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| 6 | * ''Film/HackOLantern'': [[EvilSorcerer Grandpa Drindle]] is a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic cult leader]] seeking to turn his grandson Tommy to the dark side. When Tommy was a boy, Grandpa killed Tommy's father for trying to nip the corruption in the bud, and began a 13-year plan to act as TheCorrupter to the lad, [[ChildByRape who he conceived]] by [[VillainousIncest raping his own daughter]]. On the night of the final ceremony to induct Tom into the cult, Grandpa goes on a killing spree to ensure that nobody gets in the way of his plan, slaying one victim in a mass grave of the cult's previous human sacrifices. When Tommy quits the cult after Gramps tries to make him kill his sister, he goes to kill both siblings. He is mortally wounded in the ensuing final battle, but manages to magically corrupt his other grandson before he dies. |
| 7 | * ''Film/HallowedGround'': [[SinisterMinister Jonas Hathaway]] is a fanatical preacher who convinces his town to [[HumanSacrifice crucify their sinners]] for prosperity. After the residents of a nearby town kill Hathaway for his crimes, his spirit remains and keeps the cult going, sacrificing hundreds over the years. A century later, Hathaway finds Liz Chambers, whom he prophesied to birth him a new body, and [[ScaryScarecrows possesses a scarecrow]] in order to capture her, killing several people in the process. When Liz escapes, she learns that Hathaway prepared for her arrival by [[ThePurge having his cultists slaughter anybody nearby who wasn't in the fold]], including the entire next town over. Soon after, Hathaway finds out that Liz was not a virgin, and decides to instead [[PedophilePriest impregnate a 10-year-old]] whose parents he killed, ultimately trying to kill her too when she burns his house down. |
| 8 | * ''Film/{{Hancock}}'': [[BigBad Kenneth "Red" Parker Jr.]] is a brilliant psychologist-turned-ruthless bank robber who becomes Hancock's [[ArchEnemy most personal foe]]. Introduced to the film by taking dozens of [[HostageSituation hostages]]--including [[WouldHurtAChild kids]]--at a bank and gunning down any police officers who try to save the day, Red threatens to blow each and every hostage to pieces if Hancock doesn't help him rob the bank. After losing his hand to and being arrested by the hero, Red later escapes prison with a few thugs and stages an armed attack at a hospital Hancock is in, endangering the patients and doctors with gunfire as Red tries to kill Hancock, wounding his LoveInterest in the process. |
| 9 | * ''Film/TheHandmaiden'': [[EvilUncle Uncle Kouzuki]] is a [[DirtyOldMan depraved old pervert]] helping UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan to annex Korea. He obtains custody of his niece, Hideko, beating her, forcing her to read and act out pornography, all while intending to marry her and force himself on her. When his wife, another victim of his abuse, attempts to rescue Hideko, Kouzuki [[NeverSuicide murders her and makes it look like a suicide]]. Kouzuki is also a vicious torturer, keeping a basement as a [[TortureCellar torture dungeon]] where he dissects people and keeps their remains as trophies, which he attempts to do to the conman Fujiwara. Kouzuki slowly carves off his fingers, pressing him for details of how Hideko was in bed, before deciding to take Fujiwara's manhood as a trophy. |
| 10 | * ''Film/{{Hand of Death|1976}}'' (1976): [[BigBad Shih Shao-Feng]] is a treacherous disciple of Shaolin who dedicates himself to annihilating the martial arts of his old masters. Having temples attacked, Shih wipes out everyone there, capturing and torturing martial artists in a brutal purge. When he believes some may be hiding out in towns, Shih is all too eager to send his forces to destroy them, in a quest to erase anything that may threaten his rule. |
| 11 | * ''Film/{{Hanna}}'': [[BigBad Marissa Wiegler]] is the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} operative in charge of the agency's [[{{Tykebomb}} Galinka Project]], experimenting on dozens of infants to create SuperSoldiers. Terminating the project, Wiegler has the [[WouldHurtAChild babies killed]] and tries to kill Erik Heller when he rescues the infant Hanna from her termination, killing Hanna's mother, Johanna, in the process. Hoping to kill the two many years later, Wiegler hires the sadistic hitman Isaacs to hunt down Hanna, while she tracks Erik herself, killing Hanna's grandmother along the way. Learning of Hanna's whereabouts from a family and heavily implied to have killed them, Wiegler then proceeds to murder Erik and his friend before attempting to kill Hanna. |
| 12 | * ''Franchise/HannibalLecter'' film series: |
| 13 | ** ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (Separate Continuity): [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Hannibal Lecktor]] lacks most of his incarnations' standards or genuine politeness. A SerialKiller who brutally slew nine college girls and left two survivors permanently hospitalized, Lecktor attacked and nearly murdered FBI profiler Will Graham for exposing his crimes. Confined to his cell but no less horrid in how he [[MindRape psychologically torments]] Will and fondly recalls how the first cop who entered Lecktor's basement was scarred for life by the horrors inside, Lecktor reacts to Will questioning him for information on the new killer "the Tooth Fairy" by finding Will's home address and leaking it to the Tooth Fairy, urging the murderer to kill Will's wife and child. His crimes committed out of nothing but sadism and, later, spite towards Will, Lecktor held a belief that [[AGodAmI his murders made himself like God]], and celebrated every death he caused. |
| 14 | ** ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'': [[WouldHurtAChild Mason Verger]] is a creepy serial child molester who escaped justice for his crimes using both his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections influence]], only for Dr. Hannibal Lecter to drug him and get him to peel off his own angelic-looking face so no child would ever trust him again. Claiming to be a reformed man who found God, a now [[EvilCripple horribly disfigured and crippled Verger]] seeks to track down Lecter and enact his violent revenge on him by means of [[FedToPigs having wild boars devour him on command]], slowly over the course of hours. While having Lecter tracked once he's located him, Verger coaxes and bribes DOJ agent Paul Krendler into helping frame FBI Agent Clarice Starling not only to get her off the case, but to use her as bait to trap Lecter as well. Once getting his hands on Lecter and nearly putting his plan in motion, Verger, upon seeing Lecter nearly escape with a wounded Starling, tries to force his long-suffering and abused physician Dr. Cordell Doemling to risk his life in the boar pen--where another one of Verger's men is already being eaten alive--just to go shoot Lecter. |
| 15 | ** ''Film/HannibalRising'': [[FormerRegimePersonnel Vladis Grutas]] is a vicious war criminal who escaped justice in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. A member of [[LesCollaborateurs the collaborating Lithuanian militias]], Grutas led the sack of a small town and personally executed Jewish prisoners, executing one Rabbi by [[OffWithHisHead sawing his head off]]. During the winter, Grutas and his men took refuge in a small building with a young Hannibal Lecter and his baby sister Mischa inside. Grutas, to stave off hunger, [[WouldHurtAChild decapitated Mischa]] with an axe and had her cooked and fed to the others. In the present, Grutas is a mob boss who uses murder and prostitution to further profits. When he and Hannibal fight, Grutas takes pleasure in mocking Hannibal how he also fed him his own sister in the winter years ago. |
| 16 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretel2007'': |
| 17 | ** The caretaker of the "[[OrphanageOfFear House of Happy Children]]" orphanage is seen in an extensive flashback to be the reason why the three children in the woods, Man-bok, Young-hee and Jung-soon, became so mistrustful of adults and believe them to be evil. The caretaker kept the children in horrible conditions, and was [[WouldHurtAChild incredibly abusive]]. He locked away Man-bok’s friend to a dark room to starve along with another boy for spilling food; planned to rape the 7-year-old Jung-soon, and only didn’t because Young-Hee convinced him to rape her instead; beats a boy to death in a sack; and causes another boy to starve to death. When the children are caught trying to escape, the caretaker tries to burn Man-bok with flaming piece of wood before getting pushed into the fire himself. |
| 18 | ** [[PedophilePriest Deacon Byun Ji-wan]] was a pedophilic SerialKiller and religious cult leader before getting lost in the woods along with his wife and finding himself at the childrens' house. Upon his wife’s death, he just chuckles and remarks about how interesting the house is. He’s seen looking through a book filled with photos of his past victims, all of whom were children that he killed and is implied to have raped. After revealing his true nature, he takes Jung-soon hostage at knifepoint before slashing Man-bok’s back in an attempt to kill him. When that doesn’t work, he just tries to kill all three of the kids,[[note]]:who still look like and have the minds of children despite being adults chronologically[[/note]] believing them to be "Satan's children". |
| 19 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretelGetBaked'': Agnes is a [[WickedWitch vile witch]] with a predilection for murder and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. Agnes lures oblivious people into her household and subjects them to [[ColdBloodedTorture grotesque torture]] before sucking out their youth to replenish her own. She kidnaps Gretel's boyfriend, Ashton, and mutilates him horrifically, including [[EyeScream tearing out his eye and eating it]]. When her dealer Manny warns her that a local drug kingpin is coming for her, Agnes kills him before doing the same to the kingpin and his henchmen. She kidnaps Gretel and her friend Bianca and later attempts to cook Gretel's brother Hansel alive. She succeeds in murdering Bianca before seemingly being killed by Hansel and Gretel. However, she [[NotQuiteDead survives]] and promptly murders a man to steal his car. |
| 20 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretelWarriorsOfWitchcraft'': [[WickedWitch The Great Witch of the Woods]] is a [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious sorceress]] who arrived in America with the Pilgrims. To maintain her {{immortality|Immorality}}, she lured children into her woods to eat their souls, leaving them as {{empty shell}}s. The Great Witch evebtually has her followers found a private school, where she has the most promising students bring her souls in exchange for her ensuring their place in the halls of power. When Ella and Jonah, two siblings whose parents the Witch killed, show up, the Witch has her cult corrupt Jonah while killing anybody who helps Ella investigate them. She eventually tries to have Jonah kill Ella before revealing that she intends to use her disciples to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 21 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'': [[BigBad Muriel the Grand Black Witch]] is the leader of the [[WickedWitch Black Witches]] and the vilest one in existence. She orchestrated the deaths of Hansel and Gretel's parents as part of a plot to use Gretel in a HumanSacrifice to make witches impervious to fire. Years later she and her lieutenants [[WouldHurtAChild kidnap twelve children to use in the sacrifice]], after already boiling one down for a magic brew. Muriel kills anyone who attempts to rescue the children, putting a curse on one tracker that forces him to eat maggots before exploding upon returning to Augsburg. When one witch is captured, Muriel sets part of the town on fire as a distraction, and forces a guard to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide shoot himself with his own gun]]. She later kidnaps Gretel to cut out her heart as part of the new sacrifice. When this fails, she takes Hansel and Gretel back to the Gingerbread House where they killed their first witch, before she murders the good witch Mina, whom Hansel fell in love with. |
| 22 | * ''Happy Death Day'' duology: |
| 23 | ** ''Film/HappyDeathDay'': John [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tombs]] is a SerialKiller who was on the run for the murder of six women across the country, boasting that there are over a dozen more victims that haven't been found. After a confrontation with the police and [[CopKiller killing an officer]], Tombs is neutralized and taken into the hospital for a gunshot wound. In one of the loops, when Tree comes to the hospital to give a warning that Tombs will escape, she discovers that Tombs already murdered a security guard. Tombs then guns down a secretary at the hospital and chases down Tree to kill her as well. When Carter stops Tombs from killing Tree, Tombs [[NeckSnap snaps Carter's neck]] just to hurt her. He later gleefully watches Tree hang herself when she decides to reset the day. During the penultimate loop, when Tree confronts Tombs, Tombs steals her knife and attempts to [[SlashedThroat slit her throat]], only to stop himself so that he can relish torturing her. |
| 24 | ** ''Film/HappyDeathDay2U'': [[BigBad Dr. Greg Butler]] of the other dimension contains the same arrogance as his main counterpart, but crosses the threshold into evil here as a spree killer. Like in the primary dimension, he is a charming if smarmy professor cheating on his loving but aging wife with his students. In the other dimension, when his wife finds out about his affair with Lori, he plans to kill the latter and cover everything up; the constant is him releasing [[SerialKiller John Tombs]] to use as a scapegoat, only to carry on where he left off and kill anyone in the vicinity when Tree kills Tombs. In the loops, Butler has killed Tree, Lori, Carter and is responsible for the deaths of two others, with a news report implying that at least one murder spree is still unfolding, and a cop being one of the victims. When finally confronted, Butler reveals his wife is in on it with him, only to murder her as well now that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she's no longer useful]], before trying to kill Tree a final time. |
| 25 | * ''Film/HardBoiled'': [[BigBad Johnny Wong]] is a bloodthirsty ArmsDealer driven solely by a mixture of greed and sadism. Introduced orchestrating an ambush where dozens of rival gangsters are slaughtered, Wong forces undercover cop Alan to gun down Wong's adversary Uncle Hoi, before ordering him to kill [[HardBoiledDetective Inspector "Tequila" Yuen Ho-yan]]. Having an informant beaten and murdered, Wong declares that "the innocent must die" after the police discover his secret cache of weapons, and orders his men to gun down cops and innocents alike before holding a hospital hostage. Wong heartlessly guns down a room full of patients; shoots his right-hand man Mad Dog dead for [[EvenEvilHasStandards having a change of heart]]; attempts to kill everyone by blowing up the hospital; and ultimately holds Alan at gunpoint in a desperate final attempt to win. Claiming to value loyalty despite having no loyalty to [[ItsAllAboutMe anyone other than himself]], Johnny Wong admits to seeing people as nothing more than objects, and will not hesitate to kill anyone if it suits him. |
| 26 | * ''Film/HardcoreHenry'': While [[BigBad Akan]] and Estelle [[UnholyMatrimony love each other]], Akan's CoDragons have no such redeeming qualities: |
| 27 | ** [[TheTeamBenefactor Slick Dimitry]] is Akan's chief benefactor and in charge of his "guns/cops/real estate" in arming and outfitting the villain's organization. Planning to TakeOverTheWorld with Akan, Dimitry helps him lobotomize and transform dozens of men into [[SuperSoldier cybernetic killing machines]], only to personally murder the lot of one of their batches when they prove too mindless to be useful. Dimitry [[CannonFodder throws his men at Henry]] with no care for their lives, and is fully backing Akan's destructive plans. |
| 28 | ** [[PsychoForHire Yuri]] is the chief of the mercenaries Akan hires, who regularly racks up CollateralDamage anywhere he goes. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] viciously [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating Henry]] and taking enjoyment from it, Yuri dispatches his troops to hunt Henry and kill anyone in their way, leading to various cops and an entire bus of citizens being killed. Later leading a massacre of a brothel, Yuri also uses heavy artillery to try to kill Henry and Jimmy, uncaring of the various civilians who die as well--such as a lovable hippie who had just nursed Henry back to health. |
| 29 | * ''Film/HardRevengeMilly'' duology: The sadistic "Jack" is the gangster who murdered the titular character's family. With his cronies, the "Jack Brothers", Jack went on a killing spree that targeted [[FamilyExtermination entire families]] at a time; one of these was Milly's, as Jack [[ForcedToWatch forced Milly to watch]] as he murdered her husband and lit [[WouldHurtAChild her baby]] on fire before carving her apart and leaving her on the verge of death. Jack's killing spree is so infamous it later spawns a slew of [[JackTheRipoff copycat killers]], and when Milly [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge comes seeking revenge]], Jack proclaims he'll torture Milly all over again and finish the job he already started. |
| 30 | * ''Film/HardTarget'' series: |
| 31 | ** ''Hard Target'': |
| 32 | *** [[BigBad Emil Fouchon]] is an unfeeling madman who runs a [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting ring]] that aims to break what he describes as the government's monopoly on murder. Fouchon and [[TheDragon Pik Van Cleaf]] offer homeless veterans thousands of dollars if they can survive being hunted by Fouchon's clients--an offer Fouchon has no intention of fulfilling. When Natasha, the daughter of victim Douglas Binder, along with veteran Chance Boudreaux, look for him, Fouchon has associate Randal Poe beaten and mutilated for selecting a man with a family--only because of the unwanted attention--then chooses Chance's friend Elijah Roper as the next target. When the client proves unwilling to finish Elijah, Fouchon kills the client, then has Van Cleaf gun down Elijah in the street. Fouchon has Van Cleaf kill Po and another man who was helping him. Fouchon decides that Natasha and Chance must die as well, and brings in several clients who owe him favors. When Chance uses a rattlesnake to poison one of these men, Fouchon stomps him to death while ranting about how he should "die quieter". When Chance's uncle sets another of his men on fire, Fouchon kills the man himself. In the climax, Fouchon, with all of his men dead, stabs Chance's uncle with an arrow, takes Natasha hostage, and finally tries to beat Chance to death with a burning two-by-four. |
| 33 | *** [[ProfessionalKiller Pik Van Cleaf]] is Emil Fouchon's top enforcer, and an unrepentant maniac who [[{{Sadist}} delights in acts of violence]]. Responsible for procuring Fouchon's victims, organizing the hunts, and assassinating any threats to their enterprise, Van Cleaf often joins in the hunts himself, committing numerous atrocities with a smile on his face. Introduced pursuing and helping to murder Douglas Binder, Van Cleaf [[EarAche cuts off Randal Poe's ear]] when he makes the mistake of selecting a man with a family, threatening to "cut a whole steak out of him" if he fails again. Gunning down Elijah Roper, Van Cleaf murders a coroner on Fouchon's payroll, and attacks Randal, joyously breaking the man down into a sniveling wreck before gunning him down. Van Cleaf ambushes Boudreaux and Natasha, [[CopKiller killing a cop in the process]], before joining Fouchon on the hunt for the duo, intending to murder them both in "one last hunt". |
| 34 | ** ''Hard Target 2'': [[BigBad Jonah Aldrich]] is a former CIA agent turned sociopathic criminal mastermind. Paying off a corrupt general in Myanmar, Aldrich has drove countless people off their land to use the vast jungle as his hunting ground, where he routinely looses condemned prisoners and villagers alike to be [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted by rich clients for sport]]. Luring MMA fighter Wes Baylor, Aldrich reveals his true colors by ordering a prisoner shot, before having his clients pursue Baylor into the rainforest. Not seeing his customers as any more than a paycheck, Aldrich doesn't bat an eye at their deaths, and goes so far as to beat one up for being "a pussy", and slitting another's throat when he discovers the man has a hidden camera. Aldrich goes on to attempt to behead Baylor's colleague Win with a shovel, execute a random bystander on a bridge, and [[WouldHurtAChild hold a child at gunpoint]] to force Baylor to surrender. A man defined by his LackOfEmpathy, Jonah Aldrich is completely indifferent to the entire graveyards he's filled in the name of lining his pockets. |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheHardWay'': [[SerialKiller The Party Crasher]] is introduced calling the police to cheerfully inform them of his intent to commit a murder at a nightclub before invading it, gunning a man down and escaping. Targeting petty criminals and drug dealers, the Party Crasher initially claims he is doing police's work for them, but his [[{{Sadist}} sadistic demeanor and cruelty]] reveals this to be a lie, with carnage and {{fame|through infamy}} his real goal. Murdering a prostitute soon after, the Party Crasher takes a gun dealer hostage and later executes him before escaping and attempts to fire on an innocent crowd, killing at least one man. When police lieutenant John Moss confronts him, he reveals the Party Crasher [[WouldHurtAChild murdered a 4-year-old-girl]] in the past, to which the Party Crasher only laughs that one sacrifices pawns. Taking Moss's girlfriend hostage, the Party Crasher holds her on the theater rooftop to lure Moss to him, with the intent of murdering them both, along with Moss's partner, actor Nick Lang. |
| 36 | * ''The Hard Way'' (2019): |
| 37 | ** Arnold Briggs, aka [[BigBad Toro]], is the leader of a Romanian drug organization. When an informant steals five million dollars from him, Toro and his enforcer Joe Vig torture and kill him. Toro later orders his men to find the money by any means necessary, even going as far as having a police officer and his entire family slaughtered. [[StalkerWithACrush Obsessed]] over a woman named Lacy Love, Toro has Vig manipulate the death of her husband, Cody Payne, and forces Lacy to work in his organization, threatening to turn her sister into a SexSlave if she tries to leave. When [[TheHero John Payne]] and Mason Bellows set up a meet with Toro, Toro nearly kills John and Lacy in a shootout as he tries to flee, showing no concern when his own soldiers are killed in the crossfire. |
| 38 | ** [[TortureTechnician Joe Vig]] is a sadistic capo within Toro's organization. As he and Toro torture an informant working for Cody, Vig [[TheToothHurts pulls out several of his teeth]] and sends a video of his death to Cody. He later films himself blowing up a prostitute and her pimp just to enrage Cody. When Cody tries to go after Vig personally, Vig kills an innocent woman before fatally shooting Cody. After discovering John was interfering with Toro's business, he kidnapped Sky, John's ex-girlfriend, and had Sky and a bartender killed in an explosion, all of which he recorded and sent to John's cellphone. When John confronts Vig, all he can do is smugly mock John over their deaths, telling them that "they were a blast". |
| 39 | * ''The Hard Way... The Only Way'' (1989): [[DragonInChief Captain Wesson]] is the chief enforcer for drug lord Pinero. A man who claims [[{{Sadist}} he loves killing for the satisfaction it brings him]], Wesson is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] slaughtering a company of soldiers, and torturing the leader before executing him. Wesson happily kills any in the nearby villages who resist before trying to murder the heroes, or to abduct and torture any member of the squad he can. When the fighting comes to a village by the end, Wesson shows no remorse in having civilian homes fired upon to kill his opponents. |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Haunt}}'': [[MonsterClown The Clown]] is the [[BigBad leader]] of the mysterious [[MalevolentMutilation body modification]] cult who view killing as a way to earn their new faces. Luring victims to his "extreme" haunt, the innocents are trapped inside where they are terrorized, tortured, and ultimately murdered. Upon Harper and friends falling victim, the Clown personally murders Harper's abusive boyfriend Sam when he comes looking for Harper, and tricks Harper into murdering her friend Bailey before attempting to hunt Harper down when she escapes. |
| 41 | * ''The Haunted Palace'' (1963): [[BigBad Joseph Curwen]], an EvilSorcerer who lived in the palace above the village of Arkham, pledged his loyalty and the Earth itself to the rule of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]], [[HumanSacrifice offering them up]] many young women to [[BreedingSlave forcibly mate with and breed]] an army of superhuman monsters-–resulting in many abominated failures, and horrible deformities polluting their bloodline generations later. Eventually burned for his crimes, Curwen comes back to life over 100 years later by slowly taking over the mind of his descendant Charles Dexter Ward, attempting to rape his wife and exercise his "[[MaritalRapeLicense husbandly prerogative]]" and, after failing to have her locked away for supposed insanity, decides to make her the next mate of his Gods. Curwen even takes time to horribly murder many of the descendants who lynched him far in the past, burning a man alive with a match and having another devoured by his monstrous son, vowing not to stop until every last person in Arkham has been picked off and made to die as excruciatingly as he had. |
| 42 | * ''Film/{{Haunter}}'': The Pale Man, aka Edgar Mullins, is a vicious ghost who loves the murder of innocents. When he was a boy, he [[SelfMadeOrphan killed both his parents]] by poisoning and smothering them in their beds. He later becomes a {{serial killer}} who claims numerous victims between the 1950s and his death in the 1980s. Still not content, he returns from the dead as a murderous ghost and keeps the spirits of his victims trapped in the house so he can torment them indefinitely. He also [[DemonicPossession possesses the fathers of new families]], whom he then forces to [[PaterFamilicide kill themselves along with their wives and children]]. Utterly cruel and malevolent, he sees no reason to ever stop; as he proclaims to one of his victims' spirits, "I always do enjoy killing you." |
| 43 | * ''Film/TheHaunting1999'': [[AdaptationalVillainy Hugh Crain]] is a [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]] who took his desires to have a family to twisted and dangerous extremes. Abducting children from his mills, Crain murdered them when they tried to leave, mutilated their bodies, and burned them in a fireplace, before covering up his crimes. [[DrivenToSuicide Driving his first wife to suicide]], Crain is also implied to have murdered his second [[SheKnowsTooMuch for discovering his secret]]. After his death, Crain returned as an [[GhastlyGhost all-powerful ghost]] who keeps the spirits of the children trapped in the house and kills any newcomers. |
| 44 | * ''Film/AHauntingAtSilverFalls'' duology: |
| 45 | ** [[EvilAunt Anne Sanders]], despite initially [[BitchInSheepsClothing acting like a caring-if-flawed aunt]] to Jordan, is actually a brutal SerialKiller with a love of violence and cruelty. The true killer of the Dahl Twins, Anne happily allows their father, Wyatt, to be incarcerated and later put to death for the crime. All the while, Anne continues claiming victims, in particular targeting women and girls who have experiences with the ghosts of the twins; one such victim was [[CainAndAbel her own twin sister]]. Allowing her husband Kevin to rape them, Anne murders each victim and disposes of them in the falls while [[NeverSuicide claiming them as suicides]]. After bullying Jordan throughout the film, Anne finally decides to try and kill her niece, physically abusing Kevin to make him comply and then gleefully trying to go after Larry. Not even death could stop her, as she returns in the sequel as a ghost to torment a man named Jack into becoming another killer, and goes after Jordan once more. |
| 46 | ** First movie only: [[CreepyUncle Kevin Sanders]] is introduced as Jordan's friendly uncle, but he turns out to be [[EvilUncle anything but]]. A disgusting SerialRapist, Kevin has eyes on his niece throughout the film, touching her on several occasions while barely maintaining the façade of normalcy around her; in one scene, it's even implied he did something to her while she was unconscious. Kevin works with his wife when it comes to claiming victims, having raped the Dahl twins, along with every other victim Anne ever had. Despite claiming to love Anne, though, he's transparently obsessive over other women, communicating directly with Holly and immediately going after Jordan despite Anne telling him not to. Kevin treats Jordan horrifically once the mask drops by toying with her by pretending to release her, attempting to make her play a game with him, and then brutalizing her when she refuses--while openly mocking her over her mother's rape and murder several years prior. |
| 47 | * ''Film/TheHauntingInConnecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia'' (2013): Stationmaster Jefferson Gordy was [[VillainWithGoodPublicity believed to have been a hero]], helping slaves escape. In truth, he left many of the slaves to starve to death so he could use their bodies for taxidermy. Long after his death, his ghost continues to haunt the area, and when the Wyrick family moves in to the area and the young Heidi Wyrick begins seeing the ghosts of his victims, who want her to help them move on, he [[WouldHurtAChild attempts to kill her]] to avoid Hell. He eventually tries to taxidermize her while she's still alive, and when her aunt Joyce tries to stop him, he causes needles and threads to shoot out of her mouth and bind her to the celling, leaving her to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly and painfully bleed out]]. Finally, he tries to kill Heidi's mother Lisa when she arrives to save Heidi. |
| 48 | * ''Film/TheHazing'': [[HollywoodSatanism Professor Kapps]] is a [[EvilTeacher college professor]] who moonlights as a deranged Satanic SerialKiller. When two college students find him in the middle of his dirty work amid numerous bloody bodies, Kapps attempts to kill the two of them but ends up in a coma. Now using his nefarious powers of [[BodySurf possession]], Kapps possesses and murders numerous college students through various methods of CruelAndUnusualDeath. When he's woken up from his coma, Kapps doesn't even spare the nurses and doctors trying to keep him alive from his wrath and slaughters them all. |
| 49 | * ''Headhunter'' (1988): [[BigBad Chicati Tumo]], the titular [[SerialKiller Headhunter]], is an orixá who hunts Nigerians and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] them to [[YourSoulIsMine consume their souls]]. Having terrorized Nigeria for a long period of time, Tumo arrives in Miami to find the survivors of his massacre, slaughtering a number of immigrants and associates of his victims; killing a woman during her baptism and mutilating a friendly healer for helping the detectives. Posing as the wife of a detective, Tumo leaves her corpse for him to find and mocks the man for trying to stop him. |
| 50 | * ''{{Film/Headshot}}'': Lee, the Sea Devil, also known as [[AbusiveParents the Father From Hell]], is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] escaping from prison by [[CopKiller massacring a group of police officers and prison guards]], sacrificing his loyal gang members to do so. A vicious pirate, Lee is known for slaughtering those he finds while [[WouldHurtAChild abducting groups of children]]. Lee then forces the children into a well for days or weeks without food or water, in the sweltering heat, until he throws down a bottle of water and watches the children fight to the death. The survivor is then raised by Lee as his child and eventual member of his gang. When his treacherous "son", Abdi, later named Ishmael, betrays him and resurfaces with amnesia, Lee sends his men to capture Ishmael, and to massacre whoever stands in their path, resulting in massive amounts of bloodshed and death. When he and Ishmael finally engage in a duel to the death, Lee even attempts to use the last of his energy to try to [[TakingYouWithMe drag Ishmael to death with him]] out of spite. |
| 51 | * ''The Heart of Humanity'' (1918): [[SociopathicSoldier Lieutenant Erich von Eberhard]] is a sadistic German officer in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Lusting after the kindly nurse Nanette, von Eberhard leads an attack on a town to massacre the enemy soldiers and any townspeople who get in their way. Spotting Nanette, von Eberhard locks himself in an orphanage with her, with clear intent to kill whoever gets in his way before he [[AttemptedRape savagely attempts to rape Nanette]]. Angered by the crying of a baby during this, von Eberhard pauses only to [[WouldHurtAChild take the child]] and [[DestinationDefenestration throw it out the high window]] before resuming his attack on the nurse. |
| 52 | * ''Film/HeartOfStone'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Parker]] is a former [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6 agent]] who seeks to steal and take control of the Heart and wipe out the Charter out of pettiness for abandoning him years ago--but mostly because he wants power. Committing a string of murders and even razing a village to claim the Heart, Parker begins using the device to wipe out the Charter heads, murdering one with her family and numerous others; causing the suffocation of another head and dozens of Charter agents; and blowing up a university building containing a third head, alongside countless innocent civilians. When his right hand Keya Dhawan betrays him out of disgust for his brutality, Parker [[WouldHitAGirl brutalizes her]] to force her to reactivate the Heart and tries to kill Keya and heroine Rachel Stone as one final act of spite when Stone hunts him down. |
| 53 | * ''Heartstopper'' (2006): Jonathan Chambers is a [[HollywoodSatanism devil-worshiping]] SerialKiller known for [[AndShowItToYou ripping out the hearts of his victims]], having done this to a number of people before being detained by the police. Upon being sentenced to death by electric chair he makes a DealWithTheDevil granting him supernatural powers, making him [[NighInvulnerability nearly impossible to kill]]. In an effort to lure out Sara Wexler, who he plans to pull a GrandTheftMe on to gain CompleteImmortality, he goes on a killing spree in the hospital, ripping the heart out of nearly every doctor, nurse, and patient in the facility. He also expresses a desire to [[ImAHumanitarian feast on a nurse and Walter's hearts]] once he has Sara's body. |
| 54 | * ''Film/HeavensGate'': [[CattleBaron Frank Canton]] is the head of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association who intends to kill 125 immigrants and claim them as anarchists, with the support of the President of the United States. Canton ambushes and murders the train station master when he tries to warn the town about his arrival. Canton then has his men [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] Ella Watson. When his enforcer Nathan D. Champion [[EveryoneHasStandards discovers this]], he kills the one rapist who escaped in front of Canton, [[BadBoss who shows no concern]] over his death and personally executes a captured immigrant. While fighting with the immigrants, Canton brings in the cavalry to rescue his own men, and threatens to shoot [[TheHero James Averill]] for insurrection when he points this out. Canton later ambushes Averill, Ella, and John H. Bridges, the only survivors of the battle, killing both Ella and Bridges before he himself is shot by Averill. |
| 55 | * ''Film/Heist2015'': [[PsychoForHire Derek "The Dog" Prince]] is the sadistic right-hand man to Francis "The Pope" Silva, [[MoreDespicableMinion far surpassing his boss in depravity]]. A TortureTechnician who has a lair filled with implements he uses, the Dog tortures and kills anyone who crosses Pope to "send a message", and he's shown doing just this to a small-time thug and his girlfriend to extort information out of them. When Pope's casino is robbed, the Dog goes on a warpath to find the perps, needlessly killing two homeless people [[DisproportionateRetribution just for lending out a car to the robbers]] before executing a pilot the burglars planned to hire. The Dog captures the ringleader of the thieves, Vaughn, douses him in gasoline, and plans to burn him alive. When Vaughn reveals he stole from Pope to pay for his sickly daughter's surgery, the Dog informs Vaughn that he's going to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the man's daughter next]] out of spite, promising to make sure she suffers before she dies. |
| 56 | * ''Film/HeKnowsYoureAlone'': After his girlfriend leaves him for somebody else, [[IfICantHaveYou Ray Carlton]] stabs her to death on the night before her wedding. With that, he begins a [[SerialKiller three-year killing spree]] where he butchers brides-to-be soon before their weddings. He fixates on heroine Amy Jensen, and begins to stalk her and murder all her friends, concluding in [[DecapitationPresentation putting her roommate's head in their fish tank]] and attempting to kill her. He kills Len Gamble, the cop who's been chasing him and whose fiance was his first victim, before being arrested. |
| 57 | * ''Film/{{Hellbenders}}'': [[OmnicidalManiac Surtr]] is a DestroyerDeity who seeks to [[KillTheGod kill God]] and eliminate all existence. When two agents of the [[BadassPreacher Interfaith Augustine Order of Hellbound Saints]] are called to exorcise Surtr from a person, he psychologically torments and cripples one of them before possessing the other. Surtr's very presence spreads a HatePlague throughout New York City, causing mass riots and brutal murders. Meanwhile, Surtr abducts 200 humans to be possessed by demons and assist him in his omnicidal ritual. After he mutilates a couple of inexperienced exorcists and tosses one into Hell, Surtr manipulates a Hellbound Saint who loved his host body in an attempt to switch to him. |
| 58 | * ''Film/TheHellbenders'' (1967): [[SiblingsInCrime Jeff and Nat]] lack the redeeming qualities of their father, ex-[[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate]] Jonas. Jeff is a slimy, evil [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] while Nat is {{greed}} personified; together, the two gleefully help their dad ambush and slaughter dozens of Union soldiers for their gold, pitilessly gunning down even the dying and ending by murdering their own partners in the debacle. Jeff murders the first woman Jonas brings aboard to help with his scheme of restarting the Confederacy, then attempts to rape the second, while Nat pointlessly kills a harmless, blind old priest [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. At the film's end, Jeff rapes and murders the daughter of a Sioux chief instead of finding help for his mortally wounded father, while Nat attempts to betray and murder his family, including his good-hearted brother Ben, to make off with the Union gold himself. |
| 59 | * ''Film/{{Hellbinders}}'': [[BigBad Samael]] is the leader of Legion, who seeks to summon {{Beelzebub}} and bring HellOnEarth. Seeking the Book of King Solomon, Samael has Legion possess humans to operate on Earth. After acquiring the book, Samael has his agent the Painter sacrifice people and [[CouldntFindAPen draw summoning circles with their blood]]. After a group of heroes band together to stop his plots, Samael uses the possessed innocents as {{human shield}}s before ordering a group of them slaughtered out of frustration. After having one hero's possessed friend try to kill him, Samael absorbs a horde of souls for a power boost before the final battle. |
| 60 | * ''Film/{{Hellbound}}'': Prosatanos is the emissary of {{Satan}} who strives to bring about HellOnEarth. During UsefulNotes/TheCrusades period in the Holy Land, he kidnaps UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart’s [[WouldHurtAChild infant son]] and tries to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice the prince]] for his royal blood. The King responds by [[SealedEvilInACan sealing Prosatanos in a tomb]] and [[DismantledMacGuffin dismantling his scepter]]. After being awakened centuries later, Prosatanos sets about recovering the pieces of his scepter, killing their protectors in the process. Notably, he murders a Rabbi by ripping his heart out of his chest, an old Italian priest by throwing him out of a moving train, and a blind Israeli monk by [[HeadCrushing crushing the helpless man's skull]]. He has no problem with killing any bystanders who get in the way, or [[BadBoss his allies]] as soon as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they become a liability]]. In the climax he kidnaps his research assistant Leslie, who is revealed to be descended from nobility, to sacrifice her in his new ritual and bathe the world in fire. |
| 61 | * ''Helldriver'' (2010): |
| 62 | ** [[BigBad Rikka Miyata]] is the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen of Zombies]], and Kika's [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]]. In life, she--along with her brother Yasushi Miyata--was a cannibalistic SerialKiller who would kill people and [[ImAHumanitarian eat their bodies]], having 20 victims under her belt. Eating her husband's legs in front of Kika, she burns him alive and tries to kill her. Becoming the Zombie Queen, she lets them eat everyone in their path, declaring that everything in the world is hers. Sensing Kika and friends trying to stop her, she sends out her zombies to kill them, resulting in numerous casualties. Once Kika arrives fight her, Rikka tortures Kika and creates a giant zombie made out of other zombies, using them to distract the guards blocking the southern wall. When her giant zombie starts flying through the air, she drops her zombies onto the south side of Japan, watching as they devour hundreds in their path. |
| 63 | ** [[AxCrazy Yasushi Miyata]] is Rikka's neo-Nazi, [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] brother-in-crime who helped her eat and kill 20 people. Cooking and feasting on Kika's father's legs, he chases after Kika with a desire to eat her, [[CopKiller killing two cops]] trying to stop him. After Rikka becomes the Zombie Queen, she makes Yasushi her zombie [[TheDragon second-in-command]]. The leader of a zombie base, he has humans locked up to be fed to him and his zombies cohorts. Continuing his love of human flesh, he kidnaps No-Name's sister Maya and eats her leg and nipples, mortally wounding her in the process. A psychotic killer, Yasushi revels in being a zombie, as it [[TheUnfettered allows him to eat whomever he wants without any consequences]]. |
| 64 | * ''Film/{{Hell Fire}}'' (2012-2015) has these [[BrotherSisterTeam two children]] of {{Satan}}: |
| 65 | ** TheAntiChrist is the [[CardCarryingVillain proud son of Satan]] who plans to become [[PresidentEvil President of the United States]] and kickstart Armageddon to [[KillAllHumans wipe out humanity]] and make their souls the Devil's slaves as a way to spite God. Since he can't kill the unborn Messiah, the son of God who has the power to stop him, the Anti-Christ attempts to make a deal with the pimp Dark Gable to have him kill the Messiah's mother Marisol in exchange for power. After getting kidnapped by Rosetta and the prostitutes, the Anti-Christ uses his telepathy and charm to [[MindRape break the prostitutes' minds]] by exploiting their traumatic memories, killing one named Cinnamon to act as his undead slave, and forcing them to fight their literal inner demons. Getting Rosetta to join his side, the Anti-Christ resurrects the people Rosetta killed to murder the pregnant Marisol and the unborn Messiah. |
| 66 | ** [[DarkActionGirl Rosetta]] is a mysterious prostitute who turns out to be the daughter of Satan. Plotting to steal her pimp Dark Gable's supposed money from his deal with the Anti-Christ, Rosetta has Gable and those around him held captive and [[SlashedThroat their throats slit]], including some innocent prostitutes who just happened to be there. Torturing the Anti-Christ in gangster Tony Wang's cabin to find out where the money's hidden, Rosetta kills Tony and his wife Anna when they unexpectedly arrive at the cabin. Joining the Anti-Christ in his Armageddon plan [[PsychoForHire because of how cool it sounds]], Rosetta throws her friends aside to be killed and used by the Anti-Christ for magic practice. Ordering her Baby Daddy to kidnap Marisol, Rosetta slits his throat once he arrives, and later [[EarAche bites off Justine's ear]] while fighting her. |
| 67 | * ''Film/HellGirl'': [[BigBad Honda Takaaki, aka Maki]], a controversial music producer and band leader, is a man who worships death. Desiring nothing less than the end of humanity and the world he deems rotten, Maki cultivates a DoomsdayCult under the guise of a BoyBand, seducing children with prospects of money and addictive drugs to brainwash them into his ideals. Through his evil, Maki hopes to appease a perceived demonic entity so that it may end all life on Earth, even offering up [[WouldHurtAChild young girls]] as {{human sacrifice}}s to do so. |
| 68 | * ''Hellhole'' (1985): [[MadDoctor Dr. Helen Fletcher]] is in charge of the Ashland Sanitarium for Women, an asylum where she prays on her mental patients. Sicking her goons on any woman who breaks the rules or doesn't act accordingly, she has them taken to "[[BedlamHouse Hellhole]]", a laboratory where her victims are used for experiments in her and Dr. Miles Drane's attempt at chemical lobotomizing. When the victims [[DrivenToMadness go insane]] from the results, Fletcher executes them and makes out with the corpses. The ones who aren't killed are locked in her prison and left insane and violent. When Susan and Ron uncover her plans, Fletcher attempts to burn the entire hospital of its files and patients to cover her tracks, and later kills Drane when he tries to free her mental patients. |
| 69 | * ''Hellmaster'' (1992): [[BigBad Professor Jones]] is a SocialDarwinist who wants to prove that God is dead by [[AGodAmI becoming one himself]]. Introducing an intelligence-enhancing drug called "Reward" to the homeless, promising to cure their desperate plight, it instead turns them into his mutant, psychic slaves that he sends to kill anyone in their path, including Robert's wife Andrea. Deciding to use the drug on college students, the experiment ends in a failure, resulting in Jones killing his test subjects, faking his death, and burning the bodies to cover his tracks. Returning 20 years later, Jones decides to start over at the same college, where he kills his assistant Damon and unleashes his mutants onto the school. |
| 70 | * ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'': |
| 71 | ** The titular [[VillainProtagonist Henry]] is a man who finds feeling only in murder. Henry [[SerialKiller kills several people]] randomly and explains his strategy for getting away with is always mixing up his MO. When Henry befriends a twisted man named Otis, Henry has the two [[FamilyExtermination kill a whole family]], [[NeckSnap snapping]] the [[WouldHurtAChild young son]]'s neck on camera. He murders Otis after catching Otis raping Otis's sister Becky who confesses she loves Henry. The next day, Henry is seen leaving alone, dropping a heavy, bloodstained suitcase in a ditch that contains Becky's remains. |
| 72 | ** Otis is Henry's former cellmate, who is introduced letting Becky stay with him as a pretext to [[BrotherSisterIncest hit on her]]. Due to his own sadistic tendencies, he gleefully joins Henry's killing spree, eventually [[MisplacedRetribution killing an innocent bystander]] after a teenage boy he tried to molest fights back. When the duo massacre an entire family, Otis [[AttemptedRape nearly forces himself on the mother]] before ultimately [[ILoveTheDead molesting her corpse]]. In ravenous jealousy of Henry developing a relationship with Becky, Otis snaps and rapes her. |
| 73 | * ''Film/Hercules1983'': [[VillainousPrincess The wicked princess Adriana]] begins by helping her father King Minos to usurp Thebes, helping to slaughter temple guards before initiating a brutal conflict across Thebes that leaves countless people dead. Wanting to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice Princess Cassiopeia to Hera]], Adriana also tries to drug and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape Hercules]] when he arrives before trying to murder Cassiopeia. |
| 74 | * ''Film/Hercules2014'': |
| 75 | ** [[AmbitionIsEvil King Cotys of Thrace]] is a power-hungry monarch who murdered his own son-in-law in order to [[TheUsurper take power]]. Cotys later gave Hercules the task of preparing an army for him which he could then use to fight Rhesus, a supposedly cruel rebel who had massacred several villages. It is revealed later on, however, that [[FalseFlagOperation Cotys himself had ordered those mass killings]], and that Rhesus himself was a revolutionary that Cotys shifted the blame to. Cotys later attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring murder his own daughter]] when he learns she has told Hercules the truth behind his rule, and means to [[TheCorrupter corrupt his grandson]] into becoming a cruel ruler to carry on his reign. |
| 76 | ** [[AdaptationalVillainy King Eurystheus of Athens]] allegedly banished Hercules for murdering his own family. In reality, Eurystheus is a jealous ruler who had Hercules's wife and children torn apart by wolves and [[FrameUp framed him]] to ruin his reputation. Allying with King Cotys and sponsoring his razing of Thrace's villages to shift blame onto the rebel Rhesus, Eurystheus seeks to conquer Greece in bloody conquest with his cohort. |
| 77 | ** [[InsaneAdmiral General Sitacles]] is King Cotys's thuggish military leader. Intent on seeing his king take Greece by bloodshed, Sitacles aids in his plot to take Thrace from the righteous Rhesus, at one point personally trying to [[BadBoss execute his own innocent scouts]] to cover up a rushed error. |
| 78 | * ''Film/HerculesAndTheCaptiveWomen'' (aka ''Hercules Conquers Atlantis''): [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Antinea]] is the cruel and ageless tyrant of {{Atlantis}}, who has engaged in dark rituals and murder for centuries in her plot to destroy humanity and [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]]. Antinea routinely exposes the children of her subjects to the "Blood of Uranus" in order to twist them into mindless members of her "perfect race", tossing any who resist into a quarry filled with hundreds of prisoners she has starved and treats like animals, prisoners she later has massacred to the last man. When a prophecy foretells Antinea's daughter Ismene shall doom Atlantis, Antinea repeatedly attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring have Ismene sacrificed]] even when Ismene is begging her own mother for mercy, and [[YouHaveFailedMe tosses a minion who fails to do the deed into a pit of acid]]. |
| 79 | * ''Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon'' (1964): [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Taneal]] is one of the three tyrants, and the sister of the other two. Plotting to do away with her brothers, Taneal helps run Babylon as a slavery-ridden hellhole where many are mistreated and brutalized, or even killed. When war begins, Taneal decides to have the slave turn a wheel to destroy the foundations of the city while she flees with the army and the treasure, plotting to let every civilian and slave, plus her brothers, die in the collapse of the city. |
| 80 | * ''Film/HerculesReborn'' (2014): [[StalkerWithACrush General Nikos]] was a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of Hercules and later Arius before becoming their sworn enemy. In the past, Nikos took a woman named Magara and treated her like a slave until Hercules saves her from his clutches; Nikos responded by using a potion that [[DrivenToMadness drove Hercules into homicidal insanity]], resulting in him killing his wife and children. In the present, Nikos starts a bloody coup that claimed the lives of several soldiers and civilians, which ends with him killing the king. Nikos then took Princess Theodora, Arius's lover whom he became obsessed with, and has her become his SexSlave, later ordering the death of a mother and her [[WouldHurtAChild child]] as a means to make her submit to him, and threatening to kill more. Nikos sends his soldiers to torture civilians to find the location of Arius and his men with intent to execute them. Nikos would later have the now captured Hercules murder his own comrades using the very sane potion that led Hercules to kill his own family. |
| 81 | * ''Film/{{Hero|2022}}'' (2022): [[SociopathicSoldier Wada]] is the most sadistic member of the Japanese Officials behind the [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan invasion of Korea]]. After being spared by Independence Army Officer Ahn Jung Geun, [[UngratefulBastard Wada would lead a siege on Ahn's Base]] and massacre many of his comrades, [[WouldHurtAChild Including children]]. In order to apprehend Ahn after he goes into hiding in Russia, Wada would become [[DirtyCop Sheriff]] of Vladivostok, whereupon he would torture Ma-Doo Sik, one of the independence fighters, to death for information. After heading to Harbin to stop Ahn, Wada encounters Ma-Doo Sik's sister and proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat her]] before murdering her while her ally is watching. Sadistic and ungrateful, Wada serves as the most repulsive member of the Japanese Empire, even surpassing his own superior, Ito Hirobumi, when it comes to depravity. |
| 82 | * ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'': The [[SociopathicSoldier Vietnamese colonel]] functions as a {{sadist}}ic, brutal officer dedicated to making others suffer. When he feels insulted, he shoots a woman's husband in the head and attempts to have her brutalized, [[DisproportionateRetribution solely because she complained too much]]; he executes their Vietnamese driver as well. Once he begins hunting the heroes, the Colonel terrorizes a tribe into working for him via executions and when he gets his hands on any of the good guys he has them [[ColdBloodedTorture horribly tortured]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even his own men have enough of him and try to leave]], after which he promptly executes one solely for spite. |
| 83 | * ''The Film/HeroicTrio'': The Evil Master has been kidnapping babies to raise them to be his minions to help him take over China. He has the babies [[ImAHumanitarian eat human flesh]], and nurtures them into psychopaths. He put Thief Catcher though a traumatizing experience that she considers a FateWorseThanDeath, and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes]] Ching into being his minion, at one point ordering her to kill her own boyfriend. When his body is destroyed during the FinalBattle, his skeleton [[PeoplePuppets takes control of Invisible Girl by shoving itself inside her]], and tries to make her kill Thief Catcher and Wonder Woman. |
| 84 | * ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'': Katib is the [[EvilNephew treacherous nephew]] of Sheikh Riyadh, and is working with Lady Davenport to sabotage the Ocean of Fire race. Launching a deadly raid to capture the Prince's horse, Al-Hattal, Katib abducts the Sheikh's daughter, Jazira, [[OffWithHisHead threatening to have her beheaded]] if his demands aren't met. When Frank Hopkins rescues her, Katib swears to give him a slow, painful death and kills anyone in his way, even [[WouldHurtAChild shooting a young servant boy dead]] simply for challenging him. Staging an ambush, Katib opens fire on several racers and runs Frank into a lethal trap that [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals seriously injures his horse Hidalgo]]. When Frank's friend Sakr rescues him, Katib attacks them both, shooting Sakr dead [[ForcedToWatch right in front of Frank]] before trying to kill the latter. |
| 85 | * ''Film/TheHidden'': The unnamed [[PuppeteerParasite parasitic lifeform]] takes over the bodies of other sapient beings so that it can go on a violent crime spree, taking whatever it wants and killing anyone who gets in the way, purely for fun. The host bodies are discarded by the alien when they finally become so damaged that it needs to [[BodySurf jump into a new host]]. During its [[SpreeKiller murderous rampage]] throughout Los Angeles, it kills many dozens of people through methods varying from shooting, bludgeoning, stabbing, and vehicular homicide, having no compunctions with murdering children or the infirm either. The good body-controlling alien in the film, an [[SpacePolice extraterrestrial police officer]], has been pursuing the evil alien ever since it killed his family and his police partner on another planet, which the evil alien is only too happy to remind him of when they confront each other. The alien's ultimate plan is to take over the body of a U.S. Senator so it can become PresidentEvil. |
| 86 | * ''Film/{{Hideaway}}'': In this film based on the Creator/DeanKoontz novel, Jeremy Nyebern/[[Literature/ArsGoetia Vassago]] is a {{serial killer}} and devil worshiper who murders his mother and sister in a twisted ritual, before killing himself in order to gain demonic power by his own damnation. Revived from the dead by his father, he continues his murderous rituals by kidnapping young girls and bringing them into an abandoned amusement park where he mutilates them. When he approaches a girl he has been daydreaming about-namely, about [[EyeScream cutting out her eyes]]-he [[CopKiller murders a cop]] who was investigating him and [[BodyInABreadbox puts him into his father's fridge]] with a sign that says it's too late to resuscitate him. When his father tries to reason with him he promptly murders him while declaring he [[HellSeeker wants to be damned]]. He follows this up trying to [[WouldHitAGirl murder the protagonist's wife and daughter]]. |
| 87 | * ''Film/{{Higanjima}}'' (2010): The [[VampireMonarch vampire lord Miyabi]], upon being freed from his prison, promptly slaughtered or turned everyone on the island he inhabited, building a vampire army. Having innocents lured to the island, Miyabi has them tortured, [[VampiricDraining drained]], fed to the "devil" he keeps as a weapon, or kept alive to be fed off slowly, turning others to build up his forces and using a woman named Rei to bring others to him while keeping her as an unwilling SexSlave. Upon facing his nemesis Atsushi, Miyabi even tries to turn him into a vampire, knowing [[FateWorseThanDeath no fate for him could possibly be worse]]. |
| 88 | * ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'': Stacey Bridges is a ruthless {{outlaw}} who once participated in the murder of Marshal Jim Duncan, [[ATasteOfTheLash whipping him savagely]] in the center of [[TownWithADarkSecret town]] and torturing him to death as the lawman begged for help from the corrupt [[UngratefulTownsfolk townsfolk]]. Enraged by the betrayal of the town, Bridges returns from imprisonment. Killing the defenders of the town, he plans to burn the rest down and slaughter all the townsfolk. |
| 89 | * ''Film/HighRisk'' (aka ''Meltdown''): [[TheDragon Rabbit]] is the younger brother and primary henchman of [[BigBad the Doctor]], and a willing supporter to the [[MadBomber Doctor]]'s various [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] attacks for extortion. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] leading his men in herding a playground full of [[WouldHurtAChild children]] into a bus to target a tycoon's child for ransom, Rabbit guns down a teacher to silence everyone and helps the Doctor strap a TimeBomb underneath the bus, the resulting explosion killing everyone, including hero Li Kit's family. Rabbit would later assist the Doctor's heist of Hotel Grandeur's jewelry exhibition on its opening day, spearheading a massacre of the lobby's staff before taking over the penthouse where all the guests are gathered, personally executing the hotel's unarmed security chief for being unable to unlock the display cabinets. When Li Kit interrupts the raid, Rabbit casually guns down fleeing hostages and later traps Helen in a room full of poisonous reptiles, trying to kill her [[HeKnowsTooMuch in order to shut her up]]. |
| 90 | * ''Film/{{Highwaymen}}'': Fargo is a SerialKiller who travels around the States in his 72' El Dorado to use his car in vehicular homicides. Ever since he was a kid he had a disturbing fascination with car accidents until he decided to stage his own. Now a middle-aged insurance investigator, he primarily targets women, murdering the protagonist James Cray's wife in front of him before convincing the authorities that it was an accident. This started a years-long feud as James incapacitated Fargo in revenge, before Fargo disappeared from the hospital as a [[EvilCripple cripple]] to continue his killing spree elsewhere. He sends Cray photos of the deaths he causes to taunt him for being unable to stop him, leaving a body count of at least nine women and several others. He goes out of his way to torment his victims, such as tying a crashed car with two victims inside to the back of his own and dragging them along the road at high speed. He later kidnaps a victim whom Cray had initially saved to take her back to the motel where he had previously killed his wife, putting her in a red dress to re-enact the murder solely to mess with Cray. |
| 91 | * ''Film/{{Hijacked}}'' (2012): [[TheHeavy Rostow Pawlak]] is a chief agent of the [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] organization known as the Tribe, who enacts a hijacking plot to finance more of the Tribe's deadly mass murder plots. Ambushing and killing a squad of [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] agents who suspected the plot, Rostow takes everyone onboard billionaire Bruce Lieb's private plane {{hostage|Situation}}, threatening them all to extort an exorbitant ransom. Killing his own insider when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she outlives her usefulness]], Rostow slowly murders more of the hostages to indicate his threat, and he reveals that even when the ransom is paid, he plans to blow up the entire plane and leave his team to die while he makes his escape. |
| 92 | * ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'': Mars, eldest son of [[CannibalClan Papa Jupiter's family]], is the most sickening and depraved of the lot. Having participated in the murder and cannibalization of numerous innocents over the years, Mars leads the attack on the Carter family, murdering the family matriarch Ethel and her eldest daughter Lynne, kidnapping Lynne's baby daughter, and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] the youngest daughter Brenda for fun with Brenda only surviving because Mars is out of bullets. Mars later attempts to butcher Katie, attempting to kill her father Doug when he tries to save her. |
| 93 | * ''The Hills Run Red'' (1966): |
| 94 | ** [[BigBad Ken Seagull]] was the best friend of protagonist Jerry Brewster who, after claiming a big robbery at the end of the Civil War, escaped with the loot while promising to take care of Brewster's wife and young son. Instead, Seagull leaves Brewster to rot in prison, lies to his wife about it before leaving her to die in poverty and taking his son for his own. Seagull uses his ill-gotten gains to buy his way into ownership of Austin as the businessman "Ken Milton", [[CopKiller murdering Austin's sheriff]] and terrorizing the others into compliance. Seagull tries to have Brewster murdered when he gets out of prison, furiously unleashes his hitman [[TheDragon Garcia Mendez]] to slaughter a saloon full of people when rebellion crops up, and, when Brewster finally comes to settle the score, Seagull [[BadBoss knifes his own servant to death]] to use the body as a decoy to get a cheap shot on Brewster. |
| 95 | ** [[AxCrazy Garcia Mendez]] is Seagull's chuckling, [[PsychoForHire bloodthirsty mercenary]]. A {{sadist}} by nature, Mendez pettily [[WouldHurtAChild terrorizes children]] and openly lusts over Seagull's sister Mary Ann, taking an undercover Brewster into his entourage after watching his men beat him bloody. Mendez eventually shows his true bloodthirsty edge by descending on a saloon full of dozens of people with his men and massacring everyone inside, even executing the ones who surrender with a gleeful smile. When Seagull loses the battle against Austin's people, all Mendez can think of is to kidnap Mary Ann to ride out with her with clear licentious designs, killing the barmaid who attempts to rescue her and remaining apathetic when Mary Ann is shot in the process. |
| 96 | * ''Film/TheHillsRunRed'' (2009): Wilson Concannon, a director working on the [[FilmWithinAFilm titular lost slasher film]], wasn't satisfied with how his actors worked, so he donned the costume of the killer, Babyface, and simply [[SnuffFilm filmed himself killing the actors]]. He also [[VillainousIncest raped his thirteen-year-old daughter]], Alexa, and [[AbusiveParents abused the resulting child]], locking him in a dark room, and even letting him [[FacialHorror cut off his own face]] and become the new Babyface killer to impress him. At the time of the film, a movie buff named Tyler and his friends go to Concannon's house to find a copy of the film. While Tyler's tied to a wheelchair, Concannon nonchalantly confesses his deeds, amused at Tyler's disgust. He takes Tyler to watch as his friend is killed on camera, but belittles Alexa for working on the film behind his back, shooting her. When their son panics, he only tells him to get back in character, and even as said son furiously attempts to and succeeds in killing him, Concannon can only shout out angrily that he's Babyface's father. |
| 97 | * ''Film/HirokinTheLastSamurai'': "[[PlanetBaron The Griffin]]" is a brutal tyrant who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] murdering rebels who refuse to let him know where to find the revolutionary Moss. Griffin leads his forces to massacre encampments and villages with massive casualties and survivors taken to be butchered in his arenas. Having taken the family of the hero Hirokin, Griffin intends to force them to be his family, finally [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] Hirokin's wife out of frustration near the film's climax. |
| 98 | * ''Film/AHistoryOfViolence'': Leland Jones and Billy Orser are a pair of thieving {{serial killer}}s who are [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] casually murdering the staff of the motel they're departing at the start of the movie, with Billy [[WouldHurtAChild gunning down a scared little girl]] without a hint of emotion. Later, when they try to rob Tom Stall's diner, Leland orders Billy to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape a waitress]] to "show this asshole we mean business"; Billy is all too happy to oblige. It's heavily implied they are on a cross-country murder spree, and would have continued indiscriminately robbing and killing everyone they encountered had Tom not stopped them. |
| 99 | * ''The Hit'' (1984): [[DragonInChief Mitchell Braddock]] is one of two [[ProfessionalKiller hitmen]] sent by a kingpin to capture former gangster Willie Parker and deliver him to Paris. Sending some Spanish delinquents to kidnap Willie and bring him to himself and his partner [[PsychoForHire Myron]], he gives them a briefcase of explosives--pretending it’s their payment--killing three of them once its opened. Taking Willie to his safe house apartment, Braddock finds an old acquaintance, Harry, alongside his girlfriend Maggie residing there. After Willie reveals his name to the two, Braddock murders Harry and kidnaps Maggie, attempting to murder her multiple times. Taking Maggie to a gas station, he murders an employee trying to help her and gets into a violent fight with her. Later deciding to go against his orders from the kingpin, Braddock shoots Willie InTheBack and kills Myron, only letting Maggie live because he ran out of bullets. |
| 100 | * ''Film/TheHitcher'' films have {{hostile hitchhiker}}s who [[SerialKiller kill many]], [[FamilyExtermination families]], [[WouldHurtAChild children]], and [[CopKiller cops]] included: |
| 101 | ** Original film: [[DissonantSerenity John Ryder]] is a mysterious vagabond who gains a twisted obsession with the young hero Jim Halsey and begins hunting him down in an attempt to hurt and [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] him. After terrifying him once, Ryder is given a ride by a family of four and murders them all gruesomely, including the little children. Ryder sets up Jim as the murderer as he continues racking up a body count. Ryder's most infamous act is to tie Jim's LoveInterest, a waitress named Nash, between two trucks and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tear her in half]]. Twisted and monstrous, Ryder is only interested in turning Jim into as much a monster as he is and [[AxCrazy killing as many people as possible]]. |
| 102 | ** ''I've Been Waiting'': [[{{Sadist}} Jack]] is yet another sadistic hitchhiker who [[ForTheEvulz kills to alleviate his boredom]]. Having killed others before encountering Jim and Maggie, Jack at one point kills a trucker to take his truck, scalping the man to use his hair as a wig. Murdering Maggie's parents and blaming her and Jim for the murders, Jack fatally wounds Jim and later captures Maggie, putting her in a water tower that will kill her should she make any erratic movements. Once Maggie escapes, Jack follows suit, killing several innocents and cops in an attempt to [[FrameUp frame Maggie]], stopping at nothing to have her arrested. |
| 103 | ** 2007 remake: [[AdaptationalJerkass John Ryder]] here lacks the mystique and cold refinement of the original. Instead a [[HeManWomanHater vicious misogynist]], Ryder slaughters a family to prove a point, children included, before arriving at a police station to massacre everyone there. Trying to rape heroine Grace, Ryder instead [[ForcedToWatch forces her to watch]] her boyfriend Jim [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe pulled in half]] before slaughtering the cops arresting him while delighting in trying to [[TheCorrupter turn Grace into a killer]]. |
| 104 | * ''Film/TheHitchHiker'': [[HostileHitchhiker Emmett Myers]] is a SerialKiller on the run. A remorseless murderer who kills numerous people for their vehicles, Myers comes across the heroes on their planned fishing trip and takes them hostage so he can use them to drive him to Mexico. Plotting to murder them at the end of the trip, Myers spends the entire time [[MindRape abusing them psychologically]]to [[TheSocialDarwinist prove himself their superior]]. |
| 105 | * ''The Hitchhiker'' (2007): [[HeManWomanHater Jack Carter]] is a SerialKiller who murders women to satisfy his raging misogyny. After being picked up by his target of obsession Melinda and the other girls, Jack kills a mechanic and the manager of the motel that they were staying at. Drugging the girls and taking them captive, Jack murders Kristina and kidnaps another woman, Susan, murdering her husband in the process. Shortly after killing Patty, Jack gets in a shootout with a pair of police officers and [[CopKiller kills them both]], followed by Susan. Killing two more women before his arrest, Jack broke into Melinda's house with the intention of declaring his twisted love for her. |
| 106 | * ''Film/HitlersMadman'': The titular "madman," UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich himself, is a nightmare even by the standards of the Nazi regime at the time. Leading the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and having the tiniest bit of resistance murdered alongside twenty other innocents for each "crime"--leading to thousands of deaths--Heydrich establishes his cruelty by sentencing a Czech citizen to death on false charges and personally signing his execution warrant. With a seething hatred of "intellectualism" and free thought in the face of the Nazi regime, Heydrich rounds up several young girls who look to his taste to have them sterilized and then sent to the Russian front as {{sex slave}}s for the German soldiers, callously brushing off the anguished suicide of one as "the victim of intellect" with a smile on his face. Heydrich later provokes a pacifistic priest into being shot dead by his men by violating his sacred cloth. On his deathbed, Heydrich furiously denounces the Reich as "too weak" and implores UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler to execute the FinalSolution to wipe out all of the German's enemies without mercy. At the end of his cruel life, Heydrich's only regret is simply that he didn't kill enough people, embracing his cruelty to the bitter end. |
| 107 | * ''Film/TheHitman'': Ronny "Del" Delaney, the [[DirtyCop corrupt partner]] of Cliff Garret, guns Garret down on a drug bust to cover his own dirty dealings, and then guns down the surviving criminals to keep his cover. When Garret, believed dead, infiltrates the mob as a supposed hitman, Del plays two mob outfits against each other before slaughtering any survivors to gain control himself. When he discovers Garret is alive, Del takes a little boy that Garret had befriended and ties him up with an explosive under his chair before attempting to detonate it to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the boy]] and Garret together. |
| 108 | * ''The Hitman's...'' |
| 109 | ** ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Vladislav Dukhovich]] is the former [[PresidentEvil dictator]] of Belarus on trial for war crimes. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] ransacking the home of a professor who spoke out against him, and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem shoots his family]] in [[ForcedToWatch front of him]] to "educate" him. Any witnesses against him during his trial, he has assassinated before they can testify. When Darius Kincaid, the titular hitman, finally brings concrete evidence to the trial, it's in the form of Dukhovich overseeing the massacre of a village that resisted him and having their bodies dumped in a mass grave. Caught at last, Dukhovich stages an explosion to cover his escape from the court, but not before he proudly proclaims to everyone assembled that he refuses to recognize their authority to punish him for the crimes he has committed, and that he is the rightful ruler of Belarus and they cannot take that from him. A remorseless, ruthless, mass-murdering dictator who will do anything to keep control over his country and violently silences any dissent, Dukhovich is the very definition of a tyrant. |
| 110 | ** ''Film/TheHitmansWifesBodyguard'': [[WesternTerrorists Aristotle Papadopoulos]] is a ruthless Greek nationalist and terrorist outraged by sanctions on Greece. Murdering an EU diplomat by suffocating him, Aristotle intends to drive into the EU's power grid and [[BigBlackout shut it down]], killing millions with the loss of life support and power. Upon capturing Bryce and Darius Kincaid, Aristotle intends to have them [[CruelAndUnusualDeath tortured to death]], attempting to rekindle his old romance with Sonia Kincaid. Upon learning she was deceiving him, he intends to sink her in the ocean to kill her along with EU, with nary a glimmer of remorse. |
| 111 | * ''Film/HobokenHollow'': |
| 112 | ** [[TheHeavy Clayton Connelly]] is the {{smug|Snake}}, apparent leader of the Broderick family ranch, using his guile to lure transients and hitchhikers to the farm where they are [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil summarily enslaved]] by the family. Threatening heinous torture to anyone who tries to escape the farm or break any of its ridiculous rules, Clayton sics the hulking Junior onto any who displease him to be tortured or worse. Clayton at one point even forces a prisoner to stand atop an unbalanced stool with a noose around his neck for an entire night. Revealed to have [[NoHonorAmongThieves no care for the rest of his cohorts]], Clayton intends to sell them all out to police to secure himself a cushy paycheck by a land baron who wants to buy the Broderick farm from Clayton. |
| 113 | ** [[FatBastard Weldon Broderick]], the patriarch of the Brodericks, seems [[ObfuscatingDisability doddering and simple-minded]] at first, but he's [[TheManBehindTheMan the real brains]] behind the Brodericks' slaving and serial-killing operation. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Letting the audience know the kind of man he is]] by running over a hitchhiker for fun in one of his first scenes, Weldon pays off the local authorities to round up any potential transients for him--those who aren't already captured by Clayton--so he can subject them to backbreaking labor and frequent, hour-long torture sessions that inevitably result in death. Bodies end up [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies cooked up into jerky]] and sold to oblivious customers, while transients who stay with the family for long enough are shattered into "foremen", maimed shells of themselves who only serve as slaves. Weldon torture-murders a man named Archie in one of the movie's most prolonged kills, and when he finds out Clayton is planning to betray him, Weldon murders him as well before skipping off to restart his operation anew. |
| 114 | ** [[TheBrute Junior Broderick]] is the brutish muscle of the Broderick family, who carries out [[ColdBloodedTorture his role]] with egotistical [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. Junior regularly uses a cattle prod to [[ElectricTorture torture]] any slaves who don't do their duties, and goes even further in the torments when given the go-ahead by his superiors. A [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil wicked rapist]] on top of everything else, Junior drags a transient off to have his way with at one point, and later chains a prisoner down before torturing and raping her for fun. |
| 115 | * ''Hole in the Forehead'' (1968): [[InsaneAdmiral General Munguya]] is the leader of a bunch of bloodthirsty Mexican [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized revolutionaries]] who freely endorse in RapePillageAndBurn under Munguya's command. Seeking a treasure whose location is written down upon three playing cards, one of which he already possesses, Munguya [[UngratefulBastard rewards]] the man who gives him the second with a knife to the heart. A savage sadist, among other cruelties Munguya tests out a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] on a bunch of captured [=PoWs=] with naked relish and holds the head of a woman who survived one of his massacres in a barrel of wine until she drowns. |
| 116 | * ''Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014)'': [[BigBad Shadab Ali Farooqui]] is the leader of a group of [[MiddleEasternTerrorists terrorist sleeper cells]]. In his plan to cause fear throughout Mumbai he has men plant bombs in twelve densely populated sections, in an attempt to cause a serial explosion that will destroy most of the city. Upon being thwarted by officers of the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency, he pays Joel's family a visit, which culminates in him killing them. Finding a picture with the officers in it, he kidnaps five female relatives of the officers, and holds them hostage. When hero Virat switches one of the intended targets with his sister, Shadab orders his men to kill all of the young ladies to cover his tracks. Upon finding where all the officers are at, he blows up the city mall, killing Kapil, his family, and the hundreds of civilians inside, and taunts Virat with the idea of blowing up the Bandra Market. Forcing Virat to comply with his demands, he has him drive various vehicles that Shadab has planted bombs in to a ship in a gambit to kill him and frame him and his team as terrorists, in order to gain more sleeper cell members all over India. |
| 117 | * ''Film/HollowMan'': Dr. Sebastian Caine started out as the [[InsufferableGenius charismatic but egoistical head scientist]] leading a project to test an invisibility serum. After a successful run, he lies to his superiors about the project to continue with human experiments, using himself as a [[ProfessorGuineaPig guinea pig]] to see what it was like. Initially passing the time with pranks on his colleagues, he [[InvisibleJerkass gradually gives in to his darker inhibitions]] he hinted at early on, by molesting his female colleagues and eventually [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] his attractive neighbor whom he constantly spied on, reasoning no one would know. Growing more unhinged and reckless, Caine [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals batters a dog to death]] when he learns his ex-girlfriend and colleague Linda is now in a relationship with fellow colleague Matt. When his mentor Kramer is told about his activities, Caine murders him and decides to kill off his staff, and sets the facility to explode; leaves one member to bleed to death; manhandles one to shoot herself before breaking her neck; and locks Linda and Matt in a rapidly cooling freezer, making final attempts to kill them when they escape. |
| 118 | * ''Film/HollywoodHomicide'': [[BigBad Antoine Sartain]] is a {{greed}}y record producer and the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive owner of Sartain Records]]. When one of his acts Klepto discovers Sartain is stealing the money made from his music and puts him in jail, Sartain orders Klepto to be shot in the streets. When rap group [=H2OKlick=] discovers Sartain doing the same thing to them and try to follow suit, he sends two armed gunmen into a crowded nightclub they're performing in and has them killed too. He later has Leroy Wasley kill the two gunman so as to not have to pay them and to cover his tracks. He also has Joe Gavilan, K.C. Calden and witness K-Ro shot at in a drive-by. Later on, he shoots at Joe when Joe publicly chases him, threatens bystanders at gunpoint who get in his way and then tries to kill Joe in a fight when he won't let Sartain escape. |
| 119 | * ''Film/HollywoodViceSquad'' (1986): James "Jim" Walsh is a cruel pimp who poses as a Hollywood agent to hook young starlets on drugs, [[SexSlave forcing them to become prostitutes]] in order to feed their addictions. Willing to kill or abandon any of his stock who are busted by the cops, Walsh shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] when he abandons his team to be arrested by the police. |
| 120 | * ''Film/Holocaust2000'': Angel [[NameOfCain Caine]] is a young man whose good appearance and gracious manners [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon mask his evil true nature]] as TheAntichrist. Unwittingly fathered by technician and industrialist Robert Caine, Angel intends to use the construction of an experimental nuclear power plant in the Middle East by his father's company to start a [[GoingCritical meltdown]] that would result in the annihilation of all humanity. He [[CainAndAbel strangled his own twin brother to death]] with his umbilical cord before they were even born, and later in life uses an attempt on his father's life by a religious fanatic as an opportunity to murder his mother without drawing suspicion on himself. Several people who interfere with his plans are [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed in brutal ways]], including a politician who's decapitated by helicopter blades; a scientist who's bisected with a malfunctioning automated door; and a priest who's blown up onboard a plane during takeoff. He has his father locked away in a mental asylum after he confronts his son about his inhuman nature and apocalyptic plans, and when his father's new girlfriend Sara is expecting a baby girl, he arranges for every child in the maternity ward to be [[WouldHurtAChild poisoned to death]]. A chilling sociopath with no redeeming traits whatsoever, Angel delights at the prospect of a "[[OmnicidalManiac cleansing holocaust of nuclear fire]]". |
| 121 | * ''Film/HolyFlameOfTheMartialWorld'': [[StarterVillain The Bloodsucking Sect Chief]], despite being the film's first of many villains, turns out far worse than any subsequent antagonists. Leading the [[ReligionOfEvil Blood Sect]] and embracing {{virgin sacrifice}}s regularly, the Sect Chief have his underlings abduct numerous young women and kill anyone who got in their way, to have them sacrificed in order to awaken an [[SealedEvilInACan ancient demon]] for the Chief to gain access to its powers, [[EvilGloating gloating maniacally]] as his servants carve up an abducted captive. |
| 122 | * ''Film/HolyWeapon'' (aka ''Seven Maidens'') (1993): [[BigBad Lord Super Sword]], a master martial artist with supernatural powers who uses [[BlackMagic dark magic]] to enhance his skills, intends to dominate the world of martial arts in the Far East by invading the Ming countryside and [[ChallengeSeeker challenging the greatest of warriors to battle him]]. Going on a killing spree, Super Sword's unstoppable thirst for bloodshed have him leaving behind entire acres of dead bodies of those who crossed his path, which he takes delight in killing to prove his superiority in martial arts, and ordering his followers to have survivors put through ColdBloodedTorture. Defeated by the warrior Master Mo-kake, Super Sword returns 3 years later, [[CameBackStrong far stronger than he was before]], his magic powers allowing him to transform into a gigantic flying sword that can slice through anything at the cost of his energy, which he replenishes by sending his followers to [[VirginPower abduct young virgins for him to steal their life force]], turning his victims into soulless husks. Super Sword [[BadBoss proves his ruthlessness to his underlings]] when he [[OffWithHisHead decapitates two of his followers for failing him]], and after a night battle, deliberately forces his young acolyte, Butterfly, to submit her virginity against her will and strip her of her life force, and later kills Master Mo's ally, the Ghost Doctor, to intimidate the heroes. |
| 123 | * ''Film/HongKong1941'': [[LesCollaborateurs Chairman Liu Yen-Mao]] is a wealthy local tycoon who, in the [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]], joins the invaders. Earning himself a comfortable position of luxury as the recruiter for construction of Southeast Asia's notorious [[WorkingOnTheChainGang Death Railway]], Liu had a hundred civilians delivered overseas every month to be worked to the bone until they died of exhaustion, while also having attempted escapees and suspected resistance members [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], with Liu's favourite method of interrogation being [[EarAche having firecrackers shoved into a victim's ears butt-first, and the fuse lit]]--a punishment Liu had carried out on countless captives. When the hero Wong Hak-Keung tries stopping Liu from punishing two of his friends, Liu orders his guards to restrain Wong, confiscate his dowry, and put him through the same firecracker torture for no reason other than sheer sadism. |
| 124 | * ''[[Film/ReturnEngagement Hong Kong Corruptor]]'': [[BigBad Li Pang]], appearing to be Uncle Hung's loyal protege, turns out to be a power-hungry, ruthless, and cruel traitor when he betrayed an informant and killed him in front of his family, then personally shot the informant's mother and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] with a twisted smile on his face. Partaking in the drug trade despite Uncle Hung's wishes, Li Pang reveals his true nature by [[TheStarscream executing Uncle Hung while arguing with him]] in the middle of a mob meeting before numerous [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] lieutenants, and declaring himself their new leader. Intending to have everyone who stands in his way to power hunted down and killed, Li Pang had Ho-tin's LoveInterest, Siu-fung, kidnapped and forcing her to scream into a phone while [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sodomizing her]] to intimidate Ho-tin. In the final confrontation when Ho-tin, Wah and the rest of Ho-tin's allies takes down Li Pang's mooks in a shootout, Li Pang reveals that he had strapped a TimeBomb on Siu-fung, gleefully [[WrenchWhack hitting her multiple times with a wrench until she bleeds]] while taunting Ho-tin, shoots both Ho-tin and Wah non-fatally to make them suffer as much as possible and trigger the time-bomb on Siu-fung blowing her to bits as a final act of spite. |
| 125 | * ''Film/{{Hoodlum}}'': [[KosherNostra Dutch Schultz]] is an AxCrazy gangster who made his fortune off the Harlem numbers racket. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] murdering one of his own so-called "partners" and hacking off his balls for a cheap laugh, Dutch later orders hits on his rivals Stephanie "Madam Queen" St. Clair and Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, leaving streets full of dead bodies in the ensuing MobWar. A petty little psychopath who [[BadBoss can't resist humiliating even his own minions for a laugh]], Dutch gets back at Bumpy by having his best friend "Illinois" tortured to death, and personally shoots Illinois's sobbing wife shortly before this. Dutch even pointlessly kills an unarmed, harmless accountant when his final attempt to off Bumpy fails. |
| 126 | * ''Film/HopeLost'' (2015): |
| 127 | ** Manol and Marius are a ruthless pair of [[HumanTraffickers pimps]], Manol a drug-addicted {{sadist}} with Marius managing security. The two [[SexSlave purchase girls to work the streets]] under threat of pain, death, or murder of their families as Marius subjects them to [[MindRape psychological torment]] and forcing them to go with their "clients" lest he mutilate them. Manol shows himself to be merciless enough to have the heroine [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil violently raped]] when annoyed and the two sell any girls [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness out of their usefulness]] to Ettore for his snuff films. |
| 128 | ** [[MadArtist Ettore]] is a twisted filmmaker specializing in [[SnuffFilm snuff]]. Buying girls who will not be missed, Ettore has them subjected to his films where they are graphically murdered on camera. Gleeful about his "artwork", Ettore puts them through any number of tortures before recording their deaths for his own sick pleasure. |
| 129 | * ''Film/{{The Horde|2016}}'' (2016): |
| 130 | ** [[BigBad Cylus Atkinson]] was a convicted murderer serving three life sentences before he staged a breakout on an isolated road, working with his partners to take over an isolated town of [[InbredAndEvil inbred]], irradiated hillbillies. Enslaving the populace, Cylus uses them to mass-produce product out of his personal drug lab and sell it to make a fortune. To keep his mutant slaves appeased, Cylus orchestrates the regular kidnapping of campers and other strangers in the area, having the men carved up to be [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalized]] while the women are turned into "[[SexSlave breeders]]". Subjecting even a class of high school kids to this fate, Cylus tries to turn teacher Selina into his personal rape toy before threatening to kill her lover John and his entire family while [[ForcedToWatch making her watch]]. |
| 131 | ** [[TheBrute Stone]] is a "big, homicidal man" who serves as the muscle for Cylus. A brutish rapist and murderer who, like Cylus, escaped a [[DeathRow death sentence]], Stone personally handles much of the [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] that the mutants' captive victims go through before they become meat, at one point [[ImpaledPalm nailing a woman's hands to a table]] so she can become a "breeder" for the mutants. Stone has no issue brutally murdering these "breeders" himself, smashing a woman's face into a rock after murdering her lover despite his orders to the contrary. |
| 132 | ** [[{{Sadist}} Earl]], the mutants' [[EvilChef chef]], LovesTheSoundOfScreaming as much as preparing human flesh. Earl [[CruelAndUnusualDeath butchers his victims alive and screaming]] with a hacksaw if they're not brought to him dead, waxing on about how fear makes human flesh taste sweet; over years of experience, he's judged his favorite cut of meat to be [[WouldHurtAChild the thigh of an 11-year-old girl]]. |
| 133 | * ''Film/HornetsNest'': [[SmugSnake Major Taussig]] is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. [[ThoseWackyNazis A member of the SS]] who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any "Partisans" he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men. |
| 134 | * ''Film/HorrorExpress'': The [[BigBad unnamed alien]] is an EnergyBeing who, unfettered in its course to escape the planet, agonizingly burns out the brains of countless people on the titular train to gain their knowledge. The alien murders many people, innocent and otherwise, on the train, massacring the depraved Captain Kazan and all of his men and even nearly killing some [[WouldHurtAChild children]] sleeping on the train. The alien cheats death by [[BodySurf leaping from body to body]] to sustain itself, murdering anyone who finds out its secret and even barely regarding its loyal lackey after he lays down his life for the alien. |
| 135 | * ''Horror Hospital'' (1973): [[MadDoctor Dr. Christian Storm]] was a [[MadScientist genius scientist]] seeking to create the "perfect servants". Using his connections to a brothel to abduct women to experiment on, Storm turned them into [[SlaveMooks brainless, lobotomized slaves]] for his whims. Later injured in a fire that destroyed his "zoo" thanks to a thief he murdered, Storm establishes Brittlehurst Manor, a health retreat that the uses to entrap and enslave or murder people. When the heroes are captured, Storm tries to subject them to the same horrific treatment, even taking a woman to assault before beating her to death when she resists. |
| 136 | * ''Horror Island'' (1941): Jasper Quinley appears to be a meek and mild mannered professor, but uses the advantage of the supposed treasure hunt on the titular island to begin murdering those on the island for the sake of {{greed}}. Killing several people in the island and framing the mysterious "Phantom" for it, Jasper murders the Phantom and attempts to use the remaining keys to unlock the treasure, intent on killing everyone else there so the money can be all his. |
| 137 | * ''Film/HorrorManiacs'' (aka ''The Crimes of William Hart'') (1948): [[SerialKiller William Hart]] is a drunken thug who concocts a scheme to begin murdering [[DisposableSexWorker prostitutes]], lodgers and anyone else he suspects will not be pissed so he can sell the corpses for a tidy sum to science with his partner Moore. Murdering multiple people, with one unfortunate dying agonizingly to rat poison, Hart even [[TilMurderDoUsPart murders his wife]] when she threatens to expose them. Upon being exposed, he sells Moore and his own wife to hang for the crimes without a glimmer of remorse. |
| 138 | * ''Film/TheHorrorShow'': [[SerialKiller Max Jenke]] is known as "Meat Cleaver" because of [[PsychoKnifeNut his fondness]] for said weapon. In the movie's beginning, Jenke kidnaps a little girl. When Detective Lucas [=McCarthy=] tries to stop him, Jenke kills his partner by chopping off both his arms and letting him die of blood loss. He uses the girl as a HumanShield promising to let her go if [=McCarthy=] drops the gun, but even after [=McCarthy=] does so, Jenke beheads her anyway and throws the head to [=McCarthy=] just for kicks. After being captured, Jenke is condemned to the electric chair, but instead of dying, he becomes a powerful spiritual being bent on taking revenge on [=McCarthy=] by stalking him and his family. Jenke kills the boyfriend of Bonnie, [=McCarthy=]'s daughter, and pins the crime on [=McCarthy=]. While [=McCarthy=] is detained, Jenke sexually assaults both Donna, [=McCarthy=]'s wife, and Bonnie, and severely wounds the young son Scott. Jenke later taunts [=McCarthy=] that [[PostRapeTaunt Bonnie was even better than Donna]]. During the climax, Jenke drags both [=McCarthy=] and Donna in his dimension with the intention of [[ForcedToWatch making Donna watch]] while he humiliates and later kills her husband. |
| 139 | * ''Horror Stories'' (2012): The BigBad in the [[FramingDevice frame narrative]] of the anthology is a quiet young man who also happens to be a sadistic SerialKiller with a habit of kidnapping and killing girls. Living in a house that is flooding with evidence of his crimes, he forces his newest victim, a high school student, to make him sleep with scary stories, later amusing himself by showing her a bag filled with dozens of human teeth, which he acquired by removing them from a girl's mouth while [[AndIMustScream she was still alive and conscious]]. When the student says that she's hungry, he prepares a human organ for her to eat and even licks his finger to taste it, much to her disgust. Despite the student's success, he mockingly asks if she is interested in listening to his own stories before seemingly [[SlashedThroat slashing her throat]]. |
| 140 | * ''Film/HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum'': Horror writer [[BigBad Edmond Bancroft]] gains new inspiration by using antiques rigged as torture devices to commit murder so he can write about it in the tabloids. Starting the film by using his hypnotized and brainwashed assistant Rick, Bancroft has a woman given a pair of binoculars that end up [[EyeScream impaling her through the eyes]]; has his own girlfriend murdered after they break up; and kills an antique store owner when she reveals she knows of his schemes. Becoming a true SerialKiller with his booby-trapped torture devices, Bancroft even has Rick murder his own girlfriend and then tries to have the cops murder him so nothing remains to tie Bancroft to the killings. |
| 141 | * ''Film/HospitalMassacre'': Harold Rusk is a depraved StalkerWithACrush out to claim Susan Jeremy for his own. [[EnfantTerrible As a child]], Harold murdered Susan's friend and left his body for her to find after [[DisproportionateRetribution Susan rejected Harold's Valentine's card]]. Decades later, Harold uses his position in a hospital to get Susan committed there, then begins slaughtering the staff of the building in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome ways]] to further [[DrivenToMadness drive Susan mad]] and frame her. After notably dunking a janitor's head into acid and leaving Susan's decapitated lover for her to find, Harold tries to carve Susan open while she's wide awake to take from her what he's always wanted: [[BeatStillMyHeart her heart]]. |
| 142 | * ''Film/{{Hostage}}'': [[AxCrazy Marshall "Mars" Krupcheck]] is a violently psychopathic criminal who invades the Smith family's mansion. After a policewoman arrives and begins asking questions, Mars [[CopKiller shoots her]] when she becomes suspicious, opening fire on another officer's cruiser when he attempts to recover the dying policewoman. Already a wanted killer, a video of Mars murdering a store clerk shows him stand over the man to watch him die. [[{{Yandere}} Becoming obsessed]] with the family's teenage daughter Jennifer, Mars tries to take her with him when the group tries to escape by helicopter and chokes her when she rebuffs him. Murdering his cohorts when one threatens to leave out of disgust, Mars chases Jennifer and her kid brother Tommy throughout the house, opting to [[WouldHurtAChild set it ablaze]] when they lock themselves behind bulletproof glass. |
| 143 | * ''Film/HotelMumbai'': [[SouthAsianTerrorists Brother Bull]] is the [[NoOneSeesTheBoss unseen]] orchestrator behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks, communicating with his followers only as a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection. Having corrupted several youths into following his radical version of Islam, with one joining after he falsely promised to give money to his family, the Bull sends his followers to wantonly murder people at the Taj Mahal Hotel and other locations across Mumbai, repeatedly telling his terrorists to turn up the volume on their headsets [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming so he can hear the screams of people being gunned down]]. After the initial slaughter, the Bull orders his followers to round up any survivors and hold them hostage for money, only to change his mind when he learns anti-terror forces are on their way and tell his followers to set the hotel on fire and murder the hostages they took, not even being willing to spare a Muslim girl. The Bull's final act is to instruct his remaining followers to kill as many police as they can before they go down, and to tell them to turn up the volume on their headsets again so he can hear their "roars" as they die for him. |
| 144 | * ''Film/HotelRwanda'': Georges Rutaganda is at first a man of the Hutu tribe pushing for extreme measures against the Tutsi tribe, openly calling for their persecution and even [[FinalSolution genocide]]. When the [[UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}} genocide against the Tutsi]] kicks off, Rutaganda does more than just talk. Allying himself with the Hutu forces, Rutaganda participates in the genocide and is seen running a prison camp where the Tutsi innocents will be exterminated, even keeping several women as {{sex slave}}s. Rutaganda also offers to give Paul Rusesabagina some Tutsis as sex slaves, if Rusesabagina allows him to slaughter all the Tutsis at the hotel. When Rusesabagina refuses, Rutaganda advises to take the River Road back to the hotel, saying it's clear. When Rusesabagina drives over the road, he finds it is littered with the bodies of dead Tutsis. When told he cannot possibly exterminate the Tutsi people, Rutaganda merely asks why not, stating "we are halfway there already." |
| 145 | * ''Film/HoundsOfLove'': [[SerialRapist John White]] is a vicious SerialKiller who, [[UnholyMatrimony along with his wife Evelyn]], abducts teenage girls to rape and torture for days before killing them. To keep her under his thrall, John subjects Evelyn to abuse and manipulation, responding to her threat of suicide by goading her to do it, and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals beats her dog to death]] when he becomes irritated by it. When the parents of his current captive, Vicki Maloney, arrive in the neighborhood looking for her, John attempts to strangle Vicki to death to keep from being discovered. |
| 146 | * ''Film/TheHouseByTheCemetery'': [[MadDoctor Dr. Freudstein]], a surgeon and an expert in the field of human cells and mitosis, began performing experiments on living people to further his work. When he discovered a way to use body parts to regenerate blood cells and make himself [[ImmortalityImmorality immortal]], Freudstein killed his [[TilMurderDoUsPart wife]] and [[OffingTheOffspring daughter]], and went to live in the basement of his home, murdering anyone who came into his house and using their bodies for materials. 150 years after he killed his family, Freudstein still lives in the basement as a [[ArtificialZombie rotting, zombie-like being]]. When a new family moves into his house, he begins targeting them, and after killing a babysitter and a neighbor, he manages to kill the husband and wife, with their son, Bob, barely escaping. |
| 147 | * ''[[Film/DeathWeekend The House by the Lake]]'' (originally ''Death Weekend''): [[BigBad Lep]] is the head of a quartet of thugs who go about terrorizing the Ontario countryside in drunken thrill rides. When a young couple, Diane and Harry, run them off the road, Lep decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution exact his revenge with blood]], kidnapping them at their vacation cabin. Over the next 24 hours, Lep [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes Diane]], murders Harry, then orders his goons to rape Diane again. Intending to [[SexSlave keep Diane under this torment as long as he can]], Lep ultimately tries to murder her when she escapes. |
| 148 | * ''House of 1,000 Dolls'' (1967): |
| 149 | ** [[FauxAffablyEvil Felix Manderville]] is a charismatic magician whose affability precedes a far more sinister pastime. Manderville uses his powers to charm women into participating in his act before spiriting them away to the House of Dolls, where they endure lives of forced prostitution and harsh, brutal torture for the rest of their lives. Utterly unconcerned with the countless women he's damned to this fate, Manderville kills any loose ends to his machinations, arranging the kidnapping of the protagonist Stephen Armstrong's wife Mary to dissuade him from pursuing him any further. |
| 150 | ** [[TheHeavy Madame Viera]] is the cold, ruthless brothel keeper of the House of Dolls and the source of most of the House's innate cruelty. Pimping out the slaves she has kidnapped to wealthy clients to be used and raped at their pleasure, Viera maintains a constant air of detached brutality, punishing and torturing any women who resist. When the brother of one of the slaves attempts to free his sister, Viera has him murdered, before ordering the kidnapping of Armstrong's wife and [[ForcedToWatch forcing her to watch]] Viera [[ATasteOfTheLash flog the back of a slave to bloody ribbons]], all with a cool, sadistic smile on her face. |
| 151 | * ''[[Film/HouseOfCards1968 House of Cards]]'' (1968): [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Charles Leschenhaut]] is a wealthy European socialite with a vision of a "[[OneWorldOrder new world order]]" of fascism. For years, Leschenhaut has orchestrated a secret cabal from the shadows, planting {{sleeper agent}}s and caches of weaponry in large cities across the globe so as to one day enact violent revolution and exterminate other races. Leschenhaut chooses young Paul de Villemont to be the face of his new regime, and raises the boy under fascist indoctrination while keeping his mother Anne as a hostage, regularly murdering anyone who tries to get close to the family. When Reno Davis attempts to discover the truth, Leschenhaut murders Reno's best friend and [[FrameUp frames him]] for it, then tries to kill both Reno and Anne in a car crash. When this fails, Leschenhaut tries to force Paul himself to murder Reno as a test of his brainwashing. |
| 152 | * ''The House of Screaming Death'' (2017): [[AntagonistTitle The Vampyre]], from "The Vampyre", is a [[SerialKiller sadistic predator]] driven into hiding after several local murders, chafing under the fact that he can no longer kill at will. When the young protagonist Thomas Burlington seemingly befriends him, the Vampyre resumes his murders to [[FrameUp frame Thomas]], allowing everyone to believe that Thomas is a vampire so they will kill him and allow the vampire to travel on unimpeded. Gloating over Thomas's corpse, the vampire sets off to London, vowing to continue slaughtering his victims until he is stopped, implicitly taking his place in history as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. |
| 153 | * ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'': [[BigBad Castillo Sermano]] was a Spanish [[SinisterMinister priest]] who delved into [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiments]] on human beings. Upon being exiled to Isla del Mort off the coast of Seattle, Castillo murdered the entire ship's crew and continued his experiments on the island, enslaving the native population. Killing anyone who got close to the island and experimenting on them well into modern day, Castillo proceeded to create more zombies while preserving his own life and wipes out a large gathering of teenagers before trying to kill the survivors, intending to [[ImmortalityImmorality become immortal]] for one reason: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment to live forever]]. |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'': [[VillainProtagonist Jack]] is a sadistic SerialKiller who [[MadArtist views killing as an art form]] and wants [[FameThroughInfamy fame]]. His murders spanning 12 years, Jack murders everyone from annoying strangers and police officers to even his girlfriend and best friend, in increasingly brutal ways. Jack even kills children, gunning down two young boys in front of their mother before executing the woman herself. Racking up a body count of well over 60, Jack tries to use a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-grade bullet to kill 6 men at once, and, when led down into hell to suffer for his crimes, Jack refuses to accept his punishment and remorselessly attempts an escape. |
| 155 | * ''Film/TheHouseWithLaughingWindows'': [[MadArtist Buono Legnani]]'s [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous sisters]] would lure unknowing victims to the titular house in order to torture and kill them as an inspiration for their brother's art. After Buono's suicide, the two sisters kept on murdering people in a twisted homage to him and also so satisfy their own [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. When Stefano reaches the town to work on one of Buono's frescoes, the sisters--one of whom is under the guise of Don Orsi--spy on him and kill four people who help him unveil the mystery, [[ColdBloodedTorture explicitly torturing two of them beforehand]] and taking advantage of the wall of silence in the town to cover up their crimes. In the end, it's implied that they also manage to [[HeroKiller kill Stefano]] shortly before being arrested. |
| 156 | * ''Film/{{How I Became a Super Hero}}'' (2020): [[BigBad Mathias "Naja" Najarovski]] is a [[PsychopathicManchild childish man]] who is making the drugs that gives people superpowers. Once a child whose parents had his powers removed, Naja [[SelfMadeOrphan killed them]] in retaliation and became obsessed with trying to recreate having powers. For this, Naja has superhumans abducted so he can [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly drains all of their blood out of them until they die]] to [[HumanResources create the super drug]]. Naja then sells the drugs on the streets, causing a wave of violent crimes. When he learns Lieutenant Moreau has powers, Naja orders his men to capture him to drain him as well, and also abducts the 15-year-old Lily to drain her. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheHowling'' franchise: |
| 158 | ** Original film: [[BigBad Eddie Quist]], dubbed "Eddie The Mangler" by the press, is a particularly sadistic werewolf who terrorizes the city of Los Angeles as a SerialKiller and SerialRapist. Unlike the other werewolves in the colony he hails from, who are perfectly fine if left alone, Eddie actively hunts and kills people for his sadistic pleasure. In his introduction, Eddie meets with investigation reporter Karen and [[ForcedToWatch forces her to watch]] a video of a woman being raped, revealing she was killed, before attempting to do the same to Karen. After being seemingly killed by police, Karen's friend Chris and his girlfriend Terry do some investigation on Eddie and his connection to the colony Karen and her husband are sent to. As Terry uncovers the truth, Eddie viciously murders her. Upon his return to the colony, Eddie tries to intimidate and kill Karen once again, and when he confronts Chris, he plays a recording of Terry's murder to him, commenting on her "sexy voice". Eddie, planning to transform and kill Chris, spends his last moments goading Chris into [[ImmuneToBullets shooting him]]. |
| 159 | ** ''[[Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch Stirba: Werewolf Bitch]]'': [[BigBad Stirba]], the [[AntagonistTitle titular "werewolf bitch"]], is the [[MonsterProgenitor queen of all werewolves]], precipitating millennia of murder through them and staying immortal by regularly [[LifeDrinker draining young women of their life]] to feed her own. Vying to have werewolves reveal themselves and take over the world, Stirba relentlessly drives to murder her brother Stefan, gruesomely murdering two of his allies and attempting to tempt him into her clutches to slay him for good in the climax. |
| 160 | ** ''The Rebirth'' & ''New Moon Rising'': [[BigBad Mary Lou Summers]], aka Cheryl, is revealed as the werewolf haunting the Budapest castle, killing all other guests while drawing out the fear and terror to sow more distrust. After [[ManipulativeBitch manipulating]] another guest named David after eliminating all the others, Mary Lou murders the werewolf hunting Count before tearing David apart. Later returning in a rural town after murdering a woman to claim her identity, Mary Lou continues her murders while trying to [[FrameUp frame]] an innocent man as the werewolf. |
| 161 | ** ''The Freaks'': [[BigBad R.B. Harker]] is a vampire who runs a traveling circus, while enslaving people as "freaks" to be exploited in the show. Harker is also a Serial Killer who murders for food and pleasure wherever the circus goes, often eliminating those close to his chosen acquisitions to steal any attachments from them. Having killed the family of the werewolf hero Ian, including Ian's child sister, Harker seeks to [[FrameUp frame Ian]] for the killings and [[CopKiller murders a police officer]] when he works out the blood on Harker's hands. Finally, Harker drops all pretense of civility to attempt to murder Ian and all his friends. |
| 162 | ** ''Reborn'': [[BigBad Kathryn Kidman]] was once a normal, well-adjusted woman before being bitten by a werewolf. Seventeen years after her supposed death, Kathryn has become an Alpha Werewolf and fully embraces her lycanthropy, believing the only morality in the world is [[TheSocialDarwinist every being for themselves]]. She meets her son Will and plans to recruit him in a werewolf army as part of a conspiracy for world domination. It's later discovered Kathryn's pack own a secret club where they infect its guests, keeping them hostage with the corpses of their victims. Kathryn believes Will's loved ones made him soft, so she abducts her former husband to force Will to kill him. Will refuses and Kathryn kills him instead, along with Will's best friend, before setting her sights on his new girlfriend Eliana, planning to force Will to kill her for holding him back. Kathryn eventually gets tired of Will's defiance and decides to [[OffingTheOffspring kill him too]]. |
| 163 | * ''Film/HumanCargo1936'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Gilbert Fender]], District Attorney Joe Carey's former legal partner and a seemingly respectable member of the San Francisco community, is actually the ringleader of the HumanTraffickers who reporters Patrick "Packy" Campbell and Bonnie Brewster are trying to expose. Regularly smuggling approximately 10,000 "[[TheIllegal illegal aliens]]" per month into the United States via his organization and subjecting them to extortion under threat of exposure, Fender regularly has his subordinates [[CementShoes toss their "human cargo" overboard]] when pursued by the police, with hundreds dying as such. Additionally, Fender regularly [[LeaveNoWitnesses silences any witnesses]] against him, including a club entertainer. Exposed to Carey and the police by Packy after taking Bonnie captive, Fender attempts suicide, only to be interrupted by Packy and hauled off by the police. |
| 164 | * ''Film/TheHumanCondition III: A Soldier's Prayer'': [[SociopathicSoldier Kirihara GĂ´chĂ´]] stands out even in this bleak story as a wholly despicable human being. A deserter from the Japanese military who joins Kaji's group, Kirihara quickly establishes himself as a vile creep by claiming he will help a teenage refugee girl and her younger brother get home to their parents; Kirihara instead [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil leads a gang-rape of the girl]] then murders both siblings. Thrown out of the group by Kaji for this atrocity, Kirihara is scooped up by the Soviet army soon after, where he [[LesCollaborateurs manipulates himself into becoming a labor camp overseer of his fellow Japanese]]. Gleefully abusing his position to brutalize those under his thumb, Kirihara is eager to make a newly-imprisoned Kaji utterly miserable, and so orchestrates events for Kaji and his dozens of allies to be shipped off to certain death in hard labor in Siberia. To finalize his spiteful hatred of Kaji, Kirihara beats and overworks Kaji's best friend to death, cementing himself as the villain to finally destroy Kaji's last semblance of pacifism and desire for peace. |
| 165 | * ''Film/HumanLanterns'': [[BigBad Chao Chun-Fang]] is a stoic lantern crafter who moonlights as a masked SerialKiller, who abducts women to use their skin and blood as [[HumanResources materials]] for his lanterns. Originally a master swordsman, he was challenged by Lung and given a scar on his forehead. Desiring revenge on Lung after losing everything after the fight, Chun decided to kill everyone close to both him and Tan, hoping to ruin their lives and make them suffer, while also manipulating the two into killing each other. Capturing Tan's sister and his wife Yen-chu, he tortures them before tearing apart their skin. After assassin Kwai Sze Yin is killed by Tan, Chun murders the pallbearers and [[DecapitationPresentation hangs their heads]] over lantern alley. With his master Tsui discovering his secret, Chun drowns him in his blood-filled cauldron. Kidnapping Chin, Chun rapes her before flaying her, mortally wounds Tan, and [[PostRapeTaunt taunts Lung about raping his wife]] before attempting to burn him alive. |
| 166 | * ''The Human Shield'' (1991-1992): [[BigBad General Ali Dalall]] is an [[InsaneAdmiral Iraqi general]] who, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment within the first few minutes of the movie]], has an innocent village massacred to test his "gifts"–-the weapons of hero Douglas Matthews–-executing himself a woman and [[WouldHurtAChild her baby]] who survive the carnage. Smarting over a scar from Douglas's intervention, Dalall uses this as his primary excuse to murder Douglas years later, goading him out by kidnapping his diabetic brother Ben with full intention to kill both of them. Along the way, Dalall merrily has refugees who Douglas massacred to the children, people who help him shot dead in the streets, and almost murders his men merely as a matter of having failed to find Douglas. Dalall even keeps Douglas's old lover–-who married Dalall only to save Douglas-–as his abused wife with a MaritalRapeLicense, trying to make their son as bad as himself, attempting to have her garroted to death when she rebels against him for the last time. |
| 167 | * ''Film/TheHungerGamesTheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'': [[MadScientist Dr. Volumnia Gaul]] is a [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] scientist and the [[GreaterScopeVillain architect]] of [[BloodSport the Hunger Games]]. Gaul institutes a horrific system where teenagers from the Districts are [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath forced to fight to the death]] for the Capitol's amusement. Gaul views the Districts as savages and even advocates bombing them into submission if they won't get in line. When the 10th annual Hunger Game gets ruined, Gaul releases venomous snakes to murder all the teenage tributes out of spite for her experiment being sabotaged. Gaul also corrupts and manipulates Coriolanus Snow and instills within him a monstrous AmbitionIsEvil mentality, leading to the Hunger Games and Capitol's dictatorship lasting decades. |
| 168 | * ''Film/TheHunt2020'': [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain Athena Stone]] is a businesswoman who, after a joke she made about hunting people for sport got her fired, decided to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt people for real]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] killing one of her captives who woke up early by [[EyeScream stabbing him in the eye]], Athena watches as the other eleven captives are hunted and killed by her fellow hunters. When one of the captives, Crystal, kills the other hunters, Athena tricks her into killing Don, who was either another captive or one of Athena's hunters. When Athena is confronted by Crystal, it's revealed that the captives were critics of the Hunters who they deemed as "Deplorables" that needed to die, but that Crystal was chosen because Athena took her criticisms personally and not because she was deplorable. Athena proves to be nothing more than a narcissistic sadist, [[NeverMyFault blaming her critics for her horrible actions]], and is apathetic to the fact that she kidnapped the wrong Crystal. |
| 169 | * ''Hunted'' (2020): "The Guy" is a SerialRapist and [[SerialKiller murderer]] of multitudes of [[WouldHitAGirl women]] who kidnaps heroine Eve to make her his latest victim. When Eve escapes, The Guy murders his accomplice before brutally killing a hunter who grows suspicious of him. Encountering Eve, the Guy proceeds to attempt to rape and murder her, as well as killing anyone who gets in his way. |
| 170 | * ''Hunter Hunter'' (2020): [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lou]] is a SerialKiller who [[SerialRapist rapes]] his victims and dumps them in the woods to be devoured by wolves, {{booby trap}}ping the site so that anyone who walks into it doesn't live to tell the tale. Murdering Joe when he found his dumping site, Lou stays with Joe's family while Lou is nursed back to health after suffering a wound. Once Joe's wife discovers Lou's true colors, he kills her teenage daughter Renee before [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape]] and strangle her. |
| 171 | * ''Film/TheHunters'': [[FauxAffablyEvil Leif Bäckström]], [[TheHero Erik Bäckström]]'s [[CainAndAbel brother]], and the BigBad of the first film, is the leader of the titular hunter gang and stands out even despite the dark and savage atmosphere of the film and its sequel. After being [[AbusiveParents abused by his father]], Erik eventually had enough and moved to the city, but Leif was forced to bear it for years, [[FreudianExcuse developing a hatred for Erik]]. Leif's first crime was when he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals fatally shot his own dog]] for not following his orders. His second act was after a member of his gang Tomme accidentally killed an innocent berry picker while hunting, and when the wife of the berry picker came, Leif brutally kills her, with everyone else slightly shocked by his cruelty. After Erik meets and befriends a Philippine immigrant, Leif, coming home, starts harassing her and Erik, eventually knocking her down, and the day after he brings the gang to rape her, just to provoke his brother. His final act however, is when he hears that the mentally-challenged Ove has told the police about what happened with the berry picker, and he lures Ove out in the forest to hunt, just so that he could kill him. After crying and hugging his brother who seemed to convince Leif to turn himself in, Leif instead pours gasoline all over their house and burns himself and the house down. |
| 172 | * ''Film/HuntingHumans'': [[VillainProtagonist Aric Blue]] is a SerialKiller and a narcissist who takes pride in studying his victims' patterns while having no pattern of his own to be caught with. Before the events of the film, Aric had already killed 108 people ForTheEvulz and feels no remorse for anything he has done. Aric starts the film off by murdering a girl in the shower and then killing a few more people. Aric gets into a [[BodyCountCompetition competition]] with fellow serial killer Dark; each of them tries to outdo the other, with Aric doing so by killing four people in a movie theater. Aric ends up killing Dark as well as killing even more people [[LeaveNoWitnesses simply to cover up loose ends]]. |
| 173 | * ''Film/{{Hush}}'': The nameless SerialKiller is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] gutting Maddie's neighbor Sarah on Maddie's front steps. When he realizes Maddie is deaf, believing she's easy prey, he torments her relentlessly, with clear intent to torture and rape her if the mood takes him. When Sarah's boyfriend John arrives, the killer [[SlashedThroat murders him too]] and decides to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kill Maddie's cat]] and nail it to the door. When Maddie fights back, the killer traps her hand in the glass door and brutally stomps on it out of spite for being injured. It is also revealed that he's got at least 12 other victims from similar "outings". |
| 174 | * ''Hypersomnia'' (2016): |
| 175 | ** [[BigBad El Jefe]] is the sociopathic boss of the human trafficking ring called the "Black House." Regularly kidnapping young women--some when they are teenagers--and keeping them locked away, El Jefe charges top dollar for the women to be raped and tortured by paying customers, and uses her schizophrenic son's SerialKiller persona to keep the girls in line. When her latest batch of sex slaves begin escaping, El Jefe guns down her [[TheDragon Dragon]] to keep all the money from their crimes to herself, and, after ditching her own son, spends her final moments attempting to gun down as many of the slaves as possible as revenge for ruining her business. |
| 176 | ** [[TheDragon The chief enforcer]] of the human trafficking operation, Lopez, better known as One-Arm, is a vicious sadist who keeps the captured women in line via fear of his [[WouldHitAGirl needless brutality]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] molesting one of the new {{sex slave}}s of the house, with her revealing [[SerialRapist he had done as much on other occasions]], One-Arm viciously drags her off to be used and abused by other men who have paid to do so. One-Arm beats girls for minor infractions, molesting them and tormenting them regularly. When he's angry with them, One-Arm happily sends one to be tortured to death, and when the girls look to be facing rescue, he attempts to murder them to prevent their escape. |
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| 180 | * ''Film/IAmLisa'' (2020): [[FauxAffablyEvil Sheriff Deborah Huckins]] is the openly sociopathic and ruthless [[DirtyCop Sheriff]], as well as a werewolf hunter, with a habit of injuring people and using them as live bait; one such victim was the previous Sheriff, who she usurped. Having kidnapped Gretchen seven years prior, Huckins had her turned into a werewolf and kept as a captive SexSlave for her partner Dolphus, and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment opens the film]] killing an escaped Gretchen in cold blood. Treating and using her children, Jessica and Nick, as her lackeys, when Lisa tries to report Jess for sexual assault, Huckins uses this as a flimsy pretense to "arrest" Lisa as werewolf bait. Deborah orders Lisa to be beaten to near-death, before having Nick rape Lisa to "finish the lesson". When Lisa survives the ordeal and becomes a werewolf, she eventually kills Nick and Jess; Huckins barely reacts to her children's deaths, instead jovially using it as a pretense for what she was already planning to do to Lisa: make her Dolphus's new sex slave. Deborah then plans to [[AnArmAndALeg hack off Lisa's limbs]] so she can't escape, and forcibly have her turn Sam as well. |
| 181 | * ''Film/IAmWrath'' (2016): [[TheDon Lemuel "Lemi K"]] is a {{sadist}}ic crime lord from Columbus, Ohio, who once ate a man's fingers in front of a rival gang. Retrieving an incriminating video of the Governor's son, Lemi K uses the video to {{blackmail}} the governor into letting him and his gang commit any atrocities they like without facing repercussions; as such, crime dramatically increases throughout Columbus, with Lemi K and his crew killing dozens of innocent people. On the Governor's behalf, Lemi K has his men kill Vivian Hill and her husband Stanley, and when Lemi K learns that the latter has survive and is seeking revenge on Lemi's gang, he [[{{Fingore}} cuts off a finger]] from one of [[BadBoss his own men]] for not telling him about this sooner and goes after Stanley's family, eventually holding them hostage and killing Stanley's teenage niece himself. |
| 182 | * ''Film/{{Icebreaker}}'': [[TerroristsWithoutACause Carl Grieg]] is a dying terrorist who shows his displeasure at a plane with his nuke being lost by [[BadBoss sending a henchman out of a helicopter to his death]] before [[HostageSituation taking over a ski resort]], murdering a hostage to show he's serious. Intending to go with a bang on his final birthday, Grieg intends to [[NukeEm nuke a city]], ordering his men to slaughter the hostages at any sign of resistance. When thwarted, Grieg decides to simply annihilate the resort and everyone in it with the nuke as a way to [[FameThroughInfamy carve his name into history]]. |
| 183 | * ''Film/TheIceman'': [[PsychoForHire Robert Pronge]], known to the mob as Mr. Freezy, is a sociopathic assassin who drives an [[BadHumorTruck ice cream truck]] to mask his criminal activities. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introducing himself]] to the story by murdering a 17-year-old witness and storing her body in the ice, Pronge goes into business with the assassin Richard Kuklinski, the two killing a huge amount of people on their side assassin business with Pronge using his truck to hide the bodies to obscure their time of death. When the two risk exposure, however, Pronge is implied to be the one in a car that attempts to run down one of Kuklinski's daughters, and to eliminate witnesses Pronge offers to murder Kuklinski's family if Kuklinski himself will kill Pronge's own wife and child. |
| 184 | * ''Film/IchiTheKiller'': The manga's chief villains remain utterly vile in this 2001 adaptation: |
| 185 | ** [[CombatSadomasochist Masao Kakihara]] is the [[AxCrazy insane]], sadomasochistic right hand of the deceased Boss AnjĹŤ. Manipulated by the guilish Old Man into blaming a rival Yakuza, Kakihara [[ColdBloodedTorture violently tortures]] him before doing the same to one of the men responsible for covering up AnjĹŤ's death. After being [[EvenEvilHasStandards kicked out of the syndicate]] out of fear for his insanity, Kakihara recruits JirĹŤ and SaburĹŤ, brothers and equally sadistic [[DirtyCop corrupt police detectives]] who help him cut apart two more of the Old Man's associates for information. When finally facing down Ichi, Kakihara elates at the prospect of a bloody final battle challenging the one who could kill AnjĹŤ. |
| 186 | ** [[CreepyTwins JirĹŤ and SaburĹŤ]] are a pair of [[RabidCop torture-happy]] corrupt [[KillerCop police detectives]]. Working with Kakihara, the brothers [[PsychoForHire gleefully help him in torture and murder]], slaughtering a huge group of people before catching those who might be able to tell where Ichi is hiding and violently mutilating them. Upon one poor soul being wounded by Kakihara, JirĹŤ even tries to [[AnArmAndALeg wrench his arm off]] with his bare hands, eventually succeeding after enormous amounts of pain. |
| 187 | * ''Film/IComeInPeace'': Talec is an extraterrestrial drug dealer who has come to Earth to harvest [[BrainFood human endorphins from people's brains]], which are an [[FantasticDrug extremely valuable and illegal commodity]] on his planet. He overdoses his victims with heroin before implanting a retractable spike in their skull to extract the fluid, killing them in the process. He kills many people during his rampage, and has no compunction with murdering any bystanders who get in his way by using either his energy weapon or [[DeadlyDisc homing disk projectiles]] on them. When Azeck, a [[SpacePolice cop]] from Talec’s planet, tracks him down, he fatally wounds him as well. Talec intends to kill thousands of people on Earth to get the drug cheaply, before going back to his home world and return with more of his gang to slaughter humans in even greater numbers. |
| 188 | * ''Film/IDrinkYourBlood'': [[BigBad Horace Bones]], the self-proclaimed son of Satan, is the head of a [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Manson]]-like cult that practices HumanSacrifice. When a young woman stumbles upon one of the sacrifices, Bones beats and has her gang-raped by his men before terrorizing her town. Bones shows no compunction in attempted murder, and when the young woman's grandfather confronts him, Bones beats him and forces him to ingest LSD, all this even before he becomes infected by rabies, brutally killing all who cross his path. |
| 189 | * ''Film/IEatYourSkin'': [[BigBad Charles Bentley]] is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a rich businessman]] who plans to use Dr. Biladeau's zombies for [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]], imprisoning Biladeau and threatening him with exposure should he leave his island. Posing as the native's tribal leader, Bentley has innocent people [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] so that their corpses can be used for his zombie army. When Tom Harris starts figuring out Bentley's scheme, he has their plane and pilot blown up, one of his men forcibly converted into a zombie, and kidnaps Biladeau's daughter Jeannie to sacrifice her in order to prevent Biladeau from leaving the island. |
| 190 | * ''[[Film/{{Sartana}} If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death]]'': [[AxCrazy Lasky]] is a thug and criminal out to [[{{Greed}} take the gold for himself]]. Murdering the men of General Mendoza, Lasky proceeds to massacre his informant and then his own gang so as not to share. Murdering those who can still identify him as the killer by blowing them up, Lasky proceeds to [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray]] and murder whoever else is in his way, allying with and disposing of others as convenient. Seducing one criminal's wife to kill her husband, Lasky later murders her as well before trying to kill [[AntiHero Sartana]] for the gold. |
| 191 | * ''Ä°ki esir'' (''Two Prisoners'') (1971): [[TheHeavy Gaffar]] is the brutal slavemaster of King Kasim, who takes delight in his job having captured slaves [[WorkingOnTheChainGang thrown to the mines]] and regularly ordering slaves to be [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]] and beaten, as well as sentencing slaves who attempt escape to be crucified and displayed as a warning. When [[TheHero Murat]] is caught attempting to give water to a slave dying of thirst, Gaffar orders Murat to be beaten up and chained; as Murat later becomes a [[GladiatorGames gladiator in an arena]], Gaffar had Murat fight and kill several fellow slaves while watching with glee, and forces Murat to fight his closest friend Tahir, a duel Gaffar specially arranged in order to strip Murat of his humanity. Responsible for the deaths of numerous slaves, gladiators, and resistance fighters alike, all whom he executes without a single hint of remorse, Gaffar's ruthlessness sticks out in comparison to his supposed superior, King Kasim. |
| 192 | * ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'': [[PsychoKnifeNut Douglas Norquist]] is the SerialKiller plaguing New Salem. Kidnapping [[WouldHitAGirl young women]], Norquist holds them captive for weeks while [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing them]] before he murders them by [[BuriedAlive burying them alive]]. Norquist is especially fond of burning his victims with dry ice and amputating fingers or even limbs, a fate that befalls Aubrey Fleming who is left buried alive after weeks of agony. |
| 193 | * ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'': [[WouldHurtAChild Anthony "Tony" Shepard]] is a [[BitchInSheepsClothing charming man]] rescued from a mob lynching by Doctor Parnassus's troupe. Claiming to suffer from memory loss, Tony keeps his past as an abusive head of an international children's charity hidden from the troupe while swindling their clients. Outed in the mind-reading Imaginarium for his misdeeds, Tony is also revealed to have used the children he "rescued" for a massive [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]] operation, his crimes so disgusting [[{{Satan}} Mr. Nick]] himself [[EvenEvilHasStandards insists on claiming his soul for Hell]]. |
| 194 | * ''Film/{{Immaculate}}'': [[SinisterMinister Father Sal Tedeschi]] paints himself as the [[BitchInSheepsClothing benevolent priest]] of an exclusive convent, but is actually a blasphemous man obsessed with ushering in the Second Coming of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]]. A former geneticist, Tedeschi extracts DNA from a nail used during Christ's crucifixion and [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate impregnates]] several nuns with the hope of cloning Jesus. After twenty years' worth of failure, Tedeschi would succeed with Sister Cecilia Jones. However, when she tries to resist, he quickly shows how little he cares about her autonomy, branding her feet with a scorching hot crucifix, a punishment he routinely does with any dissenting nun. Despite getting badly burned when Cecilia sets his laboratory on fire, Tedeschi pursues her into the catacombs and tries to slice her stomach open. |
| 195 | * ''Impossibility Defense'' (2017): |
| 196 | ** [[SatanicArchetype Tadashi Usobuki]] is a supernatural criminal mastermind who [[AdaptationalVillainy lacks the humor and charisma]] of his original comic book counterpart, using his MindControl powers to [[ProfessionalKiller carry out contract killings]] and make people [[TheCorrupter fall into the "darkness"]]. Obsessed with the "intent to kill", Tadashi turns against his clients if their malice is not "pure"; after killing one of his targets, who had supposedly tried to rape his client's wife, Tadashi leaves his client with evidence indicating that the man was actually trying to stop his wife from taking drugs, resulting in his client massacring everyone in his house while Tadashi watched everything from the window. Commissioned to kill a police detective by one of her co-workers, Tadashi murders her and then hypnotizes his client into confessing to everything in front of the department before falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. When a prostitute asks Tadashi to kill the fiancée of her more successful sister, Tadashi torments the woman until she goes insane and kills his target herself; returning to his client, Tadashi gives her a letter revealing that her sister truly cared for her, [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to commit suicide]] out of remorse. After avoiding a prison sentence, Tadashi confesses that he will keep ruining lives until his nemesis, Tada, has enough courage to kill him. |
| 197 | ** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Takeru Kawabata]] is one of Tada's best friends and secretely the [[MadBomber serial bomber]] who has been terrorizing the city. A criminal who faked rehabilitation just to get closer to Tada, Takeru never admired her for helping him and [[KickTheDog wished to see what expression she would make when faced with despair]]. After bombing a ramen shop and injuring Tada's partner, Mamoru, Takeru blows up a convenience store in front of her for no reason. Revealing his true identity as a psychopath, Takeru [[SadisticChoice forces Tada to decide]] between detonating Mamoru's hospital room or a [[WouldHurtAChild kindergarten filled with children]], and if she refuses, then he'll just destroy both. Declaring to Tadashi that murder should be done "splendidly", Takeru tries to detonate both bombs out of spite. |
| 198 | * ''Film/InDarkness2018'': [[SociopathicSoldier Zoran Radic]] is a Serbian war criminal responsible for slaughtering innocents in the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Balkans]], as seen in the backstory of the heroine Sofia, who lost her mother and sister to Radic personally. In the present, Radic [[FromCamouflageToCriminal runs a harsh crime organization]], and to protect his secrets has [[OffingTheOffspring his own daughter murdered]]. Upon learning his subordinate Alex was planning against him, he quickly has her eliminated as well. Fixating on Sofia, Radic taunts her how he raped her mother before murdering her, as well as raped her years ago, likely making him Sofia's father. Despite this, Radic shows no compunction trying to murder Sofia as well. |
| 199 | * ''Incarnate'' (2016): The ArchEnemy of Dr. Seth Ember is the nameless demon "[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Maggie]]", nicknamed after its original host. Years ago, Maggie caused its host to crash into Ember's car, resulting in the deaths of Ember's wife and son and crippling him in the collision. Resurfacing, Maggie jumps into the body of 11-year-old Cameron Sparrow, [[LotusEaterMachine trapping him]] in an illusion to slowly [[LifeDrinker feed off his life]]. When Cameron's father Dan is alerted to the exorcism, Maggie grizzly attacks and kills him before masquerading as him in Cameron's dream. Upon making Cameron realize he was dreaming, Maggie traps Ember in his own mind, making him see glimpses of an alternate world where his wife and son survived the car accident to further spite him. |
| 200 | * ''The Indian Fighter'' (1955): [[BigBadDuumvirate Chivington and his partner Wes Todd]] are a pair of corrupt conmen who try to [[WarForFunAndProfit provoke a war]] between Red Cloud's Sioux and a local army outpost to get at hidden gold. Plying natives with alcohol, the two eventually murder Red Cloud's brother and a bystander, using the resulting conflict to try to get rich. Happily trying to rile up the attack to cause as much bloodshed as possible, the two represent the worst of {{greed}} in the postbellum West. |
| 201 | * ''[[Film/Inferno2016 Inferno (2016)]]'': [[MisanthropeSupreme Christoph Bouchard]] is a RogueAgent seeking the titular bioweapon to [[ArmsDealer sell to the highest bidder]]. [[ManipulativeBastard Tricking]] Professor Robert Langdon into his company, Bouchard is revealed to be fully aware Inferno has the capacity to wipe out half the world's population. Revealing his own misanthropic philosophy, Bouchard boasts to Langdon how Inferno will both [[{{Greed}} make him rich]] and allow him to watch his hated humanity face doomsday. |
| 202 | * ''Film/InHell'': The warden, [[BigBad General Hruschov]], and his chief guard, [[TheDragon Tolik]], are the [[WardensAreEvil iron-fisted rulers]] of the [[HellholePrison Kraviva]]: |
| 203 | ** General Hruschov, the sadistic warden of the Kraviva, is a man who seems dedicated only to making his prisoners suffer. Having escapees tortured or killed and allowing rampant corruption among his guards, Hruchov personally maintains what he calls the "[[GladiatorGames Sparka]]", involving brutal fights between his chosen prisoners, often resulting in the losers killed and their bodies unceremoniously dumped into the desert. When recent prisoner Kyle Le Blanc refuses to break under Hruschov's system, Hruschov has him left to the elements and introduces him to his ace in the hole--a tortured brute of a man named Miloc-- hoping for Kyle to be beaten to death to give a message to the other prisoners. |
| 204 | ** Tolik is General Hruschov's sadistic enforcer. Allowing his prized fighter, Andrei, to [[PrisonRape rape]] the handsome Billy, Tolik punishes escape attempts from Billy by allowing Andrei to repeatedly assault him and eventually allows another prisoner to beat Billy so badly he bleeds to death. Angered by Kyle's defiance, Tolik puts him in a cell with an inmate known for killing his cellmates. When Kyle shows promise as a fighter, Tolik tries to order him to kill another prisoner in the Sparka. After Kyle refuses to continue fighting, Tolik happily carries out Hruschov's orders to [[ExposedToTheElements chain him up outside in the winter]]. |
| 205 | * ''Film/{{Inheritance}}'': "Morgan Warner" presents himself as a sympathetic victim, but he is revealed to be a "pure evil" monster named Carson Thomas. A former business associate of Archer Monroe, Carson was a SerialRapist who considered drugging women into the bedroom to be his "ace in the hole". When he raped Archer's wife Catherine, Carson was attacked by Archer with intent to kill him; Carson took advantage of their conflict, wounding a young man in a vehicular accident by killing the man so he could {{blackmail}} Archer with the death. Though locked in a [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere bunker]] for 30 years by Archer as punishment for his crimes, Carson manages to poison Archer and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] Archer's daughter Lauren into sympathizing with and releasing him. Carson promptly murders several innocent people, forces Catherine to recount her rape to Lauren, and reveals his plan to leave Lauren and Catherine to slowly die in the bunker while he ruins the lives of the rest of their family. Carson then uses his last words to [[KickTheDog spitefully hurt Lauren]] by claiming she is his daughter from his rape of Catherine. |
| 206 | * ''Film/InTheNameOfTheKing: A VideoGame/DungeonSiege Tale'': [[BigBad Gallian]] is an EvilSorcerer who is defined by his belief that he is AboveGoodAndEvil. Magically influencing the primitive, ogre-like Krug into becoming his soldiers, Gallian wages war against the Kingdom of Ehb. He attacks a local village, slaughtering or imprisoning its inhabitants, and personally kills Zeph, [[TheHero Farmer's]] [[WouldHurtAChild young son]]. In the following bloodshed, Gallian's forces kill King Konreid. Gallian later discovers that Farmer's wife, Solana, is pregnant, and uses her as bait to lure in Farmer, who is actually the King's son Camden Konreid. He ultimately kills the magus Merick, declaring that madness will thus forth be known as power. During his final duel with Farmer, he taunts him about his son's death. |
| 207 | * ''Film/InTime'': [[{{Sadist}} Fortis]] is the wealthy leader of the Minutemen gang who attacks poor districts to rob people of their time for life and [[{{Greed}} take it for himself]], and at one point shoots a person InTheBack for buying a gun. When the heroes inspire the citizens to stand up against him, Fortis seeks information on them by [[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques draining random citizens of their time]] until he is given intel. Facing off against hero Will Salas, Fortis tries to engage him in a one-sided duel with his men intent to kill Will should he win and threatens to kill Will and his girlfriend after [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping her]] should Will refuse Fortis. |
| 208 | * ''Film/{{Inkubus}}'' (2011): The [[AntagonistTitle title character]] is a {{sadist}}ic and sorcerous demon with a taste for murder. He starts walking into a police station with the [[DecapitationPresentation severed head]] of a murdered girl and allows himself to be arrested. He then proudly confess all the atrocities he committed in the past, dating back to the Middle Ages. He soon begins to manipulate every police officer in the station: driving them insane, forcing them to commit murder or suicide (or both), sometimes without even being aware of what's happening and at other times all too painfully aware. Inkubus's only reason for these crimes is a grudge he has against one detective, who almost caught him years ago after Inkubus [[WouldHurtAChild murdered his son]]. Inkubus's only goal is to [[CardCarryingVillain remain the world's greatest]] and [[SerialKiller most prolific]] murderer. |
| 209 | * ''Film/{{Inquisition}}'' (1976-1977): |
| 210 | ** Inquisitor Bernard de Fossey is a [[HeManWomanHater brutal misogynist]] who leads {{witch hunt}}s that see hundreds of innocent women accused. Capturing and torturing them, de Fossey subjects them to horrific agonies so that many perish just from the questioning, with the remainder left to [[BurnTheWitch face the flames in his burnings]]-- with not even [[WouldHurtAChild children]] safe. De Fossey begins to [[StalkerWithACrush lust after]] a village girl named Catherine, having her lover murdered so he may possess her for himself amidst another crop of tortures, even manipulating her dying father into making him her guardian to increase his power over her. |
| 211 | ** Renover is a lecherous pervert who takes advantage of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition to {{frame|Up}} countless women as witches to see them tortured and [[ManOnFire burned alive]], for both [[{{Sadist}} his sexual pleasure]] and his rampant misogyny. Getting even little girls endangered with his ploys, Renover [[AttemptedRape tries to rape]] Elvire under threat of framing her and her sister as witches, then kills the girl and her maid when they fight back against his assault, using his last words to condemn them and other women as witches out of spite. |
| 212 | * ''Film/{{Insidious}}'' series: |
| 213 | ** ''Chapter 2'': [[BigBad The Woman In White, aka Michelle Crane]], is a vicious ghost. When she was mortal, Crane [[AbusiveParents tormented her young son Parker]] after Parker's father left them. She'd force Parker into girls' clothing and to believe himself as a little girl. When Parker grew up, she forced him to become a twisted SerialKiller who would be dubbed The Bride In Black. Parker, at her urging, would claim fifteen victims before her death, whereupon he committed suicide. When her son possessed the hero Josh, Michelle tried to get him to murder Josh's entire family, Josh's children included. |
| 214 | ** ''Chapter 3'': "[[BigBad The Man Who Can't Breathe]]" is a [[{{Sadist}} particularly cruel]] spirit, obsessed with making others join him in death. The Man would torment vulnerable people into [[DrivenToSuicide killing themselves]], at which point he'd keep their souls as "pets" in the Further, where they [[AndIMustScream rot in further misery]]. Having collected at least eight victims, the Man targets the depressed teenager Quinn, luring her into getting hit by a car and hospitalizing her. Relentlessly attacking Quinn, causing her further injuries and [[YourSoulIsMine taking pieces of her soul]], the Man eventually possesses Quinn into battering those trying to help her, telling her father that he's next. When Elise ventures into the Further to rescue Quinn, the Man takes the form of her deceased husband, Jack, and attempts to emotionally manipulate her into killing herself. |
| 215 | ** ''The Last Key'': [[BigBad KeyFace]], aka the Key Bearer or the Man with the Keys, is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent monstrous spirit]] trying to open the gates of the Further. Tricking a young Elise into releasing him, [=KeyFace=] murders her mother, before attaching himself to her abusive father, Gerald. Feeding off [[EmotionEater their pain and hatred]], [=KeyFace=] had Gerald kidnap, torture, and murder several women. Decades after Gerald's death, [=KeyFace=] would haunt their home's new owner into continuing Gerald's crimes. Forcing Elise's niece Melissa into a coma, [=KeyFace=] takes her to the Further, where he keeps the souls of his victims [[AndIMustScream imprisoned and tormented continuously]]. When Elise and her other niece, Imogen, come to Melissa's rescue, [=KeyFace=] tries to coerce Elise into beating Gerald's soul for his past abuse, and feed off her hatred. Failing, [=KeyFace=] attempts to kill Melissa's physical body out of spite. |
| 216 | * ''Interceptor'' (1992): [[BigBad Phillips]] is a [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist]] out to steal the titular stealth interceptors and [[ArmsDealer sell them]] to the most destructive terrorists to cause as much damage as they wish. Capturing an air force lieutenant, Phillips tortures him [[ColdBloodedTorture physically]] and then [[MindRape psychologically]] by having him bitten by a snake he claims is poisonous, before tricking him into injecting an "antidote"...in truth, carbonated water, leading to an agonizing death. Phillips attacks a carrier and begins slaughtering the crew, interrogating the major by murdering one of her men to prove a point, intending on killing all his hostages when he achieves his ends. |
| 217 | * ''Film/{{Interceptor}}'' (2022): |
| 218 | ** [[TheHeavy Alexander Kessel]] is a former [[TortureTechnician expert torturer]] working for [[WesternTerrorists terrorist groups]] to overthrow the US. Taking over the Pacific Interceptor platform, Kessel massacres everyone there, shooting the head officer in front of heroine J.J. Collins and attempting to launch missiles to wipe out LA. Foiled by Collins, Kessel tries to get back in, trying to break her psychologically by having her father tortured and seemingly murdered. It is revealed [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Kessel]] is nothing more than a mercenary hired by terrorists who plans to nuke 16 major cities and kill 300 million people [[OnlyInItForTheMoney just to get paid]]. |
| 219 | ** [[TheMole Corporal Beaver Baker]] is a [[RogueSoldier treacherous soldier]] double-crossing his country, a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist and misogynist bigot]] who despises the diversity of America and wishes to see 300 million killed to carry out his delusions of being a patriot. Beaver assists Kessel in murdering the troops aboard the Interceptor platform and makes clear his intent to rape Collins, later murdering Corporal Shah after Shah's attempts to appeal to Beaver's better nature fall flat. |
| 220 | * ''Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan'' (1972): [[DragonLady Lady Chun Yi]] runs the Four Seasons brothel where she regularly has young women abducted and forced into sexual slavery, torturing those who refuse to comply. When the film's heroine Ai Nu resists, Chun attempts to violently break her and has her raped by multiple corrupt officials. Chun also [[PsychoLesbian keeps women who catch her eye]] as {{sex slave}}s, and any who attempt to escape are brutally punished. When one housekeeper attempts to save Ai Nu, Chun murders him, later becoming infatuated with Ai Nu herself. In the final battle, when mortally wounded, Chun reveals how truly monstrous is when she uses her last request for a kiss to poison Ai Nu, mocking her for her conscience and morality. |
| 221 | * ''Into the Sun'' (2005): The [[AxCrazy psychopathic Kuroda]] is a savage up and coming {{Yakuza}} with no regard for the strict code of his order. Rising to power by slaughtering countless others in his quest to expand his territory, Kuroda plans to flood the streets with heroin and even allies with [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs foreign syndicates]] to that end. [[TheStarscream Betraying and murdering his superiors]], Kuroda kills bystanders and any others, even cutting a man apart with a katana for being "disrespected". Not above killing families, Kuroda has the hero Travis Hunter's fiancée killed for Hunter opposing him as well, before plotting to betray and kill his allies. |
| 222 | * ''In the Devil's Garden'' (also known as ''Assault''): Mr. Bartell [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]] a schoolgirl named Tessa in the woods, traumatizing her into a [[EmptyShell catatonic state]]. He later rapes and kills another schoolgirl named Susan. Julie West, the school's art teacher, acts as bait to lure the killer out, and is nearly raped herself in an unsuccessful attempt to catch him. When he hears that doctors and police are working on bringing Tessa out of her state to tell them what he looks like, he kills a chemist and [[DeathTrap removes the fuses in his building]] so that it will explode as soon as someone tries to light a match and search the dark place for him when they come in to do business with him, [[GambitRoulette causing the police to leave the hospital and investigate the scene]]. He takes advantage of this by trying to kill Tessa, and when Julie realizes he is the killer, he decides to try and kill her before raping and murdering Tessa. |
| 223 | * ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'''s French story "The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre": [[UsefulNotes/CaterinaDeMedici Catherine de Medici]] is the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen tyrannical queen]] of France and the mother of King Charles IX. She acts religious to hide her deep hatred of the Huguenots, and one day forced her eldest son to unwillingly start the [[UsefulNotes/FrenchWarsOfReligion St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]], not caring that she's using her own child. Said massacre had killed countless innocent people who didn't even have any business with the queen, including the central protagonist Brown Eyes and her lover along with her family--which includes a newborn child. |
| 224 | * ''Film/InTranzit'' (2008): [[WardensAreEvil Colonel Pavlov]] is a callous Soviet warden who oversees the German [[PoWCamp prisoners]] with abject brutality. Having men hanged on suspicion of being in the US and humiliating women by [[ShamefulStrip forcing them to strip in the freezing cold]], Pavlov has the prisoners beaten, starved, and tortured, with any hint of disloyalty brutally punished as well. Even after as Dr. Natalia adheres to the deal to ferret out any missing [[StateSec SS]] officers, Pavlov [[ILied sends her lover off to an institution in Siberia]], calmly remarking the deal is over. |
| 225 | * ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'': [[BigBad Mikhail Rostov]] is a [[DirtyCommunists Soviet terrorist]] who wants to destroy the United States because he despises its people. In [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first scene]], he and his men massacre a boat full of Cuban refugees to steal the cocaine which the captain was also smuggling. He uses it to buy weapons for his mercenary army from a drug kingpin named Mickey, then kills the guy by [[GroinAttack shooting him in the groin]], and also throws Mickey's lady out of a window because she happened to be there. When Rostov has recurring nightmares of [[ActionHero Matt Hunter]], he organizes a strike team to kill Hunter. Rostov and his men kill Hunter's best friend in the process, which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain leads Hunter to go after Rostov]]. After his army lands on American soil, they disperse throughout the Southeastern U.S., slaughtering civilians en masse by blowing up residential areas, impersonating police officers and soldiers to gun people down in the streets, and planting bombs in shopping malls, churches, and [[WouldHurtAChild on school buses]]. When important U.S. officials organize a meeting to discuss the situation, Rostov masses his entire army to kill everyone there. |
| 226 | * ''Film/TheInvisibleMan2020'': [[InvisibleJerkass Adrian Griffin]] is the [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]] to heroine Cecelia Kess, seeking to [[ControlFreak control even her thoughts]] and subjecting her to horrible physical, mental and emotional abuse. [[FakingTheDead Faking his death]] with the aid of his brother Tom, Adrian stalks, [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslights]] and torments Cecelia, eventually murdering her sister Emily and framing her for it, while intending to force her to return to him with their unborn child, having sabotaged her birth control to get her pregnant. Adrian brutally beats and kills multiple guards at the hospital when exposed and orders the death of Cecilia's teenage friend Sydney as punishment, setting up his own brother to be killed to take the fall for his crimes and attempting to sway Cecelia back to him with protestations of victimhood. |
| 227 | * ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Walter Deville]], strongly implied to be {{Dracula}} himself, is an ancient vampire who makes a deal with three families for brides in exchange for prosperity and vampirism. Emmaline Alexander escaped him by having a child with her black lover, to the rage of her racist family. Emmaline killed herself and Walter had the butler murder said lover. Upon discovering Emmaline's descendant, Evelyn "Evie" Jackson, Walter has her lured back to the manor where the maids are regularly picked off to feed the vampires, including one whose throat is slit for a celebratory drink. Walter attempts to force Evie into vampirism and marriage, trying to murder her when she rejects him. |
| 228 | * ''Film/TheIronBuddha'': Xiao Tianzun is a vile SerialRapist and mass-murdering criminal who [[EstablishingCharacterMoment begins]] as a particularly nasty kung-fu disciple stopped in the middle of an AttemptedRape. Shown lenience by kung-fu master Liu Peng, Xiao Tianzun repays mercy with treachery, first exterminating his entire clan before moving onto Liu Peng. Xiao Tianzun has his way with Liu Peng's daughters while [[ForcedToWatch forcing Liu Peng to watch]], murders the three of them, then goes on to kill all Liu Peng's students with a poisoned sword meant to kill them as slowly and painfully as possible. Xiao Tianzun even slaughters an entire family and all of his own co-conspirators in his efforts to trick the hero, culminating as he impales the hero's LoveInterest out of spite. |
| 229 | * ''Film/{{Ironclad}}'': [[UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland King John]] was the selfish ruler of all England, a [[EvilOverlord tyrant who oppressed and butchered his people on whims]] that he believed were his "God-given right" as King to commit. Though forced by rebels to sign the Magna Carta so as to end his tyranny and promise freedom to his people, John refuses to abide by the terms and instead hires an army of mercenaries to help him once more enslave all of England. John [[RapePillageAndBurn marches across the lands]] to hunt and kill anyone who ever supported the Magna Carta, from his treacherous barons to mere abbots seeking shelter, often torturing his foes as they are executed. Holding the threat of Christian invasion and enslavement of his home country over the head of mercenary captain Tiberius to keep him in line, John later stages the infamous siege of Rochester Castle, sacrificing dozens of lives on both sides of the battle, and when he finally captures rebellion leader Baron William d'Aubigny, John [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] as his men [[AnArmAndALeg have their limbs chopped off]] before subjecting d'Aubigny to the same cruel fate. |
| 230 | * ''Ironheart'' (1992): [[BigBad Milverstead]] is an ArmsDealer who prefers to "sweeten the pot" in his business dealings by providing women to his clients. To do this, Milverstead has dancers kidnapped from his clubs, holds them prisoner and addicts them to heroin before selling them into [[SexSlave sexual slavery]]. When one cop closes in, Milverstead has him [[CopKiller murdered]] before having his latest victim's boyfriend killed by his martial artist bodyguard [[TheDragon Ice]] as "practice". When martial artist cop John Kreem investigates with the help of a single mother dancer friend of one of Milverstead's victims, Milverstead has her abducted, intending on selling her overseas where she will never see her daughter again before giving her a look at the women he's turned into junkies, smugly claiming that the heroin is to blame instead of him. |
| 231 | * ''Film/TheIronHorse'': [[BigBad Deroux]] (Bauman in the international version) is a scheming land baron who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the Cheyenne into brutality for [[{{Greed}} his own purposes]]. Desiring to force the government to build their railroad on his land so he will get rich, Deroux ensures that no one discovers a nearby shortcut by murdering anyone in the area and kicking the Cheyenne into a bloodthirsty frenzy. Deroux personally murdered and scalped Davy's father in the past, and has the Cheyenne stage a variety of murderous raids to stoke fear and panic. When the shortcut is finally found by the railroad and set to be used, Deroux attempts a full-scale massacre of train workers to ensure the shortcut will never be used. |
| 232 | * ''Ironmaster'' (1983): [[BigBad Vood]] is the brutal [[CainAndAbel brother]] of the hero Ela. A violent caveman who discovers the secret of iron, Vood tries to murder Ela and kills everyone in his way to take over their tribe before leading it to massacre the innocent members of other tribes to enslave the men for labor and the women for breeding. Overrunning multiple tribes, Vood declares his intentions to force the men to work until they drop dead. Styling himself [[AGodAmI would-be conqueror of the world]], Vood intends to never cease until everything is brought under his control, no matter who needs to die to achieve his dreams. |
| 233 | * ''Film/IronMonkey'' duology: |
| 234 | ** First film: [[BigBad Hin-hung]] is an evil Shaolin monk who betrayed his people, burned his temple, and took several students to be his servants in allying with the corrupt government. Using [[DiscOneFinalBoss Governor Cheng]] to oppress, tax, and starve a town of people while regularly threatening him, Hin-hung gives free reign to his quartet of monks to brutalize and rape innocents as they wish. Upon taking over the city when Cheng fails him, Hin-hung immediately murders Cheng's loyal aide and proves himself a fat worse ruler than Cheng ever was. Hin-hung kidnaps young Wong Fei-hung and [[WouldHurtAChild subjects the boy to bloody whipping]], threatening his life to draw out Iron Monkey, and has his own minion Fox whipped and stabbed when Fox tries to save Fei-hung. Hin-hung further [[MightMakesRight proves his utter contempt]] for the "weak" when he uses his own concubine as a HumanShield against a knife attack, then callously finishes her off when she pleads with him to tend her wounds. |
| 235 | ** ''Film/IronMonkey2'': [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Jade Faced Tiger]], posing as an advisor to the Russian Embassey in Shanghai, secretly runs a ProtectionRacket extorting money from the locals. Leading a CarnivalOfKillers, Tiger orders his henchmen to terrorize civilian populations, with civilians massacred indiscriminately when they're unable to pay up, even telling his gunslingers to "test out" a shipment of [[HandCannon high-caliber pistols]] in a crowded city street. When Jin's blind, elderly father is revealed to be affiliated with Iron Monkey, Tiger had him arrested and [[WouldHarmASenior put through torture]]. |
| 236 | * ''Film/ISawTheDevil'': [[FromNobodyToNightmare Jang Kyung-chul]] is a vile, disgusting excuse of a human being who serves as the film's horrifying [[BigBad main antagonist]]. A lowly bus driver who makes himself feel powerful by [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[SerialKiller killing]] women, Kyung-chul has killed many innocent people over the years, and opens the film by kidnapping and decapitating the pregnant Joo-yun. When his crimes are exposed, Kyung-chul tries to rape a [[WouldHurtAChild young student]] and nurse, before taking up residence at his cannibal friend's house, even raping the man's wife as well. Upon realizing he's being toyed with by Soo-hyun, the vengeful fiance of Joo-yun, Kyung-chul brutally attacks several people to throw Soo-hyun off his trail before beating Soo-hyun's elderly father-in-law half to death, then raping and killing Joo-yun's sister, just to mock Soo-hyun. Feigning remorse when at the mercy of Soo-hyun, Kyung-chul then laughs in Soo-hyun's face and taunts him over the fact that Joo-yun was pregnant when he killed her, proclaiming he feels no regret for any of his crimes and showing himself to be an impulsive sadist who desired to hurt anyone he could, simply because he saw them as either weak, or deserving of their fate. |
| 237 | * ''Film/ISeeYou'': [[WouldHurtAChild Greg Harper]] is a [[KillerCop homicide detective]] who [[DirtyCop uses his power and influence to cover up]] the fact that he is actually a pedophilic SerialKiller. Greg kidnapped several young boys and held them captive in his trailer in the woods before killing them and burying their corpse, [[CallingCard leaving behind green pocketknives]]. He had killed six boys with only two of them managing to escape. Greg framed Cole Gordon for his crimes and had the case closed. Years later, upon founding out about his wife's affair, Greg starts kidnapping boys again. Finding his wife's lover in the basement, Greg kills him with a bat. Upon Mindy and Alec coming upon the children Greg has kidnapped who have been locked in makeshift closets. Greg kills Mindy and attempts to kill Alec, intending to frame the two for his crimes afterward. |
| 238 | * ''Film/TheIsland1980'': Windsor is the [[RuthlessModernPirates pirate tribe]]'s liaison with the modern world. Having stumbled upon them years ago, Windsor admired their [[APirate400YearsTooLate primitive brutality]] and formed a partnership with them, sending vacationing boats towards the tribe, resulting in [[RapePillageAndBurn men and women being butchered and raped,]] and [[ChildSoldiers children kidnapped and brainwashed into joining the tribe]]. Afterwards, Windsor helps cover the disappearances up and takes some of the spoils for himself. He sends hero Blair Maynard and his son Justin to that fate, and later mocks Blair about his [[MadeASlave slavery and impending death]] and how Justin will be made the next pirate captain, describing the tribe as an "anthropologist's dream" and a Petri dish. When Blair escapes and Windsor encounters him again, he forgoes raising the alarm to kill Blair with an axe himself. |
| 239 | * ''Film/TheIsland2005'': [[MadScientist Dr. Bernard Merrick]] is [[BitchInSheepsClothing seemingly a kind scientist]], but is later revealed to be a heartless sociopath who [[AGodAmI seeks to be viewed as a savior]]. He has clones in a facility butchered when he views the need as arising, and lies by telling them they'll be sent to the mysterious "Island", while lying to the clones' original source by claiming the clones are brain dead and are not living, sapient beings. When Jordan Two Delta's original donor is dying, Merrick nevertheless tries to have her harvested. Merrick later injects Dehalcynate onto Gandu when he begins to question things and attempts to massacre all the remaining clones under paranoia that they would turn against him and ruin his operations. |
| 240 | * ''Island of Blood'' (1982): [[BigBad Steve Faith]] is a sleazy movie producer who makes a living secretly directing {{snuff film}}s, selling them on the market for millions of dollars. Funding cheap movies just to kill the crew members, he proceeds to butcher the entire cast of his latest movie in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath various gruesome ways]], including [[ChainsawGood chainsawing]] an actor's hands and genitals off, and melting one actress's flesh off with battery acid. Caught by BJ after [[FrameUp framing]] Jim for the murders, he tries to have her murdered to cover up his tracks. |
| 241 | * ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' adaptations: |
| 242 | ** ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'': The wicked [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Moreau]], to create humans from animals, [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments horrifically]] on them, changing them into malformed creatures. When they are fully sapient beings, Moreau continues to [[AndIMustScream torture them in his House of Pain without anesthetic]], vivisecting them again and again. Upon the arrival of others to the island, Moreau orders the deaths of anyone who could be a problem, even trying to have a woman [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] to see if offspring with his creatures is possible. |
| 243 | ** [[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1977 1977 film]]: [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Moreau himself]], exiled from the scientific community for his [[MadScientist mad theories]], has set up on an island with few humans, and begun experimenting on the local animals to create his Beast Men. Keeping the Beast Men enslaved via violence, torture, and oppression, Moreau leaves them in fear of the House of Pain where he takes them for corrective surgery should they misbehave. When sailor Braddock arrives, Moreau involves him in his experiments and injects him with a serum to painfully turn him into a beast before [[BadBoss murdering his own servant Montgomery]] when the latter objects. |
| 244 | * ''Film/{{Island of Doomed Men}}'' (1940): Stephen Danel is a narcissistic ControlFreak who lures paroled prisoners to his island for a supposed rehabilitation, only to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslave them]] for his brutal diamond mining operation. Dozens of men are overworked, starved, and [[ATasteOfTheLash flogged]] on a daily basis under Danel's watchful eye, and any men who present enough of a problem are simply killed. Danel murders anyone who could expose his operation, and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cruelly kills the beloved pet monkey]] of his manservant. Danel further [[DomesticAbuse subjects his wife to humiliating control]], keeping her locked inside their home and threatening her on a regular basis. When his wife Lorraine tries to escape his clutches, Danel plans to throw her into his mining pits and keep her alive for a "long, long time" as one of his slaves. |
| 245 | * ''Island of Lost Souls'' (2007): [[BigBad The Necromancer]] is the true evil behind the horrors plaguing the country of Denmark. Once a powerful wizard whose magic threatened the world, the Necromancer was seemingly killed by the heroic Lodge, taking down one of the members with him in the process. Surviving by transferring his soul into the bodies of those he tricks into selling their souls to him, the Necromancer continues his wicked ways for centuries to come, dragging hundreds of innocent souls from beyond the grave, then [[AndIMustScream trapping them in bottles as his trophies]]. When one of the Lodge members, Hermann, returns, teaming with the teens Lulu and Oliver, the Necromancer gleefully tries to kill them all, revealing to Hermann in the process that he has captured the soul of his beloved lover, and threatens to [[FateWorseThanDeath trap her soul on the bottom of the ocean forever]] if Hermann doesn't surrender. The Necromancer ultimately plans to unleash a wave of chaos and destruction across the entire world as revenge for his defeat all those centuries ago, and, even when beaten, the Necromancer [[TakingYouWithMe still tries to sadistically murder the defenseless Lulu with a smile on his face]]. |
| 246 | * ''I Spit on Your Corpse'' (aka ''Girls for Rent'') (1974): [[SpreeKiller Sandra]] is a ruthless member of [[TheSyndicate a criminal syndicate]]. Her boss is being {{blackmail}}ed by a politician who is threatening to leak their operations if they do not give him a prostitute, so Sandra, along with Erica, recruit a young prostitute named Donna. They trick her into helping them kill the politician, and when she runs away, they are [[HeKnowsTooMuch ordered to kill her to not leave any loose ends behind]]. During their search, Sandra attempts to [[HarmfulToHitchhikers kill a hitchhiker]] slowly and painfully and is angry when Erica denies her that. And when they come across Ben and his father, Sandra ends up seducing Ben and having [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sex with him despite knowing he doesn't even understand the concept]]. And then she ends up killing him and his father by blowing their brains out, [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusting even Erica]]. Eventually, when they find Donna along with Chuck, Sandra ends up killing Donna and leaves Erica behind, not caring if she is killed by Chuck. |
| 247 | * ''Series/ISpy'' (2002 film): |
| 248 | ** [[LoveInterestTraitor Rachel Wright]] is a [[RogueAgent corrupt agent]] of the Bureau of National Security. During her mission to retrieve the Switchblade, a highly advanced, undetectable prototype stealth fighter, she was bribed by Arnold Gundars to give him the activation code of the plane and thwart her colleagues. After [[FakingTheDead faking her death]], she reveals to Gundars the location of the other BNS agents, causing him to send his henchmen to dispose of them. When fellow BNS agent Alex Scott finds the Switchblade, Rachel captures him and tortures him to make him reveal the new activation codes of the plane, knowing full well it will allow Gundars's terrorist customer Zhu Tam to nuke Washington, D.C. When more BNS agents arrive, Rachel takes the opportunity to fatally shoot Gundars and Tam InTheBack in order to steal the access to all the bank accounts. Cruel, manipulative and sadistic, [[ItsAllAboutMe Rachel]] has ultimately no loyalty to anyone but herself, and is willing to do the worst things as long as it benefits her. |
| 249 | ** Arnold Gundars and Zhu Tam are, respectively, a notorious ArmsDealer who made his fortune by selling weapons to criminals and terrorists; and a ruthless [[FarEastAsianTerrorists terrorist]] sent by his country's government to purchase the Switchblade. After acquiring the Switchblade, Gundars organizes a private party in his residence to gather the worst criminals on the planet and hold a [[AuctionOfEvil secret auction]] to sell the plane to one of them. When some agents of the Bureau of National Security are sent to retrieve the plane, Gundars bribes Rachel Wright to help him get rid of the others. Ultimately, Gundars decides to sell the Switchblade to Tam, who plans to bomb Washington D.C., with the former willingly giving the latter everything he needs. |
| 250 | * ''Film/IWantHimDead'' (1968): [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack Blood]] is a bandit allied with [[ArmsDealer Mr. Mellek]] in a scheme to prolong [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Civil War]] for the sake of [[WarForFunAndProfit profiting off the carnage]]. Jack kills a squadron of soldiers so he and his men can dress up as them, tortures the hero Clayton and leaves him to burn alive, then attempts to bomb an armistice to kill everyone present, Union and Confederate alike. A {{sadist}} who gets off on watching his men whip and abuse women in his off time, Jack is the object of Clayton's revenge for having raped and killed his sister. |
| 251 | * ''Film/It2017'' & ''[[Film/ItChapterTwo Chapter Two]]'': The [[Characters/ItDuologyIT titular antagonist]], also known as [[MonsterClown Pennywise the Dancing Clown]], is a ravenous, {{ancient|Evil}} horror that [[EmotionEater feeds on fear]], and is possibly the most evil version of the character ever conceived. Having fed and butchered thousands over centuries by using their worst fears against them, Pennywise develops a particular [[ChildEater taste for children]] for being easier to scare, opening the first film by tearing the seven-year-old Georgie apart before continuing to horribly torment his brother, Bill, and the members of [[Characters/ItDuologyTheLosersClub the Losers' Club]], murdering many others and even twisting Henry Bowers into killing his own father and attempting to kill the Losers' Club. A pronounced sadist, Pennywise makes a repeated point to hysterically mock Bill over his failure to protect Georgie and even [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] as he devours another child Bill tries to protect in a mirror house; collects a mountain of thousands of trophies from its most favored victims; saves Adrian, a gay man beaten nearly to death, from drowning just so he can rip out his heart in front of his lover; and finally murders Eddie in the final battle, taking every chance it can to salt every wound it can find in its victims before killing them. A twisted, craven bully under its monstrous exterior that can't function without something to torment, Pennywise distinguishes itself from even the [[Literature/{{It}} original novel version]] through just how far it goes to twist the nail. |
| 252 | * ''The Item'' (1999): [[VillainProtagonist Alex]] is a ruthless gang leader who becomes the owner of the titular Item after having killed its former guardians. Showing psychopathic tendencies since he was a little boy, Alex murders his girlfriend's friends and his partner so he could steal the latter's money. Tired of his actions, his other partner, Martin, holds him at gunpoint and Alex orders him to kill his own girlfriend Rita for trying to defend her friend from him. After having insulted Rita's paintings and sculptures, Alex tries to kill his only surviving partner Lauren. |
| 253 | * ''It Happened in Broad Daylight'' (1958): [[SerialKiller Herr Schrott]] is a respectable-seeming businessman in an unhappy marriage who furiously channels his rage from his wife and other women and takes it out on [[WouldHurtAChild little girls]]. After winning their trust and luring them out to the woods, Schrott brutally murders them with a straight razor, with at least one innocent man accused of the crime and [[DrivenToSuicide hanging himself out of horror]]. |
| 254 | * ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': [[BigBad Henry Waters]], starting as a SerialKiller with several victims, reigns over Angel Falls as a despot in [[ItsAWonderfulPlot the timeline where he isn't stopped early]]. Killing frequently with a body count in the dozens, Waters broke heroine Winnie Carruthers's father by murdering his son in front of him and turned him into a murderous drone like he'd done with others. When he learns his brother the sheriff is planning a transfer away, Waters [[SiblingMurder gleefully murders him]] before the town to adorn his own celebratory Christmas tree. |
| 255 | * ''[[Film/ItsNeverTooLateToMend It's Never Too Late to Mend]]'' (aka ''Never Too Late'') (1937): [[BigBad Squire John Meadows]] is a blackguard in the position of Chief Justice, who uses his position to attempt to {{frame|Up}} his romantic rival for poaching. Forced to settle with his friend Tom Robinson instead, Meadows's evil comes to shine through the [[HellholePrison hellish gaol]] he rules over, where inmates are forced to turn the crank for hours on end under the duress of torture and starvation. Meadows favors his "black hole", a form of [[GoMadFromTheIsolation solitary confinement where the sensory deprivation is so extreme it can drive men insane]]. Meadows makes a daily hobby of coming down to [[WouldHurtAChild torment his "naughty children"]], heaping pointless punishments upon Tom Robinson, and in one wicked case having a young boy forced into a suffocating straitjacket until the boy gives out and dies. |
| 256 | * ''Film/ItWaits'' (2005): [[OurDemonsAreDifferent The demon]] is an AncientEvil that rampaged for 5,000 years before being [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned]]. Released in modern day, it wastes no time brutally slaughtering an archaeology class. Picking the mentally damaged Danny as its plaything, the demon begins killing everyone around her and dedicating itself to making her life a living hell. It brutally kills her boyfriend Justin and [[DecapitationPresentation uses his decapitated head]] and the corpses of its other victims to continually mock her. Cornering her, the demon slowly rips a piece out of her leg and eats it in front of her. The Demon [[ForTheEvulz takes sadistic glee]] in making its prey suffer before killing them, especially those who are already mentally damaged. |
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