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We took 64 of the meanest and nastiest movie villains ever created and brought them together for a no holds-barred tournament, to find out who is the evilest villain of all times.  For rules and details about the selection process click here.

ROUND 1: Northeast Region

ROUND 1: Northwest Region

ROUND 1: Southeast Region

ROUND 1: Southwest Region

ROUND 2: East Region

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Darth Vader and Michael Myers took surprising falls in the east regions second round series and Damien and Gordon Gekko are just getting warmed up.  Who will move closer to hell in this region?  Let’s get it on!

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(4) Leatherface – Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(12) Cruella DeVil – 101 Dalmatians

Battle: Cruella had a good run but let’s face it, she’d never be a real threat to you or anyone you know.  You could run into her on the street and what’s she’s gonna do, take your dog?  If she really wanted to hurt somebody she’d have killed those dalmatian lovers and stole their dogs.  If you even try to drive down Leatherface’s street he’s going to kill you.

Winner: Leatherface

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(1) Joker – The Dark Knight

(8) Simon Pheonix – Demolition Man

Battle: The Joker and Simon Phoenix were after the same thing: chaos.  Joker killed city officials, turned a hero DA is a psychopath and tried to blow up two (literal) boat loads of people.  Simon Pheonix…killed city officials.  So while I totally Wesley Snipes would beat Heath Ledger’s ass any day of the week, his resume comes up a little short.

Winner: Joker

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(3) Catherine Tramell – Basic Instinct

(11) Clarence Boddicker – Robocop

Battle: Clarence Boddicker was really just out for a good time.  Should a cop get in his way — or anyone for that matter — he took pleasure in blowing them away.  Still, his objective was to party.  Catherine Tramell seemed to go out looking for trouble.  She wanted to twist people to her will and then kill them.  That’s some evil sh–.

Winner: Catherine Tramell

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(2) Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th

(7) Alonzo – Training Day

Battle: Alonzo was chasing power and respect which most would say is the root of all evil, but in a way he was just trying to restore order.  His order, but still order.  Jason Voorhees was a scared little boy looking for his mommy, but he was demented enough to believe that anyone who entered his camp was his enemy and deserved to die.  Jason had more demons.

Winner: Jason Voorhees

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(4) Chucky – Child’s Play

(12) Peyton Flanders – The Hand that Rocked the Craddle

Battle: It’s the baby doll vs. the babysitter.  I think it’s safe to say that Peyton isn’t going to be rocking Chucky’s cradle anytime soon.  Yea she killed one guy and tried to take over a family, but let’s pretend she succeeded.  She’d have done anything to protect her family, but she wouldn’t go out of her way to hurt people.  If Chucky possessed a new body, his evil would know no bounds.

Winner: Chucky

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(3) Norman Bates – Psycho

(11) Max Cady – Cape Fear

Battle:  Here’s the deal with Norman Bates: he (and his mother) just wanted to be left alone.  They could have stayed in that crappy motel for years and not interact with anyone.  Evil contained.  Max Cady had an itch he just had to scratch.  An itch for rape, if not murder to.  He’d never just sit alone and let it fester.

Winner: Max Cady

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(1) Freddy Kruger – A Nightmare of Elm Street

(8) T-1000 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Battle: Just stop for a minute and imagine this battle for real.  Amazing right?  Well in terms of evil, the liquid terminators only objective was to assassinate (I think he is important enough to warrant the term) John Connor.  He didn’t really kill anyone he didn’t have to.  He wasn’t just poking bystanders in the eye with his liquid daggers.  Freddy would’ve.

Winner: Freddy Kruger

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(7) General Thade – Planet of the Apes

(15) Maleficent – Sleeping Beauty

Battle: Hmm…General Thade kept slaves.  Maleficent never had any slaves.  Maleficent tried to kill a baby and then eat the prince that came to save the grown up baby.  General Thade would certainly kill a human baby and anyone who tried to stop him.  Isn’t it ironic that Maleficent’s “Cinderella” story dies here.

Winner: General Thade

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We took 64 of the meanest and nastiest movie villains ever created and brought them together for a no holds-barred tournament, to find out who is the evilest villain of all times.  For rules and details about the selection process click here.

ROUND 1: Northeast Region

ROUND 1: Northwest Region

ROUND 1: Southeast Region

Click image to see an enlarged bracket.

There weren’t many upsets in the Southeast region, but we did see Damien rise up and announce that he is here to claim the throne that is rightfully his (I mean he is the Antichrist).  Will anyone in the Southwest region be able to give him a run for his money?  Find out below.

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(1) Freddy Kruger – Nightmare of Elm Street: Guts children with a glove made of scissors.

(16) Henry Evans – the Good Son: Killed his neighbor’s pets with a homemade crossbow.

Winner: Freddy never faced a child like Henry before I can tell you that much.  This child Macaulay Culkin won’t scare as easy as Freddy’s typical drugged up teenage victims.  Henry was a pure sociopath, no doubt about it and would have pulled off the upset against any other supernatural killer…but Freddy Kruger was just as sociopathic when he was human.  Once Freddy was given supernatural powers, he took it to a whole new level.  Freddy wins.

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(4) Leatherface – Texas Chainsaw Massacre: If you ever needed to cut up a log, he’s your guy.

(13) Sauron – Lord of the Rings: Made a nasty ring that turns everyone into a douchebag.

Winner: Look, I’m not even going to pretend that I sat through 9+ hours of LOTR’s, nor that I’d understand its confusing twists and turns if I had.  Leatherface chopped body parts and made an entire nation shiver every time they heard a chainsaw rev to life.  Leatherface advances.  Next!

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(3) Catherine Tramell – Basic Instinct: the ultimate femme fatale who murdered men with an ice pick.

(14) Patrick Bateman – American Psycho: the ultimate whack job who murdered people with an axe.

Winner: Christain Bale was truly a psycho – if not American – but at the end of the day who knows whether he really splattered anybody or if he just fantasized about it.  I know that’s the gateway behavior (I watch Criminal Minds), but please Patrick…man up and do something about it already!  No way does he compare to a legged legend.  Sharon Stone moves on.

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(7) Alonzo – Training Day: A murderer with a badge.

(10) Alex - A Clockwork Orange: A home invaded with a fetish for sleeping wives.

Winner: Alonzo shakes down thugs like Alex on a daily basis and he’d have no problem out evil-ing this little creep.  Denzel Washington wins.

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(6) John Doe – Se7en: Reminded the world of the seven deadly sins by putting a cop’s wife’s head in a box.

(11) Clarence Boddicker – Robocop: Notorious cop killer.

Winner: Let’s see.  One guy blew a cops apart piece by piece and the other guy destroyed a cop mentally piece by piece.  It’s brain vs. brawn here, but in terms of sheer evil…I have to give it to the robo-killer.  He’d never commit suicide to punish himself.

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(5) Lex Luthor – Superman: A criminal mastermind who tried to sink California.

(12) Cruella DeVil – 101 Dalmatians: an heiress furrier who tried to skin 101 dalmatians just to make a coat.

Winner: As much as I’d like to stick up for California, the truth is that the movie versions of Lex Luthor are all genius and short on the evil.  Cruella DeVil was just as rich and if you asked me who I’d be most afraid to meet face to face, it’d have to be DeVil.

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(8) T-1000 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day: the liquid terminator famous for stabbing his victims with ice pick hands.

(9) O-Ren Ishii – Kill Bill: Notorious for slicing and dicing her victims with katana swords.

Winner: The T-1000 was creator for the specific purpose of assassination, but some would say the same for O-Ren Ishii.  O-Ren was a bad girl, but once again, the code of thieves comes back to bite another villain on the ass.  T-1000 didn’t bargain, hesitate or apologize.  The liquid terminator shuffles on to round 2.

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(2) Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th: A machete wielding ex-camper in a hockey mask.

(15) Derek Vinyard – American History X: A white supremacist that curb stomps black people.

Winner: A lot of people would say that racist people are the most evil people in the world, but I’d argue that they aren’t evil.  They are just cowards, who attack what they fear.  Jason Voorhees was afraid of no one.  Jason wins.

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Next up, ROUND 2!—->

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As told to me by the ghosts of Hollywood’s past, present and future.

Past – Mel outburst will have no affect on his film, but his age will.

It use to be that men were ageless in Hollywood, while the women had a short self-life but that trend seem to be changing.  The movie going public seems eager to accept Carrie Bradshaw and her shopaholic croonies living the single life, Meryl Streep can do no wrong and TV audiences are buying into Cougartown, but what about our aging men?

Yes, Stallone is back in the Expendables, but he has lots of company, Indy had to come back with a son and Pacino & De Niro can’t seem to get the dollars up anymore (see 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill).  Could it be because women don’t have the same interest in the distinguished, intellectual and traditional blue pill heroes they once adored?  They seem to have their eyes glued to the young little sex pots now.  The Shia’s and the Taylor Lautner’s of the world.  Have the tables truly turned?  If so, that’s just disgusting!

Present – Spiritual movies are an endangered species.

I tried to make my case for their comeback here, but it seems Hollywood is making the case for spirituality box office futility at the movies.  As we speak there are three divine movies at your local theaters: The Book of Eli, Legion and the Lovely Bones, but none of them are having the commercial impact the studios were hoping for.  Legion is a B-movie at best, but Book of Eli stars Denzel Washington (see above maybe?) and the Lovely Bones is based on a popular book, yet neither is the blockbuster it was suppose to be.

Which begs the question, is spirituality too intellectual for the big screen — creating success only in literature — or is the subject just too taboo, turning off the religious and atheist alike?  It can’t be that people don’t like being preached to.  No, not with Avatar‘s success.  It can’t be that people don’t want to hear stories they heard a million times, see Avatar again.  So what is it that makes people shy away from blatantly religious movies?  Maybe it’s the over-the-top fantasy element of it.  Maybe, just maybe, people actually want spiritual tales without the creepy spirits.  You know, something they can actually relate to.

Future – the Criminal Minds spinoff will be a ratings top 10 out the gate.

I’m not exactly going out on a limb here, but with Forest Whitaker on board, this show is a sure-fire smash.  I myself just recently hopped on the Criminal Minds train over the Christmas break (oddly enough I first tuned in to verify my wife’s claim that Shemar Moore waxes his eyebrows) and I just can’t get off.  This is a franchise that will rival CSI and NCIS with Whitaker on the team.

Typically I only choose one: I only watch Law & Order: SVU, I only watch CSI and I only watch NCIS: Los Angeles.  But I’m watching both Criminal Minds.  Namely because the show doesn’t just switch scenery.  But then again, how could they?  Federal jurisdiction spans the entire United States — though Criminal Minds: Afghanistan does have a nice ring to it.  This Criminal Minds is suppose to be the “bad boys” of the FBI.  Profilers that don’t always “go by the book.”  Whatever, as long as they have psychos killers who could give the Joker a run for his money people will tune it.

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