Monster / Made-for-TV Movies

aka: Made For TV Movie

"Anyway, here's what we are going to do. I'm going to count to five, and if by that point you don't a; identify your location and b; surrender. I will shoot Dan."

"It all started with this man, a long, long time ago, Calvin Montgomery. He tortured the young people of Wormwood Ridge, he would take them to his cellar, and when he was done with them, it was off with their head. The ritual, so he collected the young ones in his jail, they became his family, until they reached a certain age, then they were sent to the pit."

— Candy about the future Headless Horseman, Headless Horseman

TV movies, much like their film and series counterparts, are no stranger to producing some exceptionally vile villains that shake the standard.

Animated TV Movies can be found here, while films on Netflix and other streaming services can be found at the appropriate film page.

All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!

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The following have their own pages

• Ben 10
• DC Films
• Discworld (Going Postal)
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Gundam
• Hunter (NBC)
• Kamen Rider
• Marvel Films
• The Saint
• Sherlock Holmes
• Star Wars
• The Streets of San Francisco

Other examples

# - D

• 10 Rillington Place: Seemingly mild-mannered John Christie is in truth a depraved Serial Killer. Based upon the crimes of his real-life counterpart, Christie opens the film drugging, sexually assaulting and strangling a woman to death. When the Evans family moves in and needs help with an abortion, Christie pretends to assist them, only to assault and murder the wife Beryl, before manipulating the hapless husband Tim into taking blame while also murdering Tim's baby daughter Geraldine. Framing Tim, Christie acts as a witness against him at trial to ensure Tim hangs for the crime. Christie later murders his own wife when she suspects him and then another woman before finally being arrested with a body count that numbers at least eight women before the Evans family.
• Alien Lockdown (2004 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Dr. Woodman is a sociopathic Mad Scientist who, using the Morning Star to create the monster Legion and her brood, would proceed to intentionally let the creature loose to slaughter everyone in the facility. When Talon and her squad arrive, Woodman proceeds to intentionally lead Legion to kill them and ultimately murders one himself to unleash Legion's spawn on the facility. Woodman's ultimate goal is to unleash the Legion species into the biosphere where they will exterminate the human race, all to fulfill his delusions of grander. While only a normal human, Dr. Woodman proves himself to be far more monstrous than his creation.
• Alien Nation: Body and Soul: Chorboke, The Keeper Of Hell or The Dark One, was a Mad Scientist who is sadistic, even by the standards of the Overseers. Seeking to create the "perfect slave", Chorboke killed thousands on his operating tables. After the Day of Descent, Chorboke was thought dead, but participated in a secret government program and escaped after murdering the head of the program and using plastic surgery to steal his identity. Continuing his surgeries, Chorboke murders any connection to him and attempts to test Tectonese weapons to sell them to the highest bidder, not caring that these could be magnitudes deadlier than the atomic bomb. When he and George end up in mortal combat, Chorboke sneers that his one regret is he was never able to subject George to his table like so many other innocent victims.
• Antibody (2002 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Anthony Moran is a terrorist who bombs the Russian consulate building in Washington, D.C., by forcing a man with an unloaded gun to be shot to test out his Dead Man's Switch. Attacking a massive gathering, Moran kills numerous innocent civilians while mockingly executing the Chancellor of Germany as a show of force. While claiming to want to Take Over the World, Moran's ultimate goal is to set off five massive nuclear weapons in major cities across Europe, killing millions and leaving Europe uninhabitable, in order to take the western world down with him when he dies.
• Assault on Death Mountain (1999): Dr. Sarkisian is a deadly scientist from hero Mike McBride's past. Creating a poisonous gas to be sold to terrorists, Sarkisian had used it on Mike's entire squad and several civilians. Undergoing plastic surgery and spending his time assisting terrorists with his gas, Sarkisian plans to launch a missile containing his gas onto Seattle, which will spread across the United States and kill billions. When a captured Mike is in his grasp, Sarkisian injects him with a poison, leaving him behind with the intent to be tortured for three days. During his and Mike's final fistfight, Sarkisian tries to inject Mike with a serum that will grant him an incredibly painful death.
• Assault On Dome 4 (1997 Sci-Fi Channel movie): Alex Windham is a charismatic terrorist with a poisonous intellect. Blowing up the warden and massacring the guards of the prison he's sent to before breaking out its prisoners to use as his muscle—and cheerfully quipping on how he flushed out all of the women he took aboard into space—Windham arrives and takes over the interplanetary colony of Dome 4, executing the local officer and forcing the forty workers to engineer deadly bombs for him. Windham's ultimate intention is to force Earth to sign off the small planet of Stella 9 to him to lord over their simple populace as a god, threatening to start bombing entire continents on Earth should his demands not be met. Along the way, Windham executes a would-be escapee; gives his henchmen full right to slaughter any rebellious hostages; murders the best friend of his adversary Chase Moran before threatening the same with Chase's wife Lily, whom he attempts to rape; and finally tries to have the entirety of Dome 4 and everyone on it blown up. Seamlessly combining a superficial display of elegance with a terrifying streak of anger and an ego the size of a planet, Windham is willing to expend the lives of millions purely to slake his raging God complex.
• Attack of the Gryphon (2007 Syfy Channel Original Movie): The Sorcerer Armand manipulates the King of Lockland to allow him to awaken the Gryphon before using it to kill soldiers from their enemy nation of Delphi and turning it back upon Lockland in a coup. Later inflaming tensions by brutally murdering an investigator and using a message to cause a civil war, Armand uses the Gryphon to ravage villages that resist him, killing many, many innocents. Planning on using the Grpyhon to kill all the soldiers of both nations, Armand intends to become immortal and usurp both kingdoms to rule forever with the Princess of Lockland as his unwilling bride.
• The Bad Seed (2018) & The Bad Seed Returns: Emma Grossman is worse than any her previous incarnations. Killing her classmate, Milo, after he won a citizenship award that she felt she deserved, Emma, fearing punishment for her crime, puts a wasp nest in Mrs. Ellis's car, causing her to die in a crash. Threatened by her babysitter, Chloe, Emma locks her in a shed and sets it on fire, watching her burn to death. Revealing how she killed her previous nanny, Emma makes several attempts to kill her father, eventually succeeding by manipulating a police officer into shooting him. In the sequel, living with her aunt Angela and Angela's new husband Robert, Emma is shown committing a number of heinous acts, such as intentionally putting her baby cousin Cade in danger of drowning and nearly killing Robert by dropping his car on him while he's working on it. When her "friend" Steph wins a dance competition instead of her, Emma gruesomely kills Steph's dog, steals Steph's epilepsy medication, and deliberately triggers a fatal seizure in Steph. Luring the suspicious transfer student Kat to her house, Emma poisons her and starts a House Fire that kills Kat, Robert, and Angela. Framing Kat for the murders, Emma smiles triumphantly, having gotten away with her crimes.
• Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1997): Lord Argon is the frail, sorcerous tyrant of Ambeth who seeks the Eye of Braxus to gain immortality and Braxus's strength. Having innocents sentenced to his dungeon, Argon often absorbs their life essence into himself, the younger the better, while forcing others to act as his soldiers. Finding out that the Eye is in King Thal's hands, Argon has his men raid Thal's village, killing countless lives before kidnapping Thal and torturing him for days. With Dar in his grasp, he leaves him hanging over a pit of lava and attempts to use his friend Bey as one final sacrifice before gaining the power of Braxus.
• Black Cat Run: Dennis James "D.J." Wheeler is a psychopathic gangster who is defined by his sadistic cruelty. In the movie's beginning, Wheeler escapes from prison with the help of his henchmen, killing several guards in the process. On the road, Wheeler guns down the local sheriff, attempts to kill Johnny Dale Grissom, and takes Grisson's girlfriend, the sheriff's daughter, hostage in order to escape to Mexico. Throughout the trip, when Wheeler's wounded ally pulls a shotgun on Wheeler who refuses a detour to the hospital, Wheeler takes the shotgun and pushes the man out of the car, killing and abandoning him. While taking a pit stop, Wheeler lures a clerk to the bathroom, shoots him to death, and hides him in the bathroom stall. Wheeler then visits and tortures his former boss who ratted him out years ago, and then kills him and several of his friends. When one of his wounded allies attempts to kill Wheeler for shooting him earlier, Wheeler sadistically runs him over in his car to death. In the final showdown with Johnny, Wheeler uses Sara as a Human Shield, making multiple attempts on Johnny and Sara's lives just for personal satisfaction.
• Blacktop (2000 HBO film): Jack is a virulently misogynist man who kidnaps the heroine Sylvia and places her in his truck with a challenge to her boyfriend David to save her to "prove" his feelings. Jack gleefully maims a man in a bar fight and shows no compunction torturing Sylvia, removing a finger to prove he's serious. Jack is revealed to have a freezer full of corpses in his truck with numerous mutilated remains, and later gleefully tries to murder both David and Sylvia.
• Bloodsuckers (2005): Muco, leader of the Vorhees vampire clan, organizes attacks on human colonies to massacre every human being found there to feed the Voorhes' desire for blood and slaughter. Upon the death of his brother, Muco targets the vampire hunter Captain Churchill, freely admitting his only objection is that while he hated his brother, his death at a human's hands offends Muco's pride as a vampire. Having Churchill killed and turned, Muco launches more attacks on humans with massive casualties, and when he captures Churchill's former team he opts to have Churchill's former protege killed at his vampire mentor's hands. When Muco's environmentalist human partner objects, Muco shoots her and has her torn apart by his men, gleefully stating he intends to learn all he can from humanity before he exterminates them.
• Body Bags' "The Gas Station": "Bill" is an escaped Serial Killer who flees a mental hospital. Taking up refuge at an all-night gas station, Bill murders the true Bill to take his identity and waits to slaughter anyone who happens by. Terrorizing the young employee Anne, Bill leaves a corpse for her to find before stalking Anne and trying to kill her as well as one customer who comes to her rescue.
• Broken Trail: Ed "Big Ears" Bywaters is a soft-spoken ex-convict notorious as a horse thief and murderous Bounty Hunter. Ed introduces himself by forcing himself onto Nola Johns, a favored prostitute of Ed's whom he has periodically used and abused to brutal extents over a course of years, and proves his violent streak when he coldly murders a former accomplice of his he suspected of ratting him out. When local brothel keeper Kate Becker employs Ed to investigate a Chinese virgin trade gone awry, Ed takes his time stalking Prent Ritter and his company after they acquire the Chinese girls. At the end of the film, Ed guns down Heck, takes Prent's companions at gunpoint, and prepares to castrate and torture Prent to death in full witness of the captives, gloating that "he'll know what to do" with Nola and the young Chinese girls once he's through with Prent.
• Bump in The Night: Ben Nicolaides is a slimy pornographer who has long realized that the best money is in child porn. Nicolaides runs an operation in which he kidnaps and forces children to commit sexual acts on film, then distributes the tapes across New York to paying pedophiles. When his girlfriend Cheryl allows one of their clients, Lawrence Muller, to personally molest the kidnapped child Jonathan Tierney, Nicolaides beats said girlfriend to death for getting the cops involved, and then tries to murder the client and Jonathan to cover his involvement up and protect his pornography ring.
• Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe: Commandante Veracruz is a crooked military officer seeking to secure a drug trading lane for his employer, Governor Perez. In his repeated attempts to massacre the farmers currently living on the land that the trading lane crosses through, Veracruz murdered the father of Beatriz and has tried to kill the teenage girl as well. Veracruz plots to slaughter a hospital clinic of its staff and patients and blame it on the farmers, framing them as "terrorists" so Veracruz can get military aid to wipe the farmers out entirely. When Sam Axe repeatedly interferes, Veracruz murders several of his own henchmen out of annoyance, then brutally beats Sam and tries to force him to watch as the farmers, hospital patients, and multiple other innocents are gunned down.
• Cabin by the Lake & Return to Cabin by the Lake: Stanley Caldwell is a horror movie writer who moonlights as a misogynistic serial killer. To get inspiration for his scripts, he kidnaps teenage girls and locks them up in a soundproof room for several days before he puts them in a dress and drowns them in the nearby Lake Summit by weighing them down. He creates a grotesque underwater graveyard from their corpses, which he frequently visits. He also stabs a movie director to death and tries to commit a double murder of his agent and the Final Girl. He fakes his own demise, later returning to infiltrate the set of a movie based on his work. He proceeds to kill a large part of the crew in various brutal ways. With his murder spree halted, he kidnaps the second heroine to make her the centerpiece of his next "garden". While it's initially speculated that he must have a Freudian Excuse of some sort, he explains that there is none; he simply enjoys watching people beg for their lives and wants to share his crimes with the world to fuel his massive ego.
• Cast a Deadly Spell has the Big Bad and his Dragon:
  • The wealthy Amos Hackshaw who plans to summon the Outer Gods so he can sell out his world for them to turn into "a world of the unburied dead" in exchange for godhood. To do this, Hackshaw focuses decades of his life, including marriage and having a child, to making sure he has the perfect circumstances for the ceremony. Using the masquerade of being an overprotective dad to keep his daughter a suitable Virgin Sacrifice, Hackshaw then goes about acquiring the Necronomicon. After the book is stolen to prevent the apocalypse, Hackshaw simultaneously hires private eye Phil Lovecraft and mob boss Harry Bordon, the latter of whom he promised lordship over the post-apocalyptic world, to retrieve it. Creating a gargoyle servant to tail Lovecraft, Hackshaw ends up using the creature to eliminate the book's thief and a few other loose ends. After Borden captures Lovecraft, Hackshaw decides that he should be Forced to Watch as Hackshaw offers his own daughter in sacrifice to Yog-Sothoth.
  • Harry Bordon, the ex-partner of detective Lovecraft and a mobster and co-conspirator of Amos Hackshaw, introduces himself having his own right-hand-man, Tugwell, cut apart a man named Locksteader who brings him a phony copy of the Necronomicon apart by means of a whirlwind of paper. Bordon has Tugwell pursue and murder Lovecraft once he becomes an obstacle, regardless of the collateral damage, and simply has his zombie bodyguard drown Tugwell once it's revealed Tugwell murdered Locksteader before he could impart vital information. Bordon gloatingly reveals in the climax he's sold out the entire world to Hackshaw, willingly dooming the entire human race to a horrible extinction at the hands of the Old Ones to rule over the remainder as an immortal.
• Cerberus (2005 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Marcus Cutter is a renegade American soldier dishonorably discharged for a slew of war crimes—among them air-bombing a village and cutting a child in half—who sells out his own country to aspiring Korean terrorist Kul Jae Sung to retrieve the legendary Sword of Mars. Complicit in Sung's plans to nuke America and kill millions so long as he receives the money he's been promised, Marcus takes the brother of Professor Samantha Gaines hostage to force her to transcribe the inscriptions leading him to the Sword, and after Samantha gains access to the tomb under the guidance of Marcus's fellow soldier Jake, Marcus ambushes them, murders one of Jake's friends in front of him out of spite, and condemns Jake's party to die in the cave. The resultant robbery of the sword unleashes the titular Cerberus on a nearby village, to which Marcus remains apathetic. Marcus takes residence in the village, raping a woman who catches his eye and killing anyone who challenges him —villagers and his own men alike—before betraying Sung, decapitating him, and intending to extort billions out of America with the nukes. Once it's revealed the Sword has made him invincible, Marcus goes on a killing spree with the Sword and declares himself utterly invincible. Marcus begins and ends as a power-thirsty psychopath interested only in his own ends.
• Clive Barker Presents Saint Sinner (2002): The succubus, Munkar, murders a monk who helps awaken her before fleeing to the 21st century with her sister Nakir. Killing and feeding on multiple men, Munkar tortures others for information, relishing the pain and fear of her victims as she also seeks to kill the monk Tomas, who intends to stop the two. When Nakir's child is born, Munkar decides to leave Nakir to be devoured by the ravenous infant succubus as Nakir is no longer of use to her, plotting to turn heroine police investigator Dessler into a succubus and use her to lure in more prey.
• Daughter for Sale (2017 Lifetime movie): John Gallant, along with his assistant Chelsea, are vile Human Traffickers who abduct runaway girls and auction them off to wealthy men. Abducting Carly O'Neil, they keep her in line by threatening her friend Jenny, only to murder Jenny anyways in spite of Carly's compliance. When Carly's mother Annalise begins to dig too deep, John has her assaulted and robbed, and then tries to kill her himself when she interferes with the attempted ship off.
• Dead 7:
  • Apocalypta is a brutal warlord who turns people into zombies so she can use them for her army, sweeping over the landscape as she puts entire towns to the sword with people there slaughtered to be converted to her undead armies. Killing her own men for little reason, Apocalypta even has one fed to her zombies for "live meat" and later leads an attack on one town, intending to massacre every man, woman and child in the process.
  • Johnny Vermillion is Apocalypta's lunatic of a right-hand, and a sadist barely able to keep in his giggles at all the slaughter he surrounds himself with. Johnny always spearheads the zombie attacks himself, gleefully having entire towns devoured while riding into the fray to kill as many people as he can himself. Johnny kneecaps and executes the mayor of a town he tries to lay waste to, and stabs Daisy Jane before feeding her to the zombies, forcing her boyfriend Billy to watch and hysterically mocking his agony.
• Dead Fire (1997): Convict Max Durbin, upon being released from his cell, slaughters most of the staff and guards of the station he is on, having his lover shoot the commander when the man refuses to knuckle under. Murdering said lover when he deems her to have failed him; Durbin later kills her "replacement" out of spite, Durbin intends to cause a nuclear blast that will cause an untold catastrophe on Earth, allowing him to shape the progress of a new society like he was a god.
• A Deadly Vision (1997): The killer is a lustful maniac who stalks women looking for a "mate" for him to sexually abuse. The killer would harass women before ambushing them in their homes and trying to assault them. When they resisted him, the killer would murder the women. He kills at least 3 women, with more implied by his notebook of names of his victims, and targets Babette for the same fate. The killer plans to force Babette Watson to watch as he kills her lover before raping her.
• Deep Red (1994): Dr. Thomas Newmeyer is an narcissistic Mad Scientist who has artificially extended his own life through the alien "Deep Reds". To ensure the longevity of his own unnatural life, Newmeyer kills a slew of people who also have the Deep Reds in their blood so he can drain them dry. His victims range from his supposed best friend of 40 years to numerous innocent bystanders, culminating in his attempt to murder a little girl with cerebral palsy for her Deep Reds. When Newmeyer tries to paint his crimes as the sacrifices of a Well-Intentioned Extremist, the hero counters that there's no human cost Newmeyer would deem insufficient in the pursuit of his own ego.
• Deep Shock (2003 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Dr. Chomsky is the film's main antagonist and the true monster. After his plan to seal a trench melting the northern ice caps gets the Hubris research station's crew slaughtered, Chomsky is angrier at his plan failing than upset by the people he got killed. Obsessed with proving his rival Dr. Anne Fletcher's theories wrong, he sends a member of his crew to his death purely to provoke the eels into attacking to justify an attempt to kill them and proceed with his plans. Lying to the UN, Chomsky attempts to have the eels annihilated by the massive nuclear strike that would disrupt fishing in the area for hundreds of years and abandons another of his crew to drown to save his own hide. After Anne comes back to save him, he tries to murder her and leaves her and Captain Raines to die out of spite. Selfish and cowardly above all else, Chomsky's only concern is upstaging Anne, and he's willing to endanger humanity and commit genocide to do so.
• The Dirty Dozen: Deadly Mission: SS Colonel Krieger is a ruthless Nazi in late World War II who kidnaps several scientists and their families, forcing them to develop a lethal nerve gas he has horribly tested on innocents. Intending to use the virus against Nazi Germany's enemies with the potential to cause millions of deaths to assure the victory of the Nazi regime, Krieger viciously cracks down on any threats to his objective, callously having the French resistance leader and his aide gunned down the moment they step into his territory, having a half-dozen hostages hanged to dissuade further threats, and furiously trying to murder the new dozen led by Major Wright alongside every single hostage when they escape.
• Don't Look Down (1998): Mark Engel plotted his wife Carla's death in order to inherit her family fortune. When her sister Rachel fell to her death instead, Mark began killing Carla's new group of friends and planting evidence pointing to her as their murderer, drugging her drinks with hallucinogens and using her inherited schizophrenia against her to make her believe that Rachel is still alive and behind the killings. Tormenting Carla's friends with their pasts and digging up dirt on her therapist to drive her further into insanity, Mark confronts her and her therapist at the cliff where Rachel fell, revealing his plan and making one final effort to throw the both of them off.
• Doom Runners: Dr. Kao, a former ally of the rebellion formed against the evil corporations who ruined the Earth, turned against his colleagues when he deemed their methods too soft. Dr. Kao now rules as tinpot dictator over the last remnants of humanity in a place called Aftertime, subjecting any dissidents to his regime—often alongside their innocent families—to a mind-wipe procedure, completely destroying the people they used to be. Dr. Kao has stolen the minds of so many people that an entire community has formed consisting of people with no conception of the world around them. Dr. Kao has no compunction subjecting his own minions to the procedure, and after having forced an ally of the heroes to act as The Mole under the threat of her brother's mind, gleefully subjects her brother to the procedure anyway.
• Dracula 3000: Count Orlok, a vampire from the planet of Transylvania, boards a space vessel with the intention of going to Earth to feast on and terrorize humanity, slowly killing the crew of the vessel through plague and insanity. When a salvage crew comes to investigate the ship fifty years later, Orlok traps them on the vessel, picking them off one by one and turning them into his vampiric servants, even killing the descendant of the Van Helsing family leading the crew.

E - P

• Escape from Sobibór: Sergeant Gustav Wagner is the cold-hearted Nazi deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp. Exerting complete control over the prisoners through violence, he personally executes a new prisoner who offends and slaps another officer. He takes away a baby that was sneaked past the extermination selection to be killed, right in front of the baby's mother Naomi, and shoots both Naomi and her baby on the spot when Naomi resists. When an escape attempt occurs, he had the 13 captured prisoners each select another prisoner to be executed with them, or else he would select another 50 to be executed. All remaining prisoners were then Forced to Watch the execution of the 26 men by machine gun, since Wagner said that anyone that isn't watching would be executed as well. A symbol of the Nazis' wanton cruelty, Wagner's actions became a motivation for the prisoners to rise up and escape from the hellish camp.
• The Execution (1985): Wilheim Gehbert, the "Beast of Birkenau," was a Mad Doctor at Auschwitz in his heyday who preyed upon countless Jewish female inmates, raping and torturing some of them to the point they were no longer able to conceive—if they ever left the camps. After Gehbert walks off a sentence for his direct hand in thousands of deaths, some of the survivors elect to kill Gehbert in a vigilante crusade. When Gehbert recognizes one of his victims, he is absolutely remorseless, telling her before he tries to kill her that if he had a chance to do what he did again, he absolutely would—only he'd be more thorough.
• Ghostquake (2012 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Headmaster Alger Danforth is the former headmaster of Holloman High School and leader of a Satanic cult. With his followers, Danforth would murder, torture, and mutilate the students. When one of his cult members fell in love with him, Danforth exploited this to turn her into a demonic attack dog. Accidentally released in the present day, Danforth began torturing and killing the students and teachers using a variety of sadistic means. All the while, Danforth and the Female Acolyte stole the victims' souls to empower themselves. After the Female Acolyte is banished, Danforth possessed his descendant Quinten so he could force him to make his girlfriend Whitney his new demonic attack dog. Danforth's entire magic system revolves around the pain and suffering he inflicts, and he enjoys every minute of it.
• Ghostwatch: The malevolent spirit nicknamed "Mr. Pipes" is a vile entity, and the two people that make up the ghost were just as vile even before they became one:
  • Mother Seddons was a baby farmer in the Victorian era who would murder the children under her care by drowning. Even centuries after her death, her legend was used to scare local children. Her violent ghost would continue to haunt the land she once inhabited, including possessing local pedophile Raymond Tunstall to abduct children and mutilate a pregnant dog. Seddons would later drive him to insanity and suicide, making him hang and electrocute himself, then allow his corpse to be eaten by cats. Seddons' influence would continue to be felt after she and Tunstall became the entity "Pipes", harming, threatening, and abducting the Early children. When the show Ghostwatch broadcasts the events, "Pipes" uses the connection as a giant séance to possess the host and wreak havoc on the viewers around the world.
  • Raymond Tunstall was a depraved individual even prior to his possession by Seddons. Described by his own parole officer as someone who "should never even have been let near a community", Tunstall was a violent pedophile who abused and molested many local minors. Hiding out in a relative's basement while on parole, Tunstall was influenced and later possessed by Seddons to abduct children and eventually take his own life. Returning as the entity "Pipes", Tunstall's pedophilic desires were carried over, leading to the frequent harm, possession, molestation, and eventual abduction of the Early family's eldest daughter Suzanne. Using Ghostwatch's broadcast of the events, "Pipes" goes on to influence more chaos, including reports of children acting possessed.
• Good Against Evil (1977): Mr. Rimmin is the head of a devil worshipping cult who reveres the demon Astaroth. Hoping to kickstart Astaroth's apocalypse plan in exchange for immortality, Rimmin rapes a woman and kills her after she gives birth, making the baby named Jessica act as a future vessel for Astaroth. Killing any of Jessica's boyfriends so that she remains a virgin, once one of his own fails to kill her newest boyfriend Andy Stuart, he has another follower of his killed by an army of killer cats for failing him. Sending his men out to kill a preacher while he hypnotizes Jessica in an attempt to break the love Andy has for her, he allows Astaroth to possess Andy's former girlfriend Linda's daughter just to make him suffer.
• Headless Horseman: The Headless Horseman himself was a Serial Killer named Calvin Montgomery even before becoming the horseman. Calvin was also a Satan worshipper and sacrificed multiple children to him to grow stronger. Eventually, a priest defeats Calvin, and he is killed. Calvin makes a deal with Satan that he would become the Headless Horseman and take the heads of seven to get his head back and for nearly a century does just that. During the film, Headless first murders Seth and takes his head; he then kills Tiffany and then Doc, and picks off nearly all the teens until only Candy, Liam, and Ava remain.
• Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer (2013 Lifetime movie): Daedalus—true identity seemingly upstanding Judge Gale Anderson—is a depraved killer who hunts cheating wives and subjects them to a deadly maze for fun and has over 30 victims to his name. Daedalus glories in killing people and trains apprentices to continue his legacy who he has no issue getting rid of when they're no longer of use. Intentionally getting captured to bask in beating the police after Gale's unwitting daughter frees him, he then captures her and tries to gas her. Planning to have her killed as part of his masterpiece in his ultimate quest to be an infamous killer, he mocks her by revealing he murdered her mother.
• I Almost Married a Serial Killer (2019 Lifetime movie): Rafael Dupont is a sociopathic killer who enjoys seducing women into loving him before gutting them. Having killed 8 women before this and kept trophies of his victims, he sets his eyes on heroine Camille. Stopped by her, Rafael then uses plastic surgery to re-infiltrate her life and seduces and attempt to kill her again, even leveraging the life of Camille's daughter if she won't submit to him.
• In My Daughter's Name (1992): Peter Lipton rapes and kills the teenaged Carly Elias. In court, it is revealed that Lipton had previously raped another girl named Barbra Samp. After Carly's mother, Laura, begins stalking Lipton after he's released from psychiatric evaluation, Lipton confronts Laura outside her home, and implies that he wants to rape her other daughter, Lissa. Lipton tries to lure in a girl he meets at the mall to rape, before he is stopped and shot dead by Lauren.
• In the Spider's Web (2007): Dr. Lecorpus lives in rural India and runs an organ smuggling ring in caves with venomous spiders. Lecorpus lures in or abducts innocents, giving them to the spiders to injecting venom within them to produce agonizing effects, along with keeping their organs from spoiling while Lecorpus cuts them out while still alive in most cases to extract said organs to sell. With no care for anyone or anything, Lecorpus happily kills all he can get away with solely to profit.
• Irresistible Force (also known as Power Cop) (1993): James Barron is a smarmy, white supremacist terrorist who kidnaps a mall full of innocents and powerful politicians, executing those who resist, threatening to murder them one after another if he isn't provided with millions of dollars and a private army of Death Row criminals. Barron also kidnaps the son of one of his old allies to force his hand, intending on killing both of them after they fill out their use. Promising to let the hostages go when he's done, Barron instead plans to employ a canister of lethal nerve gas to kill any and all loose ends, and half of Los Angeles with them.
• It (1990): IT is a predatory eldritch entity that vaguely resembles a Giant Spider and dwells in a cavern under the city of Derry, Maine. Awakening every thirty years, IT has terrorized the populace of Derry since at least the early 1700s. A gleeful sadist that savours the taste of fear, IT uses its shapeshifting and illusory powers to terrify its victims; decorating its lair with their cocooned corpses. Preferring to eat children, IT uses the comical guise of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to lure them in; its psychic influence causing most adults to be apathetic and clouding the memories of those who leave Derry. In 1960, IT ripped off six-year-old Georgie Denbrough's arm, repeatedly tormenting his older brother Bill and the other six members of the Losers' Club with their worst fears when they rallied to stop its child-killing spree. Seemingly vanquished, IT returns in 1990 and leaves a young girl's mangled remains as a message to the Losers' Club that it survived. When they return to end its reign of terror, IT repeatedly taunts them over Stan's suicide, breaks Henry Bowers out of prison to kill them, abducts Bill's wife Audra and leaves her comatose with its Deadlights, and finally crushes Eddie with its claws.
• Kojak: The Belarus File: Heinrich Buchardt is the man at the heart of the Operation Belarus. A former concentration camp commandant responsible for the deaths of thousands who were dumped in mass graves, Buchardt used the United States to escape justice with his co-conspirators, later assisting the US in guerilla war with the Soviets. Having been responsible for the murders of the family of concentration camp survivor Peter Barak, Buchardt tries to hunt down and kill Barak, even if he must kill Barak's daughter first.
• Kung Fu Killer (2008): The wicked Khan is a cruel warlord in China who rules with an iron fist and enslaves the peasants to farm poppies for his opium trade which he uses to keep others enslaved to him via addictions. In the film's opening, Khan has a peaceful temple of martial artist monks slaughtered with their grandmaster, resulting in only the hero Crane as the survivor. Keeping scientists enslaved and addicted, Khan has them create a poison gas for him to help conquer China, first testing the gas on helpless prisoners. Once satisfied with the results, he intends to spread it across China to assist his conquest.
• L.A. Takedown: Waingro is a psychopathic member of McClaren's team who turns a robbery into a bloodbath by slaughtering the guards. Escaping his own team's vengeance, Waingro sells out their heist to result in massive casualties in a shootout. Waingro is also a vicious Serial Killer in his spare time, murdering young women and prostitutes for nothing more than thrills, before closing the film killing McClaren and bragging about self-defense.
• Mind Blown (2016): Colonel Tyron Clayton is a seemingly well-intentioned military commander who actually plans on betraying his country to throw the entire world into chaos and take power for himself. Exploiting Project Mind Blown to steal the telekinetics' abilities to start natural disasters, Clayton manipulates the telekinetics into nearly wiping out a small town, killing nearly 700 people. Eventually, Clayton uses the telekinetics' power to wipe out the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, decimating millions as a result. When his treachery is exposed, Clayton tries sending another wave of natural disasters to wipe out all of Washington D.C. as a final gesture of destabilizing the United States.
• Nature Of The Beast (2007 ABC Family film): Donovan Warder is an Ax-Crazy alpha werewolf who commits wanton violence and murder solely for his own amusement. Disguising himself as an unassuming college professor who teaches protagonist Rich, Donovan reveals his true nature as the Alpha werewolf upon slaughtering Rich's friend and cursing Rich to become a werewolf himself. What makes this action worse is that, unlike other werewolves, Donovan has full control over his transformations and has free will all the while, killing Rich's friend and cursing him to lycanthropy solely for sadism. Later attending a dinner Rich and his fiancé Julia invited him to, he forcefully turns Rich into a werewolf and tries to make him kill Julia and her family. When Rich resists, Donovan discards him and tries to kill Julia's family in front of both of them himself, but not before trying to corrupt him into succumbing to his inner beast so Rich would become like him. It's also heavily implied Donovan's responsible for the mass murder of innocents, such as killing a man because he wanted his house. A sadist who reveled in acts from the petty and spiteful to the hateful and murderous, Donovan was a fine example of a beast as monstrous on the inside as he was on the outside.
• The Night Stalker: Janos Skorzeny, the first true monster Kolchak ever faces, is a vampire who utilizes his wealth and cunning to become a particularly vicious Serial Killer. Moving from place to place with many corpses behind him, Skorzeny's latest hunting ground is Las Vegas, where he proceeds to attack and murder multiple young women for their blood while being happy to kill whoever gets in his way.
• Octopus (2000): The real monster is Casper, the world's most wanted terrorist and a psychopath who believes that one should solely focus on the thing they want and pursue it with no regrets. In Casper's case, this is killing innocent people, as shown in his first scene, as he happily blows up a US embassy with a bomb concealed in a basket, which he takes special care to place next to a little girl, who is holding it when it goes off. It is noted upon his arrest that this is the ninth time he's done this, and he later places a bomb on a busy road while he tries to. After FBI analyst Roy Turner saves his life, despite Casper's actions killing his partner, Casper proceeds to spend the majority of the film attempting to either break Roy by mocking his partner's death and his refusal to kill another human being, or outright murder him, even if it means gleefully putting innocents in the path of the title Sea Monster. In order to force Roy to free him, Casper takes as hostage a member of the crew of the submarine he's being transported on, then slits the hostage's throat without a second thought. He then forces the ship's scientist Lisa Finch to send a distress signal to a cruise ship his followers have commandeered—intending to destroy the ship and kill everyone on it afterwards—and implies he intends to rape her. Right up to his death at the hands of the octopus, Casper remains an unrepentant psychopath with a massive body count, trying to make the life of a person who saved his life a living Hell and killing anyone he desires without a moment's regret.
• Operation Delta Force: Colonel Johann Nash, leader of a white supremacist terrorist group, launches an attack on a UN Biochemical Research Facility to obtain samples of a newly-discovered viral strain, personally gunning down dozens of unarmed scientists and research personnel to Leave No Survivors and intending to use the virus to unleash a global epidemic for cleansing the world in his own image. After Major Tipton disables his transport, Nash hijacks a train station, having his men slaughter civilians en masse while taking the occupants of the train hostage, and later has an entire village captured to lure the Delta Force into a trap, intending to have villagers and Delta Force members massacred to cover his tracks. After the viral strain had leaked out and the only sample of the antidote is in Nash's possession, Nash intends to send his infected henchmen to cities worldwide, to spread the virus to as many countries as he can.
• Out of the Ashes (2003 Showtime film): Dr. Josef Mengele is one of the leading Nazi commanders of Auschwitz concentration camp, whose polite demeanor belies his sadistic nature. In charge of determining which women are to be gassed and cremated, he also leads torturous medical experiments on the prisoners without anesthesia, euthanizing the subject once the test is done. Paranoid of disease within the camp, Mengele massacres entire barracks if a person is found to be sick. Upon first meeting Gisella Perl, he deceives her into sending several pregnant women to the gas chambers, solely to spite her for asking to be reunited with her family. After Auschwitz opens its first infirmary, Mengele conscripts any doctors among his prisoners, killing several when Gisella initially refuses to join him. Fascinated with reproducing pure Aryans, he orders the delivery of twins from a gypsy woman to study them and, when the woman puts up a struggle against euthanization, Mengele viciously shoots her. Even years after Auschwitz was liberated, Mengele's crimes continue to haunt Gisella and her fellow prisoners.
• Panic in the City: "August Best"—real name unknown—is a rogue Soviet operative based in Los Angeles who intends to detonate an atomic bomb, killing thousands of innocent people. To ensure the silence of a scientist regarding the bomb that Best was trying to have him construct, Best has an assassin kill the scientist in the hospital, having the assassin himself killed when he asks too many questions. Subsequently, Best contacts another scientist to get him to complete the atomic bomb in a suburban basement hideout, smuggling the latter out of his house, and trying to have the butler killed to remove witnesses. Once a subordinate delivers the final component for the bomb, he sends her and another subordinate to Chicago, intending to repeat the process. When confronted by his superior, who calls him insane and threatens to arrest him, Best shoots the man before returning to the hideout, pursued by Agent Dave Pomeroy. At the hideout, Best triggers the bomb against the scientist's wishes before shooting the scientist.
• Paris Trout: Paris Trout is a racist shopkeeper who loans a car to an African American named Henry Sayers. When Henry does not pay back the loan, Trout goes to the Sayers house with an employee named Buster Devonne to demand payment. When the family does not give him the money, Trout and Devonne shoot the mother, Mary, along with the 12-year-old daughter, Rosie. Arrested for his crime, Trout and Devonne lie that the family attacked them, and they were only defending themselves. Before his court date, Trout abuses his wife by dunking her under water and sodomizing her with a wine bottle. Upon learning that his wife has been cheating on him, Trout kills his mother, before attempting to kill his wife. When the man that had sex with his wife appears, Trout kills him instead, before killing himself.
• Perfect Assassins: Dr. Samuel Greely wants to test the Skinner box on humans. He started his tests on Ben Carroway, and framed Ben's mother as being involved when he's caught. After fleeing to Mexico, he starts an operation where he kidnaps children and locks them in boxes, where he electrifies their sole food source and prevents them from forming any emotional attachments, turning them into human attack dogs. He then sends then to assassinate people and then kill themselves. When a subject fails, he locks them in the box again, which causes them to have trauma-induced panic attacks.
• Personal Vendetta (1995): Zachary "Zach" Blackwell is Bonnie Blackwell's short-tempered, abusive husband, as well as a secret slave trader. Arrested for violently beating his wife Bonnie on a daily basis, Zach is later revealed to lead a mail-order bride operation where he has Vietnamese women brought over to America as illegal immigrants to be sold to rich clients. Released on parole for good behavior, Zach later kills kind-hearted cop Bill Starr during a payment dispute with one of his former customers. Trying to kill his ex-wife every chance he can get, once he's busted by Bonnie at his hideout, Zach leaves his men behind to get killed by her, before telling her how he preferred her powerless and scared.
• The President's Man (2000):
  • Vietnamese General Vihn Tran, in the pursuit of money, betrayed his friend Joshua McCord and murdered his wife. Years later, Tran plots the destruction of several major cities with the power of armed nukes, planning to obliterate New York simply as a show of force. Kidnapping a nuclear physicist named Dr. Francis Anderson and his family, Tran forces Anderson to arm the nukes with the promise his wife and his two young children will be tortured to death in front of him, attempting to spitefully murder them once Anderson fails to arm the nukes in time with the cold quip of "never going against his word." Ordering hero Deke Slater tortured once he attempts to save the family, Tran attempts to murder Joshua himself in the final battle to complete what he attempted years ago.
  • Don Diego Santiago is a ruthless Colombian drug lord who allies himself with General Vihn Tran to gain more power than he already possesses. Introduced torturing a man by hitting golf balls into various parts of his body, Santiago is currently turning out drugs from a base filled with children he holds as hostages to keep any military strikes from being carried out on him. Later kidnapping Dr. Anderson alongside the man's family, Santiago cheerfully reveals he will torture Anderson's wife and child daughters to death one at a time for every day he can't arm half a dozen nuclear bombs for him and Vihn Tran. Santiago and Vihn Tran plan to first nuke New York City, then use the rest of the bombs on other targets, and Santiago ultimately happily assists Vihn Tran in the near execution of one of Anderson's children, standing by with a sadistic smile on his face as Deke Slater is tortured for information by jumper cables on himself and Tran's orders.
• Pride (2004 BBC telefilm): Harry is an alpha male lion who leads a rogue pride known as "The Wanderers". The beginning of the movie establishes him as a ruthless psychopath who leads attacks on other prides, including one belonging to the film's heroine Suki, and murders lionesses such as Fleck's mother. Harry knows that Suki is a vegetarian lion who abhors hunting other animals and he exploits this when Suki is fully grown and leaves her pride. After Suki gives birth to cubs fathered by Harry's wingman Dark, Harry kills and eats all but one of her cubs. Harry uses that sole surviving cub, Rory, to blackmail Suki, threatening that he will make Rory "go missing" if she does not hunt for the Wanderers. He also plans out another attack on Suki's pride and states that he wants to kill everyone within her pride. When Harry fights Suki's brother, he finds Rory hiding and attacks him. At that moment, Dark realizes what the psychopath did to his cubs and shoves him off the cliff to his death.
• Primal Doubt (also known as Personal Indiscretions) (2007): Dr. Marianne Thorne is the former therapist of Amanda Freeman, who came to Dr. Thorne for help after cheating on her husband. Thorne, after becoming tired of hearing Amanda go on and on about her marriage issues and affair each week without making progress, decides to kill her. Five years later, Jean Harper comes to Thorne after she and Chase start to have marriage issues. Becoming annoyed once again, Thorne kills Travis, the guy Jean was seeing on an online dating site. She then tries to kill Chase by running him off a mountain road, kills Jean's friends Carla and Jody, then attempts to murder Jean as well. She's quite willing to attack the detectives with a knife before being shot dead.
• Psych: The Movie: Allison Cowley is the apprentice of Mr. Yin. In her first appearance in the season 5 finale, she passed herself off as a helpless victim of Yin to Shawn, only to lure them into one of Yin's traps. Beaten by Juliet, Cowley returns for revenge in the movie, and proves that even without her mentor's influence she can still be just as monstrous. Ordering her men to gun down Juliet's partner, upon his survival, Cowley has one of her subordinates murder him in the hospital, killing all employees attending to him in the process. Cowley later kidnaps Chief Vick's teenage daughter to lure the heroes to Alcatraz. When she reveals herself to the Psych crew, she coldly shoots her right-hand man dead due to having no further use for him. Telling the gang that she has strapped a bomb to Vick's daughter that will go off in twenty minutes and kill them all unless they find it, Cowley orders her remaining minions to kill the heroes as slowly as possible before finally getting her rematch with Juliet. Unapologetically psychotic and willing to hurt others just to spite her rival, Cowley managed to darken the tone of the show with each appearance she made.
• Purgatory:
  • Blackjack Britton is the leader of a gang of outlaws that open the film robbing a bank and killing numerous people. When Blackjack's brother is shot, he shows no concern and leaves him behind to die in agony. When the gang finds the mysterious town of Refuge, despite the townspeople treating them well, Blackjack decides to have his men steal all the towns money and kill all the inhabitants after he learns that the townspeople have no weapons, even allowing his second-in-command, Cavin Guthrie, to rape a woman named Rose. He beats Sonny Miller up and tries to kill him when he tries to defend the town.
  • Cavin Guthrie is Sonny Miller's uncle, and just as bad as his boss. When the gang arrives in Refuge, he tries to rape a woman named Rose. He later decides that Sonny is too soft and has him thrown out of the gang, later beating him up along with Blackjack. When Blackjack tells the gang that they will seal all of the town's money and kill everyone, Cavin states that he intends to rape Rose like he originally tried to do. Finally, he kills his nephew during the final showdown.

R - Z

• Red Faction: Origins: Stroller is the leader of the White Faction, made from the remnants of the EDF. When the White Faction faces population collapse due to influenza, Stroller seeks to repopulate the ranks by abducting children and raising them to be soldiers. Stroller makes a specific target out of Alec Mason's children, personally killing their mother Samanya and taking Lyra while Jake barely escapes. Stroller places himself as a father figure to Lyra, making her believe that her family is dead and that he saved her. In the present, Stroller is responsible for escalating tensions between the colonists and Marauders, killing people on both sides and framing the other party. To orchestrate a war, Stroller launches attack on Eos to massacre civilians before turning their attention to attack the Marauders. When Stroller sees Jake aboard his ship, coincidentally at the time Lyra realizes the truth, Stroller attempts to kill her personally, denouncing her as a traitor.
• Red Riding: Even in a time during the Yorkshire Ripper murders, these two manage to stand out as completely evil:
  • Reverend Martin Laws, aka "The Wolf", is the leader of a child sex-and-murder ring where he and various officials rape, torture, and strangle kids to death before sewing swan wings onto their corpses. Working with the corrupt West Yorkshire Constabulary (WYC), he allows them to do whatever they can to keep his club a secret, whether it be torture or murder, even framing people like the mentally challenged Michael Myshkin for the kidnappings. When BJ—a male prostitute who managed to escape the club as a child—returns to kill him, the Wolf coerces BJ into letting his guard down before trying to murder him with a power drill.
  • John Dawson is a corrupt, charismatic real estate developer, and the worst member of the Wolf's child sex-and-murder ring. Pursuing a £100 million joint investment between himself and the top echelons of the WYC on his shopping center project in return for covering up his crimes, Dawson orders the evacuation of a Romani camp before having it burned down and made his property. Kidnapping a young girl in 1974, Dawson proceeds to rape, torture, and strangle her to death before stitching swan wings to her back, dumping the body on his new property where he'll build his new shopping center. Willing to do whatever he can to prevent the truth from leaking, he sends his wife to a nursing home, orders the police to kill reporter Barry and his own girlfriend Paula Garland, and has Edward Dunford tortured.
• Red: Werewolf Hunter: The murderous werewolf leader Gabriel arrives in town to begin killing innocents while turning heroine Red's fiancée into a werewolf to set them against one another. Running "The Game", Gabriel turns others into werewolves while abducting numerous innocents for one purpose: to be hunted down by his werewolves for sport, even killing Red's brothers to provoke her.
• Reign of the Gargoyles: SS-Obersturmführer Mueller is an agent of the Thule Society sent to wipe out take control of an army of gargoyles and wipe out or take over any enemy combatants in the area. When he arrives in the French village where the gargoyles were summoned, he massacres the populace for collaborating with the British Army, regardless of actual guilt, and threatens the survivors' children to get the enemy's location. Soon after, Mueller captures a couple Allied soldiers and leaves them as bait to be torn apart by the gargoyles. When the rest of the Allies show up to rescue them, Mueller abandons his men to die so he can save his own skin.
• Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis & Rave to the Grave: Charles Garrison is a callous Hybra Tech official craving for world domination. Experimenting with the Trioxin 5 to turn an untold number of people into zombies for the Necropolis secret project, Garrison plans on creating an army of cloned bioweapons to subjugate humanity—in the past, Garrison exhumed the corpses of his own family members and turned them into zombified Super Soldiers for his research. When the zombies breach containment, Garrison takes advantage of the chaos to release the super soldiers, risking the lives of his own nephews for a chance to escape. Returning in the sequel as an Arms Dealer, Garrison tries to sell a canister of Trioxin 5 to what he thinks is The Mafia, caring only for his well-being and the money that he will attain with the Trioxin 5.
• The Riverman (2004): Ted Bundy is a sadistic, narcissistic Serial Killer incarcerated for several murders. Masking dozens more rapes and murders across seven different states, Bundy killed girls as young as 12 and further defiled their corpses to "possess" them. Consulting with law enforcement ostensibly to catch the Green River Killer, but truthfully just using it as a chance to reminiscence about his crimes and be in the spotlight, Bundy tries his best to corrupt Detective Keppel into becoming a monster like himself.
• Satan's School for Girls (1973): Dr. Joseph Clampett is an art teacher employed at the Salem Academy for Women. While he seems friendly and is well-liked by the students and faculty, Clampett is secretly the leader of a Satanic cult. Believing that he himself is the physical manifestation of the Prince of Darkness, Clampett manipulates girls with limited backgrounds into sacrificing themselves to him. Hundreds of years ago, Clampett gathered eight witches into a cellar wherein they committed suicide. Since then, Clampett had spent centuries searching for replacements to commemorate the event. If any girl were to refuse his advances, Clampett subjects them to madness, culminating in them killing themselves. A skilled corrupter, Clampett sends his students into the woods to beat Professor Delacroix to death when he began to suspect that something was wrong with the school. After failing to coerce Martha Sayers to his side, Clampett takes an interest in her sister, Elizabeth. Even though she manages to escape from the school, Clampett decides to carry on with the sacrifices, watching the school burn in amusement.
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982): Citizen Paul Chauvelin is a much more malevolent figure than his novel counterpart. As head of the Committee for Public Safety (or National Security), Chauvelin is responsible for the seizure and execution of France's aristocrats for supposedly being threats to France, often down to the last child. Tasked with arresting the Scarlet Pimpernel in exchange for a Council seat, Chauvelin frames his old flame Marguerite St. Just for ordering the deaths of another family to drive her away from her new husband Percy, then blackmails her into becoming his spy by threatening to execute her brother Armand as a spy for the Scarlet Pimpernel. Capturing the Scarlet Pimpernel—actually Percy—Chauvelin orders the executions of Percy, Marguerite, and Armand out of spite even when he offered their release before being defeated.
• Scream of the Banshee (2011 Syfy Channel Original Movie): The banshee is a sadistic, evil spirit. After being released from her prison, she marks a group of innocent people to be her prey, soon after scaring one to death. The banshee then proceeds to relentlessly torture and torment her other victims with illusions that they experience as if they were real, including stabbing Professor Isla Whelan with a spear. After tormenting Janie enough, the banshee kills her by forcing her to claw her own eyes out, and mocks her boyfriend Otto with her death. The banshee marks Professor Whelan's daughter Shayla and her boyfriend solely to get to her, tormenting and brutally killing the later even after he's already mortally wounded before using the form of his corpse to mock and torment the former. Above all else, the banshee enjoys making her victims want to die before killing them.
• Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2014 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Vladimir "Vlad" Futon is a computer scientist who proceeds to betray his country to foreign terrorists for money. Seizing control of the Pteracuda, Vlad directs it to attack civilians and down a commercial jetliner to cause chaos. After having it kill people to cover for him, Vlad sends it after a power plant to cause a nuclear meltdown in America while he skips out with all the money.
• Sharpe:
  • Sharpe's Company & Sharpe's Enemy: Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill lacks any of his book counterpart's redeeming qualities, however minor, while still maintaining his heinousness. Sharpe's Arch-Enemy, Hakeswill was a Sociopathic Soldier who was responsible for sentencing Sharpe to a flogging he knew would be a death sentence, before Sharpe was saved after receiving 200 lashes. An abusive bully to his men, Hakeswill regularly subjects soldiers to floggings to extort sexual favors from their wives and tries to rape Sharpe's wife Teresa. When Sharpe's best friend Harper stops him, Hakeswill frames him for a theft, resulting in his brutal flogging. Murdering one of his own soldiers to use his body as cover in the heat of battle, Hakeswill kills another soldier and tries to rape Teresa again. Hakeswill deserts the army before raping and murdering Sally Clayton, an innocent woman he's lusted after. Becoming the leader of a group of vicious bandits, Hakeswill waylays a group of noble women and is only stopped from raping them by warnings that it will damage the ransom value. When he learns Sharpe is bringing the ransom, Hakeswill doubles it at the last minute and allows his men to rape the non-noble women and tries to rape the nobles anyways. When Teresa stops him, Hakeswill fatally shoots her before being captured and facing the firing squad for his crimes.
  • Sharpe's Mission: Colonel Brand is a double agent who starts his career by personally killing an injured British officer, then carrying him back to the British lines and being hailed as a hero for trying to save him. This is the first of several acts of so-called heroism arranged by his handler French Colonel Cressan, who wants Brand to lure Sharpe and Ross into a trap. Brand murders a Gypsy couple who saw him meeting Cressan, then slaughters a Gypsy camp in a failed attempt to kill the couple's daughter, who also witnessed the meeting. He leads his men in massacring a group of French ex-deserters set up by Cressan and given faulty gunpowder so they were effectively unarmed, making a point of sadistically garroting the one who ran furthest. Despite giving them the self-aggrandizing name Brand's Boys, he has no loyalty to his men, calmly telling Sharpe that he abandons anyone who is injured. Even after being exposed and arrested, he tries to convince Sharpe to let him and his men massacre a fort garrison who have also been set up Cressan.
  • Sharpe's Challenge: William Dodd, a traitor to the British army, massacred a full contingent of soldiers to turn warlord in India. Years later, Dodd manipulates a Maharajah as his chief commander to start a war, slaughtering an entire village—which is something he has done in the past—to ensure all his enemies will fear him. Dodd ensures every British soldier dies a torturous death, and when British lady Celia Burroughs is kidnapped, Dodd expresses his desire to painfully rape her. Intending on slaughtering the British military and murdering his benefactor, Dodd attempts to flee when he has lost and murders his lover Madhuvanthi before facing Sharpe himself.
  • Sharpe's Peril: Colonel Count Vladimir Dragomirov is a cavalry commander in India, who also has a foothold in the opium trade. To cover his tracks, Dragomirov slaughters the village that had been growing the plants needed to make opium, as well as a garrison of British soldiers, leaving their commander tied up naked and Exposed to the Elements. Dragomirov and his men "save" a baggage train led by Colonel Richard Sharpe, but only to make scapegoats of a group of bandits opposing them. When Sharpe is separated from the baggage train along with Marie-Angelique, the fiancée of Dragomirov's dragon Major Philippe Joubert, Dragomirov threatens to have her gang-raped by his men unless Sharpe gives up the train, then has Sharpe tied up in a pit of snakes. When Sharpe and Marie-Angelique escape, Dragomirov pursues them to a village where the train has stopped, murders a priest that tries to dissuade him while telling the man "God does not work on a Sunday", and attacks the village with the intent of murdering everyone there. Greedy and treacherous, Dragomirov didn't care who he murdered as long as he gained something from it.
• Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001): Queen Elspeth was once a hideous sorceress and sister of the Granter of Wishes, who was transformed into a beautiful queen to be the wife of King John and stepmother of Snow White. Obsessed with being the Fairest of Them All, Elspeth becomes furious when Snow White overtakes her for this title. Elspeth enchants Hector the hunter to kill Snow White and bring her heart, before eating the heart, then murdering Hector for failing. Upon being rejected by Prince Alfred, Elspeth transforms him into a bear and traps him inside a snow globe. She also traps King John in a mirror, where he is Forced to Watch as she explains her plan to murder his daughter. Elspeth was also responsible for transforming many of the dwarves native to the forest into inanimate garden gnomes, a process that's implied they remain fully conscious. Elspeth's personal attempts to murder Snow White include strangling her with an enchanted ribbon, before transforming into Snow White's deceased mother and tricking her into eating the poisoned apple. When Wish Granter reveals her evil deeds cost Elspeth her beauty, she attempts to murder her own brother.
• Sometimes in April: Colonel Théoneste Bagosora is one of the orchestrators of the Rwandan genocide and the leader of both the regular FAR and Interahamwe paramilitary, collectively called the Génocidaires. Setting up death squads to assassinate Tutsi even before the genocide is ignited, Bagosora happily goes along with the coup and oversees the manufacturing of weapons, distributing them across Rwanda to be used in a wave of Rape, Pillage, and Burn against Tutsi, especially machetes that he imported from China; mockingly asking the benevolent Captain Augustin Muganza if he has "problem with it"; and using radio broadcasts to spread his hate and motivate even more people into participating in the genocide, culminating in countless massacres countrywide.
• Sometimes They Come Back: Richard Lawson was the leader of a gang of greasers that murdered a young boy and attempted to kill his little brother before dying in a freak accident. With his restless ghost murdering a student to come back, Lawson tortures and kills others to revive his other gang members. Tormenting the now-grown boy, Jim, Lawson attempts to kill his wife and young son, all out of a sense of gruesome unfinished business.
• The Spirit (1987): P'Gell Roxton, a wealthy philanthropist working for the Roxton Art Museum and Ellen Dolan's best friend, is actually a greedy Femme Fatale. Having Denny Colt's friend Will killed for trying to expose her antique forgery operation, upon finding out that the Spirit might have a manuscript containing evidence of her forgery, she has him tortured, even using Ellen to get the supposed information by strapping her to an iron maiden to be slowly crushed to death. Deciding to cover her tracks, P'Gell tries to detonate the entire art museum during a charity ball, uncaring that she'll be killing loads of people and helpless children in the process.
• SS Doomtrooper: Dr. Ullman is a geneticist making Super Soldiers for the Third Reich. To do so, he painfully experiments on dozens of people and animals, shooting down 17 Allied planes to protect his operation and eventually siccing his Doomtrooper on the French Resistance when he succeeds. When Captain Jerry Malloy is tasked with leading a covert operation to stop Ullman, he unleashes his monster once again, not caring when it massacres his fellow German soldiers. His boss tries to shut the experiments down, so he kills him and has several soldiers strapped down to become more Doomtroopers, ordering the previous one to slaughter the entire base when he's thwarted.
• The Stranger Beside Me (1995): Chris Gallagher, first appearing to be a charming and friendly man, turns out to be a Serial Rapist. Years prior to the start of the film, Chris molested his child sister, Dana, leaving her traumatized for years. Chris, upon marrying Jennifer Gallagher, eventually shows his true colors, being a verbally and physically abusive husband. Chris begins stalking Gina Colbert, shortly afterward breaking into her house and raping her at gunpoint. On the day of his baby daughter's delivery, Chris ditches Jennifer in the hospital to rape another woman. Jennifer, upon finding out that the man she married is a rapist, calls the police after he breaks into another woman's house, attempting to rape her.
• Terminal Virus (1995): Calloway, the ruthless leader of the Men's Army, makes it into a misogynistic cult that aims to spread terror across the post-apocalyptic land. Upon discovering a peaceful commune where people are immune to the virus that has infected humanity, Calloway massacres everyone there—men, women and children alike. Calloway later attempts to frame a potentially rebellious soldier and have him executed, where he is barely saved by the last survivor of the commune. The two aim to create a cure to the virus in a community of women, only for Calloway to attempt to slaughter all of them as well, abandoning his men to die when things go south and sneaking in to murder the heroes when his men end up reforming after their surrender.
• They Crawl (2001): James "Lazarus" Lazinski is the man behind the man-eating roaches. Discovering a frequency that allows him to control insects, Lazarus would test them by killing a bus driver, resulting in a massive accident in the middle of LA. He would then murder his friend Brian by having their creations eat him alive, followed by several others who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Faking his death and killing three people in the process, Lazarus would frame his teacher Jurgan for his crimes by having the roaches eat Ted's friend Shane in his basement. Confronted, Lazarus holds Detective O'Bannon's friend Glen hostage only to kill him anyway and attempt to dispose of the two in a crate of the roaches. Plotting to use his creation for world domination, Lazarus is the true monster of the film.
• The Thirteenth Tale (2013 BBC Film of the Book): Adeline March is the unstable and violent twin sister of Emmeline and cousin of Vida Winter, who described Adeline as "genuinely dangerous" and that "violence was always her first instinct". The twins, inseparable while growing up, had the run of the house while children and caused all sorts of havoc, which came to a head when the two pushed a baby in a carriage down a hill. When the local doctor's wife came to inquire about the incident, Adeline, who was nine years old, hit the doctor's wife in the back of the head with a violin. The twins' mother was blamed for the incident and a governess was hired to instill discipline. On the first day of school, Adeline stabbed Emmeline in the ankle with a pencil. The twins were separated for a time to see if they would improve but to no avail; when the girls were reunited, Adeline gave Emmeline a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. When the three girls were 17, Adeline murdered two of the servants, Missus and John-the-dig; the former For the Evulz, the latter because he acted as a mentor to Vida. After Emmeline gave birth to a son, Adeline attempted to murder him, eventually setting the house on fire and severely burning Emmeline before being left to die by Vida. Adeline was willing to cross any line to receive attention and didn't care who she hurt in the process, with her actions casting shadows to the present.
• To Catch a Killer (1992): John Wayne Gacy presents himself as a pillar of the community, but is really a Serial Killer. Gacy lures a young man named Chris Gant to his house with the promise of a job and murders him. The cops begin to suspect Gacy is guilty of the crime, but do not have the evidence to arrest him. Under police surveillance, Gacy constantly mocks the cops for their efforts, believing himself to be untouchable. Gacy attempts to lure two different men to his house to murder them as well, but police surveillance prevents him from murdering them as well. Eventually Gacy attempts to flee the country, but is arrested on drug possession charges. A search warrant of his house and nearby lake reveals that Gacy has murdered 33 people.
• Too Young to Die? (1990): Billy Canton is a despicable pimp with a predilection for underage girls. Billy's latest target, Mandy, is a homeless 14-year-old girl who Billy quickly addicts to drugs and coerces into dancing at strip joints for cash. Billy rapes her himself, and when she tries to leave him for military man Mike, Billy begins stalking and harassing her. When Mandy comes back to him, Billy turns her out to paying clients for a time before getting her so high on drugs that he's able to lead her in killing Mike and endangering the man's girlfriend. For all his proclaimed care for Mandy, Billy never saw her as anything but a toy and moneymaker, and immediately sells her out to be executed when he is arrested.
• Trailer Park Shark, aka Shark Shock (2017): Malcolm Deconnard is a slimy businessman defined by greed and overkill. A sociopath who defaults to murder to solve his problems, Deconnard enjoys relating the story of how he murdered his trio of business partners "Huey, Dewey, and Louie" to turn them into a new pair of shoes when they tried to cheat him out of cash. Desiring to lay claim to the lands of the Soggy Meadows trailer park, Deconnard bombs the nearby levee and floods the entire park, drowning a portion of the populace and sending more fleeing for their lives. Upon learning of a group of witnesses to his bombing, Deconnard takes advantage of the rampaging electro-shark and tries to orchestrate the mass murder of all survivors of the flood, smugly proclaiming that the residents of Soggy Meadows are nothing but trash who don't deserve to live.
• Vampirella: Vlad Dracula is a stark contrast to the otherwise peaceful vampires of the planet of Drakulon, devouring hundreds of innocents while massacring the council and its High Elder, Vampirella's father, when he's brought to trial. Escaping to Earth and mutating in the process, Vlad spreads his evil legacy over centuries with countless converted into his vampire lineage and the very myth of vampirism founded on his evil, responsible for numerous horrible deaths in the present day either to slake his bloodlust or in his feud with Operation PURGE. Vlad spitefully transformed the father of Adam Van Helsing into a vampire while forcing Adam to kill him, later trying to starve Vampirella to a point where she drains Adam after the two become partners and eventually espousing his intentions to bring the world under darkness and slaughter all humanity.
• Where the Spirit Lives (1989 CBC movie): Reverend Buckley is the headmaster of a residential school in Nova Scotia in 1937. After Indian Affairs agents deliver Native children to the school—after taking them from their parents—Buckley inflicts beatings on them if they speak their Native languages or perform Native rituals, wanting to destroy their culture and mold them into what he thinks are "model Canadians". If children actively defy him, he tortures them by putting them into isolation wards. He lies to one child, Komi, saying her parents had died, to better manipulate her. When Komi's parents arrive to claim her, Buckley lies to them and says she is not there. When a student named Rachel runs away from the school in order to escape the school's abuse and dies in the wilderness, Buckley does not allow the students to give her a native burial and holds a condescending funeral for her instead, making an Indian Affairs agent named Taggart quit in disgust. Though presenting himself as a kindly man who has a religious mission, Buckley is really a disgusting bigot who feels superior to the native children and treats them more like objects than people.
• Who Is Killing the Cheerleaders? (2020 Lifetime movie): Jonathan Colton is a former student of Moiser High School who had a crush on Ellie Oliver. When Ellie rejects his advances one too many times, Colton kills every girl on the cheerleading team. After killing their coach, Colton nearly kills Ellie herself before being stopped by the police. A decade later, Colton, now a doctor, reunites with Ellie, who has become a teacher at the same school. Colton uses the opportunity to further traumatize Ellie by gaslighting her, and later terrorizing her students by recreating the ways he killed the cheerleading squad, except without actually them. When Ellie remembers that it was him on the night of the cheerleading massacre, Colton holds Ellie hostage in his house and intends to frame her for his crimes; when the students on the cheerleading squad record his confession, Colton tries to kill them with a fireplace poker.
• Witchslayer Gretl (2012 Syfy Channel Original Movie): Zhore is a vile sorceress who tried to kidnap a young Gretl and incinerate her brother, Hansel. When her own spell backfired on her, Zhore swapped bodies with Gretl, who she then entombed alive before setting out to become the Witch Queen. Zhore has her warlock henchman, Abyss, abduct young witches and slaughter their families so that Zhore can turn the girls into brainwashed slaves of her and Abyss. When Gretl's body begins burning out, Zhore orders Abyss to bring her a new vessel in the form of a girl named Ehren. Abyss fails and brings her another girl, who Zhore vaporizes before torturing Abyss, later subjecting him to further punishment that leaves him begging for death after he betrays her to Hansel. Zhore only staves off killing Abyss due to wanting to murder him alongside his crush, Lara. After becoming trapped in her burnt original body, Zhore responds to a recovered Gretl's mercy by trying to kill her and Hansel.
• World War III: Vladimir Soshkin is a hardline Soviet general who seeks to keep the Warsaw Pact together at any cost. Having made a name for himself crushing demonstrations in East Germany and Czechoslovakia decades prior, Soshkin overthrows Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup, and violently cracks down on peaceful demonstrators across the Eastern bloc, killing thousands. Soshkin blockades West Berlin and the North Atlantic to put Western Europe and West Germany in particular under siege, ordering his units to attack any NATO forces attempting to pass, which subsequently escalates into World War III. Soshkin rejects any attempts at peace overtures, ordering the invasion of West Germany, causing tens of thousands of deaths. As NATO forces turn the tide of the war, and uprisings spread across the entire Eastern bloc, Soshkin decides to initiate a nuclear holocaust and launch the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal, potentially causing the end of humanity.
• The Wrong Friend (2018 Lifetime film): Chris Andrews is a sociopathic teenager with a penchant for violence and rape. After brutally raping Lisa, he is forced to switch schools where he immediately sets his sights on Riley, the daughter of the nurse who reported his rape. After charming Riley and inviting her to a party he's throwing, he drugs her drink and sexually assaults her while she's passed out. When Matt and Riley leave his house Chris beats himself up and frames Matt for the assault. When Kimberly finds out about Lisa, Chris viciously attacks her, beating her to the point she's hospitalized. He breaks into Riley's home, threatening to slit her mother's throat, stating that he plans to rape Riley again and again in front of her mother before killing both her and her mother.
• Xtinction: Predator X (2010): Dr. Charles LeBlanc is a Mad Scientist who was cast out of his field for animal experimentation. In response, Charles would clone a Pliosaurus and hire the psychotic Boudreaux Brothers to kidnap and feed people to his beast so he could take their land to breed more of the man-eating monsters. Uncaring of the rising body count, Charles would threaten to make Sheriff Tim Richards's life hell if he doesn't back off his investigation. He would threaten to kill Tim's brother Henry to force his ex-wife Laura to sign over her family's land, only to try to have both of them fed to his beast. Catching up with the group, Charles would attempt to feed their friend Mandy to the pliosaurus while the others are Forced to Watch, purely out of spite. A sociopath with a God Complex, Charles will kill anyone who gets in his way to prove himself right.

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