10 Memorable Vincent Price Characters

9. Egghead - Batman

Vincent Price Theatre Of Blood
Warner Bros.

If you’re going to create a villain who routinely evades capture by using radar eggs or egg-shaped tear gas bombs (laid by chickens fed with onions) and taunts Batman with “egg-cellent” puns, who better to play him than Vincent Price?

Not only is Egghead “the world’s smartest criminal” , but he was 1 of only 2 supervillains who ever guessed the Caped Crusader’s secret identity. It’s elementary logic, really – given the enormous “egg-spence” of building the Batmobile, Batman would have to be independently wealthy, and how many billionaires are there in Gotham?

On a side note, it’s perhaps worth mentioning that when the makers of Batman & Robin needed a bald villain with a line in terrible puns, they turned to Arnold Schwarzenegger – and killed the franchise. 

Contributor

Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'