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Everyone is well aware that Paramore and Perry Farrell got in the Twilight OST bandwagon, but there is so much speculation on the artists who would be joining them in the album.

Muse got in the list, and although Vampire Weekend or Blood Brothers didn't join the troop (with their names and all), the OST features also other good tracks. Listen and download some of the tracks below.

In addition to Paramore's "Decode," which premiered on Meyer's Web site last week, their song "I Caught Myself" is also on the soundtrack. According to a source at Atlantic, the band is slated to shoot a video for "Decode," the album's first single, early next week.

The full track list for Twilight after the cut.


The full track list for the "Twilight" soundtrack, according to Chop Shop/ Atlantic, which arrives in stores on November 4.:

Muse - "Supermassive Black Hole"
Paramore - "Decode"
The Black Ghosts - "Full Moon"
Linkin Park - "Leave Out All the Rest"
MuteMath - "Spotlight" ("Twilight" mix)
Perry Farrell - "Going All the Way (Into the Twilight)"
Collective Soul - "Tremble for My Beloved"
Paramore - "I Caught Myself "
Blue Foundation - "Eyes on Fire"
Rob Pattinson - "Never Think"
Iron & Wine - "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
Carter Burwell - "Bella's Lullaby"


SO this is why I'm....


The Most Disturbing Children Movies Ever

Prepare yourself for hordes of YouTube videos.



26. The Chronicles of Narnia

There are plenty of reasons The Chronicles of Narnia might scare a kid. Creepy English children, goat men, ham-fistedly overt Christian themes. But the big one, the one that takes this over the top, is violence rendered upon animals. Kids can not stand to watch animals get hurt. They could watch human beings getting plowed down all day long, but you give one beagle a charley horse and here comes the waterworks. The world of Narnia is a talking animal realm, and those chatty beavers and wolves have no qualms stabbing each other like it's a prison shower.


25. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

No, I don’t mean the recent 2005 version, although that is plenty scary. Johnny Depp's unflinching commitment to portraying Michael Jackson should alone be enough to grant a house call from social services to any parent who dragged their kid to that one. No, I’m talking about the original. Look past the singing dwarves with jaundice and the constant child maulings; the fear factor in this one boils down to one scene. And you all know which scene I’m talking about.

The tunnel scene of this movie is the single most frightening sequence in all of '70s cinema. And we're talking about a decade that brought us The Exorcist and Alien. Gene Wilder is simply brilliant in this subversive kiddie classic. One look at him and there is no way you're believing this movie really is for children. Let me ask you, if Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka rang your doorbell, would you let him in? Didn't think so. He's the pusherman, baby. A totally Technicolor, sociopathic pimp. In one master stroke, this film says, "Hey kids, this is what dropping acid is like. The first time's free. Enjoy the '70s!"




24. Dumbo

Sometime during his reign, Walt Disney turned to his staff of animators and said, "You know, boys, scientists aren't going to invent LSD for decades, but kids clamour to trip out NOW! It is our responsibility, NAY, our civic duty to blow the minds of American children. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must name names before congress and then go do something vaguely-anti Semitic." From Disney's decree came such psychedelic head trips as Fantasia and the Pink Elephant scene from Dumbo. The real bummer of Dumbo is the abject cruelty Dumbo and his mother suffer from their fellow animals. If you see a single tear roll down your child's cheek as they watch, it’s because Walt Disney just taught her that life is cruel and people suck.



23. Labyrinth

When you think about it, the idea of a Muppet is inherently frightening. Felt and glass eyes lurching about in a folly of life. Ironically, the Muppets aren't the least human thing in this movie. That honour would go to honorary space alien David Bowie. Androgynous, sparkle-eyeliner-wearing, spandexed, mulleted, coked-up, full-on Ziggy Stardust-mode David Bowie. Listen, I love this movie, but watching David Bowie sashay around in an enhanced codpiece for hours on end has informed (or malformed) my concept of gender types far more than I’d like to admit. Luckily, a young Jennifer Connolly is on hand to straighten things out. Did I mention I love this movie?



22. Monster House

This movie makes no bones about it: this is a horror movie for kids. As such, it’s supposed to be an entry-level kind of scary — a scary ride with the training wheels still on. The scares are played for fun and are thankfully not unintentionally creepy/weird/scary like the other movies on this list. One of the best kid movies I've seen in a long time. Unfortunately, I couldn't watch it with my child because it would scare the hell out of her. But the man-eating house . . . pretty cool.



21. The Neverending Story

I'm not talking about the crazy big turtle here. I'm also not referring to the crappy band Atreyu that exists because of this movie. No, the scary thing about this movie is The Nothing. You know, the thing consuming all of Fantasia. And what is The Nothing? A giant lizard? A sentient radioactive cloud? No, worse. The Nothing is nothing. It is oblivion — the great unknown; the cold and lifeless void beyond our realm of understanding. Hey kiddies, wrap your little heads around that meaty chunk of existential crisis. Thank you, Neverending Story; you are more depressing than reading No Exit. Oh, and that princess? Some say cute, I say creepy.
I could only find a clip of the creepy turtle



20. Bambi

Alright everybody, repeat after me: BAMBI'S MUM GETS SHOT.



9. The Dark Crystal
Muppets make it to the list again. That Jim Henson, God bless his soul, was one dark dude. Riding high on the success of The Muppet Show, Jim took his Hollywood leverage and made this doozy for the kiddies. Miss Piggy- and Gonzo-loving kids and parents must have thought this J.R.R. Tolkien-like epic would be an adorable Kermit-dressed-as-a-Hobbit romp. What they got were the Skeksis, lizard bird creatures that ate other Muppets and shrieked in such a way, I still can't get it out of my head. Then there’s the Crypt Keeper-looking Muppet who takes her eyeballs out and throws them at people. Oh, and those gigantic beetle things with their skin-crawling chattering — always with the chattering. And then there’s this: And that's supposed to be cute. This movie proves one thing; Jim Henson had a love-hate relationship with children. One moment he wants to soothe them with the clickity-clack of a tap dancing frog, the next he wants them laying in a cold sweat for yet another sleepless night.



18. The Adventures of Mark Twain

You may have caught this one during your summers as a fat boy holed up inside a darkened house avoiding sunlight like it was poison. Oh wait, that was me. If you haven’t seen it, the movie chugs along amiably enough, until it gets to this part:

Claymation apocalypse, anyone?



17. Cars
Let's see: a world devoid of humans where the machines come to life? This is nothing more than the animated version of a James Cameron post-apocalyptic fever dream. When exactly did SkyNet take over? There is no bleaker film on this list.

16. Song of the South

All the ingredients for a happy-go-lucky kid flick are there: the rabbits are cute, the foxes are adorable. You and your kids could watch the whole thing and go straight to bed and sleep a deep, undisturbed sleep. But later, maybe days later, it strikes you: "My sweet Jemima, that movie was racist!" I don't mean kinda offensive, but so racist it will make your eyes sting. "Hoo-wee boy," you'll cry, wiping your eyes like you just finished a hot wing eating contest, "that is some vinegary racism." Realizing that you and your kids consumed nearly radioactive amounts of antiquated stereotypes hidden in the Trojan Horse of fluffy anthropomorphized Disney animals — now that's scary.



15. Wizard of Oz

Okay, I do not think anything about this movie is scary, but a lot of people do. Guess it's the flying monkeys. Now to be fair, back in the 1930s when this movie came out, I'll bet those flying monkeys were scary as hell. Then again, in 1939 Americans were also afraid the country would collapse into ruin because of a scandalous new dance called the "jitterbug."

14. The Polar Express

Robert Zemeckis clearly thinks zombies are cute. Realistically animated flesh with cold, dead eyes is his idea of family entertainment. And by realistic flesh, I mean realistic for a burn victim. This thing is horrifying from top to bottom; just a colossal misjudgment by Zemeckis of what human beings find enjoyable. And it's funny, because anyone who saw the preview knew it immediately. But this thing sold a ticket or two, so someone had to have walked into this picture sight unseen. What must they have been thinking? "A holiday film by the director and star of Forrest Gump? Tom Hanks playing Santa Claus as well as thirty-seven other roles? What a delightfu— OH GOD! WHAT IS HAPPENING UP ON SCREEN! I CLOSE MY EYES AND I CAN STILL SEE IT!"

13. Speed Racer

Haven't seen this one yet. Too afraid of having a seizure.

12. Moonwalker

What do you mean you have never seen Moonwalker? Yes you have, and if you claim you haven't you're a bunch of lying liars so let's cut out the lies you love so much. (Why don't you marry your lies?) Maybe you had that part of your memory erased or you beat it out with a ball peen hammer, so let me see if I can synopsize it for you. Although comprised of a bunch of music videos, Moonwalker reaches its memorable nadir in its one narrative section, "Smooth Criminal." In it, MJ is a "friendly gangster" who loves dancing and children (yes, really). One day a frolicking MJ and his mob of grubby-faced tykes happen upon evil ponytailed Joe Pesci's world-domination scheme to hook the entire population of earth on drugs (seems reasonable). MJ fights back by turning into a sports car (did I mention he is a "magical" gangster?) and then later into a giant robotic Michael Jackson that blows stuff up by screaming.

I guess I could also mention Jackson later transforms into a spaceship, but your frontal lobe probably shut down after viewing that last image, an image that will haunt your dreams for years to come. If I had to choose the most frightening element of Moonwalker, I would have to say it's the overall message that if you are a child and you spend lots of time with Michael Jackson the weirdest thing that could happen is he'll turn into a 100-foot tall screaming robot. That's just dangerously misleading.



11. Pan's Labyrinth

Okay, so technically this isn't a family film, as it is rated R, but it looked so much like a family film from the posters and trailers that plenty of families wound up seeing it, at their peril. Really just a horror movie dressed up like a fairy tale, Pan's Labyrinth follows in the long tradition of children's stories as gothic horror. Those Grimm boys never met a severed limb they didn't like. And let's face it, labyrinths are just plain scary, even when there isn't the constant threat of David Bowie's bedazzled codpiece hiding around every corner.



10. Old Yeller

Okay, we all know why we're here for this one, but you have to wait for it. There is more to Old Yeller than just — well, you know. People maintain that Old Yeller is a delightfully safe film up until the infamous end. I say hold on, bucko. Old Yeller starts awful as well. For starters, the family in this film is so poor they have never seen a dollar bill. A dollar bill! That's a bit of pathos even Charles Dickens might call "laying it on thick." There's poverty and there's "Seriously? You eat dirt?" Thanks to losing the Civil War, living conditions in the reconstruction-era South were third-world at best. Luckily for the kids watching, Old Yeller ended up contracting rabies, otherwise the good old Coates family would have ended the film eating the dog.

Now on to the matter at hand. Shooting a dog is, yes, traumatising but let's break down what is so emotionally scarring about this particular dog-shooting. From the death of Old Yeller we learn three things:

1. New friends will always turn on you. 2. If you ever open your heart to love something it will contract rabies and try to kill you. 3. Shooting Old Yeller represents Travis's metaphorical entrance into manhood. This means that before any boy can become a man he must shoot his dog in the face.

9. The Secret of Nimh

Great movie. One of my all time favourites, kid film-wise. But you know you are in for a less-than-cheerful ride within the first minute. That's when we learn that dad mouse is dead and baby mouse is dying. Hmmm, an inauspicious start for fun family entertainment, if I may say so. What strikes me even now about this movie is how very real the peril these mice get into feels. My young brain was not prepared for a cartoon that was so gritty. Oh, and let's not forget the cat with one eye and the freaky Great Owl. The Secret of Nimh was created by Disney ex-animator Don Bluth. Apparently he and his animators drew this up in a garage and Bluth makes a point of letting you know right away this ain't gonna be no Disney movie.



8. Watership Down

I don't want to talk about this any further.



7. The Nightmare Before Christmas

I actually saw this when I was a teen, and liked it a lot. It was hard for me to judge if it's a scary one without having seen it with a child's eyes. So I employed my four-year-old to give me the "scary" thumbs up. She liked the friendly looking skeleton on the package. She liked the opening musical number. She even dug the clown with the tear-away face (where I was betting she would check out). Mr. Oogie Boogie is even kind of cute in a grungy burlap sack way, but then you discover what's in Oogie: bugs. Yep, after that Jillian was having no more of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Give her credit; she made it almost to the end.

6. The Care Bears Movie

Not an obvious choice. My daughter claimed this one to be scary, but she could get spooked by a stiff wind. And yet, as I polled adults for their scary kid movie picks, this one popped up. Why? Because a little boy turns into an evil magician, with red glowing eyes and everything.
That's all it takes to keep me up at night.
I don't remember anything from the first care bears, but the 2nd is my shiiit, therefore I'm posting a clip from it. Besides darkheart scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.



5. Little Monsters

Hey kids, let's validate your universal fear of monsters living under the bed. Not scary enough? What if said monsters looked and sound just like schtick-master Howie Mandel? AAAAHHHHHHH! LOL i'll be honest, I still can't even watch this film.



4. The Witches

Roald Dahl hits the list again, aided and abetted by Anjelica Huston vamping the wallpaper right off the walls. Dahl's original is pretty graphic, detailing a foul boy being transformed into a foul mouse. The film did that description justice. Oh, and when the two mice boys get revenge and turn Angelica Huston into a rat, it looks like this.


3. E.T.

Every good kid's movie has a scary element. Frights are the hooks that burrow a film into your young mind and make a childhood viewing unforgettable. Most movies build the fear factor into the cinematic heavy, but Steven Spielberg made his good guy the most terrifying thing you could imagine. A generation of children learned that aliens can be friendly once you get past all the ear splitting shrieking and the fact they look like lions after being dipped in lava and having their head flattened with a lead pipe. That screeching little alien tap-danced his way into our hearts and wallets. It's hard to find a grown-up who doesn't have fond memories of E.T. and also remember it scaring the crap out of them.




2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Yeah, I count this as a kid movie (sorry, fanboys). Face-melting Nazis aside, the Indiana Jones movies always aimed at nothing less than to appeal to every single breathing humanoid on the face of this planet; that puts Indy in the family-film category. All the Indy movies have their thrills and chills, but with Temple you'd think George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were planning to launch a line of rubber sheets for all the kids this movie would having pissing their beds for decades. It's like G.L. and S.S. had a pitch session just to dream up all the potential gross-out/freak-out factors.

"Alright Steve. One word: bugs." "Mmm hmm. And let me add this, George. Two words: more bugs." "Hold on now. We're both wrong. What is needed here is a CRAPLOAD of bugs!" (Both) "Hear! Hear!" "Ooh, and monkeys brains." "Eyeball soup." "Grotesquely caricatured ethnic stereotypes. Like a cute Asian kid with an accent so thick you could choke on it." "Um, okay. How about a guy who tears your heart out?" "And the heart bursts into flames." "You're a mad genius." "Did I mention bugs?"




1. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Speaking of grossouts, know what's gross? An hour-and-a-half long '80s product tie-in. Yep, I'm talking about Transformers. Shame on you, Michael Bay, for making a film so unnecessary it only banked a half-billion dollars. Of course, Transformers really isn't so scary because you can never tell what's going on. The way Bay films it, Optimus Prime fighting Megatron looks like a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright homes wrestling. So, let's focus instead on another gross '80s commercial masquerading as a movie, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. First of all, I was a kid when the cards were popular and I never got the appeal. Supposedly kids go ga-ga for gross stuff, but I was the kind of kid who washed his hands fifteen times a day and asked my fellow chums to disinfect the seat after riding my bike. Maybe Garbage Pail Kids are before your time, or it's been so long you have a hazy recollection. Let me jog that memory.



Thank you!
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Friday, September 5, 2008

WEEKLIES: Best Of Remixes Part 1



When all else fails, we have our remixes to turn to. Ever since I learned to skip classes in college, I never got the hang of keeping myself in one place for a long time. Which figures how much I am drawn to remix versions of radio hits. Anyway, taken from a friend's recommendation,  here are the first 15 of the BEST REMIX TRACKS I have encountered...So Far (MTV, pun intended).  It's unlikely but I have created a particular liking to the Kid Sister and Hot Chip remixes. How about you?


Reminders:
1. The ** is a YOUSEND IT Link. It  may or may not have a link, so check on it.
2. The Song title and Artist is a MEDIAFIRE link and all it HAS links so, don't worry.

Comments and thanks are extremely recommended. **,

** Lykke Li - Breaking It Up (Familjen Remix)
** 80kidz - Fuck Fox (Autokratz Remix)
** Kid Sister - Pro Nails (ft. Kanye West ) (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
** Munk - Live Fast Die Old (Headman Remix)
** Alphabeat - Boyfriend (Pete Hammond Remix)
** These New Puritans - Navigate, Navigate (The Loving Hand Remix)
** Kelley Polar - We Live In An Expanding Universe (Caribou Remix)
** Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)
** Future Loop Foundation - This Is Where We Live (The Go! Team Remix)
** Tiga and Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Black Devil Dub)
** Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip VIP Mix)
** Xinobi - Day Off (Anoraak Remix)
** Oasis - Falling Down (The Chemical Brothers Remix)
** A Human - Pacey Singer (Ocelot Remix)
** Tristan, Yvel - Punks Too (Add2Basket Remix)

In the recent list-craze, I've seen many a countdown about the movies -- best heroes, best villains, best kisses, etc. But no list to date has placed Ledger's Joker amongst its ranks... until now. What number, do you say? Click the cut to find out...






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In the recent list-craze, I've seen many a countdown about the movies -- best heroes, best villains, best kisses, etc. But no list to date has placed Ledger's Joker amongst its ranks... until now. What number, do you say?

25. Agent Smith, 'The Matrix' (1999)
Played by: Hugo Weaving
Agent Smith, voice dripping with disdain, eyes covered with his trademark shades, is the "muscle" of the Matrix and Neo's (Keanu Reeves) indefatigable foe. Intent on erasing Neo and obliterating the Scion rebels, Smith can replicate himself into the hundreds and thousands -- a virtual army with superhuman martial arts skills to boot.
24. Khan Noonien Singh, 'Star Trek: Wrath of Khan' (1982)
Played by: Ricardo Montalban
A vestige of Earth's late 20th-century eugenics wars, superman Khan has a super ego to match. Banished to a deserted planet in an episode of the 'Star Trek' TV series, Khan seeks revenge on the man who imprisoned him, his nemesis: Capt. James T. Kirk.
23. Frank Booth, 'Blue Velvet' (1986)
Played by: Dennis Hopper
Crime kingpin of Lumberton, N.C., Booth never met a form of depravity that he didn't like. His kinky sexual affinities include huffing gas, erotic asphyxiation, sadomasochism ... and those are just the ones we can print. Throw in mutilation, kidnapping and murder and you've got one well-rounded (if not well-grounded) sociopath.
22. Cruella de Vil, '101 Dalmatians' (1961)
Voiced by: Betty Lou Gerson
Her name (an amalgam of cruel and devil) sums up this crazed old bag who steals puppies with an eye to weaving their fur into ... gulp! ... coats. A monstrous fashionista, Cruella looms large in the pantheon of animated villains. As the song goes: "Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil, if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will."
21. Alonzo Harris, 'Training Day' (2001)
Played by: Denzel Washington
Over the course of a single day, rogue narcotics agent Harris "evaluates" a rookie (Ethan Hawke) and subjects him to a litany of depredations and humiliations that end in extortion and murder. Washington won a Best Actor Oscar in the role of a streetwise cop on the make who can't distinguish between good and evil anymore.
20. Lex Luthor, 'Superman' (1978)
Played by: Gene Hackman
"Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time" Luthor plans an uber real-estate swindle when he purchases thousands of miles of worthless Nevada desert intending to detonate a nuke in California's San Andreas Fault and voila! ... instant invaluable "coastline." Hackman's peevish, droll turn as the ultimate robber baron is hilarious.
19. Joan Crawford, 'Mommie Dearest' (1981)
Played by: Faye Dunaway
Dunaway chews more scenery than Secretariat ("No. More. Wire. Hangers!" ring a bell?) and keeps daughter Christina in such a state of abject terror in this camp classic that it's hard to believe the angelic child ever had the strength, years later, to write a dishy, tell-all memoir. Talk about payback.
18. T-1000, 'Terminator 2' (1991)
Played by: Robert Patrick
Ah-nuld's original Terminator gets all the glory, but it's Patrick's T-1000, a prototype model made of shape-shifting liquid metal, that truly terrorizes. This homicidal robot is the ultimate hit man who won't stop until his mission (to kill resistance leader John Connor) is completed or he ends up on the scrap heap -- whichever comes first.
17. Dr. Christian Szell, 'Marathon Man' (1976)
Played by: Laurence Olivier
Ex-Nazi concentration camp dentist Szell (in a role inspired by the infamous Dr. Mengele) uses a variety of drills, probes and picks to get to the, um, root of the matter when torturing Dustin Hoffman on whether "it's safe" to retrieve his horde of diamonds at a Manhattan bank. Pass the Novocaine, please.
16. Annie Wilkes, 'Misery' (1990)
Played by: Kathy Bates
Wilkes, the unhinged groupie of a famous writer (James Caan), kidnaps her favorite author and heaves a mallet to his ankles like she's A-Rod swinging for the fences. It's part of her mentoring campaign to get him to finish the latest installment of the exploits of her favorite heroine. God help the book club this woman joins.
15. Tom Powers, 'Public Enemy' (1931)
Played by: James Cagney
Presaging Pacino's Scarface by about six decades, Cagney, as a Prohibition-era hoodlum, rises fast in the gangland ranks by being more ruthless than any of his rivals. When he's not slamming half a grapefruit into girlfriend Mae Clarke's face, he's grabbing all he can get in this granddaddy of all gangster movies.
14. Mrs. Iselin, 'Manchurian Candidate' (1962)
Played by: Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Iselin would make Lady MacBeth squeamish as the Machiavellian political wife of a U.S. Senator who aspires to the presidency. She's not above using her son (Laurence Harvey) as a brainwashed guinea pig in a Chinese-Communist plot to assassinate the current leading presidential candidate.
13. Freddy Krueger, 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984)
Played by: Robert Englund
Child murderer Krueger was burned alive by vengeful parents when he was sprung from prison on a technicality. Years later he returns to haunt local teens in their dreams (and kill in the "real world"). With razor-sharp knives for fingers, he's a malicious Edward Scissorhands.
12. Michael Myers, 'Halloween' (1978)
Played by: Tony Moran
Donning a latex mask (modeled on William Shatner's likeness), man of no words Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield after a 20-year layover in a mental institution for slicing and dicing his sister. Trouble is, this immutable berserker isn't exactly cured. So begins a rampage that spawned a franchise as big as its body count.
11. Harry Powell, 'Night of the Hunter' (1955)
Played by: Robert Mitchum
A psychotic preacher with the words "love" and "hate" tattooed on his knuckles pursues a couple of kids who hold the key to some stolen bank loot. When not spouting Bible verse, Mitchum menaces with a cool detachment that gets more ominous as the film (which influenced the Coen Brothers and Martin Scorsese) progresses.
10. The Queen, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' (1937)
Voiced by: Lucille La Verne
In Disney's first full-length animated 'toon, the narcissistic queen covets the title of "fairest in the land," held by her virginal stepdaughter, Snow White. She'll go to any length -- to remove Snow from the competition, becoming the iconic evil stepmother in the process.
9. Max Cady, 'Cape Fear' (1991)
Played by: Robert De Niro
De Niro's take on a redneck illiterate who swears vengeance on his attorney (Nick Nolte) is an homage to Robert Mitchum's version in the '62 original but beats him in badness by sheer physicality -- his Cady is an amped-up, tattooed terror who brutalizes Nolte's legal clerk (Illeana Douglas) ... and likes it.
8. Hans Gruber, 'Die Hard' (1988)
Played by: Alan Rickman
Terrorist Gruber and his money-grubing, er ... grubbing, henchmen seize the Nakatomi Tower in downtown L.A. and take hostages. It's all part of an elaborate feint to swipe millions in negotiable bearer bonds. Hardly a driven ideologue, Gruber's prosaic American dream is to cash in and be "on a beach earning 20 percent."
7. Anton Chigurgh, 'No Country for Old Men' (2007)
Played by: Javier Bardem
A hit man with an unpronounceable name and a pageboy hairdo doesn't seem much of a threat, but this homicidal Moe Howard is nobody's stooge -- victims live or die on his coin toss. Bardem won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as a mercenary who follows his own inscrutable code; woe betide anyone who gets in his way.
6. Goldfinger, 'Goldfinger' (1964)
Played by: Gert Frobe
Don't let his roly-poly look fool you: Goldfinger is a stone-cold killer with just one thought in mind -- to pull off the greatest bank caper in history by irradiating the U.S. gold reserve so that his own gold cache will skyrocket in value. All that stands between him and cashing in is James Bond, who is neither shaken nor stirred at the prospect.
5. The Joker, 'The Dark Knight' (2008)
Played by: Heath Ledger
Less cartoonish than 'Batman' villains past, Ledger's Joker is the darkest element of 'The Dark Knight.' He says he's the "better class of criminal" Gotham deserves -- and the caked-on clown makeup and disheveled appearance only add to Ledger's brilliantly disturbing portrayal ... sadly, the last role he completed before his untimely death.
4. Hannibal Lecter, 'Silence of the Lambs' (1991)
Played by: Anthony Hopkins
Not the guy you want to invite to dinner, Hannibal "The Cannibal" has a gruesome definitation of haute cuisine. 'Silence' won five Oscars, including a Best Actor nod for Hopkins as the cagy psychopath who, though in stir, always seems to be one step ahead of the Feds.
3. The Wicked Witch of the West, 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939)
Played by: Margaret Hamilton
As Dorothy Gale's (Judy Garland) arch enemy, the Wicked Witch was evil incarnate and gave generations of American kids nightmares. From her army of flying monkeys to her wickedly gleeful cackle, this is still the scariest character you'll find in a "family-friendly" film.
2. Darth Vader, 'Star Wars' series (1977-2005)
Played by: James Earl Jones, Hayden Christensen
Vader succumbed to allure of the Dark Side and became the face of evil eons in the future in a galaxy far, far away. Jones' stentorian baritone adds gravitas to Vader's prodigious lightsaber skills, which he used to lop off his son's hand. Christensen's younger version isn't as iconic, but he did slaughter a houseful of future Jedis.
1. Lord Voldemort, 'Harry Potter' series (2005-2007)
Played by: Ralph Fiennes
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is the most powerful dark wizard to ever wave a wand, and he schemes to enslave the whole muggle world. His slithering presence has been minimal in the films so far, but we've all read the books, so we know how much more evil he'll become.


Okay, I think #1 is complete bullshit.

Otherwise, the list isn't TOO offensive in its snubs. In my opinion, people shouldn't put Heath Ledger in the rank until critics (like me ^^,) can take a good hour's look at his role as The Joker. But where's Norman Bates? Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction??HAL 9000? FREAKIN' CHUCKY?
Who are your favorite villains (movies, books, whatever)? 



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Before ''Atonement,'' Keira Knightley was Merlin's daughter, Elizabeth Bennet from ''Pride & Prejudice,'' and a bounty hunter. Lets look back at her diverse roles....



Atonement (2007)
Kiera Knightley plays Cecilia Tallis, the eldest daughter in a well-to-do British household, who falls for the Tallis housekeeper's son with disastrous consequences (thanks to a fib told by her younger sister, Briony).
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)
At age 14, Knightley played Sabé, a look-alike handmaiden of Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) who poses as a decoy for her endangered mistress. Though the role was hardly strenuous — she barely spoke a word, just wore that mask-like face of makeup — she was in good company: Among the starlets who have also appeared as handmaidens are Sofia Coppola and Rose Byrne (in Episode II).
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Soccer-loving Jules, who befriends and recruits a promising new teammate (Parminder Nagra), then falls out with her over the affections of their coach (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers).
Love Actually (2003)
Newlywed Juliet, who finds herself on the receiving end of an awkward but charming declaration of love. (Inconveniently, it's made by her husband's best friend.)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Elizabeth Swann, who leaves her life of nobility to tag along with Will Turner, her pirate beloved (Orlando Bloom), and the loopy Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
King Arthur (2004)
Guinevere, Merlin's daughter and King Arthur (Clive Owen)'s love interest, in this ancient fable retold as the ''true'' story behind the legend of the Knights of the Round Table.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Elizabeth ''Lizzie'' Bennet, the second-eldest of five daughters, finds herself falling for a man who she originally holds in contempt.