And by baddest, of course I mean good, in a bad kind of way.

10. Clubber Lang
Sure he’s a cliché now, and was perhaps a little comic even then. But clichés typically come from compelling characters that are copied over and over until they are tired. The point is, there was no way Rocky was going to beat him. No way. He was too baaaad.

9. Hannibal Lechter in Silence of the Lambs
One of the most overrated movies of all time, but a cannibal with a psychology degree; you’ve got to consider that bad.

8. Agent Smith
Some on this list are bad just because they’re indestructible. Of course being capable of duplicating yourself thousands of times over is a nice feature of a bad dude.

7. Darth Vader
Would be higher on the list but his badness was definitely weakened by his ultimate redemption in Episode VI.

6. The Blob
Indestructible, capable of melting metal.

5. The second Terminator
Indestructible, capable of turning into melted metal.

4. The Ring girl
As a friend said, “if that girl came out of my TV, I would pee my pants.”

3. The Blair Witch people
WHAT ARE THEY?!!!! WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE??!! WHAT DO THEY DO!!?!?? HOW MANY OF THEM ARE THERE??? Things you never see can still be very, very bad.

2. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
He’s huge, and so bad they had to cross the streams.

1. Keyser Söze
Killing your own family to prove a point is simply not nice.

Honorable Mention:

The Birds
I saw this movie when I was four. How stupid. Now I’m a grown man terrified of chickadees.

Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
A generation of men learned to be faithful thanks to Glenn. Does a good end justify a very bad means?

28 Days Later zombies
Zombies always suck, primarily because there are so blasted many of them, and they eat brains. Thankfully they are usually slow, lumbering numskulls. But these guys could run, making them much badder than your run-of-the-mill undead.