slave. Upon seizing a chance to wipe out Seibei, Ushitora massacres Seibei, his men, and even his entire family while also torturing the Rōnin Sanjuro.
• Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968): Daimon is a vampiric Babylonian monster who promptly murders the treasure hunters who free him. Heading to Japan, Daimon drains the Samurai Isobe and replaces him, beginning to prey on and murder Isobe's servants and those around him, while torturing a Kappa who catches him in the act. Daimon then desires "fresher" blood and begins to stalk to attempt to murder children, killing several parents who get in his way. Murdering and replacing a magistrate to accuse his human enemies of crimes to execute them, Daimon proceeds to attempt to wipe out the Yōkai and humans who try to stop him after.
• The Young Americans (1993): Carl Frazer is a mobster who begins to endear himself to hopeless young men—starting in their teens—via affection, drugs, and prostitutes. Turning them into drug runners and assassins, Frazer has them kill anyone in his path, even having a cop burned alive in his car. Any boys who become problems, Frazer then simply has murdered and duped in the woods.
• Young Guns: Lawrence Murphy is a corrupt rancher has John Tunstall murdered to seize control of the local ranching community. Responsible for the slaughter of José Chavez y Chavez's people on their reservation by violating his contract to feed them by sending only rotten meat and framing them for the "uprising" after, Murphy also took the daughter of a Chinese family as a Sex Slave and prostitute for their debts. Attempting to have the "Regulators" slaughtered, Murphy even has an ally of theirs gunned down simply for cheering them on.
• The Young Poisoner's Handbook: Graham Young is a psychopathic teenager determined to become the greatest serial poisoner in history. First poisoning one of his friends and trying to do the same to a girl he has a crush on, Graham decided to kill his stepmother merely because she harshly disciplined him, systematically poisoning her until all of her hair fell out and she was rendered paralyzed, as well as blinding his sister by spiking her eye drops to prevent her from finding out what he's doing. Finishing his stepmother, Graham then did the same to every single member of his family and nearly everyone on his street before being caught. Apprehended and placed in a mental institution, Graham manipulated a doctor into granting him an early release, and drove his only friend to suicide by passing his traumatic memories off as his own in order to fool the doctor. Getting a job at a photography equipment manufacturer, Graham began poisoning all of his coworkers just for minor annoyances, killing two and injuring dozens more, before revealing that he will eventually try to kill all of them in one go in his bid to be remembered for eternity.
• You're Next: Crispian Davison may not have killed anyone directly, but the plan to kill off the rest of the family and divide the money among the conspirators was his in the first place, putting all that happens afterwards on his head. At his instigation, eight people, including six members of his family, and two of their neighbors, were gruesomely killed with crossbows, machetes, mauls, axes, and household tools, a fact of which he is downright proud; when one of the victims resists, and all five of his co-conspirators wind up dead, he takes it in a stride since all of the money will now be coming to him. When the final surviving victim confronts him, he demonstrates himself to be so void of basic human feeling that he honestly believes he can win her over with a promise of money, and a lie about loving her.
• You Were Never Really Here: Governor Williams is an apparently beloved politician, but in truth is a despicable pedophile and trafficker of children who attends events where kids are "traded" to fellow depraved individuals like himself. His "favorite" being young Nina, Williams forced her father Senator Albert Votto to hand her over to Williams in exchange for a boost to Votto's career. When Joe saves Nina from him, Williams dispatches his goons to torture and kill their way through several innocents—including a teenage boy—to retrieve her for Williams, culminating in Joe's mother being killed on Williams's order, Williams hoping to take out everyone connected to Joe and Votto so he can keep Nina for himself.
• Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006): Romeo, real name Jiro Kimura, is the head of the website Enola Gay. Using the website, Jiro reaches out to bullied teenagers to manipulate them into suicide bombing while creating collateral damage. Attempting to manipulate a rally of troubled teens gathering together, Jiro intends to bomb the gathering to kill everyone there and create enough chaos to rob a bank while attention is elsewhere. Gleeful about destruction and chaos, Jiro also tries to gain an advantage against the heroine Saki Asamiya by strapping bombs to her friend to force her to decide between saving them or defeating Jiro himself.
• Zatoichi films:
  • Zatoichi's Revenge: Intendant Isoda and his partner-in-crime Boss Tatsugoro participate in a venture where they give out loans to people in need of them, but when the men inevitably cannot pay due to the unfair rates, the duo abduct their wives or daughters and force them into prostitution. In some cases, they even have those indebted to them murdered so they can force the girls into the brothels anyways as that was their true aim all along. If the girls show any disobedience, Isoda and Tatsugoro have them viciously beaten and locked up until they can no longer resist. To top it off, neither is above sexually assaulting the women themselves if they want her.
  • Zatoichi the Outlaw: Boss Asagoro works with Kyushiro Suga. Asagoro wins Ichi's favor by posing as an honorable Yakuza boss so Ichi will wipe out his rival, promising to champion the people who suffer under the corrupt Suga. Instead, Asagoro betrays Ichi's trust and he and Suga viciously oppress the peasants worse than before. Asagoro forces a woman named Oshino to be Suga's concubine, and when she refuses to sleep with him, Suga tortures her and sends her to Asagoro's brothel where Asagoro will have clients forced on her. Oshino opts to kill herself first and when her beloved tries to avenge her, Asagoro simply has his throat cut without a hint of humanity. Suga and Asagoro deal with rivals on trumped up charges of treason while working to torture and brutalize anyone who might dare rebel. When Ichi goes to see Asagoro, Asagoro feigns friendship still...only to try to have Ichi shot as he leaves his home, knowing how deadly Ichi's sword skills are. Even at the end, Asagoro displays no loyalty to his own men and uses one as a Human Shield when Ichi comes for him.
  • Zatoichi in Desperation: Boss Mangoro Kagiya runs his territory with an iron fist. Mangoro has the populace cowed and his Yakuza kill as they will, even beating the village idiot to death for no real reason. He dispossesses the legitimate fishermen of their property and has his bodyguard put them to the sword. When a little boy throws a pebble at him in a tiny display of defiance, Mangoro seizes him and beats his skull in with the sheath of his sword. Working off indebted prostitution as well, Mangoro has a prostitute Ichi knows used as a hostage to get him to surrender by threatening to kill her, and then tortures Ichi by impaling his hands. When Ichi manages to fight back and kills most of Mangoro's men, Mangoro still tries to order his men to kill Ichi by threatening their lives if they refuse and when this fails, rushes from house to house, threatening each peasant to give him shelter from Ichi's wrath.
• Zombie Cop: Dr. Death is a voodoo priest and drug lord. After escaping punishment for killing 17 people, Death becomes a Serial Killer who mutilates children for his rituals. Mortally wounding the cop who tried to stop him, Death places a curse on his nemesis so he'll rise from the grave and rot alive. He then press-gangs his former lieutenant to help him in a new killing spree so he can use the corpses to create a zombie serum, which he plans to dump in the local elementary school's water supply to zombify the kids away from their parents' sins.
• Zombie High (1987): Doctor Beauregard Eisner is the immortal dean of Ettinger Academy. Originally born in the 1800s, Eisner, real name Colonel Ettinger, kidnapped an Indian medicine man to learn the secret of immortality, where he scalped so many Indians for their blood and brain tissue that he got dismissed from the US Calvary. Forming the Brotherhood of Eternal Knowledge, Eisner and his men would go on to kill for over a century. Establishing Ettinger Academy as a way to lure teenagers to be used for his serum, after the victims' surgeries, Eisner has a crystal implanted into the patients' missing brain tissue to make them act as his mindless slaves. With Andrea Miller discovering his secret, Eisner has her kidnapped to gleefully perform brain surgery on her himself.
• Zombie Holocaust: Dr. Obrero introduced the natives of the Molucas to a cannibalistic Religion of Evil to provide him with corpses to experiment on and reanimate and use as his personal servants. His first act of evil shown is scalping Susan and removing her vocal chords because her screams disturbed him. When Lori Ridgeway and Peter Chandler walk in on his base of operations and find the corpses of many natives, he calls them out for only looking to fix the world's imperfections while he is trying to find the secret to expand the human lifespan. He allows Lori to escape only to be captured by the natives, and straps Peter to the table to experiment on him. Driven more by a desire to sate his ego than by the greater good of mankind, Obrero remorselessly fed into the natives' violent superstitions to keep them in line and bring him victims.
• Zombie Hunter Rika (2008): Boss Grorian is the leader of the zombies, ordering them to bring humans back to his cavernous lair to feast on. When they kept eating them by mistake, Grorian has Takashi lure humans to him instead with the promise of restoring order to the human race. Killing the Zombie Hunter on a live stream and slicing his arm off, Grorian later kills and eats Rika's grandfather in front of her, taunting her about it before trying to slice off her new arm and kill her.
• Zombie Wars: George is the leader of the Council and a traitor to humanity. To secure his own cushy position of safety and security, George makes a deal with a group of zombies to create a slave breeding camp, where dozens of humans are lured to be used either food or sex slaves for the zombies. When a gang of humans tries to disrupt his operations to create even more camps, George tries to kill them all, and personally executes his own parents after they have been zombified, with smug satisfaction at their demises.
• Zone 39: Commander-in-Chief Tito is the corrupt director of the Central Union who covered up a water contamination incident in the titular Zone 39, which caused 409 deaths and 65 injuries. When the incident is discovered by the government worker Anne Megaw, Tito silences her by having her assassinated on public transit. Discovering that Anne's widower, Lt. Leo Megaw, is performing border patrol near Zone 39, Tito claims to his second in command, Sharp, that he has contained the contamination, while in truth continuing to allow the contamination to fester, with Leo himself becoming contaminated through the plumbing at his base. Once Leo and fellow guard LCpl. R. Boas reveal the conspiracy by hijacking a satellite, Tito posits to Sharp that the solution is to drain water from working towns.
• Zorikan the Barbarian: The titular barbarian is the leader of a horde of Saracens who, in the first minutes of the movie, Rape, Pillage, and Burn their way through a giant settlement of Christians to make off with their treasure. When Zorikan loses the treasure, he stops at nothing to regain it, scarcely even looking at the corpse of his own brother after the latter dies trying to get the treasure to Zorikan. Zorikan has droves of civilians rounded up from the countryside, imploring his men to torture every prisoner they have for information and even participating himself, having an old man tied between two horses and ordering them to walk in separate directions until the old man dies. Zorikan eventually orders all the innocent civilians dumped into the nearest canyon out of spite.

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