10 Movie Villains Who Had Warts On Their Souls

Some of the villains listed here are ghosts, some are aliens, and a lot are drawn from a slightly more out-there and over-the-top reality than more grounded films portray. (Sorry, The Hard Way, but The French Connection you ain't.)

But some of these villains are all too real and occupy a very genuine place in history as well as screen infamy.

Released in 2012, Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave is a devastating adaptation of Solomon Northup's biography of the same name. The film follows the free man as he's captured and sold into slavery. Portrayed in a terrifying turn by Michael Fassbender, Edwin Epps is the film's antagonist and a horrific embodiment of slavery's dehumanizing effects.

Casually sadistic, the plantation worker "breaks" slaves through almost unwatchable whipping scenes, repeatedly rapes a female slave, forces them to dance instead of sleeping for his amusement, and tortures them for failing to reach insane quotas.

A unique sort of evil, this slave owner treats his fellow man far worse than animals or property in this film’s most upsetting scenes, and his irredeemable evil is testament to the era's inhumanity.