The Best and the Meanest Movie Villains and Vixens

With huge pop culture icons in the race, the top illustrates the evilest of evil characters people have been unable to forget once seen in the movie theaters.

From Darth Vader to Elle Driver and from Catherine Tramell to Freddy Krueger every one is present. The most respected, feared and appreciated characters are: Silence of the Lambs' Anthony Hopkins impersonation of Hannibal Lecter and the Basic Instinct sex diva, Sharon Stone, aka Catherine Tramell.

Take a look at the top:
1. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
2. Darth Vader (David Prowse, James Earl Jones--Voice--& Hayden Christensen)
3. Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund)
4. Ike Turner (Laurence Fishburne)
5. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)

Two unforgettable thrillers, one biopic, one sci-fi and one horror movie. The surprise of seeing the demented cannibal Lecter at top and the far more popular Darth Vader coming in at the second place is not that big if you consider that Star Wars was not created to scare people off. Freddy Krueger, "the man of your dreams" could have reached higher in the top but the last crossover Jason vs Freddie harmed his reputation of invincible nightmare-ish creature.

The vixens, villainesses and femmes fatales also had a close race.

1) Sharon Stone--Basic Instinct
2) Glenn Close--Fatal Attraction
3) Louise Fletcher--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4) Rebecca De Mornay--The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
5) Barbara Stanwyck--Double Indemnity

The first place was already known by everyone who saw Stone's performance as the sex crazed pulp novelist who slayers her lovers and the honorable second place Glenn Close won for (another) sex crazed murderess makes one think that it's not the slaying that scares the pants of movie goers but the idea that sex and murder come and go hand in hand.