Top Ten Best Antagonists in Thriller Films
I just love those dark psychotic characters in Thrillers, don't you?Who would you rate? If I've missed anyone you think deserves to be on this list, feel free to add :)
Anne Marie Wilkes Dugan, usually known as Annie Wilkes, is a character in the 1987 novel Misery, by Stephen King. Those first words "I'm your number one fan" has me glued to the screen. She's so scarily unpredictable. The best written character in a thriller bar none. Stephen King did an amazing job when he created Annie Wilkes.
So chilling. The best, by far.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. So intelligent, so calm and charming (yes, charming. You did read that correctly) and so terrifically scary.
I have a confession to make here. I used her character as inspiration for the novel I'm currently writing. She's quiet and very VERY manipuative. Excellent character.
She's brilliant. Unhinged. The perfect flatmate...
Apart from the obsessiveness, the jealousy and the numerous murders, he's pretty much most Womens dream man.
Jigsaw is a character from the Saw series. He first appears in Saw as a man whose wife passed away. After that, he did lots of tests on people.
Patrick Bateman, is an American, serial killing, yuppie, villain protagonist, who debuted in the rules of attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis. ...read more.
Norman Bates is a character created by writer Robert Bloch as the main character in his novel Psycho, and portrayed by Anthony Perkins as the primary antagonist of the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock and its sequels.
Max Cady is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the John D. MacDonald novel The Executioners. He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear. Can't believe I forgot to add him. Naturally he should be in the top three!
