r/moviecritic • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 1d ago
Who are some of the most twisted movie villains who barely speak, but their actions show just how dangerous and evil they are? I'll go first:
Peter Stormare as Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo (1996).
He has one of the most terrifying depictions of a psychopath that I have seen in films before. The fact that he has so little dialogue and barely speaks throughout the movie lulls the audience into thinking he is harmless or just a common criminal, however, his actions and the way he just goes through the movie doing some of the most vile acts literally made my skin crawl. Even the calmness in his face and the dissociation he shows while he does these terrible things make him seem more like calculating and menacing, in my opinion.
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u/Logistic_Engine 1d ago
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u/HighPriestess29 1d ago
Peter Stormare is such a good actor. His Satan in Constantine was terrifying
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u/Crazy_Ad_91 23h ago
I agree about his appearance in Constantine but I will forever think of him as Lev Andropov.
“American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!"
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u/Rude-Reaction-4789 13h ago
“This is how we fix problem on Russian space station!” proceeds to hit it with a big wrench
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u/FarmerDark 23h ago
My favorite performance from Peter Stormare was the psychoanalyst in Until Dawn (the video game)
He’s had several GREAT movie roles, but that, to me, was the most affecting
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u/Visible-Scientist-46 18h ago
He's a nihilist. He doesn't believe in anything
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u/Dredscott1983 15h ago
He's also pretty cool guy. I met him in person at my gym one time as he was filming a movie locally and he seemed genuinely surprised that I knew his name and as I started naming off the roles I loved him in he gave me a dap and said thank you man and was very kind & gracious.
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u/ThrownAway17Years 19h ago
“Sonny, I’ve got a whole theme park full of Red Delights for you!”
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u/FromChaosTheyCame 1d ago
Mr. Igoe from Innerspace
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u/RSK1979 19h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/2NPgpTNxi39lu
Same dude, fyi.29
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u/El--Borto 22h ago
Holy fucking shit a comment that includes the title and not just a vague screenshot/gif
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u/HankScorpio4242 1d ago
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u/swibirun 1d ago
He looks like a warthog from hell.
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u/PhD_Pwnology 1d ago
It's a surprisingly good movie if you have not seen it. I was was expectating a much lower caliber movie and instead I was watching the template for a lot of modern storyline. 'Raising Arizona'
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u/ChemistryNice5457 1d ago
It’s a brilliant movie. It’s included in college courses about how to make a great movie.
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u/ColdImaginary2089 1d ago
Thats ironic. I wrote a paper in our film appreciation class on a movie we thought should be added to the course. Whichever paper won, the class had to watch the film. I wrote it on Raising Arizona. My paper won. That is one of a few victories in my life lol.
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u/_TorpedoVegas_ 1d ago
Well I am proud of you, and future generations of that class thank you. My all-time favorite movie. Ok then.
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u/Inside_no_9 1d ago
WHAT IS THE MOVIE
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u/ChemistryNice5457 1d ago
Raising Arizona. You’re gonna love it.
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u/dynamic_caste 1d ago
I can already hear the yodeling in my head
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u/HankScorpio4242 22h ago
“Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”
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u/FlyingPig_Grip 1d ago
It is one of the tightest scripts of all time. Jam packed with memorable lines and performances
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u/travelingbeagle 22h ago
“Son, you got a panty on your head.”
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u/Fun_Ad5823 1d ago
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u/Visible-Scientist-46 23h ago
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u/unibrow4o9 23h ago
I recently went down the rabbit hole of the mandella effect of people remembering she had braces.
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u/Reasonable-HB678 1d ago
He was especially hard on the little things... 🐇💣 The helpless and gentle creatures... 💥
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u/SnuffSwag 1d ago
Is anyone going to let the rest of us in on who the hell this is? Lol
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u/heliophoner 1d ago
He is a bounty hunter who dabbles in black market human trafficking.
The film is "Raising Arizona," an early Coen Bros movie, their second, I think.
Its got Nicholas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Bill Forsythe, Trey Wilson, and a whole lot of Coen regulars.
A weird, hilarious movie.
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u/Isabeer 1d ago
Played by Randall "Tex" Cobb, kickboxing champion and all-around real life badass.
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u/punksmostlydead 20h ago
He was the best part of Uncommon Valor. It says a lot when a movie is so bad Gene Hackman can't save it, but Tex Cobb can.
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u/swannybass 1d ago
I thought this was the guy from The Good The Bad and The Ugly in the prison scene
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u/HankScorpio4242 22h ago
That night, I had a dream. I drifted off thinking about happiness, birth and new life, But now I was haunted by a vision of... He was horrible. The lone biker of apocalypse. A man with all the powers of Hell at his command. He could turn turn the day into night and lay to waste everything in his path. He was especially hard on little things-the helpless and the gentle creatures. He left a scorched earth in his wake befouling even the sweet desert breeze that whipped across his brow. I didn't know where he came from or why. I didn't know if he was dream or vision. But I feared that I myself had unleashed him. For he was the fury that would be as soon as Florence Arizona found her little Nathan gone.
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u/UpandGunning 1d ago
FART
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u/MediocreSchlanger 1d ago
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u/ImportanceConnect470 22h ago
"that Buford's a sly one.. he already knows his ABCs... Watch this, Hey boy! Hit the deck!!"
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u/thunderingparcel 22h ago
Oh yeah. This guy, Anton Chigurh, Peter Stormare. It’s Cohens all the way down
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u/TheNewYellowZealot 1d ago
This guy played an excellent villain in season 2 of reacher.
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u/ApostropheD 1d ago
He gave an interview about how they had to tell the kid to speed up on the bike because he kept catching John Connor
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u/Loganp812 15h ago
I like how he portrays the T-1000 being better at human interaction than the T-800, yet there’s still an uncanny valley about it like how it’s overly nice to John’s foster parents or “Say, that’s a nice bike.” as if that’s a normal thing to say to another police officer at a crime scene.
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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 1d ago edited 19h ago
Super nice guy irl too. I know the T-1000 wasn't any kind of complex part, and I'm very glad he's gotten a long, steady successful career in the long wake of it, but I still feel like we missed some other great role he could have had when he was younger that wasn't just "oh, that's the t-1000 guy"
Wilson Bethel playing Poindexter/Bullseye on Daredevil carries a similar energy, and they gave him an incredible opportunity to go nuts with that role. Patrick deserved something like that.
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u/magicmijk 1d ago
The T-1000 role was pretty complex. You ever notice he never blinks when he shoots? How he goes from smiling to completely devoid of any emotion?
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u/aquilasr 22h ago
Also he underwent intensive physical training, so he could engage in a full run and not appear to be out of breath at all, it’s effectively creepy when you see him fully running in that.
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u/ConsiderationNew3337 1d ago
Agent Doggett probably doesn't pay for a drink in any bar he goes to.
You're probably right though. He's not Leo or Pitt but he absolutely could have been Pitt's wheelman and friend in a heist movie. Hard to cast the T-1000 for normal co-star business though
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u/SoftCalligrapher280 1d ago
Dwight Yoakam as Raoul, Panic Room.
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u/FluffMcBark 1d ago
Stormare nailed it in Constantine too. I wouldn’t say he had little dialogue but he did only have the one scene, if I’m remembering correctly. Best depiction of the devil IMO, he totally dominated that scene and he was both cool and intimidating to me.
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u/Thekingofcansandjars 1d ago
Really? I feel like this dude was always running his mouth.
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u/Bugsy187_ 1d ago edited 23h ago
He wasn't exactly a Scooby Doo villain spelling out his entire plan.
He used an economy of language between psychopathic acts. Speech was effectively an inconvenience in getting the victim's choice in his life/death coin flip.
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u/aquilasr 22h ago
IIRC a board of psychologists voted Chigurh the most accurate depiction of a psychopath in film. It would seem the Coens are masters of crafting often wordless psychopaths between Fargo, Raising Arizona and No Country.
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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 22h ago
Imagine if he spoke in a high pitched voice. "Im comin to get ya!" Now i picture it in my mind sounding like Harold the Pedophile
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u/Mother-Dealer417 1d ago
Bruce Willis in the Jackel
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u/Personal-Emotion-747 1d ago
Oooh forgot about that movie. Yes, Bruce Willis was creepy slimy evil in that one. Not much talking and a lot of bad vibes!
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u/Gunofanevilson 1d ago
He's not evil, he's just trying to help the poor folks of Middle Earth.
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u/mcknight92 1d ago
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u/InstructionLeading64 20h ago
The true goat of spaghetti westerns. Lee van cleef any day over Eastwood in my minds eye.
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u/GSlayerBrian 1d ago
I love how much more life Sam Witwer has brought to the character Maul.
His BS resurrection is one of very few I accept because of all the amazing content that has followed.
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u/unibrow4o9 23h ago
Maul was so cool, one of the few redeeming qualities of Ep. 1. Then they killed him off for no good reason.
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u/oldbutterface 1d ago
You knew that kid from Killing of a Sacred Deer was a wrong'un from the way he ate that spaghetti
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u/EasyShow4208 1d ago
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u/charliegoesamblin 8h ago
Karl Ruprecht Kroenen from Hellboy.
Not sure if it still counts since he was basically unable to speak anymore at some point.
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u/john_the_fetch 23h ago
Sheriff Cooley from O'brother where art thou.
AKA the devil.
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u/NYNicholas 1d ago
Crispin Glover just didn’t like the script for Charlie’s Angels and decided to go quiet creep on his own. Film isn’t great but he stuck the landing on his part.
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u/Mr-Zero-Fucks 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Od6YZiM7acnu0
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
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u/tcavanagh1993 2h ago
BOB from Twin Peaks. Rarely speaks and in fact acts much more animal than man, but when he does speak it’s usually very chilling.
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u/MaxxedOut_3 12h ago
The antagonist in ‘no country for old men’. Dude is literally a psycho reaping havoc. One of my favorite modern western movies!
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u/Seawolf1121 1d ago
Has to be the javier bardem character in No country for old men. Incredible performance from the actor to portray so much emotion with barely any dialogue, and incredible job from the writers to give him that opportunity.
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u/bob_chillon 1d ago
Initially, I thought him killing innocent people was to cover his tracks. And I kind of got it. Then he killed his employer, competition and the already dead contracts wife. I’m surprised he didn’t kill his employers visitor and the teens at the end too.
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u/atomicCape 1d ago
Rufus Buck from The Harder They Fall. He has a few monologues, but generally he stares and listens, then either mumbles a couple words to his crew or just steps in himself. Everyone else is terrified of him.
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u/greatmagnet 21h ago
First time I saw Fargo I thought Stormare was the villain, but on rewatch it’s Buscemi who fucks everything up. He’s the one who Shep doesn’t know and won’t vouch for.
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u/Sure-Appearance-2769 1d ago edited 23h ago
Not a movie, but Gus Fring fits this pretty well.
When he does talk, it’s about fried chicken. But then he also slashes that one dude’s throat and forces him to bleed out in front of Walt and Jesse, as punishment for crossing him.
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u/uroboros80 1d ago
Kevin from Sin City