History ForTheEvulz / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Film/TheCrow'', Top Dollar gives a speech about how profiting from Devil's Night has grown boring to him and the criminals of the city should sow mayhem purely for the evil of it.

** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' introduces Davy Jones, who... well, it's not the most clear-cut thing ever. He has a sympathetic backstory, and part of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' has him being manipulated by another villain, but it doesn't change the fact that he's passed at least one MoralEventHorizon, and most of his actions from that point forward have no apparent aim than simply causing pain and suffering.

* This is {{discussed|Trope}} in the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' series, in keeping with the DeconstructiveParody of various horror film tropes. Randy points out about halfway through the first film that in various horror movies, "Motives are incidental." Most Ghostfaces claim to have a FreudianExcuse, although Sidney's KirkSummation in ''Film/Scream3'' implies that they're all just that excuses to kill people For the Evulz. The exception to this is [[spoiler:Jill]] from ''Film/Scream4'', who openly admits that she's a horrible monster and cites that "sick is the new sane".

* In ''Film/TheMissing'', the villain Pesh-Chidin/El Brujo, played by Eric Schweig, is an Apache who captures women and children and sells them into slavery in Mexico. Schweig says his character does so to get on everyone’s nerves and because, in Schweig’s words, the character is “a hate junkie.”

* While the Green Goblin has been long been considered Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s resident PracticallyJoker, the version from ''Film/SpiderMan1'' truly takes the cake. After suffering a FreakLabAccident, Norman becomes a diabolical, cackling madman who gleefully commits evil long after taking revenge against his fellow businessmen for removing him from the board. By the end of the movie, he's happy to terrorize an elderly woman and dangle a girl and a tram full of innocent children off a bridge, all to torment his ArchEnemy Spidey for no good reason beyond causing chaos. [[spoiler:''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' doubles down on this. After finding himself in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the Goblin immediately becomes one of most the chaotically evil individuals in it -- persuading fellow villains to embrace their gifts as gods, killing the MCU's Aunt May in front of MCU Peter simply for evil shits and giggles, and even trying to goad the young Spider-Man into [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred giving into hatred]] (before the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' Spidey puts a stop to it). However, upon getting his SuperpoweredEvilSide removed from him in the ending, Norman does show some regret.]]

** The Burmese Bandit in Alfred's story (who is the second subject of the page quote) stole gems that were intended to be given by the SAS to various tribes as bribes, and then threw them away, implying that he only stole for the "sport" that robbing the military provided him -- whether or not this was the truth is unknown, as the Bandit was never caught by the English forces... [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill alive, that is]].

* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'': As soon as the band and Wyatt meet, he is nothing but rude and dismissive of Valerie, to the point of leaving her by the side of the road when their car starts (He thought she was "already in") and delivering only two party invitations instead of three (Well, she could still come anyway). Towards the end of the film she [[HeKnowsTooMuch learns too much]], so then he begins to deliberately try to push her out of the picture for the sake of the evil plan, but for the first hour there is absolutely no goal or plan, he seems to be doing it just to watch her squirm. In the commentary, it is stated that Wyatt is less interested in Valerie because of her being the bassist.

* In “Film/{{TheMissing}},” the villain Pesh-Chidin/El Brujo, played by Eric Schweig, is an Apache who captures women and children and sells them into slavery in Mexico. Schweig says his character does so to get on everyone’s nerves and because, in Schweig’s words, the character is “a hate junkie.”

** The Joker is the page image for a reason. He does not care about lost lives or pain, including his own. He has no desire for power, wealth or any tangible material gains. He [[TheUnfettered lives without rules]] and enjoys showing others how stupid it is to [[TheFettered live with theirs]]. He finds destroying social and moral standards as amusing as blowing up hospitals. Every time he puts on the StrawNihilist act, it's to someone whom he is trying to convince to forsake their moral code. Of course, how genuine he is about his "agent of chaos" schtick is up to interpretation.

* ''Film/NearDark'': Even without considering the large amount of gloating between killing victims, the bar massacre seems to be done mainly out of cruel boredom. Despite their constant need for blood, the vampires are never shown drinking the blood of any of the victims after shooting them or slitting their throats.

* ''Film/BattleRoyale'' features Kazuo Kiriyama, who ''voluntarily'' entered the Program, with kids he had never met, just for the fun of it. The others are all unwilling conscripts.

* In “Film/{{TheMissing}},” the villain Pesh-Chidin/El Brujo, played by Eric Schweig, is an Apache who captures women and children and sells them into slavery in Mexico. Schweig says his character does so to get on everyone’s nerves and because, in Schweig’s words, the character is “a hate junkie.”

* While the Green Goblin has been long been considered Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s resident PracticallyJoker, the version from ''Film/SpiderMan1'' truly takes the cake. becoming a diabolical cackling madman After suffering a FreakLabAccident, Norman becomes a diabolical, cackling madman who gleefully commits evil long after taking revenge against his fellow businessmen for removing him from the board. By the end of the movie, he's happy to terrorize an elderly woman and dangle a girl and a tram full of innocent children off a bridge, all to torment his ArchEnemy Spidey for no good reason beyond causing chaos. [[spoiler:''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' doubles down on this. After finding himself in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the Goblin immediately becomes one of most the chaotically evil individuals in it -- persuading fellow villains to embrace their gifts as gods, killing the MCU's Aunt May in front of MCU Peter simply for evil shits and giggles, and even trying to goad the young Spider-Man into [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred giving into hatred]] (before the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' Spidey puts a stop to it). However, upon getting his SuperpoweredEvilSide removed from him in the ending, Norman does show some regret.]]

* ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' has Zartan play this role. While [[FakeKing impersonating the U.S. President]] he tells the real President (locked up in a bunker) that he likes destruction, pretty much admitting that this is the real reason he works for Cobra Commander. Late in the film, when he reveals that COBRA has built a KillSat with powerful kinetio weapons that can destroy cities he states that they are "none of the [[AtomicHate fallout]], all of the ''fun''".
* ''Film/BattleRoyale'' features a character Kazuo Kiriyama who ''voluntarily'' entered the Program, with kids he had never met, just for the fun of it. The others are all unwilling conscripts.
* Norman Osborn aka the Green Goblin from ''Film/SpiderMan1'' as excellently played by Creator/WillemDafoe. While the Goblin has been long been considered Marvel’s {{expy}} to the Joker, the Raimi version truly takes the cake becoming a diabolical cackling madman after a FreakLabAccident Norman gleefully commits evil long after he’s taken revenge against his fellow businessmen for removing him from the board. By the end of the movie, he’s happy to terrorise an elderly woman, dangle a girl and tram full of innocent children off a bridge all to torment his ArchEnemy Spidey for no good reason beyond causing chaos. [[spoiler: ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' doubles down on this, as finding himself in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] Green Goblin through magic Norman immediately becomes one of most the chaotically evil individuals in it, persuading fellow villains to embrace their gifts as gods he kills the MCU’s Aunt May in front of MCU Peter simply for evil shits and giggles and even tries to goad the young Spider-Man into [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred giving into hatred]] (before Raimi’s Spidey puts a stop to it). However upon getting his SuperPoweredEvilSide removed from him in the ending, Norman does show some regret.]]
* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Penny, Speed, and Lash, apparently. Unlike Gwen and Stitches they're never given a FreudianExcuse or likable quirk, and they seem to be fairly popular in school, which would write off being kindred spirits to Gwen as motivation.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight''
** The Nolanverse version of ComicBook/TheJoker is the page image for a reason. He does not care about lost lives or pain, including his own. He has no desire for power, wealth or any tangible material gains. He [[TheUnfettered lives without rules]] and enjoys showing others how stupid it is to [[TheFettered live with theirs]]. He finds destroying social and moral standards as amusing as blowing up hospitals. Every time he puts on the StrawNihilist act, it's to someone whom he is trying to convince to forsake their moral code.
*** Unless of course this is all an act. Everything he does makes sense as part of a plan to annihilate the Mob. He's taken lots of their money, which they believe is now destroyed, lots of them are dead or in prison and the rest are scared witless. Politically organized crime in Gotham is the hottest topic not just in Gotham but across the nation. The sheer chaos he causes would be unacceptable to the public and therefore politicians on a national and state level, because it's not part of "the plan". Bear in mind he's been an [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable narrator]] at least twice and was going for a third.
** The Burmese Bandit in Alfred's story (who is the second subject of the page quote) stole gems that were intended to be given by the SAS to various tribes as bribes, and then threw them away, implying that he only stole for the "sport" that robbing the military provided him-- whether or not this was the truth is unknown, as the Bandit was never caught by the English forces... [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill alive, that is.]]
* Angela Baker in the ''Film/SleepawayCamp'' sequels. She kills the people who commit the standard SlasherMovie 'sins' first, but after that she goes on to kill the regular people, all the while smiling, singing, and even skipping on occasion.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' introduces Davy Jones, who... well, it's not the most clear-cut thing ever, he has a sympathetic backstory, and for part of ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' has him being manipulated by another villain. But it doesn't change the fact that he's passed at least one MoralEventHorizon, and most of his actions from that point forward have no apparent aim than simply causing pain and suffering.
** The [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth film]] brings in Blackbeard, who is almost as nasty as Jones but doesn't have a tragic backstory.
-->'''Blackbeard:''' No sir, the fact of it be much simpler than all that. I am a bad man.
* Ramon Rojo from ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. He just enjoys killing and robbing.
* In ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', there is no reason why El Indio tortures Manco and Colonel Mortimer (just for fun) or rapes Mortimer's sister.
* ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Even after Wade gains his powers, and there is no need to put him back in the asphyxiation device, Ajax puts him back in the machine, driven by a desire to inflict pointless cruelty.
* The main character's partner in ''Film/EndOfDays'' suggests they cast their lot with {{Satan}} under the reasoning that their long careers as mercenaries meant they had no chance of "going upstairs" anyway, so they might as well have fun while alive. The partner having been [[ManOnFire set on fire]] at the time of the deal and being offered a way out of getting burned to a crisp from the Devil was also fairly persuasive.
* The evil scientist from ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'' [[{{Squick}} wants to join together three peoples' digestive systems]]. Why? [[ForScience Well, why not]]?
* Castor Troy from ''Film/FaceOff'' loves to do evil things just to torment Sean Archer. Best emphasized in his first standoff with Archer when he says, "You're not having any fun, are you, Sean? Why don't you come with us? Try terrorism for hire, we'll blow some shit up. It's more fun!"
* Kathryn's reason for destroying her LadykillerInLove stepbrother's relationship in ''Film/CruelIntentions''.
--> '''Kathryn:''' You were very much in love with her. And you're still in love with her. But ItAmusedMe to make you ashamed of it. You gave up on the first person you ever loved because I threatened your reputation. Don't you get it? You're just a toy, Sebastian. A little toy I like to play with. And now you've completely blown it with her. I think it's the saddest thing I've ever heard.
** In the prequel, [[FlirtyStepsiblings her twisted relationship with Sebastian]] was started when he was a relatively normal guy whose father married her mother and Kathryn, "for the evulz" arranged for him to be seduced, while simultaneously [[spoiler: setting up a fake "true love" to fall for him, before revealing the con,]] turning him into her semi-incestuous male counterpart, as he was in the first film. Although it does attempt to retcon out her reluctance to indulge his semi-incestuous lust for her.
* The sociopathic door gunner from ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. While machine-gunning Vietnamese peasants from his helicopter:
-->'''Joker:''' How can you shoot women and children?
-->'''Gunner:''' Easy. You just don't lead 'em so much! ''(cackles)'' Ain't war hell?
* The two killers in ''Film/FunnyGames''. They give several conflicting backstories and motives, but ultimately they have none. They exist solely to be the villains of the film.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'': Mr. Blonde, who tortures a cop not to get information, but because "it's amusing" to torture a cop.
* ''Film/SchindlersList'': Amon Goeth, a ''Untersturmführer'' Nazi overseeing construction of a concentration camp. The man sniped his prisoners during his free time, severely beat and enslaved a woman who, in a different reality, he might have called a wife, blew the brains out of an argumentative engineer because 'we're not going to have arguments with these people,' shot a 14 year-old boy for failing to completely clean his bathtub, and when asked, during an 'Aktion' (pre-deportation sorting of prisoners) 'what was going on,' thought the question was about his semi-annual medical physical. "He does this," Schindler explains to Helen Hirsch, "because [his other victims] mean ''nothing'' to him." Ralph Fiennes nailed his portrayal so effectively that one Holocaust survivor who met him on set began to shake uncontrollably because he felt so much like the real Goeth.
* The three killers from ''Film/TheStrangers''.
-->"Why are you doing this to us?"
-->"Because you were home."
* Lola from ''Film/{{Transporter 2}}'' is outright AxCrazy. When the hero asks her why she slaughters people nearly at will she says, "Because it's fun".
* ''Film/TheWarriors''. Main villain Luther kills the city's most powerful and charismatic gang leader, Cyrus, before he can unite the gangs together in order to take over the city. Is Luther in league with the cops? The mob? Is he making a power play for himself? Nope! He did it just because he likes to do stuff like that.
-->'''Swan''': Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?
-->'''Luther''': No reason. I just ''like'' doing things like that.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': The Wicked Witch of the West. Hey, bitch stole her shoes - that shit don't fly in the merry old land of Oz.
* Michael Myers from the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films is never given a concrete motivation (they're always retconned) and Dr. Loomis, his psychiatrist, is convinced that Myers [[MadeOfEvil is pure evil]], plain and simple. Moreover, he isn't even shown to enjoy his actions. Apparently, he murders people for ''no reason'', which makes him all the more frightening.
-->'''Doctor Loomis''': I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with his blank, pale, emotionless face... the blackest eyes, the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil.
* Daisy Pringle, a CreepyChild from ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
-->'''Daisy''': The little old beetle goes 'round and 'round. Always the same way, y'see, until it ends up right up tight to the nail. Poor old thing!
-->'''[[OnlySaneMan Sgt. Howie]]''': 'Poor old thing'? Then why in God's name do you do it, girl?
* The truck-driver in ''Film/{{Duel}}''.
* Chad in ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen''. When asked why he manipulated a deaf woman into a love triangle, he says "Because I could."
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'': Alex and his droogs partake in rape and ultraviolence for the pleasure of it. This eventually leads Alex into conflict with the rest of his gang. He's fine with just robbing the people he brutalizes for spending cash, but the rest of the gang want to start earning a real profit from their endeavors.
* A deleted scene in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' revealed that the triplets from Hell died, when they were being carted to Juvenile Hall for bashing in a baby's head to see what it would look like.
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats,'' of all places. As soon as the band and Wyatt meet he is nothing but rude and dismissive of Valerie, to the point of leaving her by the side of the road when their car starts (He thought she was "already in") and delivering only two party invitations instead of three (Well, she could still come anyway). Towards the end of the film she [[HeKnowsTooMuch learns too much]], so then he begins to deliberately try to push her out of the picture for the sake of the evil plan, but for the first hour there is absolutely no goal or plan, he seems to be doing it just to watch her squirm. In the commentary, it is stated that Wyatt is less interested in Valerie because of her being the bassist.
* The villain in ''Film/TheVanishing'' is an emotional blank slate. The greatest high of his life was when he saved his daughter from drowning. Now he wants to see if he can get a similar high from doing something really evil.

* In ''[[Film/AirBuddies Space Buddies]]'', Dr. Finkle mentions that if the mission fails, he will take Pi's place at Vision Enterprises. He is specifically told that Vision Enterprises would be crippled by the bad PR that the mission failure would cause now the media knows there are pet dogs on board the shuttle. Dr. Finkle continues trying to screw everyone over regardless.
* ''The Search for Santa Paws'' has Ms. Stout, the evil head of the orphanage who hates Christmas. She isn't even given a FreudianExcuse, she just hates Christmas for no reason. And she destroys any toys and decorations she finds in the orphans' possession. The only thing she does with an actual motivation is attempt to run off with her boyfriend with embezzled money and leave the orphans by themselves.
* ''Film/ParanormalActivity'': Katie's demon. Honestly, it slams the door shut then bangs on the other side of it just to fuck with them. Indeed, Katie even acknowledges this trope when she asks "Do you think it would have left footprints if it didn't want to? Do you think it would do ANYTHING if it didn't want to?" In the 2007 ending, [[spoiler: the demon fucks with them one last time. Just before the police discover Katie, a light down the hall is turned on and then turned off. The police end up shooting Katie because they were startled by the sound of someone slamming a door behind them.]]
* This is discussed in the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' series, which was lampshading various horror film tropes. Randy points out about halfway through the first film that in various horror movies "Motives are incidental." Most Ghostfaces claim to have a FreudianExcuse, although Sidney's KirkSummation in [[Film/{{Scream 3}} the third film]] implies that they're all just that excuses to kill people For the Evulz. The exception to this is [[spoiler: [[Film/{{Scream 4}} Jill]]]], who openly admits that she's a horrible monster and cites that "sick is the new sane".
* Several of the villains in ''Film/EightMM''. The rich old man who commissioned the snuff film? According to his lawyer, "He did it because he could." Machine, the man who actually committed the murder, sums it up horrifically:
-->'''Machine''': [[FreudianExcuse Mommy didn't beat me. Daddy didn't rape me.]] I'm this way because I am. There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them because I like them! Because I want to!
* In ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh is a strange subversion, as he kills people based on the toss of a coin just to confirm [[BlueAndOrangeMorality his own bizarre set of morals that make sense only to him.]] At one point he tries to shoot a bird simply out of idle spite.
* [[SerialKiller Scorpio]] from the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' series starts out asking for ransom money, but as time goes on is implied to be more so motivated by the "fun" of committing his crimes.
-->'''Scorpio''': [[spoiler:I've changed my mind. I'm going to let her die! I just wanted you to know that. You hear me? I just wanted you to know that before I killed you!]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films:
** "Ghidorah", of the series of films, for his debut movie ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster''. He's just here to destroy Earth for seeming kicks, like he apparently has for countless planets, including Venus. We're never given a reason why he's been doing this, nor do we know where he's originally come from.
** [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah Destoroyah]] is this even moreso. At one point he even [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog brutally murders Junior right in front of Godzilla and then proceeds to drag the mourning Godzilla around by the throat with his tail]]]] while ''laughing''. Why? For no other reason than for his own sick amusement.
* Terry Silver in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'' is an unintentional example. He's supposed to be helping avenge his war buddy John Kreese and restore the dignity of the Cobra Kai, but in practice he's far too into it given that it's not his disgrace, seems to be aware that his buddy Kreese is the one who stepped over the line, and is neglecting his multi-million dollar business to get vengeance on a teenager and his elderly mentor. Also, the vengeance is all his idea and is planned and executed by him with Kreese only getting to jump out from behind a cardboard cut-out to scare Daniel in one scene.
** It is shown earlier that his business is built on bad practices, namely burying toxic waste (because 80s), so as long as he comes out okay he cares not at all how the goal is achieved. Kreese's only request to the plan is "make his knuckles bleed" (something that Daniel had nothing to do with), which Silver laughs in delight as to how much fun that will be to do.
* The Martians from ''Film/MarsAttacks'' are the PlayedForLaughs version of this trope. They even make us think they can be negotiated with, just to laugh at us when we try, right before they kill us anyway, because they enjoy the killing so much. The novelization elaborates that this is basically their entire way of life and basis for civilization; they attack planets completely unprovoked and wipe out all life for fun, then move on to the next planet.
** Almost justified by the poster advertising the film, which said "Nice Planet...We'll take it!"
* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger becomes this over the course of the franchise due to MotiveDecay. While the first film establishes his FreudianExcuse for being a psychopath as well as his supernatural murders being perpetrated as a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for his death, as the series goes on, he becomes more and more sadistic to the point that he inflicts death and misery purely out of gleeful sadism.
* A relatively mild example occurs in the comedy ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' when airport-employee Johnny thinks it's funny to briefly unplug the runway lights just as the plane is making its emergency landing. In the sequel, Simon Kurtz covers up flaws in the shuttle and leaves everyone on it to die for no apparent reason.
* The gang member at the beginning of ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'', who [[spoiler:shoots and kills a little girl while they're robbing an ice cream truck just because she's there]].
* Every Creator/ToddSolondz character except for [[ButtMonkey Dawn Weiner.]] Just because they can. This says much about [[TheSociopath the characters]], [[CrapsackWorld the world they live in]], and Todd Solondz films in general.
* Boddicker's gang in ''Film/RoboCop1987''. While they're bank robbers and drug manufacturers who really are out to turn a profit, they could have easily just shot Murphy once to disable him and leave him for dead. Instead, they laugh their asses off while pumping him full of bullets. They only stop when out of ammo (which at least one seems visibly disappointed about), after which their leader outright declares, "Okay, fun's over." Later in the film, they gleefully blow up a few shops along a city street just to see what an anti-tank cannon can do, referring to it as a "new toy."
* Subverted in ''Film/AngerManagement''. Buddy Rydell seem to play this straight toward the end of the film, [[spoiler: but turns out in the end to have good intentions with his ZanyScheme and extreme methods.]] Played straight, though, in several other Creator/AdamSandler films. Especially ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'', where Glen cheats on Julia for no real reason other than... [[ShapedLikeItself because he's a pompous jerk]].
* In ''Doomsday Machine'', [[RedScare the Communist Chinese]] blow up the Earth for no reason... [[TooDumbToLive while they're still on it]].
* In ''Film/MommieDearest'', Creator/JoanCrawford reveals the reason she adopted Christina: she "thought it was good for publicity."
* ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'': The Captain's motivations for his kidnap, imprisonment and repeated rapes of Clara. Throughout film it's made clear he simply enjoys turning innocent girls into [[SexSlave sex slaves]] for his own sick [[ItAmusedMe amusement]]. Clara was just unlucky enough to be his "favourite girl" he'd sold to the brothel.

* In the final segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', this appears to be the motive of the [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlin]] in attempting to destroy the airliner; when it realizes Creator/JohnLithgow's character is watching it, it starts showing off, and when he manages to actually thwart the attack it just grins, [[FingerWag wags its finger]] at him and [[GracefulLoser flies away]].
* In ''[[Film/CabinByTheLake Return to Cabin by the Lake]]'', the FilmWithinAFilm's script writer Allison, as part of her attempt to get inside the killer's mind, theorizes that there must have been something that drove Stanley to start [[SerialKiller murdering teenage girls]], such as a [[FreudianExcuse bad childhood]] or his previous writing work never having been recognized. Stanley has to explain that there's no reason that he's as evil as he is; he just enjoys killing people.
* The opening scroll of ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' implies that ''[[ReptilesAreAbhorrent the Anaconda itself]]'' is sadistic, as it regurgitates its prey just for the pleasure of hunting and killing something again. It actually does this in the climax with one unlucky guy, and the victim is still alive after having been devoured.
* In ''Film/{{Lockout}}'', Hydell is just obsessed with causing as much death and mayhem as possible, [[StupidEvil and he doesn't seem to care that his actions jeopardize his and his teammates' chances of escaping the prison alive]].

-->'''Tom Ripley''': Partly because you insulted me, partly because you could, but mostly because that's the way the game is played.
* ''Film/ToKillADragon'', the Dragon often does this. At one point he blast ''his own bodyguards'' just for fun. At another, he tortures a townsman via GroinAttack just to show how obedient they are.
--> I was born on a day of a horrible battle! Guards, check this room! (Guards appear, run into the room). Since then I constantly change friends, especially bodyguards. (Porduces a fireball, throws it into the room with the guards. Screams are heard). Every Day!
* Unlike ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' or ''Spinosaurus'' in other ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movies, the ''Indominus Rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' kills humans and other dinosaurs for sport.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars:''
** Emperor Sheev Palpatine, the guy who causes the mess of all six [[MythArc film arcs]] in the first place, doesn't ever seem to justify his evil actions beyond the fact that ''he is just plain evil''. The expanded material doubles on this with Palpatine, unlike so many other Sith Lords he has no tragic backstory or FreudianExcuse, Palpatine had a idyllic wealthy childhood on the beautiful planet Naboo. He turned to the Dark Side just because he was a EnfantTerrible RoyalBrat who lusted for power and wanted to cause suffering right from the start.
** At first, Darth Vader also appears to be this, choking and murdering anyone he happens to disagree with. The later films in the Original Trilogy hint at a more complex character, but we don't get to see his proper reasoning until the Prequel Trilogy. Though he plays it straight at least once in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' when he tortures Han Solo "for information"... and Han later quips "He didn't even ask any questions!"
*** However, in the above case with torturing Solo; Vader wasn't trying to get information on the Rebels, it was to draw Luke Skywalker out of hiding knowing that Luke would sense that his friends were in danger.
* ''Film/{{Hush}}'': The unnamed killer has no apparent motivation.
* The inexplicably killer birds in ''Film/TheBirds'', it isn't explained why whichever type of bird does it (Sparrows, Crows, Seagulls), or why they are attacking and killing the populace. As far as the movie goes, they're just evil killer birds.
* ''Film/TheDeparted'': Frank Costello maintains his criminal empire despite nearing seventy not because of wealth or women, but purely out of love for what he does.
* Ming the Merciless in ''Film/FlashGordon1980''. He toys with the people of Earth by causing disasters for no other reason than that he's bored.
--> Dr. Zarkov: "But why? We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?"
--> Ming: "Why not?"
* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': The bullies, Matsunaga, Aikawa and [[spoiler:Kanako]] torture and torment (usually weaker people just because they can.
* The end of ''The Raft'' segment of ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}'' has the BlobMonster simply leap out of the water, pounce on the victim that made it to shore and almost escaped, and slip quietly back into the water to digest him. This is after it spent the entire movie acting like it couldn't leave the water like that. All the time it spent just floating on the water trying to tip their raft over, feint them into diving overboard to swim for it, or ooze up between the slats of wood was just it ''playing with it's food''.
* ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'': Butch the Bully bullies people simply because he's a bully and finds great pleasure in bullying others.
* In the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', [[spoiler:aside from [[BigBrotherBully bullying Bond]] for being their father's favorite when they were in their teens, which caused him to commit {{patricide}} out of pure malice]], BigBad Franz Oberhauser/[[spoiler:[[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro]] [[HijackedByGanon Blofeld]]]] claims to be [[CardCarryingVillain "the author of [Bond's] pain"]]. In other words, [[spoiler:he states that [[GreaterScopeVillain he]] is responsible for [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 all of]] [[Film/QuantumOfSolace the tragedies]] [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Bond faced]] so far.]] He also likes to spread wanton chaos and terror as a way to dominate the world, and even [[KickTheDog finds it funny]] to sadistically torment Bond several times.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' As Ludendorff and Doctor Poison trap the German High Command in a room filling with poison gas, they toss in a single gas mask so that they'll die fighting each other for it... with the winner dying anyway because the mask won't work against the gas they used.
* ''Film/AssassinationNation'': The person behind the hack that sets off the plot is [[spoiler: protagonist Lily's younger brother Donnie, who even admits he did it "for the lulz"]].
* ''Film/TheThirteenthFloor'': When Jane asks why [[spoiler: David]] became a {{serial killer}}, his reply is "Because it was ''fun''! Because ''nothing stopped me''!"

* ''Film/NeverCryWerewolf'': Jared used a ritual to willingly turn himself into a werewolf. He has full control of his wolf form and just kills and eats people because he can.
* ''{{Film/Phantasm}}'': The Tall Man is a sadistic creature that stole the body of a kindly old man and invaded our world to begin slaughtering everyone and raising an undead army. At first it appears he strives to conquer the world, but it is later shown that he intends to reduce Earth to a nightmarish hellscape where only he and his minions can survive, suggesting he just wants to eliminate all life in the universe and create a dystopia everywhere. The film crew outright say he sees life as a game, and his only confessed motive is "every poor man needs a hobby". He's been shown doing needlessly cruel things like running over a dog for no reason.
* In ''Film/{{Preservation}}'', No reason is given why the psycho teens are HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. They just are.
* Come to think of it, [[spoiler:Rose Armitage]] from ''Film/GetOut2017'' really has no reason for [[spoiler:seducing and abducting black people apart from her own enjoyment. WordOfGod confirmed that she wasn't being brainwashed and that she would've definitely continued manipulating others even after every single member of her family had been killed.]]
* ''Film/JohnCarter'': It's implied that this is more or less the only reason behind the Therns' machinations. Alternatively, it's implied the Therns maintain their power and immortality by stealing resources from planets whose civilizations are on the verge of collapse. However, they don't even try to give their victims a chance to save themselves, and actively sponsor the sides that are the most violent and/or brutish.
* ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'': No reason is ever given for why the people behind the escape room are are conducting these bizarre, sadistic and extremely complex executions, which must be phenomenally expense to stage.
* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': Some of [[spoiler:White]]'s actions, such as forcing [[spoiler:Deaf]] to EAT his own paper come from his own unrepressed sadism.
* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'': All we hear of the Butcher's past is that he murdered his own mother and spent time in a hospital for the criminally insane (from which he escaped), but given the sheer glee he gets from killing and that he looks for every opportunity to indulge in it (either in his own body or in Millie's) he clearly qualifies.
* ''Film/{{Lycan}}'': The killers murder solely for pleasure, and it's also described as addictive.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsTheBookOfVileDarkness'': Seith and Bezz torment or kill people just for enjoyment.
* The killer in ''Film/{{Angst}}'' admits many times that he takes pleasure in killing, to the point where he derives sexual satisfaction from it.
* ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'': Ronald Barlet set some fires for money (insurance fraud), while at the same time his real motive always was just how ''fun'' he finds starting them, saying that he would burn the world if it was possible.
* ''Film/NearDark'': Even without considering the large amount of gloating between killing victims, the bar massacre seems to be done mainly out of cruel boredom. Despite their constant need for blood, the vampires are never shown drinking the blood of any of the victims after shooting them or slitting their throats.