10 Most Badass James Bond Villain Lairs

John Barry’s particularly thunderous score for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service evokes all the action-packed grandeur of only the most intense and electrifying blockbusters. So too, then, should the villain’s lair be an epic and inspiring arena to match, fitting for a fist-pump prompting blitzkrieg of bombast.

Ernst Stavo Biofeld’s mountaintop resort fits the bill, and then some. Situated high in the Swiss Alps and protected from pesky ski-enthusiasts by a handy “no trespassing” sign, it’s the ideal place for Blofeld to conduct his nefarious schemes of biological warfare under the guise of “allergy research”.

The setting for much of the film’s runtime, Piz Gloria is also host to Blofeld’s beautiful, brainwashed “Angels of Death”, ostensibly a harem of ladies for a disguised Bond to work his way through, such as it were, in order to fully investigate the SPECTRE head’s plot.

Although visually stunning, such as it is sitting high as the heavens, the lair truly stands out as the location of the film’s frenetic final air assault. The mountain peak all but explodes with sound and excitement as Bond leads Marc-Andre Draco’s Union Corse crew in a battalion of helicopters laying fiery siege to Blofeld and his fellow baddies.

Top marks for memorability.