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Favorite Stephen King bad guy
hmmm favourite bad guy!!Pennywise the Clown or IT
I would have to say Randall Flagg, too. I was drawn to him and scared of him at the same time!
Annie WilkesPennywise
and Jack Torrence.
I loved the Low men in their ugly cars and those jerks with the scissors.
Andre Linoge - (and I can't seperate Colm Feore from this character. I see him in anything - I think Andre Linoge. Fantastic casting!)Percy Wetmore / Annie Wilkes - made scarier because they can be the *seemingly normal* folks/sociopaths next door....
Hmm... I think I would have to go with the Crimson King, of course. He's the ultimate bad guy. Pennywise would be my second choice, and then Kurt Barlow.
I don't think that Jack Torrance was bad, just manipulated into acting that way. ;)
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I have recently read reviews of the film Appaloosa, starring Vigo Mortenson and Ed Harris. It is based on a Western novel written by Robert Parker...and features a villainous character by the name of RANDALL BRAGG.A Barnes&noble.com customer noticed the same thing: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Appa...
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I'd have to say my favorite is George Stark.....Annie Wilkes is another good one.
oh, and also, Blaine the Mono was cool.
Andre Linoge- and I agree with Juliann. I can NOT seperate Feore from that character. He always gives me the chills now!Second would have to be Joe Camber. He was so "next doorsy" and I really, really hated him!
Pennywise (Rachel, I agree with you!!!).Randall Flagg (of course) and Leland Gaunt, the evil shopkeeper in Needful Things.
There are so many good ones. Randall Flagg, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Tak, Perse, Blaine the Mono, The Big Coffin Hunters, Straker and Barlow, Roland D. Lebay and Christine.
I'd say Flagg is my favorite, but Perse scared me the most.
Annie Wilkes or Flagg (as portrayed in The Stand).
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and the Big Coffin Hunters....
I liked the trash can man he was just plain crazy
Definitely Pennywise. I freakin' hate clowns anyway. Tim Curry was perfectly cast to play him in the television mini-series. CREEPY!
George Stark. One high-toned S.O.B. The hedge animals terrified me!
Annie Wilkes will always give me Nightmares
Annie Wilkes, hands down. Anyone who is going to hold me hostage and cut pieces off my body will always get my vote. Not to mention, her "Laughing Place" sent chills down my spine!
Oh, mea culpa, I forgot Annie! She was scary indeed.
i know he shared the creation with Peter Straub ... but I have always thought Morgan Sloat was a fab baddie ... and he had neat henchmen in the Territories - Osmond, Elroy & Sunlight Gardner
Randall Flagg and The Crimson King...
Randall Flagg and Pennywise definately!
Steve King himself once said that he thought that The Trashcan Man from the Stand was the personification of pure evil....because he'd never known anything but (evil)
While I see your point, in that all Trashy had ever known was evil, I found him to be more of a sympathic character. He was not evil just to be evil, but rather because it was all he knew. Whereas, Flagg and Pennywise both enjoyed the act of being evil. I could pity trashy for what had been dealt to him, which somehow lessens his "evil".
Cindi wrote: "While I see your point, in that all Trashy had ever known was evil, I found him to be more of a sympathic character. He was not evil just to be evil, but rather because it was all he knew. Wherea..."<
Bondama here -- Cindi, I agree with you.... I do think that most of the Gallery of Evil on this page WAS more inherently evil than Trashy, I just thought it interesting what the Man himself had to say on the subject.
If SK really feels that Trashy is the personification of pure evil, then what does that say about his thoughts on what evil really is? And what about the other characters who thrive on evil? Wouldn't you just love to sit down with SK and pick through his thoughts? The man has the most amazing mind.
Cindi, I think that what SK meant when he said that about Trashy is that he was (if this makes sense)"innocent evil" He didn't burn down things or "give my life for you" to Randall Flagg because he hated other people, it's just that he could not conceive of behaving any other way.
I am on track with you. Examining my concept of evil, I do think of it more as a deliberate way of acting. The greater "evil" coming from the actions of someone/thing who would knowingly bring about harm to others and derive pleasure from it.
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Lloyd was not the only "new" Las Vegan to suffer from weak. It seems that flaw was the intrinsic fatal flaw for all of them, except for the Trash Can Man.
The whole concept of Evil as being separate from the actions of a person is basically what distinguishes horror from other genres. I personally love vampires, but I don't think I'm gonna run into one soon - Now, serial killers....that's something else.
TEK- put down on 1-15 ROLAND D. How can you put him down as a bad guy? Most definitely Pennywise & Randall Flagg- along with- George Stark {not a very nice guy}-Annie Wilkes-Blaine's a pain how about- Tick Tock-Charles Pickering -by no way last is Leland Gaunt.{oh yes we're having fun now}
At the very start of this discussion, Angie mentioned the Overlook. I don't know how many of you ever had the chance to go to Estes Park , Colorado, and SEE the hotel itself. It's actually called The Stanley, but the miniseries that King prefers so much over Kubrick's version was actually filmed there, and the entire basement is given over to a "museum" about the Overlook, and the miniseries -- you can see the Ballroom where King played the band leader, and the bar, the scene of the climax of The Shining. It's fantastic!! -- It's not really all alone up in the mountains, but part of the town, but for any King fan, it's a REAL trip!!
I would love to go to the Stanley! A friend of my daughter's went there a couple of years ago for his brother's wedding and he took lots of pictures for me. It looks sooooo cool!My favorite bad guy was Annie...she was a very interesting character. But for me, the SCARIEST bad guy was TAK!
Randall Flagg, for sure! Who can be so cool one minute and so scary the next?
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Jack Torrence because he is an example of how people can be twisted by a collision between upbringing, choices (alcohol) and events. I like Randall Flagg but he represents supernatural evil and I find the evil within ordinary people much more freightening.
The Overlook for scariness and George Stark for style!
Professor Woodbury -- Lisey's StoryThe Ship & Aliens -- Tommyknockers
Percy Wetmore -- Green Mile
It's gotta be Flagg, I'm attracted to and highly repelled by him all at the same time. But I think my first introduction to him in Eyes of the Dragon when I was a child is the Flagg that sticks with me the most. Just so cruel and wicked, and the part where he's climbing the tower up to get to the prince sent my heart pounding, I wanted to shout hurry Peter hurry!
Lori wrote: "Professor Woodbury -- Lisey's StoryThe Ship & Aliens -- Tommyknockers
Percy Wetmore -- Green Mile"
Yeah, Percy in Green Mile was pretty awful. Other entries for me would be the bar-owner at the Tap in Talisman, Junior Rennie from Under the Dome, and Randall Flagg in Stand - an uber-bad guy.
The Overlook Hotel! Creepy..