10 Best Movie Villains Of 2019
3. Red - Us
With so much more exposure and pressure on the director after the success of Get Out, Jordan Peele knocked it out of the park with his follow up, Us. In a movie with an incredibly compelling story, and awesome performances from the entire cast, the villain really stood out from anything else.
There are antagonists on this list that are there for their charisma, their principles or their incredibly well built characters. Red however, is simply terrifying. Expertly portrayed by the wonderfully talented Lupita Nyong'o, Adelaide's doppelganger and the rest of the family's tethered halves truly terrorize the Wilsons.
The first meeting between the family and their doubles is immediately tense, but when Red speaks, or croaks, her first words of the movie, she shows the audience that she isn't just another villain. The emotion and pain Nyong'o pours into her performance, combined with the ruthless aggression builds both empathy and fear for the character.
The final twist of the movie turns the empathy to complete sympathy. She wasn't always this way, she was forced into a life underground and simply wanted revenge on the one who robbed her true life from her. Who wouldn't want the same in that situation?