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• The Sacrifice Game: Maisie leads the Christmas murderers and Jude is her most sadistic henchman. Maisie once found a spellbook as a student at Blackvale's School for Girls to summon the demon Ciroc, and assembled a group of killers, including Jude, who go on to massacre families as a blood sacrifice. Jude himself performs most of the murders and believes himself an incarnation of Ciroc due to the bloodshed he's caused. The two infiltrate Blackvale, killing and torturing any in their way before attempting their ritual to gain ultimate power.
• Sahara: Brigadier General Zateb Kazim is a warlord who rules half of Mali, maintaining an iron grip on his territory at the expense of his people. When his lands experience a plague, Kazim tries to block UN humanitarian aid to his territory so they do not discover the source of the plague is Kazim himself, who is allowing the water to be contaminated with toxins for the profits he gains from the corporation dumping the toxins. Kazim uses slave labor in the plant and has no issue if the plant is destroyed with the workers in it to cover up his crimes. Ruthless and greedy, Kazim will stop at nothing to take control of Mali, even if he allows thousands of civilians to die so he can grow wealthier.
• Salt:
  • Vasilyevich Orlov is a Russian spymaster who trained many Russians to become KGB sleeper agents in America using them to carry out countless assassinations; one of which includes Evelyn Salt before she genuinely defected to the USA, only for Orlov to regain his control by holding her husband hostage and forcing Salt to assassinate the Russian president, leading to conflict between Russia and America. After Salt completes the assassination, Orlov forces Salt to watch him kill her husband, to see if she's still loyal to him, before assigning her to assassinate the US President, and while having her meet up with sleeper agent Nikolai Tarkovsky, whom he orders to launch nuclear missiles at Mecca and Tehran, to subject America to a nuclear war, uncaring about the high death toll of innocents.
  • Nikolai Tarkovsky, alias Ted Winter, is a KGB sleeper agent who infiltrated the US Government and kidnapped Evelyn Salt's husband Mike, giving him to Orlov and allowing him to force Evelyn to assassinate the Russian president and execute Mike once he's no longer of use to them. Infiltrating the White House, Tarkovsky murders countless people there before he launches nuclear missiles against the cities of Mecca and Tehran, intending to kill millions of innocent people there and inciting the wrath of billions of Muslims onto America. After he frames Salt for his atrocities, he tries to kill her as she is taken to custody.
• Salvador (1986): Major Maximiliano "Max" Casanova is both the leader of the far-right ARANA party and the head of death squads plaguing El Salvador during The Salvadoran Civil War. As an influential presidential candidate with a raging desire to destroy the "Communist threat", Max perpetrates massacres on his own people, leaving thousands of innocents dead. Reuniting the ARANA's inner circle to celebrate the victory of Ronald Reagan, Max orders the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero for the crime of criticizing the brutality towards civilians; the army also opens fire against churchgoers. At a conference, Max pins the blame on the FMLN and denies the existence of death squads when confronted by Richard Boyle. In response to Boyle's words, Max has the younger brother of his lover tortured to death and four American missionaries raped and executed.
• Samson (2018): The wicked Prince Rallah is the right hand of his father King Balek of the Philistines. Enslaving the Hebrews and working them to near death, Rallah shows what kind of man he is when he murders a man simply for requesting more food. Gaining a vicious hatred for the warrior Samson, Rallah later murders Samson's lover and her father before trying to eliminate his entire village after murdering Samson's father. When he tricks Samson with Delilah as a Honey Trap, Rallah tortures him and blinds him for spite before murdering his own father to seize the throne of the Philistines.
• Samson and Delilah (1949): The Saran of Gaza is the emperor of the Philistines and conqueror of Israel. He oppressed the Hebrews with harsh laws, banning Judaism and allowing Philistine soldiers to rape and brutalize with impunity. When a strongman named Samson starts fighting his rule, the Saran has the people taxed into starvation to make them give him up. Later, he has Delilah marry Samson to discover his weaknesses, meanwhile ordering a total purge of Hebrew firstborns. After Delilah manages to depower and capture Samson, the Saran has him blinded, enslaved and starved before having him tortured before a live audience into bowing before his God or dying.
• Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf (2009): Nathan Flesher is a vicious gang leader who's also the head of a clan of assassins. When Blind Wolf trespasses on his land with his family, Nathan responds by raping, mutilating, and murdering his wife, and forcing Wolf to blind himself so that he'll spare his young daughter, only to kill her anyway before leaving Wolf for dead. Kidnapping the Drifter's sister and forcing him to fight one of his assassins, he keeps her as a captive and spares the depressed Drifter, only letting him join his gang to have more muscle. Arrested for his crimes, Flesher sends his gang of assassins to kill Wolf, knowing that he's coming to kill him. Having Drifter befriend Wolf as he slays his assassins, he watches with glee as he forces the two friends to kill each other.
• Samurai Cop: Fujiyama is the ruthless leader of the Katana crime syndicate. In his attempts to take over the Los Angeles underworld, Fujiyama orders the assassination of a rival gang boss. When Joe Marshall gets his attention by investigating a drug run some of his goons are doing, he declares war on the cop, sending many of his own men to their deaths due to his "Code of Silence" forbidding them from being taken alive. In his feud, Fujiyama has one of Marshall's fellow cops killed along with his wife, the latter of whom was also sexually assaulted, and another one tortured with boiling oil. In the final battle, Fujiyama tricks our hero into letting his guard down, and tries to kill him along with his partner and his Love Interest.
• Samurai Princess (2009): Kyoraku is the creator of the mechas: fleshy, mechanical dolls made from human body parts who turn insane and violent upon completion. Having created the mechas for both fun and scientific progress, he sends out couple Kujira and Kocho to slaughter everyone in their paths, with him collecting the severed limbs; they end up killing and raping Gedôhime's 11 sisters. Prior to these events, he took Gekko's sister after she became infected with a disease and turned her into a mecha, causing her to go insane, bite off Gekko's arm, and kill her parents, leading to Kyoraku converting Gekko into a mecha to kill her. When the couple are killed by the Samurai Princess and Gekko, Kyoraku splices them together to create the ultimate mecha, and pits it against the Samurai Princess, gleefully watching as it lays waste to her.
• Sangharsh (1999 Bollywood film): Lajja Shankar Pandey is a fanatic who believes he will be immortal via murder. Abducting numerous children, Pandey ritualistically murders them without remorse, even killing other worshippers who discover any links to him. Pandey kidnaps the child of the Home Minister, intending on a final sacrifice during an eclipse to supposedly achieve immortality, gloating that the law means nothing to him and even the angel of death fears him.
• Sannikov Land:
  • The Onkilon shaman is a cruel, power-hungry sadist Hiding Behind Religion. After he fears the explorers' group would undermine his authority, he tries to persuade the chief to get them killed, and when the chief refuses, the shaman has Dukkar kill him, and seizes the power for himself. As a cataclysm stops geyser activity in Sannikov Land, the shaman doesn't care that the rest of the Onkilons, who unlike him who don't know how to make fire, might freeze to death, as long as he gets his revenge on the explorers. With Mind Rape and some physical harassment, the shaman manipulates Goshar, a sweet and trusting Onkilon woman, into helping him against the explorers by first dosing them with a sleeping potion and, when that fails, by setting a trap. The latter is successful in luring Gubin, one of the explorers' group, out of hiding, and the shaman decides to torture him with a pitchfork so that his screams would lure out the rest of the group, and dies while trying to put out Gubin's eyes.
  • Dukkar is an Onkilon warrior held in high esteem by the chief. He dislikes the explorers from the start and immediately offers to kill them. His hatred of them is cemented after he overhears Annuir, after whom he lusts and who previously rejected him, confessing her love for Ilyin, head of the explorers' group. When the chief decides he won't have the explorers sacrificed, Dukkar allies with the shaman and eagerly agrees to murder the chief, which he does, stabbing him from behind while he is hunting. After that, Dukkar becomes the shaman's second-in-command. When the shaman has the idea of forcing Goshar to help them, Dukkar brings her to him and participates in her harassment. Dukkar prepares poisoned arrows to kill the explorers as painfully as possible and intends to take Annuir for himself after they are dead. Even after the shaman is killed and the previous chief's son takes over, Dukkar doesn't let go of his plans and, tracking down the explorers, shoots Ignaty, a harmless, bumbling Lovable Coward, for no discernible motive other that bloodlust.
• Sansho the Bailiff: Sansho himself is a callous official who runs a mansion based around the exploitation and torture of slaves. Working many slaves to death, Sansho has them tortured for infractions and thrown out to die when they grow too old. Mocking his son as a weakling for his kindness, Sansho cuts the Achilles tendons of one attempted runaway, showing himself willing to brutalize and kill countless slaves.
• SAS: Rise of the Black Swan (originally titled SAS: Red Notice): George Clements is an SAS commander who hired the Black Swans to help him wipe out settlements in Georgia to make way for a pipeline, where he personally orders the massacre at a village. When these atrocities get leaked to the public, Clements raids the Black Swans' headquarters, killing everyone in the building, including Black Swans founder William Lewis, so they wouldn't reveal his role in the massacre. When William's daughter, Grace Lewis, hijacks a train and demands 500 million pounds from Clements in retaliation, Clements sends his forces to kill Grace, uncaring if her hostages will get killed or if his own men die, and only complies with Grace's demands when she makes it clear that he'll be killed in the explosion. When Grace releases the hostages, Clements orders his soldiers to shoot at them, in hopes that one of them will be Grace in disguise, and tries to kill Declan Smith when he learns that Smith is Grace's mole.
• The Satan Bug:
  • Charles Reynolds Ainsley is a wealthy pharmaceutical investor and businessman responsible for the Satan Bug, which can wipe out all life on Earth within months. Ainsley has the other scientists who know the secrets of the disease murdered, drowning one himself, while ensuring he has one of the only vaccines. Trying to force the world to submit, Ainsley has his henchmen poison entire cities with a virulent strain of botulinus, finally attempting to unleash the Satan Bug to be the only man alive in all the world if he cannot rule it.
  • Veretti and Donald, Ainsley's chief henchmen, are a pair of power-hungry killers who murder those aware of the Satan Bug's existence. Fully attempting to enact the blackmail of the world, the two plant the botulinus viral bombs, killing thousands in Florida while setting another to go off to wipe out all of Los Angeles.
• Satanic Panic (2019): Satanist socialite Danica Ross raises her daughter Judi to be a Virgin Sacrifice to be impregnated by the demon Baphomet. Upon learning Judi has lost her virginity, Danica kills her lover and delivers Judi to other Satanists to be murdered, planning to kill her husband when he objects. Upon young pizza girl Sam's arrival, Danica substitutes her for the sacrifice, and upon problems with her coven, lures over Sam's coworker to murder him and glean answers from his entrails, using her own husband's soul in a ritual to manifest a monster to go after the girls. Torturing Sam and Judi into submission and painfully drowning her would-be usurper, Danica delivers Sam to Baphomet, and when things go wrong, furiously cuts her own daughter's throat.
• Satan's Little Helper: The Satan Man is a Serial Killer terrorizing a small Island town on All Hallows' Eve; convincing the Satan-obsessed child, Douglas Whooly, to act as his helper while he slaughters the townsfolk, convincing Douglas it is all fake. After almost forcing himself on Dougie's sister Jenna, the Satan Man takes him around town, killing a bunch of people along the way; including running over a baby carriage with a shopping cart and hanging an old woman from her second-story window. Slaughtering his way through the local police department, Satan Man sets all of the criminals free, causing more chaos. After tricking Jenna into killing her own boyfriend and disguising himself as a police officer, Satan Man invades Douglas' house to kill him along with his mother and sister.
• Satan's Slave (also known as Evil Heritage) (1976): Alexander Yorke, the uncle of the protagonist Catherine Yorke, seems to be a pleasant man who takes young Catherine in after the seeming death of her parents. In truth, Alexander is a wicked Satanist who tortures and sacrifices women for the pursuit of personal power, seeking the power of his descendant Carmilla to harness her power for his coven. Alexander even murdered his own wife years ago while forcing his son to watch, twisting the boy into a deranged killer of his own while treating him as nothing more than a disposable tool he threatens to murder himself in the present day. Alexander ends the film closing in on Catherine after having driven her boyfriend to suicide, with the intent to sacrifice her and resurrect Carmilla.
• Savage Dawn (1985): Pigiron, leader of the Savages, leads his men on marauding, brutal sprees that include raping women they come across. Settling into the same town as the nomadic hero Ben Stryker, Pigiron has his men set on one woman and drags her boyfriend behind his bike. Later setting the Savages on the town and using a tank to fire randomly at buildings, Pigiron shows no concern for those who could be killed and even guns down multiple random innocents in a final spree.
• Savage Messiah: This 2002 film's dramatization of Roch Thériault, known to his harem as "Moïse" ("Moses" in French) is a self-styled prophet, a head of a cult of personality based around his teachings of God, and a charismatic sociopath who's savage temperament is preceded by his depthless charm. Roch keeps a harem of women and their children within his cult in a reserve based in Ontario, keeping all of them slavishly devoted to him through his manipulation and subjecting all of them to repeated humiliation and constant physical, mental, and sexual abuse—the children not excluded. Roch trains his concubines like sheep to obey his every whim and gesture and dishes out harsh punishments for any deviation from his word. To the outside, Roch masks his abusive personality with wit and seemingly benign philosophies, but quickly reveals himself when confronted by government worker Paula as a wrathful, domineering narcissist who dismissively refers to his wives as "things" and threatens to murder Paula for trespassing on his territory. Roch's negligence and abusive conditioning of the children has led to the deaths of at least one infant, and Roch dismembers and murders one of his concubines for being too outspoken, while cutting off the arm of another without a hint of emotion. Ultimately, Roch's philosophies are hollow at heart and he only exists to please himself and control whomever he wants, whenever he wants.
• Savage Streets: The Scars, comprised of the leader Jake and the Co-Dragons Red and Fargo, are a trio of White Gangbangers with a penchant for random, petty violence. After the heroine Brenda fills the Scars' car with trash in revenge for the Scars nearly running over her deaf young sister Heather, Jake leads the brutal beating and gang-rape of Heather in a school bathroom, with Jake forcing unwilling recruit Vince to rape Heather against his will. The Scars also later track down and kill Brenda's best friend Francine in revenge for a cut she dealt Jake during a brawl. Jake later runs over and kills Vince himself later on. For their part, Red and Fargo are vicious sexual sadists who molest random women and gleefully declare they'll rape Brenda before they kill her.
• The Saviour (1971): "Claude", the supposed Englishman who also gives his name as "Muller" later, is a Nazi officer who poses as an Englishman to seduce Nanette to locate resistance fighters. Claude has her entire village slaughtered and coldly breaks her into agreeing to the mass execution of numerous prisoners after.
• Scalps: Black Claw is a renegade Indian who practiced black magic. Long dead, his spirit haunts an Indian burial ground. In the opening of the film, Black Claw kills a man by forcing him to slit his own throat after he tries to steal one of Black Claw's possessions. When the main characters try to take his possessions, Black Claw possesses one of them and has them rape one of the women before killing her. He proceeds to kill the group one by one. When the person he is possessing is killed, Black Claw takes control of the one member of the group who actually tried to talk the others out of stealing his possessions and has her kill the last member, before killing an innocent professor and apparently deciding to keep killing people who come into the area for fun.
• Scanners series:
  • Original film: Braedon Keller is ConSec's treacherous head of security, secretly allied with rogue scanner Darryl Revok. Keller manipulates his position to gain security clearance for Revok, allowing him to commit devastating terrorist attacks, while weeding out anyone who might get in their way. When Revok's father, Dr. Paul Ruth, clues into their plot to drug pregnant women to create a scanner army, Keller gleefully takes permission from a reluctant Revok to kill Ruth and later goes against Revok's orders to attempt to kill Revok's brother Cameron Vale. With no regard for the lives he wastes, and none of Revok's regrets or redeeming qualities, Keller is prepared to help plunge the world into psychic bloodshed at the hands of Revok's scanner army to enjoy power and prestige in the new world order.
  • The New Order:
    • Commander John Forrester is a cop who claims to be using scanners to clean up crime and establish a New Order for the people. Revealing himself to be a sociopath who wishes to turn his city into a Police State where everyone's under the control of his scanner army, with himself as mayor, Forrester recruits scanners to join his cause and gets them addicted to Ephemerol 2 to remain by his side, with many dying from the drug's effects. Having the Chief of Police killed in an attempt to claim his spot, Forrester later kills the mayor for knowing too much about his plan, then tries to kill hero David Kellum from behind after his plans have been revealed to the public.
    • Peter Drak is a psychopathic scanner whose first act is to blow up a packed arcade hall with everyone luckily escaping in time, before he joins Forrester simply for the drugs he provides him and for the thrill of killing people. Drak murders the Chief of Police by psychically forcing him to eat his own gun; murders David Kellum's mother just because he could—making sure the sheriff's office hears him shooting her over the phone—gleefully blows up his associate Gelson's head while Gelson was possessed by David; and repeatedly attempts to devour David's mind. Drak is content to see his fellow psychics reduced to a slow death through their addiction to Ephemerol, not caring for anything other than the power rush of mutilating and murdering people with his mind.
  • The Takeover: Dr. Baumann runs his clinic as a front to painfully experiment on scanners, regardless of age. Having performed cruel tests on the young Alex and Helena Monet, Baumann's tests traumatized the latter up to adulthood. Keeping photos of the tortured subjects under his care, Baumann's treatment of scanners was so cruel that his patients agreed to band together to wipe out all of humanity.
  • Scanner Cop duology:
    • First movie: Neurosurgeon Dr. Karl Glock performed lethal experiments on his patients, then formed a cult to continue his activities. When Officer Peter Harrigan arrested him, Glock vowed revenge. Six years later, Glock kills a doctor and escapes from the high-security mental hospital he was sent to. With former cult follower Zena, Glock brainwashes people throughout the city so that a specific trigger will make them hallucinate that police officers are actually monsters and gangsters, the ensuing panic resulting in the deaths of numerous innocent cops. The brainwashed victims themselves usually die in the firefights, kill themselves out of despair, or end up as catatonic wrecks. Glock tries several times to kill Harrigan, who is now Chief. When Glock captures Harrigan's adopted son and hero Officer Samuel Staziak, Glock is delighted at the opportunity to have Harrigan be murdered by his own son. When this fails, Glock heads over to the hospital where the previously wounded commander has been taken and tries to eviscerate him.
    • Second movie: Craig Volkin was a psychopath who assisted his loving-but-equally-evil scanner brother Karl in his murder and rape spree. With a history of homicide, Craig helped Karl break into a home and murdered two people, saving a girl for last to be raped by him and Karl. Encountered by Sam Staziak, Craig holds the girl at knifepoint while threatening to kill her.
• Scar (2007):
  • Ernie Bishop was a sadistic morgue worker who would attract two people into his home to torture them to death. Bishop would play a game with his victims where he would torture the two until one of them ordered him to kill their partner, saving the other one to be tortured for later. Murdering the young Joan Burrows's sister Susie and torturing Joan with gleeful relish until she escaped his clutches, Bishop's infamy would go on to plague the town, not only traumatizing Joan for life, but also influencing Paul Watts into becoming a murderer like him.
  • Paul Watts is a copycat killer with an obsession for Ernie Bishop. Harboring a sadistic love of harming others, Watts is introduced killing a couple and castrating the boyfriend, going on to torture several other people to death. Gaslighting the adult Joan into thinking Bishop's come back to life as a way to frame her for his murders, Watts later kidnaps her niece and friend to torture them to death, forcing Joan to watch the process. Despite claiming to be adhering to Bishop's philosophy, Watts is a self-admitted "sick fuck" who hopes to gain fame by posing as a survivor.
• Scarecrow's Revenge (2019): Henrik is a psychopathic Viking warrior. Kidnapping and attempting to rape a young woman, Henrik is exiled from the village. Enraged, he makes a deal with the Witch of the Lake to become a demonic scarecrow so he can wipe out the entire village for revenge. Beginning a brutal rampage, Henrik would kill many of his former neighbors and offer up the souls of everyone he kills to the Witch. Even the Witch herself is not safe, with Henrik even willing to kill her if the opportunity presents itself.
• Scared Stiff (1987): George Masterson is a demonic slave trader who boasted of mentally breaking his slaves as a way to make them more obedient. A horrific abuser who killed his wife and son by locking them in a trunk until they starved to death, George's spirit would reside in his own house thanks to a curse. With the singer Kate Christopher and her family moving into his house a century later, George proceeds to Mind Rape Kate and her son Jason, while slowly possessing Kate's husband David in order to return to the mortal world, where he will continue killing people and abusing his new family.
• Scary or Die's "The Crossing": Keith is a friend of Buck, with whom he hunts down and kills anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant at the Mexican border. The two having amassed countless victims, as indicated by the graves at their hunting ground, Keith is proud of his racist killings. When one victim explains he is a US citizen, Keith and Buck ignore him because of his appearance, Buck happily slitting his throat while Keith guns down another victim who tries to flee in terror.
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019): Dr. Ephraim Bellows is one of the seemingly benevolent Bellows family that founded the town and opposed the "Wicked Witch", Ephraim's sister Sarah. In truth, Ephraim was a cruel sociopath who helped run the family's paper mill despite the fact that it poisoned the local water supply, killing multiple children while sickening others. The head of the local sanitarium, Ephraim oversaw the torture of the innocent Sarah to frame her for the deaths, brutally subjecting her to endless electroshock therapy.
• Schindler's List: SS officer Amon Goeth is in charge of liquidating the Krakow Jewish ghetto, and is later in charge of the Plaszow concentration camp. When a Jewish forewoman protests the structure they are building is unsound, Goeth has her killed for raising her opinion, only to follow her instruction to improve the structure. Tormenting his prisoners for his amusement, Goeth shoots them from his quarters with a sniper rifle for sport; kills 25 in anger for one escaping; and laughs at the crying parents of children he sends off to the gas chambers. Subverting any chance at humanity he is given, when Oskar Schindler tries to convince him to show mercy, Goeth briefly considers sparing a Jewish boy who failed to clean spots from his bathtub before killing him; and finding himself attracted to a Jewish woman, decides to blame her for his own lust and savagely beats her.
• The School (2018): Zac is a demonic being who takes advantage of the heroine's son David's coma to invade the "waystation" of dead souls and corrupt it into his own nightmarish playground. Enslaving the children's souls and tormenting or torturing them should they defy him, Zac also murders the children sent to the same hospital to add to his ranks, with others left to be prey for dangerous ghosts like the "Weepers" and the "Hungries". Any child who defies Zac too much is sent to the basement to be preyed upon by them, with Zac also keeping David locked there for the sake of keeping his kingdom going.
• The School for Good and Evil (2022): Rafal is the nefarious founder of the evil side of the School for Good and Evil. In the past, before the events of the story, Rafal murdered his kind-hearted twin brother to take his position as leader of the good side of the School for Good and Evil, and used his new position to twist and weaken the forces of good. Rafal runs both schools as a horror show where students are permanently transformed into inanimate objects or monsters if they fail their lessons, often with fatal results. Seducing and corrupting the newest student Sophie into giving him a True Love's Kiss of evil, Rafal plans to gain ultimate power through their kiss and use it to dominate his enemies. Ultimately, Rafal intends to slaughter all the inhabitants of both academies to clear away the competition and allow him to take over and allow true evil to reign across the world.
• School Mystery (aka Toire no Hanako-san or Phantom of the Toilet) (1995): The unnamed child murderer is a deranged predator terrorizing the neighborhood. It is his murders that are blamed on the titular Hanako-san spirit. At one point, the killer encounters Mizuno, who manages to escape, but is left so traumatized that she loses her voice. The killer then kills the school's pet goat, leaving its severed head to be found outside the school. When rumors spread that Mizuno herself is Hanako-san, the killer overhears a plan between two students to lock her in the school bathroom overnight. The killer shows up at the school, relentlessly trying to chase Mizuno and Takuya down, and throws Takuya's father down a flight of stairs for getting in his way, seemingly killing him.
• Scream and Scream Again: Konratz, the chief intelligence official of a nameless Eastern European nation, is one of Dr. Browning's "new breed" of humans and the most evil of them all. Torturing countless civilians for any reason he can manufacture, he murders his superior officer when the man attempts to remove him from power. Slowly murdering and torturing others in his way, Konratz is revealed to be facilitating Browning's experiments by providing him with people to dissect, intending to replace countless across the world with their new beings and eliminate all they deem "deficient", with Konratz willing to kill and torture everyone in his way for his own power and gratification.
• Séance (2006): James Spence begins life as an ordinary maintenance man with no glaring peculiarities. Spence was, in actuality, a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer of children, and had murdered five children around the US before settling on a young girl named Cara, repeatedly raping her and coaxing her into staying quiet under the threat of hurting her sister. Spence eventually murders Cara and is executed for his crimes before an ill-fated séance accidentally summons his spirit back onto the grounds of the murder. Now a malevolent specter, Spence takes delight in tormenting the inhabitants of the dormitory, raping, torturing, and eventually murdering Alison with wires and strangling a security guard before leaving him to bleed out. After a failed attempt to destroy him grants him the ability to Body Surf, Spence utilizes this to slit Diego's throat whilst in his body and attempting to pick off the survivors one by one so he can spend the rest of his undead life surfing from host to host to stay alive. A serene, manipulative pedophile in life and a vicious, murderous ghost in death, Spence is one of the vilest undead beings to grace modern cinema.
• Seance (2021): Bethany, initially seeming to be the quiet and timid one of her clique, is actually responsible for the death of Kerrie. Desperate to earn a scholarship, Bethany plagiarized Kerrie's essay and, taking advantage of a prank played on Kerrie, used the sociopathic Trevor Landry to kill her. To cover her tracks, Bethany orchestrated the murders of everyone else in the clique, all while pinning their deaths on Camille Meadows, luring Camille and the clique leader Alice to the library to torture them to death, and to later to kill Helina and make her death look like a suicide.
• Season of the Witch: The demon known as Baal possesses the young woman Anna, as it has done many young women before to spread fear and death. In the opening of the film, Baal murders a priest before taking Anna as a host, spreading The Black Death to wipe out entire villages. Seeking to gain access to the final copy of the Book of Solomon, the only thing capable of banishing him, Baal murders the entire abbey of monks, and arranges the deaths of any who would seek to stop the supposed captors from taking Anna there. Upon being revealed, Baal tries to slaughter everyone present, burning the heroic knight Felson alive to take his dark reign, and the Black Plague, global.
• The Seasoning House (2012-2013): Viktor is the owner of a brothel that he uses to imprison kidnapped women and sell them into involuntary prostitution, where they are beaten and occasionally killed. When his assistant Angel rebels against him, Viktor feigns affection for her to get her to drop her guard, before proceeding to beat her for ruining his business. When Goran threatens to kill Viktor, he tries offering Angel to spare his own life and uses her as a Human Shield after Goran refuses.
• The Secret Agent (1996): The Professor is an intense nihilist who dreams of creating a world where the weak are eradicated. Holding a powerful bomb close to him at all times and seeking the best place to use it, the Professor helps supply anarchists with bombs for the sake of "the destruction of what is". After the events of the film, the Professor states he is simply a "force" without a future and retreats to a crowded area of the London to detonate himself and take numerous innocents with him.
• Security (2017): Charlie is the psychopathic leader of the Tripe Six gang. They have led numerous drug dealings and robberies, resulting in many deaths across towns. When one of their members tries to rat them out to the feds, the gang has him killed in front of his daughter Jamie. When Jamie is being escorted by the FBI to stand witness to an organized crime trial, Charlie and his men ambush and massacre the motorcade. When Charlie finds that Jamie escaped, he leads his men to a nearby mall where she is at. While initially trying to pose as Jamie's father to fool the guards to give her up, a security guard named Eddie is able to find out this is a ruse. Charlie then decides to lead an assault on the mall and kill everyone inside, including Jamie. He has multiple guards killed and threatens the lives of his henchmen, as well as their families, friends, and pets if they don't find Jamie. When most of his forces are wiped out, Charlie is able to find where Jamie is and shoots at her before finding and taking her again in a final attempt to kill both her and Eddie.
• See No Evil: Margaret Goodnight seems like a kindly old woman opening a hotel as a homeless shelter, but she is in fact the mastermind behind her son Jacob’s killing spree. Luring several teenage delinquents, and a police officer overseeing them into a murder trap for her son, it is discovered that she is the one who molded Jacob into the killer he is today. Ever since Jacob was young, Margaret would abuse and torture him and at one point tortured a girl in front of Jacob, forcing him to watch as she ripped the girl's eye out. She brainwashed Jacob into believing he is the hand of God, and kill people she sees as sinners, even if they have so much as a religious tattoo. When Jacob is reluctant to kill a hostage, Margaret belittles him for being "ungrateful" and attempts to do the deed herself.
• Self Defense: Cabe is the leader of the neo-fascist New Order in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who is taking advantage of a police strike to try to take over the streets. Cabe's goons harass people at a gay bar and accidentally kill the bartender. Cabe decides to kill all the bar patrons so no one can testify against his gang. One of the bar patrons, Daniel, escapes, and Cabe orders his goons to kill him. Daniel escapes into an apartment building where the residents are protecting him, so Cabe orders his goons to kill everyone in the apartment building.
• The Serpent and the Rainbow: Captain Dargent Peytraud is the leader of the Haitian Tontons Macoutes and a practitioner of Voodoo. To keep Haiti's population in line, Peytraud uses a special drug to steal people's souls and make them appear dead. The ones who don't suffocate after being Buried Alive are exhumed and turned into zombie slaves. When anthropologist Dr. Dennis Alan comes to Haiti to investigate, Peytraud brutally tortures him by hammering a nail into his genitals before haunting Alan's dreams, filling them with nightmarish visions of the walking dead and later frames him for murder to force him to leave town. Eventually, Peytraud uses his magic to control a woman in order to make her murder Alan. When Allan returns he uses the same trick on his ally to make him decapitate himself and then drugs Alan and places him inside a coffin with a tarantula. When he and Alan finally square off at the end, he tries to perform a human sacrifice on Alan's beloved Michelle by beheading her.
• Se7en: John Doe is a Knight Templar who targeted people whom he deemed to embody one of the Seven Deadly Sins, then horribly murdered them in a way that reflected their vice. After 5 murders, John Doe, feeling envious of Detective David Mills's "normal" life, decapitated his wife—despite her being completely innocent—then arranged for her head to be delivered to Mills outside of the city. Goading Mills with his crime and revealing that she was pregnant, Doe succeeded in getting Mills to murder him in revenge, making Mills the embodiment of wrath and leading to Mills's arrest and the ruination of his life.
• Seven Swords: Fire-Wind is a brutal general and former Imperial torturer who takes the edict banning martial arts to engage in mass slaughter for profit. Fire-Wind has countless numbers of innocents slaughtered either for practicing or merely supporting martial arts, up to the elderly and the children, leading to entire villages of people put to the sword by his army. A ruthless abuser of his own subordinates in the meanwhile, Fire-Wind murders his own men for reasons stemming from failure to simply interrupting his private time, and takes glee in terrorizing and assaulting his Korean slave woman Green Pearl. When the noble swordsman Chu frees Green Pearl from Fire-Wind's torment, Fire-Wind attempts to have him ripped limb from limb by chains tied to horses right in front of his allies.
• The Shadow: Shiwan Khan is a descendant of Genghis Khan, and wishes to follow in his ancestor's footsteps and try to Take Over the World. Unlike Lamont Cranston, the titular Shadow, who regrets the evil acts he has done in the past, Khan revels in his evil deeds. Khan uses his Psychic Powers to force a security guard to kill himself, forces a cabbie to crash into a gas tanker and makes a sailor jump off the Empire State Building because the sailor made fun of the way Khan dresses. Khan also forces Margo Lane, Cranston's Love Interest, to try and murder Cranston, hoping that Cranston would kill her instead and then return to his old evil ways. Khan also kills one of his Mongol warriors when Cranston was able to control him. Khan kidnaps Margo's father, a nuclear physicist, and forces him to build a crude nuclear weapon, which he plans to use to destroy New York City, so the world will bow in fear to him.
• Shadow Builder (1998): The evil demon known as the Shadowbuilder was an angel who despised God for creating light and humanity. Massacring the sect who summoned him, the Shadow Builder aims to sacrifice a pure-hearted child to usher in Hell on Earth, stealing through his town to murder multiple people and taking their souls while torturing others. In one incident, the Shadowbuilder forces a man to murder his own wife and sends him after the heroes before capturing the child, Christopher, and attempting to murder him to open a portal to hell that will devour all humanity.
• Shadow Conspiracy (1997):
  • White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad is the man behind the conspiracy. Conrad starts having six scientists murdered and then a professor to claim the program SHADOW so he might locate other government officials he decides are problematic. Conrad proceeds to have numerous people and witnesses killed to hunt down Bobby Bishop, the one man who can stop him. Upon learning Bishop intends to expose him, Conrad has his assassin pilot a drone into a crowded room to massacre everyone there and assassinate the President.
  • "The Agent", Conrad's silent, ruthless assassin, is the hatchetman in the evil conspiracy. In the film's opening, the Agent walks into a building and casually guns down half-a-dozen people merely on route to his real target. Innocent collateral is no trouble for the Agent; he kills and injures swathes of innocents as he pursues the heroes through packed traffic; pilots a gun-shooting drone into a huge crowd to kill one person; and pointlessly breaks the neck of an innocent maid who simply asks if he needs help.
• Shadow: Dead Riot (2006): Edward "Shadow" Marquis was a brutal Serial Rapist and killer who left nearly two dozen bodies of women and children in his wake before he was captured and executed in prison. Using satanic rituals to kickstart a Prison Riot and drag dozens of prisoners into death with him, Shadow is resurrected years later, raising the dead prisoners as zombie slaves he uses to massacre a women's prison, while Shadow personally rips out the throat of the man who revived him for fun and turns a woman's newborn baby into a mutated monster that murders its own mother. Shadow, having kept the woman Luisa as a Sex Slave in life so he could sacrifice the child they would have together for power, tracks down his daughter Solitaire in the present day and tries to murder her, bragging that he killed her mother as well when he learned Luisa tried to hide Solitaire from Shadow's murderous desires.
• Shadow Killers Tiger Force: Mr. Davis is the ninja leader of a prison camp where women are kidnapped and made into slaves, planning on selling 53 of them to a Middle Eastern buyer. He allows his guards to sexually abuse, torture, and murder them should they try and escape. When one of his women is in need of medical attention, Davis lets her die in order to avoid attention from the government, quipping that she wasn't worth much anyway. Once Lady Ninja rescues some women and destroys his empire, Davis tries to kill her.
• Shadow of a Doubt: Charles "Uncle Charlie" Oakley is a seemingly affable and caring man who in actuality is a cold-blooded Serial Killer known as the "Merry Widow Murderer". Denouncing widows as "greedy, fat wheezing animals" who exploit their husbands' hard-earned wealth, Charles has strangled at least three women to death, stealing their fortunes for himself. When his niece discovers evidence of his dark secret, Charles sets about attempting to murder her, sabotaging a staircase to make her fall to her death, attempting to suffocate her with exhaust fumes in a garage, and ultimately attempting to throw her off a train and get her run over by an oncoming speeding train. A misanthropic maniac who has no remorse for his petty actions, Uncle Charlie stands out as one of the earliest, and most vile, depictions of a sociopath in film.
• Shadow of Fear (2004): William J. Ashbury Jr. is a seemingly kind, friendly lawyer who in truth targets men who have committed a crime, promising to help them get away with said crime before blackmailing them into becoming his personal puppets. Once he has the men under his control, Ashbury forces them to repeat their "sin" over and over again for years to come, from lying on their taxes to cheating on their wives, driving the men to self-loathing and near-insanity from years of anxiety and horror at what Ashbury makes them do. Though claiming to want to "help" his victims, Ashbury cheerfully reveals in private that he sees them all as nothing but a "collection" for him to sadistically toy with and hurt. Ashbury also targets the women in his victims' lives, seducing and coming onto their wives and daughters, and threatening to mentally and emotionally destroy the women should any of his victims speak out. Upon gaining the newest addition to his collection, Harrison French, Ashbury plans to force him to kill his own brother-in-law Chris, bragging that he'll have French repeat his "sin" of murder over and over as long as Ashbury likes, before trying to kill Harrison and Chris when they resist his control.
• Shaft in Africa: Vincent Amafi opens the film executing a diplomat's son who got too close to the truth that Amafi is running a modern day slave trade. Amafi offers young men from Africa new lives, only to sell them into labor-intensive jobs for literal pennies where they work 7 days a week for 16 hours per day with no way to speak up lest they face deportation or murder. Using slave labor on his own estates, Amafi has an apartment full of enslaved workers burned down and the workers killed in an attempt to murder the hero John Shaft. It is revealed he is keeping a group of prisoners in his own estate's dungeons, even rigging the cells with explosives to kill them all should Shaft not surrender.
• Shake Hands with the Devil (2007 film): Colonel Théoneste Bagosora is a corrupt, prejudiced military commander who masterminds the infamous Rwandan genocide. Promoting the extermination of the Tutsi people, Bagosora takes advantage of the President's death to seize power for himself, having the President's true successor Madame Agathe and her entire family massacred. Implied to have been the brains behind the rape and murder of 6 children so as to frame the Tutsis for it, Bagosora initiates the systematic rape or slaughter of all Tutsi people and any moderate Hutus that sympathize with them, using the Interahamwe to carry out this heinous genocide that leaves hundreds of thousands dead.
• Shanghai Affairs (1998): Dr. Raymond, appearing as a benevolent doctor and humanitarian running a clinic in a rural village, is actually the ringleader behind an operation specializing in harvesting human organs to be sold to rich clients. Hiring the Axe Gang to abduct young children because their organs are "fresher and healthier", Dr. Raymond is personally responsible for the deaths of untold amounts of children, which he attempts to justify that since the children are from poor, illiterate families, they are thus of no use to society, but are useful for his own personal glory and fame. When Tong Shan attempts to investigate the deaths of the children, Dr. Raymond ordered his minions to plant fake evidence to frame Tong Shan for the murders, resulting in Tong Shan's arrest.
• Shanghai Grand: Madam Yiu is a high-ranking enforcer of the Triads who willingly sold out her country in exchange for a position of power in the Shanghai criminal underworld. Introduced killing a helpless captive by chewing out his throat, causing him to die slowly and painfully, Madam Yiu later forcefully interrogates the protagonist Hui Man-keung while having him hung by his neck on a wire, in order to maximize his suffering, which she thoroughly enjoys the entire time. When Man-keung managed to escape, in order to intimidate him, Madam Yiu then machine guns twenty caged prisoners while bearing a sadistic smile on her face, before ordering their bodies to be dumped in the waters outside Shanghai. Stopping at nothing to hunt down Man-keung, she willingly ordered her mooks to shoot up a city building, and later lures Man-keung and his best friend Ding-lik into a trap, where she had Ding-lik captured alive, Chained to a Bed, and subjects the man to torture by slitting his chest open with a stiletto, and tries to feed him to a boa constrictor.
• Shanghai duology:
  • Shanghai Noon: Lo Fong is an ill-tempered Chinese insurgent seeking to avenge himself when cast out as a traitor and conducts slavery as a means of business, subjecting the slaves to horrible abuses as well. To this end, Lo Fong has Princess Pei-Pei abducted in order to force Imperial Guard Chon Wang into a fight for her life, while Lo Fong impedes his efforts to make it to said fight and cuts off his ponytail to dishonor him and prevent him from returning home as well. Lo Fong's own men also prove to not in any way be safe from his rage and ruthlessness either, as on more than one occasion, he brutally executes them for any kind of failure.
  • Shanghai Knights:
    • Lord Nelson Rathbone is a British Royal seeking the crown of England for himself. To this end, Rathbone has stolen the Seal of China and murdered Chon and his sister Lin's father who was the Keeper, and has both Chon and Roy O'Bannon subjected to torture as well as later antagonizing Chon in a sword fight. Rathbone allies with Wu Chow—who wants the Seal to get control in China—and intends to arrange a mass shooting with him that will wipe out all nine of the Royals in the line of succession and thus make him the King as a result.
    • Wu Chow himself is the illegitimate brother of the Emperor of China. Wanting to take power in China and by doing so eventually take full control, Wu Chow hires Rathbone to break in to steal the Seal of China while killing the Keeper. Once Wu Chow then gets the Seal from Rathbone, he intends to kill the Royal Family with a Gatling gun and deliver Rathbone the crown as payment—and fights and tries to kill Lin for her interference in the process.
• Shanghai Triad (1995): Boss Tang, leader of the Triads that Shuisheng joins, soon reveals the depths of his depravity after bloody gang conflicts. Retreating to an island, Tang shows little care for the victims of his triads. Upon discovering his right-hand man Song is plotting against him with his mistress Jinbao, Tang has multiple innocents on the island killed, massacres Song's men and buries him alive before promising that Jinbao's own execution is coming soon and taking a young girl from the island to raise her to be the new Jinbao.
• Shango (1970): Major Droster is a paranoid Confederate officer prone to bouts of animal violence who refuses to believe the war has ended in the North's favor. To keep the truth from coming out in the pocket of the country he rules in a stranglehold with the help of the local Mexican bandits, Droster kills the local telegraph technician—and one of his own guards—then tries to pin it on Shango, the Union officer he's been holding as a POW. Droster has been holding Shango as a prisoner ever since he wiped out Shango's platoon in search of gold. An absolutely dreadful leader to both his men and the citizenry he rules over, when a cache of his weapons goes missing, Droster interrogates a group of civilians before losing patience, forcing everyone into a large pile and shooting into it in a psychotic rage until they're all dead. When Droster finds the child who stole his weapons, Droster guns him down as well, and when the entire town bands around Shango to protect him from Droster's wrath, he loses his mind and orders his men to kill them all.
• Shaolin Prince: Lord Iron Fingers is the ruthless usurper to the throne, introduced sending his underlings to massacre the Emperor's palace and personally killing several bodyguards and babies being used as body doubles to safeguard the two baby princes. Installing his nephew as a Puppet King, Iron Fingers forces his nephew to impose an atrocious rule on the kingdom on his behalf, forcing the nephew to charge taxes on the civilians and constantly threatening the nephew with death. Ruling the kingdom with an iron fist for two decades, after realizing the baby princes are still alive, Iron Fingers has one of the princes' adoptive father, Minister Wong, and his entire family slaughtered, servants and handmaidens included, while invading the Shaolin Temple to hunt down the titular Shaolin Prince, threatening the Shaolin monks to have the entire temple burnt to the ground in order to terminate the royal family bloodline.
• The Shaolin Temple: Emperor Wang Shichong overthrows the previous rulers and established a horrible dictatorship where countless innocents are enslaved, tortured and murdered. When one brave martial artist stands up to Shichong's men, Shichong himself fights and tears his throat out with his bare hands. When the man’s son, Jue Yan, proves himself a thorn in Shichong's side, Shichong attacks the abbey Yan lives at, and when the abbot offers to take the punishment, Shichong has him burned alive after promising to spare the other monks, a vow he promptly breaks when he doesn't get the answers he seeks. Shichong also attempts to rape the heroine after catching her, before he engages in a personal duel with Jue Yan.
• The Shaolin Temple (1976): Master Monk Hui-xian and Ma Fu-yi, introduced as a particularly nasty senior monk and an arrogant kung-fu student, turn out to be traitors working for the Manchurian court. Working in tandem to overthrow the Shaolin Temple, the traitors attempt killing the heroes in sparring accidents before sabotaging their training with near-lethal results. Arranging for an invasion, Hui-xian and Ma Fu-yi stealthily kill the resistance forces guarding the temple gates before allowing the Manchurian army to enter, with Hui-xian poisoning the senior monks and the two overseeing the temple's takeover, with hundreds of monks, trainees, and resistance members alike killed in the subsequent massacre, even helping the Manchurian army in hunting down their former friends.
• Shaolin Vs The Devils Omen (also known as Satan Returns) (1996): Judas is either a demon in human form, or a man who has been given Satanic powers from the Devil. Judas goes on a killing spree targeting women born on June 6, 1969, in an attempt to find Satan's daughter. If her heart is cut out of her chest, it will allow Satan to enter the living world and bring about Hell on Earth. After murdering three women in his search, he becomes convinced that Ching is the Devil's daughter, and begins stalking her, killing every officer that gets in his way. Judas also reveals that he hates women in general, and tries to murder one while knowing she is not who he's looking for. At another point, Judas taunts the main cop, Nam, over the fact that his wife was gang-raped and has cancer, telling him that she will be gang raped again and killed, and that his son will also get cancer.
• Sha Po Lang series:
  • Sha Po Lang II: A Time For Consequences:
    • Hung Man-kong, a ruthless crime lord who leads a crime syndicate Chan-chi Kit is sent to infiltrate, makes his fortune in a particularly nasty way: harvesting organs from those who are sent to a specific prison, with many people sacrificed this way. When he discovers he has an incurable disease and needs a heart transplant, he has no compunction trying to harvest his own brother's heart and even mocks him when he's begging for his life on the operating table. When this fails, Hung attempts to kill his brother himself to personally rip out his heart.
    • Ko Chun is a major player in the crime syndicate and the warden of the prison where the organ harvesting victims are sent. Running the prison with an iron fist, Ko Chun has anyone who defies him beaten, tortured or killed regardless of whether or not they are destined to get their organs harvested. When one of the few honest guards tries to help the good guys, Ko Chun has him tortured and ends the film attempting to slaughter the heroes for interfering with how he runs his little kingdom.
  • Paradox (2017): Sacha is a swaggering thug using a frozen meat packing plant to mask his extensive organ trafficking operation. Targeting tourists for kidnapping and murder to steal their organs, Sacha's operation has been going on for years, his latest batch comprised of at least three innocent women. When he is chased by police and knocked over a building ledge, Sacha begs to be saved, only to then throw a child off the building and murder the officer who had just saved his life. Confronted by Chung-chi over Sacha kidnapping and killing his teenage daughter, Sacha stabs a hook through Chung-chi's leg and drags him around a room to torture him before trying to kill him and Chui for interfering in his operation.
• Shark Night:
  • Dennis Crimm is the de facto head of the Snuff Film operation involving setting sharks loose in lake to get tourists killed, having made at least 46 snuff films to make money. When his ex-girlfriend Sara and her friends arrive at her hometown, Dennis targets her for leaving him, and his accidental scarring. After the first attack, Dennis offers to take a couple in the group back to the mainland, but reveals he's behind the attacks before shooting the boy into the water, and forcing the girl to strip before she herself is pushed in with the sharks. When the Sara and her boyfriend Nick learn the truth, Dennis leaves Nick to be killed by the corrupt sheriff and kidnaps Sara, before he and his friend Red throw her dog overboard. Dennis places Sara into a shark cage with a great white on the hunt, and kills his own henchman Red just to catch Nick off guard, even diving into the water with Nick and trying to strangle him as he tries to get the cage open.
  • Sheriff Greg Sabin presents himself as a very friendly small-town sheriff but he is in fact in on Dennis's snuff scheme. When Sara and Nick's friends are picked off by the sharks, Sabin arrives at their vacation house and tries to poison them. When that plan fails, he simply hands Sara over to Dennis. Sabin then tries to torture Nick by dunking him into the lake with a tiger shark, and joyfully telling him about their operations. His motive is he hates teenagers for looking and talking down to him, even though none of the main characters or their friends ever treat Sabin as anything but a friend beforehand, making it likely that any such slights exist only in Sabin's head, or that he is projecting onto the characters what other teenagers have done.
• The Shawshank Redemption:
  • Warden Samuel Norton seems like a stern but affable prison bureaucrat before he reveals the true extent of his immorality and corruption. Norton runs Shawshank as a place of horrible, soul-crushing conditions overshadowed by cheap Christian rhetoric, where a man is beaten to death on Andy's first day by Norton's corrupt guards and violent rape is allowed to occur within the system. Norton sets up cheap prison labor to blackmail desperate private contractors, using Andy's financial knowledge to launder the illegal money, and when a new inmate named Tommy has proof of Andy's innocence, Norton has him shot in the yard by Captain Byron T. Hadley and has the murder passed off as an escape attempt. Norton finally throws all rhetoric aside, intending to keep Andy under his crushing thumb forever; Norton throws Andy in solitary confinement for a month, threatens to destroy everything Andy's built to improve Shawshank over the past 20 years in prison and make sure that he'll be handed over to the rapists again, before giving Andy another month in isolation just to think about it.
  • Bogs Diamond is the leader of a prison gang called "The Sisters", who prey on weaker inmates to rape them again and again for as long as they like. Bogs sets his sights on Andy and together with his gang makes repeated attempts to rape and brutalize Andy over the course of several years, succeeding about half the time. When Andy tries to fight off the latest attempt, Bogs threatens to shiv Andy through the skull if he doesn't give him and his buddy oral sex. When Andy talks him out of it by playing on his ignorance, he beats Andy straight into the infirmary for a month instead.
• Sheena: The Evil Prince Otwani schemes to take the throne of Tigora and mine the rich Earth of the Gudjara Mountain, assassinating his good-hearted brother and poisoning his own associates to assure his arise to power. Meeting complications from the resisting native Zambuli tribes, Otwani attempts to exterminate them all, leading his forces towards Gudjara Mountain and even allowing his bloodthirsty soldiers to completely wipe out a nearby village to slake their bloodlust. Otwani only spares the jungle warrior Sheena for his own lascivious purposes and attempts to have her partner murdered for the transgression of slapping him.
• The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008): Benjamin Meyers is an ex-Special Forces Commander-turned-drug lord operating in New Mexico, controlling the drug business after killing his superiors Felix and Benito. Using refugees and immigrants as live bait with C4 strapped on their bodies, Meyers had refugees sent through the border and remotely detonated the C4 on them after they're arrested by the Border Patrol, resulting in innumerable casualties. Hijacking a bus to smuggle his drug supplies into the city, Meyers deliberately had the vehicle crash into a public square while ordering his henchmen to fire machine guns indiscriminately; having Jack Robideaux framed thanks to Meyers having bribed the local law enforcement, Meyers had Jack and his partner Ramona, as well as Ramona's uncle Emile captured. Jack later reveals, while being tortured by Meyers, that his vendetta towards Meyers is due to Meyers's drug supplies contributing to the death of Jack's daughter Kassie, which Meyers barely gives a single thought towards, before throwing Uncle Emile into an electrified pool and strapping exploding collars on Jack and Ramona to keep them in check, intending to later torture them slowly and painfully.
• Shivaay (2016): Baron Ustinov and his right hand Changez are Human Traffickers who run a massive operation. Women are taken to be trafficked into brothels as sex slaves, while children are kidnapped as well to be harvested for organs or sold as lifelong sex slaves. This is the fate that awaits hero Shivaay's daughter Gaura, kidnapped by Ustinov's men. When Shivaay begins to dismantle the operation, Changez—actually Bulgarian police Captain Nikolai—murders Ustinov and kidnaps the remaining children to sell them himself.
• Shiver: Franklin Rood is a Serial Killer known as the Gryphon. He breaks into women's houses and murders them with a garrote wire, molesting their corpses, claiming their heads as trophies, and leaving a figurine of a gryphon at each crime scene. By the beginning, Rood has already murdered three women, along with a baby. As he scouts the apartment of his next intended victim, he is noticed by her neighbor, who he promptly strangles, beheads, and strips her corpse naked. When his intended target escapes, he follows her to her boyfriend's house, and kills the cops on duty as well as her boyfriend. Later, he takes her to a secluded cabin and tries to rape her, then behead her while she's still alive. On the way to prison, he murders the guards in the bus, and an inmate who was harassing him, before heading to his target's workplace and shooting everybody in sight. Viewing his crimes as works of art, Rood has a severe god complex and is willing to take out as many people as he could just to reach her.
• Shocker: Horace Pinker is a psychotic murderer in a near-constant violent frenzy who butchers families for fun. Pinker kills main character Jonathan Parker's mother, brother, and sister after his police detective father gets on Pinker's trail; kills a handful of cops who try to capture him in his lair; and murders Jonathan's girlfriend in her bathroom. Pinker mutilates two prison guards with his teeth as he's being led to the electric chair, where he reveals that Jonathan is in fact his own son and tried to stop him as Pinker murdered Jonathan's real mother when he was still a little kid. Pinker makes a Deal with the Devil to become an undead being of electricity. Pinker proceeds to possess person after person to continue trying to kill Jonathan, draining their life force completely before discarding his hosts, including a little girl. Pinker possesses people close to Jon so he will be forced to kill his loved ones.
• Shogun's Ninja (1980): Shogen Shiranui is a vicious Koga ninja who leads a massacre of the Momochi clan, betraying and killing the clan leader and then attempting to kill the man's son and the other children. Years later, when the child is grown and returns to find his friends living as heroic thieves in Edo, Shiranui attempts to hunt them down and subject them to death in front of a crowd by having them boiled alive. When their ally rushes in and declares himself guilty to save his fellows before jumping into the boiling cauldron, Shiranui coldly cuts the man's wife down when she runs to her dying husband. When the crowds begin rioting, Shiranui simply has his men shoot them in response before resuming his attempt to finish his extermination of the Momochi.
• Sholay: The villain of this Bollywood classic is the sadistic Dacoit (bandit) leader Gabbar Singh, who, while looting and terrorizing the village of Ramgarh, kills people not only because he wants to be feared, but also just for fun. After Thakur Baldev Singh (no relation) arrested Gabbar when the Thakur was still a police officer, Gabbar escaped from prison and slaughtered the Thakur's whole family before chopping off both of Baldev’s arms. He gleefully uses his own men for target practice, later orders an Imam's child killed, and threatens to massacre the whole town unless they give up two mercenaries (Veeru and Jai) who were hired by the Thakur to protect the villagers. When he captures Veeru and Basantu, he forces Basantu to dance for him and his gang until she collapses, or he'll blow her beloved Veeru's head off.
• Shoot 'Em Up: Hammerson is a gun manufacturer and mogul who seeks to end Presidential candidate Rutledge's life by preventing a bone marrow transplant he needs. Hiring the hitman Mr. Hertz, Hammerson has him kill three pregnant women whose children Rutledge was planning to use as part of his marrow transplant, and when Mr. Smith manages to rescue one of the women long enough for her to deliver the baby, Hammerson orders Hertz to kill the newborn as well. Hertz goes on to torture and kill many people on Hammerson's mission, and Hammerson ultimately watches with smug satisfaction as Hertz tortures Smith, planning to have Hertz kill the infant and the woman caring for him to silence all loose ends to Rutledge simply so that his campaigning for stricter gun control won't affect Hammerson's business.
• Shooter: Col. Isaac Johnson and Sen. Charles F. Meachum are the leaders of an oil consortium that will do anything to further its own ends. Johnson and Meachum order a US military operation to slaughter a small village of 400 people in Eritrea, so they could build a pipeline on their land. They didn't even bother asking them to move, simply killing them so the next village they target would move without question. Later, Johnson contacts former Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger and states he needs his help to foil a plot to assassinate the President. This is a ruse; Johnson and Meachum assassinate the archbishop of Ethiopia who was going to tell the President of their genocidal actions, and frame Swagger for this. Johnson tries to have one of his men kill Swagger, but he escapes; Johnson later kills this would-be assassin later to cover his tracks. An FBI agent named Agent Nick Memphis begins to piece things together and investigate the possibility that Swagger is innocent, so Johnson and Meachum send some goons to kidnap him and kill him in a way that makes it look like suicide, before Swagger saves him. Meachum and Johnson try to force Swagger out of hiding by kidnapping Sarah Fenn, the widow of his best friend who died in a mission. Johnson and Meachum even plot later to eventually repeat their actions on a group of Ecuadorian locals.
• Shoot to Kill: The thief known only as Steve takes a jeweler's household hostage to force him to steal diamonds, executing the maid to prove a point and murdering the wife to punish the FBI for interfering. Later murdering a fisherman and taking his identity, Steve murders all others in the fishing party save for the guide Sarah. Later planning to murder her, too, Steve resorts to hostages he is happy to try to kill, including a woman and her child.
• Shot Caller: "The Beast", real name Jerry Manning, is the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood in an unnamed Californian prison, engaged in drug smuggling and murder among several other crimes. Ordering one of his lieutenants, Redwood, to bloodily murder one of the guards as a display of his power, an act for which Redwood is sent to Death Row, the Beast promotes Jacob "Money" Harlon to take his place. Ordering Jacob to oversee the selling of military-grade weaponry to the Sonora Cartel on the outside, Jacob instead sabotages the deal so he can go back to prison to confront him. The Beast orders Jacob's family to be killed, then fights Jacob himself to the death without hesitation.
• Shotgun (1989): Fletcher Rivington is a slimy lawyer with a hand in drugs, prostitution, and crime throughout Los Angeles. Opening the film by ordering Rocker to murder an entire bar of people when they refuse to sell their land to him, Rivington is later revealed to be a vicious sexual sadist who regularly beats prostitutes, whipping them to within an inch of their lives. After beating one to death in a violent rage, Rivington is pursued by Ian "Shotgun" Jones, who begins breaking up his operations and thwarting his schemes, at which point Rivington has one of his own minions murdered to keep him quiet, then has Jones's best friend gunned down. In the end, Rivington executes Rocker when he tries to rat him out, and gleefully reveals his attitude that hookers were meant to be abused, and that with his money and power, he is given a free pass to anything.
• Showdown in Little Tokyo: Funekei Yoshida is a ruthless Yakuza boss who takes control of the Los Angeles drug trade by dismembering his opposition and proceeds to shake down the inhabitants of the Little Tokyo district. When he was still a lowly assassin in Japan, he murdered the parents of the young Chris Kenner and tried to kill the boy next. In the present he has a man crushed inside a car to take over his business, then, mid-coitus, decapitates a girl who tried to warn the previous victim about Yoshida. He kidnaps and rapes Minako, a singer who works in his new club, after forcing her to watch the tape he shot of himself beheading her friend Angel. He's merciless towards any failure from his own men, and arranges for the two heroes, Johnny Murata and Sgt. Chris Kenner, to be painfully tortured to death through electrocution. When they inevitably escape and come back for him, he tries to burn Minako alive out of spite.
• Shut In (2022): Sammy is an unabashed pedophile who raped a little girl in his past. Sammy manipulates Jessica Nash's abusive drug-addict ex-boyfriend Rob into locking her in the closet, preventing her from taking care of her two children. While Rob is away, Sammy torments Jessica, sadistically teasing that he's going to rape her kids, reasoning that since Rob hasn't paid him back the money he owes him, he can "collect his payment" on the toddler Lainey. After a brutal struggle, when Jessica finally breaks out of the closet, Sammy takes Jessica's children hostage with holding her infant son at knifepoint and sneering that he is going to gut him, despite Jessica's desperate promises to pay him the money he's after. When Rob comes to the rescue, Sammy acts like he was the only victim because of his hand that Jessica earlier hurt to protect her little kids.

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• The Silence (2019): The Reverend is the leader of the Hushed where he removes the tongues of his followers, children included, and would have the Vesps kill any who refuses to join. Noticing Ally Andrews, the Reverend plans to make Ally his Breeding Slave to populate the world, and when she refuses to join he sends a little girl to Ally's home attaching loud phones onto her to attract the Vesps and have them kill Ally's family and the girl while having his followers kidnap Ally.
• Silenced:
  • Headmaster Lee Kang-bok and Administration Chief Lee Kang-suk are identical twins whose similar appearances reflect the same amount of evil in one another. As the heads of Benevolence Academy for the hearing impaired, the Lee brothers secretly use their positions to horrifically molest and rape the young girls who attend the school. While Kang-bok enjoys recording his rapes and watching them over and over again, Kang-suk simply bribes the girls with candy and the like, then forcing himself on them even if they refuse. Keeping the kids quiet by threatening death to them and their friends, the Lee brothers also utilize the vicious Mr. Park to bully and abuse any kids who step out of line. When brought to court for their crimes, the Lee brothers first ensure to attack the prosecuting children personally, first claiming they were lying before saying they "wanted it", after which they pay off the judge to get themselves off incredibly light, laughing later about how easy it is to get away with their truly wicked deeds.
  • Mr. Park Bo-hyun is a sadistic teacher who uses his spot in Jae-ae Academy to abuse, beat, and rape any young boys he wishes. Though noted to have targeted several other children in the past, Park's despicable treatment of brothers Jeon Min-soo and Young-soo is particularly depraved, as he often beats and rapes one brother while forcing the other to watch. Even when not engaging in outright molestation, Park brutally beats his students bloody, knowing none will speak out lest they too be assaulted, and his violent nature is so bad that on one occasion he is seen taking up a golf club to use on Min-soo. After his abuse leads to Young-soo committing suicide, Park later evades any major punishment for his crimes due to paying off Min-soo's grandmother to drop the charges against him. When Min-su attempts to stab Park when the sick teacher tries once more to rape him, Park decides to flat out beat the boy to death as payback.
• Silent Assassins (1988): Kendrick is a former CIA agent turned psychopath. Introduced killing three cops, including hero Sam Kettle's partner, during a failed money transaction, Kendrick leads the kidnapping of Dr. London and the young Joanna that results in six deaths total. Helping a nameless Colonel create a deadly virus that will kill millions, Kendrick tortures London into giving up the virus's formula by chopping off his fingers, then promising to do the same to Joanna. Sending out the Iga ninja assassins to kill Sam and everybody trying to stop him, resulting in several deaths, Kendrick eventually tries to betray his partner Dr. Thomas and claim the formula for himself.
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation: Fima is the seemingly sweet proprietor of a bookstore who in actuality is a fanatical worshipper of Lilith. Fima, seeking the "perfect daughter", horribly conditioned her own daughter to the point where she horrifically dies, to which Fima's only response is "she was too weak". Fima takes in the protagonist, Kim, to mold her into her ideal "daughter", meticulously destroying Kim's life to assert control over her. Fima drugs Kim while having her pet Serial Killer Ricky murder innocent people, including Kim's husband, having Kim violated by insects and raped by Ricky to crush her will. Fima imbues Kim with a flame that will burn her alive from the inside-out should she not follow the cult's commands and finally attempts to make Kim murder a young boy. When Kim refuses, Fima tries to kill her, and murders Ricky without a second of hesitation when Ricky steps between them.
• The Silent Partner: Harry Reikle is a psychopath who, disguised as Santa Claus, tries to rob a bank. When Miles Cullen catches wind of his scheme and takes most of it for himself, only giving Reikle a small portion of it, and Reikle figures out the ruse, Reikle beats and rapes a teenage girl, with it being stated that he's done this to at least one other teenage girl. Upon being let out of jail, he breaks into Miles's house and brutally tortures Elaine to death for her betrayal, threatening to do the same to Miles unless he hand over the money. When he believes Miles has complied with his demands, he attempts to kill him anyway out of spite.
• Silent Retreat (2013): The nameless Mad Doctor who runs the "clinic" uses it to Mind Rape women brought to him to break them and make them obedient shells of themselves, using gaslighting, mental torture, and hypnosis. Having murdered his own wife for cheating on him, the Doctor uses a monster that lives in the woods to devour those who prove too resistant to his technique. When he is exposed, the Doctor has the monster set on the surviving women and tries to kill the film's heroine himself.
• Silver Saddle (1978): The infamous Bandito Garrincha is a killer who has businesses extorted for money under threat of death, with all living in fear. Hunting down the young Thomas for the bounty on his head, Garrincha tortures and slaughters an entire monastery of priests, murdering a courier who attempts to negotiate with him before torturing the boy, being willing to murder him for the money as well.
• Sin City duology:
  • First film's "That Yellow Bastard" two-parter: Ethan Roark Jr. is the son of a crooked Senator with the appearance of a handsome, young playboy. Really a sadistic pedophile, Jr. moonlights as a rapist and killer of preteen girls, particularly enjoying their screams as he attacks them. His crimes covered up by Roark Sr., he is eventually caught by heroic cop John Hartigan as he abducts the young Nancy Callahan, Hartigan crippling and castrating him before he can attack the girl. His father having Hartigan imprisoned for revenge, Jr. kidnaps the adult Nancy and prepares to torture, rape, and kill her, boasting to Hartigan of the many—possibly dozens—of victims he took while the latter was incarcerated.
  • A Dame to Kill For's title story: Ava Lord, despite her innocent act, is a ruthless Femme Fatale who acknowledges herself as truly evil. Ava enjoys seducing men, toying with them, destroying everyone around them, and finally arranging their deaths. Doing this to dozens, it has led her right-hand man Manute to see her as a dark goddess. Arranging her husband's death at the hands of Dwight McCarthy, Ava proceeds to seduce and destroy an honest policeman, Mort, to protect herself. When that fails, Ava happily tries to kill Manute to convince Dwight to be a monster like her.
• Sinister duology: Bughuul, the Devourer of Children, is an ancient Pagan god with a disturbing sense of humor. Initially abducting children to his underworld, Bughuul envied the sacrifices his brother Moloch received and began stealing them, causing Moloch to seal Bughuul's mouth. For centuries, Bughuul would convince the children to murder the rest of their family in sadistic ways while recording the murders in some way for Bughuul, who would then capture the children to consume their souls. Targeting the Collins family, Bughuul convinces Zachary "Zach" Collins to kill his family, but when they escape, Bughuul kills him.
• Sinners and Saints (2010): Raymond Crowe is the security chief for Spartan. Caught executing soldiers on camera, Crowe is left to hunt the video down, which he does by abducting people and torturing them via burning them, putting out the fire and burning them again before simply burning them to death. Claiming multiple lives this way, Crowe targets the heroes Riley and Ganz. Upon learning Ganz has a wife and two little kids, Crowe decides to have them abducted and tortured or killed in order to force Ganz to talk.
• Sint: In this Dutch horror-comedy, St. Niklas in life was an evil bishop, and the leader of a gang of criminals that ransacked a village every December 5. After being killed by the rebelling villagers, Niklas and his gang return as zombies and skeletons every full moon on the evening of December 5, and proceed to go on a murderous rampage. Throughout the film, Niklas commits many murders, with his worst offenses including burning down a children's hospital—killing 35 children in the process—and sending a school bus into the river to drown all the children. Vile and cruel, Niklas is a great demonization of a holy holiday figure.
• Sisu: Nazi Obersturmführer Bruno Helldorf leads a horrible campaign of terror during the Lapland War. Scourging his way through Finland, Helldorf burns down settlements and slaughters their inhabitants while taking young women to serve as "entertainment" for his men. Upon encountering prospector Aatami, Helldorf tries to steal the man's gold and uses some captive women to walk through an active minefield to track him down. Upon being able to escape, Helldorf murders one of his last men as not to share any wealth.
• Six Bullets (2012): Vlad, the right-hand of crime lord Bogdanov, is a human trafficking thug with a willingness to have his charges murdered or tortured if they act up. Drafted by Bogdanov to find kidnapped little girl Becky Fayden, Vlad tracks Becky down to his cousin's house—coldly executing both his cousin and his girlfriend—and opts to have an unrelated twelve-year-old horribly mutilated and killed to pass off as Becky's body whilst selling Becky himself. When Becky is discovered to be alive, Vlad only offers to have her returned in exchange for a new victim to sell, hacking off parts of Becky's body to prove he's serious with the offer.
• Skin Traffik: The Executive is the leader of a vast criminal organization, and the assassin Bradley Smith's former employer who is involved in Human Trafficking, brushing it off as a business to be run. Compromising Bradley's hideout when the latter rescues a prostitute named Anna Peel, the Executive sends extra armed personnel against Bradley and Anna when they survive. While Bradley attempts to rescue Anna's sister, Jessica, from Weston Park House, a front for the sexual exploitation of adolescents, and extortion of the clientele, the Executive orders Anna's death in order to unsettle Bradley, further misleading Bradley by convincing the Weston Park House madam that Jessica was purchased by an innocent man. When Bradley confronts the Executive over his deception, threats, and prolific atrocities, the Executive tells Bradley not to release the information unless he wants both Jessica and another girl dead.
• Skyscraper (1996): The charming but ruthless terrorist Fairfax seeks pieces of a powerful device, which he obtains from criminals before betraying and killing them. Locating the last piece, Fairfax has his men slaughter the guards of the building housing it and take the workers hostage. When Carrie Wink offers to bring him to the briefcase she has hidden it in if he releases the hostages, Fairfax refuses, killing one to coerce her into helping him. After she fails to find it Fairfax tells one of his men to rape her, while he gets the briefcase himself, killing his Dragon to escape alone, and orders all of the hostages killed.
• Skyscraper (2018):
  • Kores Botha is a ruthless terrorist and the muscleman for a triumvirate of criminal syndicates who, to avoid incrimination, sets in motion a plan to break into the Pearl—the titular skyscraper—a scheme that by the end of the film has left dozens dead. Botha debuts onscreen strangling an innocent employee who sees too much to death, then goes on to throw away the lives of his own henchmen and order his hitwoman Xia to massacre a building's worth of people to disable the Pearl's security systems. When he has Zhao in his clutches, Botha slaughters his security detail, including Zhao's closest friend, and when he meets hero Will Sawyer, Botha targets Will's family, repeatedly threatening to kill his little daughter.
  • Xia is the trigger-happy right-hand woman to Kores Botha. Introduced torturing and trying to execute Will, Xia murders a variety of cops that show up to arrest her. Xia later leads the wholesale slaughter of an entire room of innocent tech workers while whistling merrily, killing over a dozen people, and personally gunning down several security agents. Enabling Botha's scheme to invade the Pearl and kill dozens more people, Xia executes one of her own allies with deadpan snark and tries to strangle Will's wife to death for halting Xia's murderous rampage against more police officers.
• Slashers: Doctor Ripper is one of the three Slashers featured on the All-American Special and the worst the show has to offer. An audience favorite, he makes sure his victims suffer in any way possible before he gives them a brutal and agonizing death, humiliating them or delivering non-lethal wounds to their bodies, just so he can hunt them again later. Doctor Ripper absolutely adores doing his job, having a room filled with photos of his previous victims so he can instigate fear into the hearts of the contestants. His last atrocity before his ultimate demise is to torture Brenda, an aspiring actress and model, by removing the skin from her cheeks—effectively ending her career even if she had won the game—and later slowly decapitating her, all while laughing maniacally, taking the opportunity to lick her head afterwards. Unlike the other Slashers, who are being paid to kill people for the entertainment of millions, Doctor Ripper wants to be there for his own entertainment.
• The Slaughter: The Lady of Darkness is a demon from prehistoric times who wishes to bring Hell on Earth. After a cult summons the Lady, she massacres them and makes their souls into her servants. She then kills a mother and her 8-year-old daughter and traps their souls in their house as a bridge between the worlds. After a group of college students show up to fix up her house, the Lady kills five of them and makes their corpses her slaves. When one of the surviving students kills herself in an attempt to stop the murders, the Lady takes over her body as the last step to ushering in the apocalypse.
• Slaughterhouse Rock (1988): Commandant Mordecai Lansing was a soldier during The American Civil War, as well as an occultist who became a demon by eating and torturing innocents. Inviting people, especially women, over, Lansing would murder and devour them, eventually running a line of prostitutes into his home to make them vanish. Eventually preying on Natives, Lansing killed so many they banded together to imprison him in the Earth. Later haunting Alcatraz, Lansing kills anyone he can there, keeping their souls in thrall to hold them there and strengthen himself. Upon the arrival of Alex and friends, Lansing possesses Alex's brother, raping one member of the group and attempting to slaughter the others.
• Slaughter in San Francisco (aka Yellow-Faced Tiger) (1974): Chuck Slaughter is a brutal San Francisco crime boss who deals in hard drugs and murder on the regular. When Officer Don Wong refuses Slaughter's offer to join or die, Slaughter ensures Wong's partner is killed, an innocent couple framed for it and the couple's lawyer murdered to ensure they take the rap. In his lowest moment, Slaughter takes his brother's fiancée and attempts to rape her, then beats his own brother to death when he tries vainly to intervene.
• The Slave (aka The Son of Spartacus) (1962): Marcus Licinius Crassus is as wicked as he was decades ago in this unauthorized sequel to the 1960 original film. His ambition presented as overpowering him in his desire to defeat Julius Caesar, Crassus builds an army to bloodily seize control of Rome, eventually coming into conflict with Randus, the son of Spartacus himself, whom Crassus had crucified with thousands of followers. Ordering multiple slaves slaughtered and crucified, Crassus hosts lavish parties where he makes painful execution of slaves a spectacle for entertainment and attempts to kill Randus to prevent nothing from standing in his path.
• Sleepers: Sean Nokes, the sadistic security guard at the juvenile home the four main boys are sent to, is an example of the worst corruption going unnoticed by the system. Nokes, as leader of his own small gang, wastes no time in proving himself a cruel bully who forces a boy to eat food off the floor when he fails to show the proper deference. Nokes soon takes the boys and with his men, regularly beats and rapes them. When the boys win a football match against Nokes, he has them violently beaten and thrown in solitary, with the "star player" dying of the injuries inflicted. When confronted years later by his victims, Nokes feebly protests he was only trying to "toughen" them, to which one of his former victims sarcastically answers that Nokes simply liked lording over, beating and raping boys.
• Sleep Tight: Believing himself to have been born without the ability to be happy, apartment concierge César Manso only finds satisfaction in making everyone around him unhappy. While he easily upsets and turns most of his tenants against each other, Clara proves to be challenging, so he decides to ruin her life for no reason. Every night, he hides under her bed, chloroforms her then rapes her, before injecting irritants in her cosmetics and putting cockroach eggs all over her place. During the day, he harasses her with anonymous letters, and later frames the cleaning lady's son for this. When Clara's boyfriend finds out, César kills him with a mirror shard and stages his death as a suicide. He also sadistically torments his dying mother by telling her about his deeds and threatens a little girl who knows about his murder of Clara's boyfriend and tries blackmail him. Finding happiness upon learning that Clara is pregnant with his baby, he sends her a letter taking pride in ruining her existence.
• Sleepy Hollow (1999): Lady Mary Van Tassel, born Mary Archer, is the controller of the Headless Horseman, and the one responsible for his murders. She sought to use the Horseman ever since she was a little girl, betraying him to his death to later enslave his soul to use as her personal assassin. She helped dispose of the first Lady Van Tassel to marry the widower, Baltus Van Tassel. She then sets about consolidating her fortune by eliminating anyone in her path, including the pregnant Widow Winship. When she thinks the Widow Winship might have informed Beth Killian of the pregnancy, Van Tassel sends the Horseman to murder her and her husband, as well as their little boy. She murders her own sister when said sister assists Ichabod Crane in retrieving info on the Horseman and shows no remorse for any of it, simply gloating how she'll have the Horseman murder Ichabod, her stepdaughter Katrina, and their friend Young Masbath, securing her power and fortune.
• Slice (2018): Vera Marcus is a Satanic witch and the leader of the coven Justice 40,000, posing as an activist group, and is part of a long conspiracy within the supernatural town of Kingfisher alongside Mayor Tracy. Vera wishes to demolish the property where the Perfect Pizza restaurant is located, in which a gateway to Hell is underneath, by murdering its employees and framing ghosts with the Mayor's support in exchange for reselling the land. Vera and her coven attempted this decades ago when the restaurant was Yummy Yummy Chinese Cuisine and framed the murders of the employees on co-worker Dax Lycander, leading to him being forced to leave town as a fugitive. When Tracy backs out of the deal, Vera kills him and attempts to pin the conspiracy on him, and forces the ghosts of Kingfisher to attack innocent civilians and create a reign of terror. Vera then flees from the authorities and her enemies by using her own coven members as cover, and once they arrive at Perfect Pizza, orders Debbie to enter the building to which she gives little to no reaction to her death. Wanting to use the powers of Hell to enslave and create in army of ghosts to lay waste to mankind, Vera is a deranged psychopath with a sadistic streak.
• Slime City duology:
  • Zachary Devon was the alchemist leader of the Coven of Flesh cult who was infected by a mysterious slime that required killing to be satisfied. Taking in homeless people to serve as his followers, Devon, upon being diagnosed with cancer, commenced a ritual that involved him and his followers committing suicide in order to possess people who drink and eat his special elixir and ectoplasm, while encouraging his followers to possess several people to kill innocents in his name with hope of resurrecting him. Devon eventually awakens inside college student Alex, using him to sadistically murder prostitutes, homeless people, and even Alex's best friend Jerry, with Devon hoping to kill Alex's girlfriend Lori and continue his murder and sex spree in the mortal realm.
  • Slime City Massacre (2010):
    • Ronald Crump is a corrupt businessman who hopes to claim New York as his own. Hiring the mercenary Faulkner to plant a dirty bomb that results in the ruination of New York City and the death of millions, Crump, upon finding out that the buildings he hopes to buy are occupied by thousands of homeless, hires Faulkner to murder them all, viewing them as worthless trash.
    • Faulkner is the greedy leader of Black River Security. A mercenary who looks forward to getting paid after every hit job, Faulkner assisted Crump in the destruction of New York City by planting the dirty bomb for him. Hired by Crump to wipe out the city's homeless population, Faulkner personally kills a guy for annoying him, then orders his team to gun down an entire building of homeless.
• The Slumber Party Massacre & Slumber Party Massacre II: Russ Thorn, the "Driller Killer", is a twisted maniac and mass murderer who emerges from captivity to slaughter his way across the sleepy town he finds himself in. Killing numerous people in agonizing ways and even disemboweling the heroine's coach, Thorn hunts the slumber party to kill everyone there until his death. Somehow reborn as a musically inclined, leather-clad greaser, Thorn hunts his old victim to slaughter a new slumber party and kill everyone in his path while happily using The Power of Rock to taunt his victims.
• Slumdog Millionaire: Maman, the slum boss, is charming, friendly and cheerful to orphans he meets, offering the young Jamal and Salim ice cold coca colas and offering them a place to stay. It is revealed Maman takes in orphans to use as a begging ring for him, and the kids are just free labor. Even worse, cripples earn more money, so when children display good singing talent, Maman has them blinded with acid to increase the revenue. When Salim and Jamal escape, Maman captures their friend Latika and several years later gives her the name 'Cherry' while intending to use her as a child prostitute. The only reason he hasn't done so already is as a virgin, she's worth a great deal of money. When he finds the young Salim and Jamal, he immediately plans to kill them, declaring "Maman never forgets."
• Smile (2022): The Smile Entity is a malevolent demon that feeds on trauma. Its modus operandi being possessing its victims and forcing a twisted smile on their faces before making them graphically kill themselves, the Smile Entity then latches itself on a witness to repeat the process. When Dr. Rose Cotter becomes its latest target, it psychologically abuses and gaslights her, including driving her to unconsciously kill her cat and giving it to her traumatized nephew as a birthday gift. When it seemed Rose successfully overcome her childhood trauma and defeated the Smile Entity, she discovers that she fell into an elaborate trap and immolates herself beginning the cycle anew with Joel as a witness.
• Snakes on a Plane: Eddie Kim is a feared international crime boss who, in his very first scene, beats a guy prosecuting him to death with a baseball bat, taunting him about how his son will grow up without a father. Then, to kill the witness to his crime, he releases the titular snakes on the plane, killing dozens of people without a twinge of remorse for either the passengers killed by an entire swarm of venomous serpents or any potential collateral damage for a plane crash.
• Snatch.: "Brick Top" Pulford is a ruthless underground fight promoter with a penchant for Disproportionate Retribution. Brick Top is introduced having a traitor, as well as the one who reported the traitor to him, tasered, suffocated with plastic bags, dismembered, and Fed to Pigs. When a gang of Yardies rob his bookkeepers, he attempts to murder them, only releasing them when they promise to give him a diamond they have stolen, giving them 48 hours to give him said diamond. When Turkish informs Brick Top about the demands their fighter, a Traveller named Mickey, is making, Brick Top has Turkish's slot machines vandalized, and has Mickey's mother burned to death in her caravan. Subsequently, Brick Top threatens to massacre Mickey's entire clan if he doesn't throw the fight.
• Snowpiercer: The Snowpiercer's creator, Wilford, is a selfish megalomaniac who wishes to control the remnants of mankind. Combating global warming with a risky procedure that ends up freezing the world over, Wilford takes advantage of the catastrophe to seemingly save mankind with the titular ever-running train. Creating a caste system, Wilford tries to starve the impoverished people at the tail end of the train, resulting in them having to resort to cannibalism to survive. Under his iron-fisted authority, the upper-class of the trains have their children educated to worship him as a godlike figure, and he continues to mistreat the lower-class people of the train's rear-end, feeding them disgusting bars made from cockroaches. To keep the tail-enders under his control, Wilford uses his mole, Gilliam, to occasionally organize riots doomed to fail, ostensibly to let them purge their anger and costing many of them their lives. When Curtis tries to incite his own rebellion against Wilford, Wilford has Gilliam killed for failing to stop him and orders a massacre of the tail-enders, putting the slaughter on speakerphone to mock Curtis. Revealed to run his train with children in the engine, Wilford is a callous man with a god-complex, who only saved humanity at all to create a cult where he could feel adored as a messiah.
• Snowtown (2011): John Bunting leads a group of like-minded individuals to hunt pedophiles, homosexuals and drug users. Charming and charismatic but also filled with hatred, John recruits the young Jamie into his gang by forcing him to shoot his own dog. After being given a list of future victims by his gay friend Barry, John murders him and Jamie's best friend for being an addict. Aware that Jamie is being raped by his older brother Troy, John horribly tortures Troy by strangling him with a cable and releasing him to breathe few seconds before repeating the process again until Jamie sees himself forced to end his suffering. Continuing to kill people and abusing Jamie's family, John coerces Jamie into letting him kill his innocent half-brother.
• Snuff 102: The unnamed Serial Killer is a sociopathic and utterly depraved maniac who takes great joy in torturing, raping, and horribly killing women—one of whom is a pregnant hooker—all of which he films and sends to the internet. He does all this for insane misogyny or simply for fun. When a female journalist investigates the killings, the killer, revealed to be a film critic she interviewed not long ago, kidnaps her too. He forces her to watch him beating a woman to death with a hammer before preparing to kill her or, worse, torture her to death with a hook. In his last moments he tries to kill the journalist with a machete, but he then discards it and tries to strangle her to death, wanting to give her a slow and agonized death.
• Sobibor (2018): Karl Frenzel is the despicable Nazi in charge of overseeing the Sobibor extermination camp. Regularly overseeing the gassing of dozens of women and children with cold intensity, Frenzel also enjoys working his prisoners to death and punishing the entire camp for the failure of any one man by counting out the occupants and having every tenth one shot dead on the spot. Frenzel also hosts horrible parties where Jewish prisoners are tormented, whipped, and shot with casual indifference on the regular, and reacts to an attraction to one of his prisoners by forcing another captive to sexually accost her with kisses and groping in Frenzel's stead while he watches. Frenzel ultimately intends to have the entire Sobibor camp eradicated of all life except his own and his guards, and takes cold satisfaction in any torment he can put those at his mercy through until the day he sends them to their deaths.
• Society: Among the upper echelons of inhumanity, a particular few stick out:
  • Judge Carter is the most powerful member of the nebulous upper-class Society, a "different race" from humanity that for centuries has feasted upon the lower class. Routinely organizing grotesque "shunts", Carter and the other members of Society of Beverly Hills regularly devour victims in horrific Body Horror orgy-feasts that end with their victims torturously devoured, always meticulously covering up their deaths as unrelated disappearances. Carter demonstrates the shunt in its full visceral horror by devouring a teenager who finds out too much for his own good, even momentarily pausing the shunt to allow one of the Society's members to beat the hero Bill to a bloody pulp before intending to devour him as well.
  • Jim and Nan Whitney, seemingly the idyllic, wealthy parents of hero Bill Whitney, are in actuality a ravenous couple who engage in incestuous orgies with their daughter Jenny and participate in the shunts with the same frequency as the other members of Society. Jim and Nan adopted Bill for the sole purpose of fattening him up to devour him, gaslighting and even drugging Billy for seventeen straight years before finally revealing their true colors and taunting him about the fate they've prepared for him, intent on making him the pièce de résistance in the latest shunt.
• Sodom and Gomorrah: Queen Bera—a Gender Flip of the wicked King Bera of the Book of Genesis—is the most powerful and most sadistic of the Sodomites she rules over, promoting their debaucherous excess to have her cities flourish as wretched hives. The innocent are forced into slavery to work themselves to death if they're lucky; unlucky, Bera has them tortured to death by the dozens for her own entertainment, doing just this to a captured spy in the first minutes of the movie before ordering the spy's two young sisters killed as well. When Lot and the Hebrews manage to defeat Sodom's enemies, the Elamites, Bera takes him and his people in for the joy of corrupting them to evil. Bera sets up Lot to have a Duel to the Death with her rival to the throne, her own brother Astaroth, and rejoices when Lot cuts Astaroth down when he's unarmed, congratulating him on having become a "true Sodomite". Bera's final action is to have a large gathering of slaves slowly burned to death for thrills, and her card-carrying dedication to sin proves so much God Himself wipes out Sodom and Gomorrah to end Bera and her wicked ways of life.
• Soldier: Colonel Mekum commands the project to replace the older generation of indoctrinated Super Soldiers, raised from birth, with more obedient, genetically modified ones. Ordering his finest soldier, Caine 607, to kill several of these veterans as a demonstration, Sergeant Todd instead fights Caine to a draw. Furious that Caine has lost an eye because it reduces his effectiveness on the battlefield, Mekum orders Todd to be left for dead on a waste disposal planet. Mekum later arrives on the planet with his soldiers on a field exercise, using the shallow excuse that the planet is listed as "uninhabited" to order a massacre of the planet's hundreds of peaceful settlers, men, women, and children alike. Todd uses his skills to fight back and systematically disposes of Mekum's soldiers, which panics Mekum enough to arm a nuclear bomb to wipe out everyone on the surface. Mekum's willingness to sacrifice the lives of his men so disgusts Captain Church that he tries to put a stop to it, only to be executed by Mekum on the spot.
• Soldier Boyz: Vinh Moc is the ruthless leader of the National Liberation Front, a revolutionary guerrilla group dedicated to destroying any political and trade agreements between America and North Vietnam. Seeking to lead a bloody trail of conquest throughout Vietnam, Moc is introduced shooting down a UN carrier, killing everybody onboard. When he finds from a survivor that it was full of emergency relief supplies meant to help his people, Moc remarks "I am the people" and shoots the survivor, then kills his lieutenant for calling him out. Kidnapping Gabrielle Prescott, Moc plans to hold her hostage in exchange for $10 million worth of weapons, which he'll use to take over Hanoi. Searching for the Soldier Boyz, Moc arrives at a village and threatens to shoot a young woman unless the Boyz expose themselves, killing her mother for trying to intervene, before holding Brophy at gunpoint, which commences a firefight that leads to Moc killing Monster.
• Solomon Kane: Malachi is an Evil Sorcerer who becomes a Sorcerous Overlord. Considering himself the Devil's servant, Malachi ingratiated himself to Josiah Kane to bring Josiah's dead son Marcus back to life, but restored him as an undead abomination bound to Malachi's will to serve as his Dragon. Malachi took over the lands and has the innocent kidnapped for slavery, or simply murdered. Others he just turns into flesh eating abominations. Malachi later has the leaders of the resistance against him crucified and when Solomon Kane confronts him, Malachi tries to sacrifice the innocent Meredith to open the gates of hell and send Solomon to eternal torture-as well as the rest of the world.
• Someone's Watching Me! (1978): Herbert Stiles is a perverted Serial Killer with a taste for psychologically torturing women until they are completely exhausted from the torment. Always making the murders look like suicides to stay off the radar, Stiles claims three victims before setting his eyes on Leigh Daniels, following her to Los Angeles solely to make her life a living hell. Stiles frames another man for stalking Leigh to give her false hope; murders Leigh's best friend and forces her to hear an audio recording of the act; and finally tries to murder Leigh herself after getting bored of toying with her.
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): Mr. Dark is the leader of the Autumn People and owner of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival who feasts on the emotions of those he bargains with and transforms them into Autumn People. Arriving in Green Town, Illinois, Mr. Dark grants the wishes of several of the townsfolk that causes their corruption. Wanting to know when the storm that will destroy them will approach, Mr. Dark electrically tortures Tom Fury and has the Dust Witch send out a swarm of spiders to kill Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade when they eavesdrop on him. After failing to coerce Will's father, Charles, Mr. Dark attempts to kill him and kidnaps both kids with plans to corrupt them, gloating how he failed to save them and that Will considers Charles a failure.
• Sometimes They Come Back Direct to Video sequels:
  • ...Again (1996): Satanic teenager Tony Reno was once dating Jon Porter's sister, but murdered her in a ritual to gain demonic power. Killed by Jon with his two subordinates right after, Tony later uses his powers to murder Jon's mother to revive himself from beyond the grave decades later and begins tormenting Jon to get to his teenage daughter, killing all her friends and acquaintances to revive his minions and finish the ritual by attempting to sacrifice Jon's daughter and achieve the ultimate power he wants so badly.
  • for More (1998): Dr. Karl Schilling is an evil Satanist who turned over his own humanity to infernal forces and engineered the death of all but two people in his Antarctic research base. Schilling brings back his victims as disturbed zombies and uses them to kill more in a plot to bring Satan himself to Earth.
• The Sonata: Richard Marlowe was a famed composer who harbored a dark secret. In life, Richard was a Satanist who, after joining the Famulus Order, decided to write a sonata that would summon The Antichrist. Kidnapping children, Richard would torture them to death in his own private dungeon, recording their screams to be used for his summoning sonata. Committing suicide, Richard uses his death to summon his estranged daughter Rose to his mansion, leaving behind enough clues to get her to finish his sonata and summon the Antichrist.
• Sophie's Choice: The nameless Nazi officer, who encounters Sophie with her children, is processing prisoners at the trains to the concentration camps to be sent for liquidation or labor. Mocking Sophie in a perverse manner, he decides to force the titular choice on her: making her choice which of her beloved children can remain with her and which will be gassed. When Sophie cannot choose, he orders both children to be gassed, only relenting for sheer amusement when Sophie chooses her daughter to die.
• Sorceress: Traigon fathers a child with the intention of sacrificing it to his god. When he learns his wife gave birth to twins, unable to tell who is the firstborn, Traigon tortures his wife so bad she is fatally wounded before being driven off and his daughters taken by the mage Krona. Years later, hunting his children, Traigon has his men slaughter a village, and runs his lands as a nightmarish dystopia where people are frequently tortured and executed. Traigon tries to kill the ally of his allies, Erlick, by having him impaled with a sharp stake, only relenting when he realizes he can use Erlick to "flavor" a sacrifice by having him sleep with one of Traigon's daughters. Eventually betraying and sacrificing one of his allies, Traigon attempts to murder his children to summon his master and dominate the world.
• Sound of Freedom: While the film contains its fair share of terrible and disgusting people, these two prove to be superior to all others in sheer cruelty and depravity:
  • Giselle, real name Katy Juarez, also known as Cartagena, is a former beauty queen turned heartless child trafficker. Posing as a kind and friendly talent agent, Gisele manipulates poor parents into sending their children for a "photo shoot", only to kidnap them. Kidnapped children are stripped of their identities before being sold en masse for child pornography, sexual slavery, and prostitution, condemning them to a life of nightmares, with 10-15 sold at a time. Enjoying wealth and a luxurious life, built on the ruined lives of countless children, Gisele personifies the worst in human traffickers.
  • El Alacrán ("The Scorpion") is the disgusting head of FARC, who wants to organize a revolution against his country. Scorpion enslaves countless civilians, including children, and then forces them to crush coca leaves to produce cocaine to finance his revolution. A vile pedophile and customer of Rocio, Scorpion turns her into his personal sex slave, and dies when he tries to rape her again. Implied to be ready to execute anyone, including his men, who contracts cholera, El Alacrán, despite his limited time, proves to be the most disgusting and terrible of Giselle's clients.
• Source Code: Derek Frost is a Mad Bomber who seeks to reduce the world to rubble while wearing a cheerful and disaffected visage. Bombing a Chicago commuter train and killing hundreds, Frost intends to next detonate a dirty bomb in the middle of Chicago and murder millions, with intent to continue his bombings in other locations after. In an Alternate Timeline, when confronted by hero Captain Colter Stevens, Frost smugly murders Colter and Christina Warren with aplomb, proudly boasting of how smart he is and his viewpoint that the world deserves to crumble.
• South Bronx Heroes: Mr. Bennett is a foster father who, claiming his wards must "earn" their meals, makes them participate in child pornography. He makes children ages 6-14 participate, and has dozens of pictures and films. If they refuse to be victimized, or defy him in any other way, Bennett beats them viciously. In the case of a 6-year-old boy named Scott, Bennett beats him with a belt so badly his back is Covered in Scars. Eventually, he beats Scott to death. He's not any better on the emotional front, berating his charges and declaring them worthless and unwanted to break their wills.
• Southern Gothic (2007): Enoch Pitt is a fanatical preacher-turned-vampire. Believing himself to have been healed by God, Pitt quickly accepts his vampirism, feeding on and killing several innocent people. Announcing to his congregation that he is the second coming of Christ, he turns them and plans a crusade, beginning with a massacre in the local strip club where he turns and abducts Starla Motes, trying to force her and her daughter Hope to become his "family". Pitt sends Hazel Fortune down to be tortured by one of his enforcers, sending one of his young followers to guard Starla and Hope in his church, shooting the follower for allowing them to escape and threatening to shoot Hope when Fortune arrives to kill him.
• Space Amoeba: The titular Space Amoeba, or "Yog", is an alien creature attempting to conquer Earth. Crash landing near Selgio island, Yog takes control of the sea monster Gezora, killing resort workers before it attacks in the island village. After Gezora is burned to death, Yog mutates a rubble crab into Ganimes, and begins attacking surviving islanders. When Ganimes dies, Yog takes over the body of Makoto Obata, gloating to him that it has taken over his mind, and begins exterminating the local bat population so the bats can't interfere with its control over its monsters. Making another Ganimes and another kaiju Komebas, Yog begins attacking islanders until they are saved by some surviving bats. Yog then tries to burn the rest of the bats before using Komebas and Ganimes to kill the people on the island for learning of its weakness.
• Space Marines: Colonel Fraser is a scenery-chewing Space Pirate who betrayed his superiors for the sake of making profit and causing chaos. Fraser forcibly occupies a space colony, cruelly torturing a hostage by hacking off his ear and musing what other parts he could cut off, before blowing the man up with a tiny bomb. Fraser intends to mass-manufacture these tiny bombs, sell them to the highest bidders, and "dazzle the universe with the spectacle of its own destruction" should he not be paid, and ruthlessly executes one of his own minions for running away from the retaliation.
• Space Mutiny: Elijah Kalgan is the leader of the conspiracy to take over the Southern Sun, so he can use it to land on another world and sell the populace not in his conspiracy into slavery. To do this, he kills 38 Enforcers to consolidate his power in the group, commits acts of sabotage that cost several lives and kills anybody who happens to get in his way. Anybody who displeases Kalgan is kidnapped and tortured, being shot into space after giving all information of use and cryogenically frozen if of more use in the future. After David Ryder puts a stop to Kalgan's scheme, Kalgan and the remainder of his men blast their way through a crowd of scientists to get to his foe.
• Space Sweepers: James Sullivan, the oldest and wealthiest man alive, is the founder of the UTS and the one spearheading the attempt to terraform Mars into an Eden of his own design. Making every effort to be seen as the philanthropist savior of humanity, Sullivan is actually a rabid Knight Templar who has relegated most of humanity's population to lives of poverty and misery back down on the polluted Earth, while secretly harboring even worse intentions of exterminating all life on Earth by forcing a massive Colony Drop on it. Sullivan has his UTS soldiers massacre everyone in their way in his attempt to get at a little girl named Kang Kot-nim—aka "Dorothy"—who can control nanobots, ordering Kot-nim's father killed alongside every member of a peaceful environmental group that Sullivan has already framed as would-be terrorists. A proponent of eugenics, Sullivan demonstrates his ideas on genetic superiority by forcing a reporter to "prove" his true moral disposition by executing a captured prisoner with the promise the reporter's family will get to go to Eden—just before Sullivan murders the reporter with a huge smile.
• Space Truckers: E.J. Saggs is a treacherous Corrupt Corporate Executive who plans to take over and enslave Earth through the use of a cyborg army threat; the cyborgs also seem to have human possessing capabilities. Saggs first has his scientist Nabel test the cyborgs' might against his own mercenaries, many of them ending up dead as a result. To have full control for himself, Saggs has one of the cyborgs attack and attempt to kill Nabel. Nabel survives, but becomes half-cyborg space pirate Macanudo, who abducts and threatens John Canyon, Mike Pucci and Cindy Welsh and plans to use Saggs's cyborgs they were unwittingly smuggling for him against Saggs. Both a defense cyborg Saggs had installed and the cyborgs themselves attack the heroes and kill Nabel and his crew. Saggs denies to the heroes the accusations of what he was doing and offers them a very large cash bribe to keep quiet, which is in actuality a bomb that he tries to use to kill them all.
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone: Overdog is an elderly, sickly cyborg, who rules over planet Terra XI and forces people to go through a deadly maze. Overdog captures three women and locks them up. When Wolff and his allies, Niki and Washington, break into his fortress, Overdog captures Niki and forces her to go through the maze. When Niki survives, Overdog hooks her up to a machine to drain her life so that he can preserve his own life, revealing that he does this to all those who survive the maze. Overdog forces all those he comes across into the maze to see if they have enough strength to survive, making them good candidates for his machine, ensuring they either die from the traps or get their lives sucked out; he was planning on doing this to the three women. When Wolff offers to take Niki's place, Overdog decides to hook them both up.
• Spare Parts (2020): The Emperor, ruler of the disturbing cult that governs the junkyard, is a tyrant who has people abducted, replacing their limbs with weapons and forces them into gladiator combat to fight to the death while he takes pleasure in it. Having a pregnant woman's fetus removed so she can fight and die in the arena. Subjecting countless victims to this fate, the Emperor tries to even force the heroine to fight her sister to the death to slake his need for bloodshed and control.
• Sparks (2013): Ring Master Jesus, real name Kevin Sherwood, was a vicious, sadistic Serial Killer who racked up a body count of more than 40 innocent men, women, and children; once he obtained his shapeshifting powers, his evil increased even more. Taking his young son, Sledge, to be his apprentice, Ring Master Jesus abused and tormented the boy into becoming his partner in crime, and continued his horrific killing spree as a new killer named Matanza, Spanish for "slaughter". Revealing himself to the world by slaughtering a hotel floor of families, Ring Master Jesus later tortures and violates Lady Heavenly, mutilates two women, and uses the guise of Heavenly's Love Interest Sparks to fatally wound her. In the end, Ring Master Jesus callously murders Sledge when the latter turns on his father, and when the police raid his hideout, they discover dozens upon dozens of film reels detailing the horrifying tortures Ring Master Jesus perpetrated on his victims, having filmed it all for his later pleasure.
• Spartacus: Marcus Licinius Crassus, first consul to the Roman Republic, is vile and ambitious even by the standards of the Roman elite. Crassus first demonstrates his cruelty by personally finishing off a gladiator slave named Draba who attempts to defy his captors, regularly preceding over all the usual atrocities of the Gladiator Games with bored scorn at best. When Draba's own friend Spartacus is inspired to foment a slave uprising in response to the cruelty of the Romans, Crassus walls him and the thousands of slaves he's liberated into an attack they can't avoid, before ordering the slaves slaughtered. Chafed at the continued defiance of the remaining slaves, Crassus opts to have them all crucified alongside the Appian Way, and invokes Exact Words on a horrified ally to whom he had promised the sale of "survivors" to. Crassus forces Spartacus to duel his last remaining friend to the death out of spite and kidnaps his beloved Valinia and his newborn son as slaves. Continually unable to grasp how beloved Spartacus is, even after he threatens the life of Valinia's son to try and force her love toward him, the only answer Crassus ever gets to his question is that he'd simply never be able to understand.
• Speak No Evil: Patrick and Karin are a pair of seemingly friendly lovers, who are actually monstrous sadists. The couple are serial killers who lure milquetoast families into isolation and subject them to psychological torments for days. Patrick and Karin then murder the parents, cut out the children's tongues, and abuse the children into pretending to be their child, helping lure further families to their doom. Once they find a new child to replace the current, they murder the kid that has outlived its usefulness. Patrick and Karin subject couple Bjørn and Louise to this routine, forcing them to watch as their daughter's tongue is cut off before stoning the couple to death. With hundreds of trophies signifying a staggering body count, Patrick and Karin continue their spree, with no motive for their crimes beyond cruelty.
• Special Forces: General Hasib Rafendek is the former commander of the Moldonian army who took over the rule from President Hrankoff and enforced a cruel dictatorship on the citizens of Moldonia. Introduced sending more than a hundred Moldonian refugees on a Death March towards the border, Rafendek reveals his intention to execute an ethnic cleansing by ordering heavy machine guns to be fired into the refugees, killing all of them, including a number of children. Later on, Rafendek executes President Hrankoff's aide as an act of intimidation when Hrankoff demands a justification for the genocide, and after finding out the presence of the Special Forces in the city, had local schoolteacher Saira shot for educating children of lower-class citizens, in front of her students, before ordering helpless citizens to be flogged in an attempt to force the Special Forces out of hiding. After taking over rulership of Moldonia by killing President Hrankoff, Rafendek then has the Special Forces Lured into a Trap with most of them killed in the process, even executing Special Forces member Jess in front of his partner, Major Harding, while the latter is Forced to Watch.
• The Specialist: Ned Trent, former CIA assassin, committed multiple murders for the agency with no care of civilian casualties. Breaking with his partner Ray, Trent murdered a little girl as "Collateral Damage" on one such hit. Dismissed from the CIA, Trent connives revenge on Ray by murdering multiple mobsters to draw him out. Threatening a city block to get on the bomb squad, Ned also frequently abuses his partner with plots to murder her and Ray.
• Speed: Howard Payne, feeling "cheated" by his former police department for giving him what he saw as a pathetic severance package after he lost a finger on the job, became obsessed with getting the money he believes he is owed. To this end, Payne rigs an elevator filled with people to drop them to their deaths unless he is paid $3 million, and quickly tries to kill the hostages when he believes the police are trying to save them. After failing at this plan, Payne blows up a commuter bus in front of SWAT team member Jack Traven, then reveals he has planted a bomb on another bus filled with innocents, stating that until he gets $3.7 million, the bus will have to stay above 50 mph lest it explode. When an elderly woman tries to get off the bus, Payne detonates a mini bomb that kills her, and, after the police seemingly locate him, Payne reveals it was a trap and blows up the numerous SWAT team members sent to arrest him, a fact that he happily taunts Jack about. After Jack manages to save the hostages, Payne takes Jack's Love Interest hostage, planning to blow her up as a distraction for the police while he makes his getaway, and guns down an innocent man when he attempts to alert the authorities to Payne.
• Spellcaster (1988): Cyril Diablo is a demon who uses fake contests to lure in the greedy to bargain for their souls. Inducing them to damn themselves, Diablo torments them with their fears or other horrible visions and has them murdered to reap their souls for him to take to hell. Trying to lure the protagonists into such a pact, Diablo kills the other contestants. Even after they are freed, Diablo promptly starts a new contest to lure in new victims.
• Spiders duology:
  • Original film: Agent Gray is the sociopathic head of "Project Mother-In-Law", a military project devoted to using alien DNA to create the title monsters as a biological WMD to release en masse on enemies of the US. Gray will kill anyone who stands up to his authority or in his way without a second thought, even a doctor only trying to save a man's life. When his bioweapon escapes, Gray puts the lives of everyone, including his own men, beneath recovering his beast, resulting in all their gruesome deaths. Impregnated by his own creation, Gray tracks the protagonists back to LA to allow the final and deadliest spider to hatch in the middle of a crowded college campus in a last spiteful attempt to take the ones who ruined his sinister plans with him, resulting in countless deaths in the resulting rampage. A sociopath willing to release a living WMD loose on LA out of spite, Agent Gray proves more of a monster than even his own creations.
  • Spiders II: Breeding Ground: Dr. Grbac is a psychotic scientist who wants fame and fortune for solving the problems of the world. Having his crew kidnap innocent people while murdering other members of their crews, Grbac has them given to Giant Spiders to be impregnated with their spawn which kills them upon emergence. Grbac then feeds the corpses to the spiders as an "offering", with an entire meat locker full of corpses for those he's sacrificed in his quest for his own ego.
• The Spiral Staircase:
  • 1946 original: Professor Albert Warren was the son of a wealthy man who saw both him and his half-brother Steven as weak. Following their father's death, Albert took it upon himself to become strong by ridding the world of what he saw as imperfections. First killing a servant girl by pushing her down a well, he then began a string of murders in his hometown of women who had some sort of disability, killing only when his half-brother was visiting in order to cast suspicion on him. Targeting his mute maid Helen, Albert tricks the other occupants of the Warren mansion into getting out of the way in order to have the opportunity to kill her. Along the way, Albert also kills an able-bodied woman named Blanche because she didn't love him back. Albert showed no sign that his murders would have stopped with Helen, and he would have continued them indefinitely.
  • 1975 remake: Dr. Joe Sherman is the Serial Killer plaguing the small town. A vicious ableist who believes weakness and impurity cannot be tolerated, Joe hunts and murders disabled women. Upon his mute niece Helen Mallory arriving at his home, Joe torments her and ultimately tries to murder her after locking his own brother away.
• Split Second (1992): The Serial Killer plaguing London is revealed to some form of demonic, alien creature who commits his murders to devour the souls of innocents. The killer routinely tears out the hearts of citizens and consumes them, using the resulting blood to paint satanic, mocking messages for the police. He murdered Harley Stone's beloved partner in the past, and when the killer begins his spree again, he torments and taunts Stone over the death of his partner. Eventually kidnapping Stone's Love Interest, the killer tries to murder her, Stone, and his new partner as well so nothing will stand in the killer's way from murdering more people.
• Spontaneous Combustion: Lewis "Lew" Orlander is the head of a new nuclear power plant and the benefactor of the radiation vaccine experiments from 1955. Paying test subject Brian Bell to have sex with his wife Peggy so that they can birth a child, Lew made sure the vaccine lasted for nine months so that the baby, Sam, will be born with the ability to cause people to spontaneously combust. With plans to turn Sam into a living nuclear weapon, which results in the death of his parents, Lew was also responsible for the birth of Lisa Wilcox, using her to manipulate Sam into following his orders, while sending Dr. Marsh out to kill those in his way. When Sam goes on a fiery murderous rampage that kills many innocents, Lew can only bask in how extraordinary his abilities are, as he plans to make more like Sam.
• Spree: Kurt Kunkle is a young, psychopathic "livestreamer" with a craving for fame and adoration. After years of failing to gain any sort of following across social media, Kurt decides to livestream himself going on a killing spree across Los Angeles, starting out by serving people poisoned bottles of water before branching out to feeding them to dogs or taking power drills to their skulls. Murdering over a dozen people through a single night and driving through a homeless camp to run down any vagrants he can, Kurt directs his attentions towards comedian Jessie, trying to kill her while bragging he'd even rape her if it would bring in more viewers for his stream. Kurt even reveals he kicked off his spree by murdering his mother, and rounds the night off by executing his cowering dad as well, cementing to all that underneath his friendly, energetic exterior, Kurt is a despicable lunatic.

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• #SquadGoals (2018): Gillian Brady is the hapless crush of Nate Squires with a murderous desire to be with him. Knowing that he would be one of the last ones to receive a college scholarship, she set out to eliminate all of his competition. She killed Jordan through his peanut allergy by smearing Angela's lipstick in peanut butter prior to acting class. She then killed Brittany after exposing Lance's affair with the late Jordan to her. She framed Rudy for the murder, getting him arrested. Calling Sam to a warehouse, she tries to kill her after revealing that she never truly liked her and secretly resented her due to Nate's feelings for her. When Nate finds out about this, she tries to kill him too.
• St. Agatha (2018-2019): No longer a nun, the ruthless Mother Superior now runs her convent as a scam to lure in vulnerable, pregnant young women. The women are tortured physically and psychologically, gaslighted and subjected to horrible conditioning techniques so the Mother Superior can sell their babies to rich donors for a tidy profit. Women who raise too much a fuss and refuse to join her are subsequently murdered, along with anyone else who proves a problem, such as the heroine Mary's former boyfriend Jimmy.
• Starcrash: Count Zarth Arn of the League of Dark Worlds is a Evil Overlord with ambitions of taking over the entire universe. Armed with a weapon capable of inducing horrible Mind Rape in its targets, Zarth Arn introduces the weapon's capabilities by mentally torturing a spaceship full of people to death once they try to destroy the weapon. Zarth Arn plots to oust the Emperor from power with his weapon and eventually opts to blow up the planet his weapon is located in by luring the Emperor there with the prospect of finding his own lost son. Once thinking the Emperor dead, Zarth Arn proceeds to try and obliterate the Emperor's own home planet and the billions on it to secure his reign on the universe and slaughters all the fleets that comes between him and victory in the process.
• Stargate: The supposed god, Ra, is an alien overlord who possessed a young boy on Earth and ruled it as a god-king until a rebellion forced him to the planet Abydos. Ra exploits the humans for slave labor, and when the heroes arrive and present a threat to Ra's divinity, Ra takes his anger out on the population by having his forces strafe them in their ships. Ra offers Daniel Jackson a choice: kill his comrades and proclaim Ra's divinity, or Ra will kill him and everyone who has seen him because "there can be only one Ra!" Finally, in retribution for his defeat long ago, Ra plans to send a nuclear device the soldiers had brought with them back to Earth, equipped with a mineral to enhance the explosion a hundred times over, claiming "I created your civilization. Now I shall destroy it."
• Starry Eyes: The producer of Astraeus Pictures seems to be a sleazy creep who abuses actresses in exchange for granting them roles, but he's revealed to be something far darker. The leader of a cult that worships the being Astraeus, the producer not only rapes young starlets while promising them fame, but he also subjects them to vile Body Horror and Mind Rape that slowly corrupt them into loyal cultists. To solidify their servitude, the producer has the women carry out "sacrifices" and murder several of their loved ones. The producer does it all in service of sheer hedonistic ambition, and ends the film having turned Sarah Walker into his latest convert.
• State's Evidence (2004/2006): Patrick is a sociopathic teenager who becomes fascinated by the concept of death. Having been allowed to participate in Scott's suicide plan, Patrick is introduced to the audience as being a perverted, racist, and aggressive high-schooler. Following his run-in with local bully Tyrone, Patrick compiles a list of all the students he will kill before he commits suicide, including an innocent religious girl and an obese student, calling him a "greedy pig". Inside a supermarket, Patrick brings a nine-year-old girl to the bathroom, rapes, and murders her, filming the whole event, which lasted for one hour. When his friends confront him for killing a child, he simply eats chips like nothing had ever happened. The next day, Patrick brings a gun to school and begins shooting students, asking a girl if she believes in God, and killing her when she says "yes". Holding Tyrone at gunpoint, Patrick shoots Scott for interfering and then kills Tyrone, before finally ending his own life. A hateful and amoral young man, Patrick ultimately believed that if he did not fear death, then he was permitted to do whatever he wished to other people.
• Stay Out of the F**king Attic (2020-2021): "Vern Muller", truthfully Josef Mengele having survived his drowning, continues his sadistic experiments into the present day, torturing captives and turning them into mutant attack dogs that blindly serve him. Luring a group of ex-cons to his mansion to aid him in his escape from detection once again, "Muller" traps them inside when they find out about his experiments. He gouges out one of the mover's eyes, gasses one, and shoots another, bringing the last one back to experiment on him, breaking him down and allowing him to torture his captive. Once betrayed, "Muller" uses his last moments alive to release his attack dogs in a last-ditch effort to finish the group off.
• Stealth Fighter (1999): Owen Turner is a former naval pilot turned mercenary. After faking his death, Turner begins to work for Roberto Menendez, using a stealth fighter to bomb Menendez's rivals and an American submarine. When Turner sees an opportunity, he kills Menendez and takes over his operation, blackmailing President Westwood into giving him $10 billion or else he'll use the stealth fighter and a Kill Sat to attack populated cities. When the president refuses, Turner goes through with arming the stealth fighter with nuclear missiles, hoping to launch them at Cuba to kick-start a war between America and Cuba.
• The Stendhal Syndrome (1996 Dario Argento film): Alfredo Grossi is a Serial Rapist and Serial Killer who has raped 15 women, killing the last two. He follows detective Anna Manni to her apartment and rapes her, taking her back to his car where she sees him rape and kill another woman. Alfredo lets Anna escape so he can recapture her and rape her again at a later date. Before going after Anna again, he rapes and kills another woman. He kills two officers to break into her apartment to rape her again. Though Anna kills Alfredo, the trauma from the two rapes she suffered, combined with her Stendhal Syndrome, drives her insane.
• The Stepfather (2009): Unlike the criminally insane original, this stepfather is a narcissist, who murders families he joins when they fail to meet his expectations. Already having killed at least two previous families, including their young children, the stepfather seduces single mother, Susan Harding and becomes engaged to her. Killing anyone who delves into his past to keep up his façade, the stepfather murders Susan's elderly neighbor, her ex-husband and her sister. After Susan's eldest son, Michael, discovers the stepfather's murderous past, he declares the Harding family has failed him and tries to kill them all before moving on.
• The Stepford Wives (1975): Dale "Diz" Koba, the head of the Men's Association, is a pleasant-seeming fellow who despises educated and independent women. Having come up with the scheme and designed the titular "Stepford Wives", Dale ensures the women are steadily murdered and replaced by submissive robot duplicates, the fate of all the wives of the Men's Association. Luring in heroine Joanna, Dale calmly explains everything to her, before eventually having her murdered by her own double as well.
• Stitches (2001): Mrs. Albright is a demon sorceress who is trying to take all the souls in a house. To do so, she plays with their desires in order to make them make a Deal with the Devil with her so she can take their souls and skin, which she makes suits out of. She's not above tricking people into Attempted Rape and murder to get the souls she wants, which she stores in paper dolls while they're fully conscious. In the end, it is revealed that her end goal is to put the entire world in this state, so that "all is silent," on a bet with the Devil.
• Still/Born (2017): The Mesopotamian demon Lamashtu is a serial predator of innocent children. Focusing on babies, Lamashtu drains their life or marks them, stalking the mothers and driving them insane, with the only way to mollify her being to sacrifice another baby to her. Stalking heroine Mary and her baby son Adam after having murdered Mary's first child, Lamashtu takes and devours the children should she not be placated, sadistically taunting Mary again and again to lead to her death before finally returning for Adam.
• Stoker: We are introduced to Uncle Charlie Stoker after the death of heroine India's father. Initially charming and charismatic, Charlie kills the house's caretaker, and then his own aunt after he believes she'll expose him for what he is: a murderer who buried his younger brother alive when he was younger. He even killed his own brother, India's father, and staged his "car accident." He later tries to seduce India and tries to kill her mother.
• Stone Cold: Chains Cooper is the leader of a ruthless white supremacist biker gang called the Brotherhood, who live under one creed: "God forgives, the Brotherhood doesn't." Chains sends his men on joyride killing sprees and enacts a plan to assassinate district attorney Brent Whipperton for trying to stop his wanton violence. Along the way, Chains gleefully murders two guardsmen who stop him and his men on the road, sends their bodies to Whipperton, and when one of his minions speaks out, Chains forces his hand through a running motorcycle wheel. Chains kills the man who gives the hero Joe Huff's location to him, then murders his own girlfriend Nancy simply to spite Joe. In the climax, Chains assassinates Whipperton, several other judges, and threatens to massacre a courtroom full of innocent people should he not be allowed free rein for further atrocity.
• Stop Over in Hell (2016): Colonel, Cuba, and Red are a trio of Civil War deserters who have taken on a life of criminality. After killing every one of their hostages during a bank heist because he was irritated by their screams, Colonel adopts a Social Darwinist ideology to justify his crimes against the "weak", which Cuba and Red accept with glee. Together, the trio launched a campaign of pillaging, murdering, torturing, and raping any settlers they come across. Planning to steal a stagecoach with gold, the bandits take over Black Hell Company to set up an ambush, crucifying and torturing the owner to death, while holding the other residents hostage under the threat of death and rape. After butchering the arriving stagecoach and another for simply uncovering their crimes, Colonel holds Anne at knifepoint when her sister Liz threatens to shoot him. Upon agreeing to release Anne in exchange for dropping the stand-off, Colonel goes back on his word, shooting Anne behind the back before attempting to kill Liz and a mestiza girl when she tries defending her.
• Stormbreaker: Darius Sayle plots to use his Stormbreaker computers to release a deadly virus to kill millions of schoolchildren all over Britain, in retaliation for being bullied at school as a child for being a foreigner. When he discovers that security guard Ian Rider is actually a spy sent to find out about his plan, he has him killed by Yassen Gregorovich, and when Ian's nephew Alex is caught as well, Darius has him thrown into his aquarium tank to be killed by his pet man o' war. When the control to activate the Stormbreakers at the launch party is destroyed, he tries to activate them himself with an override, and tries to kill Alex and his school crush Sabina Pleasure when they try to stop him.
• Storm over Wyoming (1950): Jess Rawlins is the corrupt foreman of the Big M sheep ranch who takes delight in lynching any cowman who so much as stumbles onto his ranch. Rawlins is first seen attempting to lynch Tug Campbell and then threatening his boss in a crowded saloon. Later, Rawlins arranges for his henchman Scotty to herd the Big M's sheep across the border to Colorado, only for the plan to go wrong when Dave and Chito catch him red-handed, resulting in Rawlins killing Scotty in cold blood and attempting to blame the two cowmen for it. When they escape and discover evidence of their innocence, Rawlins snipes the undertaker who could prove it, and when confronted Rawlins assaults Chito and leaves him for dead. Crooked to the core and a Dirty Coward who will even kill his own men in the name of engineering a range war, Rawlins embodies every negative stereotype of the sheep and cattle wars that was a favorite setting for old Westerns, in a region where the wars were especially violent.
• Straight Edge Kegger (2019): James originally formed his gang to keep Nazis out of local shows, but, over time, became just as much of a bullying thug as the people he was against. Introduced punching a vocalist in the face and threatening a young teenager's life for wearing a Budweiser shirt, James gradually makes it clear that he doesn't care about the message he initially tried to promote. He later crashes a house party that his former follower Brad is attending, where he and his gang violently massacre and wound the guests, killing two cops when they come too close to finding the bodies, and making one final attempt on Brad's life just to prove that he's better than him.
• Strange Days: Max Peltier, ex-cop and private detective turned Psycho for Hire. Contracted to silence prostitute Iris when she witnesses the murder of rapper Jeriko One, Max hooks her up to a SQUID^note Superconducting Quantum Interference Device-a device that lets one experience the memories of another, then rapes and murders her, using the SQUID to ensure that she experiences not only her own horror, but his enjoyment of the act. He then sends his memory of the event to Lenny Nero, his supposed best friend, so that Lenny can experience it first hand, leaving him a shaken mess. He attacks Lenny's friend and memory supplier Tick, using a SQUID to overload and melt his brain, then does the same thing to his own employer, Philo Gant, reducing him to a comatose wreck before murdering him. In the climax, Max reveals that he plans to pin the blame for all of the murders on Lenny, and then tries to throw his "friend" out of a window.
• The Stranger: Franz Kindler is a Nazi war criminal fleeing his complicity in The Holocaust who adopts a new identity as Charles Rankin in a sleepy suburban town. When a repentant Nazi, Konrad Meinike, tracks him down, Kindler promptly murders him and then poisons his wife Mary's dog Red when Red sniffs around where he buried the corpse. When a Nazi hunter named Mr. Wilson tracks Kindler down, he reveals to Mary her husband's complicity in the Holocaust and how Kindler helped to develop the Final Solution, showing her images of his atrocities. In a final attempt to keep his secret, Kindler tries to murder Mary. When stopped, Kindler protests he was Just Following Orders, which Wilson rejects by saying "you gave the orders."
• Stranger by the Lake: Michel is a traveling Serial Killer who murders his lovers after growing bored with them. Already responsible for murdering numerous people before appearing at a cruising ground, Michel begins courting Franck while hooking up with other men. Tiring of one of them, Michel lures him to the middle of the lake and then drowns him. Controlling and lying to Franck all through their relationship, Michel casually murders Franck's friend Henri by slitting his throat when Henri tells him he knows the truth about him, before brutally stabbing a police officer to death when he stumbled onto the scene. Manipulating Franck into revealing where he is hiding, Michel is implied to kill him as well and then escapes to continue his killing spree.
• A Stranger in Town (1967): Aguilar, the self-proclaimed "Fair Man", is a total sadist who introduces himself machine-gunning a bunch of captive Mexican soldiers while cackling like a lunatic. A reprehensible example of his character archetype, when the titular stranger helps the Fair Man avoid justice for the massacre, the Fair Man tortures and tries to kill him rather than paying him as agreed, mockingly tossing a single coin into the stranger's hat while proclaiming how righteous he is. The Fair Man spends the rest of the film lusting over the film's female lead, trying to rape her and threatening her infant at knifepoint.
• A Stranger is Watching (1982): Artie Taggart is a grotesque, thuggish rapist and murderer who violated and killed the young Julie's mother in front of her eyes two years before the film, one of many such victims. Kidnapping Julie and her father's new girlfriend Sharon, Taggart plots to ransom them to Julie's wealthy father with full intent to murder them or leave them below Grand Central Station to starve should he be crossed. Murdering a bum, several robbers, and even his own accomplice, Taggart decides to simply murder Julie and Sharon when he feels identification out of greed and a need to force well-off women to suffer.
• Stranglehold (1994): Gerald Richter is a former chief operator of an anti-terrorist division who turned to actual terrorism after becoming "unstable". Gerald and his men invade a Malaysian chemical plant by ridding it of its guards and scientists and taking Congresswoman Helen Filmore hostage, threatening to execute her and the plant's executives unless he receives $25 million. Obtaining deadly nerve gas, Gerald tests it out on a nearby crowd of people, hoping to unleash 10,000 gallons of it and kill thousands more. Making his escape and killing his chopper pilot to fake his own death, Gerald, despite developing a crush on Helen, is willing to murder her to ensure his protection from hero Ryan Cooper.
• Stratton (2017): Grigory "Gregor" Barovsky is a former spy who was burned by British intelligence. When he was ordered eliminated, his handler and friend instead hid him. Furious at the loss of prestige, Barovsky becomes a terrorist, arranging for murders to seize a bioweapon to unleash it upon an innocent city. Killing any ally when his cover is compromised and executing a begging man, Barovsky attempts to unleash the bioweapon to kill millions.
• Street Asylum (1990): Jim Miller, former chief of police and mayoral candidate, is an elitist who forms the "SQUAD" to wipe out the "filth" of the streets: the poor, the addicts, etc. Fitting officers with devices to remove their agency and turn them into killing machines, Miller unleashes them to butcher those in the streets. In his spare time, Miller deals with his vehement misogyny by hiring dominatrices to punish him, only to brutally murder them after.
• Street Hunter (1990):
  • Colonel Walsh is a soldier turned mercenary who only finds joy in war. A man with a history of fighting for various regimes, Walsh is hired by Angel to turn his gang, the Diablos, into a paramilitary force. Walsh leads the Diablos in wiping out the entirety of the New York Mafia with terrifying efficiency. When Angel is arrested, Walsh slaughters nine cops in order to rescue him. Walsh also threatens to kill Angel if he opposes his orders and kills his own men for failing him. Walsh later kidnaps hero Logan Blade's girlfriend and plans to let Angel rape her.
  • Angel is a Colombian criminal who leads the Diablos gang in trying to take control of New York City. Angel hires Walsh and his pack of mercenaries to wipe out dozens of other gangsters, with Angel personally executing a rival after forcing him to beg for his life. A sniveling sadist in contrast to Walsh's stoic sociopathy, Angel threatens the families of police officers for arresting him and launches a rocket at incapacitated cops to kill them for fun. Angel captures Logan and his lover Denise and plans to bury Logan alive, but not before forcing him to watch as he rapes Denise.
• Street Smart (1987): Leo Smalls Jr. is a pimp who goes by the name "Fast Black". When he accidentally kills a client in a scuffle, he realizes his salvation lies in the reporter Jonathan Fisher, whose made-up segment "Street Smart" includes many parallels to him. Unfortunately, Fast cannot maintain an affable front for long. Keeping his prostitutes enslaved with fear of violence and beatings, Fast tortures them if they disappoint him, burning one with cigarette butts and later forcing her to choose which eye he cuts out as a form of psychological torment. When she goes to a prosecutor, he simply murders her. Forcing Jonathan to write an alibi for him, Fast promises to kill him and everyone he loves should he refuse.
• Streets of Rage (1994): Lunar is a slimy pimp who gets young women addicted to heroin, forcing them to become his prostitutes to feed their drug addiction. Lustfully obsessed with his prostitutes, to the point where he kills one of his own via an overdose once he grew tired of her, Lunar desires Melody Sails all for himself, disguising himself as rich Southern entrepreneur Scott to get closer to her. After attempting to rape Melody while she's hungover, Lunar later kidnaps Candy, Steven, and Max to hold them hostage, ordering Melody to choose whether Steven or Max dies.
• Strike Commando: Jakoda, the supposed head of the Soviet forces in Vietnam, intends to kill Mike Ransom slowly and horribly. Jakoda makes it his job, and pleasure, to torture and kill almost everyone he encounters. In his home base, Jakoda subjects all captives to savage torture with Ransom himself suffering painful electrocution. When Jakoda learns a native village has been sheltering Ransom, he leads his troops there and initiates a massacre of men, women and children, slaughtering everyone except a little boy who befriended Ransom, with the boy surviving long enough to die in Ransom's arms. Jakoda spends the rest of the film trying to kill Ransom and will stop at nothing to kill the "Americanski."
• Striking Distance: Jimmy Detillo is accused of excessive force on a suspect by the heroic honest cop Tom Hardy. Jimmy seemingly kills himself, but it is revealed that he fakes his death to cover up the fact that Jimmy was the Serial Killer dubbed "The Polish Hill Strangler," who has been murdering young women by throttling them with a rope. To get revenge on Hardy, Detillo begins murdering any woman he's had a relationship with in the past and does his best to frame Hardy for the murder. At the end, Jimmy kidnaps Tom, his current girlfriend and Jimmy's own cousin with intent to murder them all. When Jimmy's father, the police chief, interferes and tries to stop Jimmy, Jimmy guns him down without a second thought before trying to kill the others again.
• Stryker (1983): Kardis is a warlord who hordes water in the post-apocalyptic future, sending his forces to massacre and torture others to obtain control of their own water. When the hero Stryker stumbles upon Kardis's operation, Kardis is having a woman tortured to find her colony. Realizing one of his wells has gone dry, Kardis casually orders only his soldiers may receive water, condemning hundreds to death by thirst—while Kardis is washing his face in a huge bowl of water. Torturing Stryker and leaving him for dead, Kardis attempts to have everyone in the other colonies massacred or enslaved, stopping at nothing to extend his dominion over the wasteland.
• Stunt Squad (1977): Valli is a racketeer and criminal kingpin responsible for the death of dozens of civilians and cops alike. His opening scene has him bombing a series of businesses that refuse to pay up to his Protection Racket; just a few among a series of bombings that have taken out everything from trains to supermarkets. Over the course of the film, Valli has a survivor of one of his bombings murdered in the hospital; gruesomely kills another cop with a hidden bomb; and guns down a man who recognizes him in public, before running over and killing another innocent woman in the getaway without even looking back. Valli ends up taking a passenger bus full of people hostage in the climax, threatening to kill them all after having murdered a detective in front of them. No less ruthless to his allies, Valli punishes a pimp who spills information by killing the man's friend, then castrating and murdering him, and after that rewards another mook who gives him a fake passport with a chestful of lead.
• Submerged (2005 Direct to Video): Dr. Arian Lehder is a Mad Scientist who has developed a way to use mind control to turn soldiers into killing machines. He tests this out by brainwashing three Secret Service agents into killing themselves, the ambassador, and six others during a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. His men later capture a squad of soldiers who Lehder subjects to the same brainwashing. He reveals to his employer, Col. Jorge Hilan, that he was just using him to test out his new procedure, threatening to kill him if he goes against him. Leaving Hilan's employ, Lehder goes on to offer his service to an organization, helping them with his brainwashing procedure after they agree to have Chris Cody assassinated for interfering with his previous crimes performed with Hilan. Lehder eventually tries to leave the organization when the cops close in, killing his employer when he tries to stop him from abandoning him to be arrested.
• Subspecies series: Ash the "music lover", from The Vampire Journals and Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm, is the progeny of Radu Vladislas and considerably crueler than his former master. Ash runs a casino and brothel where willing consorts are brought in for the vampires to feed upon, though they are considered expendable and replaceable, often killed by either the vampires or unruly customers. Ash himself frequently traverses the night to kill innocents in defiance of King Vladislas's own edicts. Upon becoming enraptured with the pianist Sofia, Ash painfully bends her to his will with repeated feedings and promises of suffering should she resist. Just as much a cruel tyrant to his own family, Ash murders his fledgling Anton after forcing Anton to kill his only friend for the crime of holding money back. When the vampire Zachary tries to save Sofia, Ash honors his vow to let Zachary "see" Sofia by exposing Zachary's true nature to the girl, just before he tries to go back on their deal and see Zachary murdered as he sleeps.
• Sucker Punch: Blue Jones is the corrupt head of the Lennox House asylum who receives a bribe from Babydoll's abusive stepfather in order to lobotomize Babydoll. Depicted as the ruthless owner of a brothel in the dream world, Blue Jones has no hesitations punishing those who defy him. Catching Babydoll and the other brothel's prostitutes attempting to rebel, he murders two of his prostitutes to make an example and then attempts to rape Babydoll. After Babydoll sacrifices herself in order to get lobotomized, it was revealed that in the real world, Blue Jones forged the asylum psychiatrist's signature, something he has been done before, in order to make his own patients, including Babydoll, his personal sex toy after being lobotomized. Exposed by the police, Blue Jones tries to incriminate Babydoll's stepfather as a last-ditch effort to save himself.
• Sudden Death: Joshua Foss is a corrupt former Secret Service Agent who invades a hockey game's VIP section and takes the Vice-President, his family and other people hostage. Foss plans to have money wired into off-shore bank accounts and blow up the stadium with everyone in it at the game's conclusion to cover his tracks. Foss orders multiple people killed and when his henchwoman Carla brings a child witness back, Foss simply asks why she didn't kill the girl already before having her put with the other hostages to execute them all at once. Foss begins executing hostages and tries to blow up portions of the stadium to show he's serious. When Darren McCord saves the hostages, Foss takes Darren's daughter hostage and after the final battle, opts to use his last bullet on the little girl, saying he wants Darren to live a long life always remembering how he failed to save his daughter.
• Suicide Club: Genesis—real name Muneo Suzuki—is a musician and wannabe cult leader desiring fame by any means possible, proudly seeing himself as a successor to Charles Manson. Forming his own "Suicide Club", Genesis leads his gang in committing multiple crimes to get credit for the mass suicides—specifically, Genesis enjoys taking small animals and innocent people to his "Pleasure Room", where they become playthings to Genesis' sadistic whims. When hacker Kiyoko and her sister are kidnapped by his gang, Genesis has one of his men rape and butcher a girl in front of the two, before ultimately deciding to take the life of Kiyoko's sister.
• Suitable Flesh: "Ephraim Waite" is an ancient entity that was once an ordinary human before discovering a ritual that enabled him to swap bodies with others, causing his victims immense pain and trauma in the process. Ephraim would use this power to extend his life for countless years, stealing the bodies of those around him and using them to satisfy his sadistic, hedonist whims while ruining the life of the person whose body he swapped. In his latest spree, Ephraim possesses an elderly man, torments his young son Asa, then swaps bodies with him and kills Asa. Beginning to terrorize Asa's therapist Elizabeth, Ephraim uses her body to have sex with her unaware husband and rape them both by fraud. After swapping bodies with Elizabeth one last time, leaving her trapped in a mutilated husk, Ephraim then swaps bodies with Elizabeth's best friend Daniella, leaving the true Daniella trapped in Elizabeth's body in an insane asylum.
• Sukiyaki Western Django: Boss Kiyomori, "Henry", is the loud and violent leader of the red Heike clan, and a coward who prefers using his own men as human shields. Roaming from town to town searching for gold, upon discovering some in an unnamed town, he murders the mayor and establishes his business there, going on to form a violent rivalry with the white Genji clan once they arrive. After Akira stands up to him and tries to run away with the Genji Shizuka and their son Heihachi, Kiyomori shoots Akira In the Back and rapes Shizuka. Leading an attack on the Genji clan for their Gatling gun, Kiyomori later massacres several Genji clan members himself to take the town's gold, uncaring how many he kills as long as he comes out on top.
• Summer of '84: The Cape May Slayer, true identity Wayne Mackey, is a Serial Killer who preys on young boys, wracking up at least 15 murders over several years. When young hero Davey Armstrong investigates on his own, he discovers photos of the Slayer's victims, including one that indicates the Slayer is targeting him as well. He then discovers a mutilated corpse in the Slayer's bathtub and an injured, emaciated boy the Slayer was saving for later. The Slayer later abducts Davey and his friend Woody, slitting the latter's throat and injuring Davey, vowing he will one day return for revenge and until that day, he wants Davey to live in horrible fear of when it will be and what Mackey will do to him.
• "Sundown", from Horror Noire: Mayor Constantine Erebus is the vampiric head of a literal modern-day sundown town. A mass murdering racist with a taste for "dark meat", Erebus routinely lures in innocent people into his town so he and his fellow vampires can feast on them. One victim of a previous slaughter was turned before Erebus could feed on him, but due to the color of his skin Erebus decided to make him his abused slave.
• Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat: Ethan Jefferson is a psychotic vampire supremacist. Viewing Mardulak and his repentant vampires as "domesticated abominations", Jefferson hatches a plan to wipe out the entire town using special wooden bullets and an army of crooks he's converted into vampires, who he doesn't care if they live or die. In the process, he condones Shane's desire to rape and claim his old flame as his own. After Jefferson's attack kills much of the town and results in the deaths of many of his men, Jefferson takes one of Mardulak's friends hostage to force them to stand down, only to try and execute them all anyway. Jefferson embodies everything Mardulak seeks to get away from, and enjoys every second of it.
• The Super Inframan: Princess Dragon Mom is a tyrannical monarch who desires to conquer the Earth and enslave humanity. Awakening from her slumber, she proceeds to cause untold amounts of earthquakes and fires that kill over 10,000 people, threatening the Earth with either enslavement or death. Choosing to instead kill more humans, she sends her minions out with orders to destroy various Japanese cities. After Inframan wipes them out, Princess Dragon Mom proceeds to capture Professor Liu to create an Inframan of her own that she will use to wipe out humanity, torturing his assistant Ming and turning him into one of her slaves while also threatening Liu's daughter with murder.
• Supersonic Man: Dr. Gulik is a Mad Scientist out to Take Over the World. To this end, he kidnaps a scientist who invented the world's most efficient fuel, massacring everybody in the military base he was in to do so. He tries to get his rival to give up by means of torture, and tries to kidnap his daughter when he refuses. Not caring that his plans could very well lead to humanity's demise, Gulik kills more soldiers in order to steal some fuel to tide himself over. Killing two goons who failed to capture the girl, Gulik doesn't let them live even after learning their claims of being stopped by Supersonic Man were true. Gulik decides to enact a plan to lure Supersonic to him, by threatening to kill the scientist, his daughter and the population of Manhattan. When Supersonic Man arrives to confront Gulik, Gulik destroys his base and leaves all his men to die with his foe.
• Superstition: Elondra Sharack was a devil-worshipping witch who committed many evil acts in the 17th century, including torture and murder. After a nine-year-old girl named Mary, whom Elondra had tried to kill, accuses Elondra of witchcraft, Elondra, refusing to seek atonement for her actions, curses the town to suffer her wrath. After her execution, she returns from the grave and seeks revenge on the town, causing many deaths throughout the centuries, starting by burning down a church and drowning Mary. In modern day, Elondra murders numerous people and slaughters an entire family, including the young child, Justin. Reveling in her cruelty and embracing her status as a witch, Elondra knows that she is a monster and is proud of it.
• Surviving the Game: Doc Hawkins is the one member of the Hell's Canyon hunting party lacking anything resembling a redeeming quality or anything but a naked urge to kill. A Psycho Psychologist with a hunting license and a preference for human prey, Hawkins is the one who founded the hunting party on the first place, and for years he and his friends have been hunting unlucky vagrants for sport before taking their heads as twisted trophies.
• Survivor (2015): The assassin known as the Watchmaker is famed for his explosive attacks on his targets. Early in the film, the Watchmaker bombs a cafe in England for one target, with only one survivor he sets about trying to murder. When one of his own allies on the mission expresses admiration for the Watchmaker's work, the Watchmaker stabs him in the neck because the man correctly guessed he was responsible for an attack that was passed off as a terrorist bombing. It is revealed he has been hired to devastate the New York Stock Exchange so his employer can make a fortune selling short, but the Watchmaker blackmails him for half the profits, murders another of his allies and sets up a bomb to snipe in Times Square during a New Year's celebration, an attack which if successful which kill at least a million people.
• Sushi Girl (2012): Duke, the gangster who sets up sushi dinner over the titular sushi girl, is a man with no loyalty to anything but himself and his material wealth. After a botched robbery that left four people dead—during which Duke hacked off the hand of a man after he refused to turn over the diamonds Duke wanted and fatally shot a man who simply checked up on Duke after a car accident—Duke reunites all of his gang members so he can find out where "Fish" supposedly hid the diamonds. Over the course of the film, Duke puts Fish through a horrific, 20-minute torture sequence that finally ends up with Fish croaking from the abuse, and then proceeds to kill all three of his remaining gangsters with nothing more than an apathetic sigh, even his utterly loyal friend Crow. Even his Freudian Excuse is revealed to be an elaborate ruse, and after he's cheated of the diamonds Duke simply decides to cut his losses and rape the sushi girl as a "consolation prize".
• Suspiria (2018): Helena Markos, the supposed "Mater Suspiriorum", is a pretender to the title and the corrupt ruler of the Markos Academy coven. When she is discovered by a dancer named Patricia Hingle, Markos curses her to an agonizing, crippled state of undeath. While targeting heroine Susanna "Susie" Bannion to steal her body, Markos engages in cruel sadism, such as the dancer Olga who is placed in a tortured state of sheer agony. Murdering Susie's friend Sara Simms as a sacrifice, Markos also tries to kill the witch Blanc, showing nothing short of relish to making her victims suffer endlessly in the worst sort of torture.
• The adaptations of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:
  • 1936 film: Sweeney Todd himself is a cackling, gleefully evil murderer who shows his nasty side when threatening the young orphan Tobias with a loss of a tongue should he displease him. Luring in wealthy customers, Todd dumps them into his cellar and "polishes them off" with his straight razor to rob the bodies, submitting the corpses to be made into meat pies. Upon being discovered by an escape victim, Todd attempts to clean up loose ends, even trying to murder his lover Johanna by setting fire to the shop and leaving her to burn to death.
  • 2007 film:
    • The corrupt Judge Turpin, who runs a Kangaroo Court in Victorian London, begins Sweeney's Start of Darkness when, lusting after the then-younger barber's wife, Turpin has him imprisoned on a penal colony for decades of hard labor so he can seduce his wife. When she refuses, Turpin has her lured to his home under pretense of offering to free her husband—but rapes her instead, and steals her daughter as his ward. Turpin guards her jealously, having a younger sailor brutally beaten for looking at her and plans to marry her himself. When she refuses and tries to run away he sends her to an asylum where he knows she'll be mistreated. At another point, Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging—and then asks his sidekick, the Beadle Bamford, if the boy was even guilty of anything.
    • The Beadle Bamford is the lecherous, corrupt right-hand of Judge Turpin. A sadistic pervert, Bamford is the man who had Sweeney Todd arrested and helped lure his wife Lucy to be drugged and raped by the Judge where he is implied to regularly take advantage of the insane Lucy on the streets later. Bamford also ensures innocents are famed to be sent to the gallows by Turpin, including a little boy Bamford is not even aware is guilty of anything.
• Sweet Karma (2009): Tomas, despite his limited screen time, marks himself as the worst member of the Human Trafficking operation. A bully hated by his own co-workers, Tomas assists his superior Stefan in the kidnapping and pimping of innocent women, with Tomas selling them as strippers. Regularly raping and molesting his strippers, Tomas at one point lures one of his women to his car and rapes her, causing her to commit suicide the next morning. Seeking to take the deceased Galina's job in order to rape more women, Tomas reveals to Karma that he had forcefully slept with more than half of the strippers under his care.
• Sweet Revenge (1987): Jeffrey Cicero is a human trafficker who conducts his business in Far East Asia. Running Cicero Research Foundation as a prison, Cicero has the women he's kidnapped drugged, then auctioned off to the highest bidder. Once reporter Jillian Grey and friends escape, Cicero orders his men to hunt them down, uncaring of the casualties in their way, which include an entire settlement of treasure hunters.
• Sweet Sugar (1972): Dr. John is the maniacal owner of the sugarcane plantation Sugar Bowman is transferred to. In addition to performing cruel medical experiments on the inmates, Dr. John also rapes teenage inmate Dolores, has Sugar whipped after catching her in an intimate situation with one of the guards, and has Mojo, an imprisoned voodoo priest, burned alive when he finds evidence of murders committed by John at the plantation. When Mojo's lover, Simone, hacks off one of the guard's fingers, John has her caged and suspended over a fireplace in response. When Sugar leads a prison outbreak, John orders them all gunned down, and spends his final moments taunting a mortally wounded Simone on her impending demise.
• Sweetwater: The supposed "Prophet," Reverend Josiah, is a ruthless man who opens the film by murdering two men for little reason whatsoever save that they "trespassed" on his land. When he comes into conflict with Miguel Ramirez and his wife Sarah, Josiah is sickened by a white woman being married to a Mexican man and kills Miguel, while later raping Sarah. Indoctrinating his followers into near-slaves, Josiah shows no remorse when they die-even his own wives. When he captures the town's new sheriff, Josiah intends to crucify the man upside down for "shaming" him and leaving him for the crows to pick while while he tries to sway Sarah into becoming his wife until he finds it too much trouble and simply decides to kill her.
• Swelter: Kane, a member of the notorious gang of robbers and murderers known as the "Rat Pack," proves to be the most evil member of the gang. The half-brother of the gang's leader Cole, Kane shoots and murders his way out of a life sentence with the help of the rest of the Rat Pack, then tracks down the gang's erstwhile fifth partner Bishop to the sleepy town of Baker. Kane grows restless during Cole's attempts to interrogate the amnesiac Bishop for a lost cache of ten million dollars, and to alleviate his boredom, he rapes a teenage girl named London. Kane gleefully beats her boyfriend half-to-death, threatens her mother as well—"how about a threesome?!"—and when another member of the Rat Pack tries to intervene in disgust, Kane kills him. Cowering behind London rather than face Bishop at the end, Kane is so repugnant that all of his own allies turn on him and his own brother shoots him dead rather than let him get away.
• Swimfan: Madison Bell, prior to events of the movie, causes a car accident that puts her boyfriend Jake Donnelly in a coma when he tried to get away from her possessive influence. After a torrid one-night-stand with Ben Cronin, she becomes possessive of him to the point that she begins to ruin his life in the pettiest of ways when he rejects her further advances. This involves switching the meds of a sick patient he looks after and nearly killing the man and getting Ben kicked off his swim team for steroid use by getting involved with his friend Josh and using him as a placeholder for Ben. Madison then kills Josh after he figured out what she did and frames Ben for the murder. She then runs down Ben's girlfriend Amy Miller with a car, tries to kill her cousin Christopher when he imitates her boyfriend Jake and then when arrested, shoots and kills the two cops in the car. Madison also attacks Ben's mother and ends her reign of terror by handcuffing Amy to a chair, taunting her and then pushing Amy in the pool so she'll drown.
• Switchback: Bob Goodall, despite hiding under a folksy charm, is a vicious murderer, responsible for at least eighteen deaths by the start of the film. Kidnapping the son of FBI Agent Frank LaCrosse, Bob sees LaCrosse hunting for him as a thrilling chase. Befriending unwitting innocents, Bob kills them, making it look like a suicide, to hide his own string of murders. Killing multiple old friends of his the second they accidentally become a liability towards his murder spree, Bob is a psychopath who finds taking life a blissful act.
• The Sword and the Dragon: The Tugar Khan Kalin is a savage warlord who leads his forces to Rape, Pillage, and Burn through all Russia, massacring villages and killing countless innocent people. Tearing apart the lands until he comes to Kiev, Kalin intends on ruling the city by demanding tribute, while keeping his ferocious dragon, the Zmey, in reserve. When he learns of the city failing to pay tribute, Kalin intends on massacring Kiev and even builds a pyramid of dead corpses to observe an ensuing battle before unleashing the Zmey to burn all before it.
• The Sword and the Sorcerer: King Titus Cromwell begins by attempting to conquer a rival king's lands. He achieves this by reviving an ancient sorcerer named Xusia. Cromwell kills his rival King Richard, and betrays Xusia and leaves him for dead before killing Richard's wife as well, but misses Richard's son Prince Talon. As King, Cromwell has enemies subjected to torture and constantly tries to expand his domain with destruction and death. When Prince Mikah of the resistance is captured, Cromwell sends him to the torture chambers and desiring Mikah's sister Alana, he tries to force her into bed by threatening her brother's life. He later invites the heads of other lands to a banquet, planning to murder them and steal their lands. The entertainment there is Talon, whom Cromwell has had crucified with six-inch nails.
• The Sword of Doom: Tsukue Ryunosuke is a seemingly peerless swordsman—and a heartless murderer. Beginning the film by killing a monk praying for death simply because he can, Ryunosuke proceeds to a tournament to show his skill. When the wife of one opponent begs him not to humiliate her husband, Ryunosuke coerces sex from her and later kills her husband in the fight anyways, making the wife his mistress. Eventually making his living as an assassin, Rynosuke kills many people and even his mistress when she finally has enough. At film's end, Ryunosuke snaps and turns on his own employers, slaughtering everyone they send against him until numbers take their toll. Rather than submit, he ends the film lunging at them with an expression of animalistic fury on his face. A cruel, ice-cold man seemingly bereft of emotion, the rot in Ryunosuke's soul goes horribly with his elevated ego and lack of scruples.
• The Sword of Swords: Fang Shih-Hsiung starts off by regularly bullying hero Lin Jen-shiau, but turns out to have ulterior motives to claim the titular powerful sword for his own selfish purposes. In the aftermath of a duel with Lin for the Sword's ownership, Fang pretends to accept defeat, only to turn around, steal the sword instead and attempt to hold his mentor, Master Mui, as a hostage. Returning later with a legion of bandits, Fang has Master Mui killed; personally executes Master Mui's wife right in front of Lin; and later forces Lin and his wife to go on the run to protect the Sword from falling into the wrong hands. Fang eventually abducts Bai-feng; has Lin blinded via darts thrown into his eyes and left for dead with his baby in the wilderness; and upon finding out Lin is still alive, has his henchmen kidnap numerous innocent villagers—including several children—to be used as human shields and tricks Lin into slaughtering all his friends, while Fang watches gleefully with a sadistic, satisfied smile on his face.
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Mr. Baek Han-sang is a vile serial kidnapper who is responsible for ruining heroine Geum-ja's life. Having forced Geum-ja to assist him in kidnapping a child for ransom, Baek coldly murders the boy after tiring of his crying, then frames Geum-ja for the act, threatening the life of her infant daughter should she not admit to the crime. Baek then continues kidnapping children and holding them for ransom, however he kills them long before he gets paid, making snuff films of their deaths as he kills them in increasingly horrifying ways even as they beg for their lives. After murdering nearly half a dozen children, Baek is captured by Geum-ja, who also discovers that Baek viciously abuses his wife both sexually and physically, and when confronted by the parents of his victims, Baek reveals that he truly just wanted the money from the ransoms to buy himself a yacht. Baek is made all the more despicable when he admits to only killing the children because they were ones who particularly annoyed him in his day job, that of a schoolteacher.

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