10 Most Evil Tarantino Characters (And Their Worst Misdeeds)

Quentin Tarantino first shot to fame in 1992 with his first independent feature, Reservoir Dogs. The movie gained a lot of praise but was also criticized for its brutality and to what many regarded as unnecessary acts of violence.

For Tarantino, such comments only inspired him to push the violence boat that little bit further, with projects such as True Romance, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown, upping the ante on the shock factor.

The director is a master character writer and he's often at his best when creating villains. And over the years, he's created some of the most compelling ever...

Christoph Waltz has such a likeable face and persona that is still frustratingly difficult to hate him even when he is literally playing pure evil and shooting up innocent people who we actually like. Yes, Hans Landa is without a doubt the most disturbing character to have ever come out of Tarantino's fascinating yet frightening brain, and that's saying something.

In fact, from his very first scene, which is also the opening scene of the movie, we are invited into the mind of Landa who toys with the audience before revealing just what a psycho he actually is. The scene is not only horrific but it sets up the movie well in the knowledge this guy is going to be around for a while, and he's going to get even worse.

In typical Tarantino fashion, the scene builds up for over ten minutes of solid dialogue, leaving audiences forgetting to breathe, and that's just the first scene.

Waltz won an Academy Award for his portrayal as the sadistic SS serial killer with Tarantino also going on to praise the actor for a role that he initially believed to be "unplayable."