10 Movie Villains Who Had Warts On Their Souls

10. The Party Crasher: The Hard Way

Directed by action comedy hero John Badham, 1991's buddy cop comedy The Hard Way followed the director's equally impressive eighties efforts in the genre Stakeout and Bird on a Wire. The film followed a game Michael J Fox as a clueless Hollywood actor who is shadowing a taciturn detective played by James Woods. The naive newcomer's inexperience, along with Woods playing essentially the inverse of his later Simpsons cameo, resulted in a steady stream of laughs alongside some pacy and inventive action sequences.

So why did the film have the sickest villain in police procedurals since Dirty Harry's Scorpio?

Unusually twisted and apathetic for a cop thriller villain, the Party Crasher was a murderer who taunted the police as he killed petty criminals and prostitutes, all the while boasting that he was doing their work. As if this weren't enough, it's soon revealed that he's a remorseless monster who had previously murdered a child in cold blood.

A pseudo-moralizing creep, this serial killer was glib and uncaring about his rising body count and seemed dropped in from a far darker, more mean-spirited film.