Top 50 Favorite Movie Villains (50 - 41)

#50: Smaug - The Hobbit: Smaug was easily the best thing about both The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies. Smaug is the giant, fire-breathing dragon that does anything to protect the gold it sits on under the mountain. Couple the dragon's determination with Benedict Cumberbatch's chilling, cold delivery, and you get a pretty damn memorable villain.

#49: Deacon Frost - Blade: What makes Deacon Frost (and Stephen Dorff's performance) so good is that Frost himself is the definition of a pretty-boy douche-bag. However, he's a vampire with no soul, heart, or remorse. He views humans as nothing more than cattle, all the while planning to merge himself with a god and take over the world.

#48: Patrick Bateman - American Psycho: I almost left Patrick Bateman off the list because the ending leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not he actually did all of the heinous acts he claims to have done. But then I realized, if it all was in his head, then the man has some sick thoughts, and could potentially be pushed over the deep end.

#47: John Bennett - Commando: Bennett is memorable because he's your typical prick of an action movie villain. The man shows that he likes what he does, and has no qualms with the idea of murdering a child if it means he gets what he wants in the end. The only thing he forgot was that he was the villain in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

#46: Edwin Epps - 12 Years a Slave: This should really be a no-brainer. Epps could easily make my favorite villains list simply because he is a slave-owner. However, what puts him on the list is the disgusting amount of verbal and physical abuse he heaps on the slaves he owns. The man is the definition of a slave-owner who views his slaves as nothing more than property.

#45: Chucky - Child's Play: There's absolutely one thing that earns Chucky a place on this list. To put it simply, Chucky is the soul of a serial killer inhabiting a child's plaything, which can be a pretty scary thing when you really think about it.

#44: Colonel William Tavington - The Patriot: Tavington is even considered an extremist and a villain by his own people. To describe just what an asshole this guy is, he orders his men to burn down a church filled with innocent people, rationalizing that because they turned on their country, then they are godless and deserve to die a traitor's death.

#43: Mickey - Scream 2: Out of all the Ghostfaces in the Scream series, my personal favorite is Mickey. My reasoning for how much I love Mickey as a villain is simple. He has my personal favorite motive, which is to get caught and blame the movies.

#42: Aaron Stampler / Roy - Primal Fear: What I think makes Roy as good of a villain as he is isn't so much that he does a lot of horrible unspeakable things, it's more that he's able to fool everyone into thinking he has a multiple personality disorder, right up until the very end when he reveals that the kind, sweet, unassuming Aaron never existed.

#41: Colonel Nathan Jessep - A Few Good Men: Jessep is a decorate military soldier who will do whatever he deems necessary to protect his country, even if it means ordering the code red that led to the death of a marine corps private who was supposed to be under his watch. The silence that follows the words "You're goddamn right I did!" speaks volumes.