10 Movie Villains Who Had Warts On Their Souls

Released in 1994, Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption is often singled out not only as one of the best Stephen King adaptations on film, but one of the finest films in cinema history. A patient and deliberate drama, the film follows the story of Andy Dusfrene, a wrongfully accused man in the eponymous prison who is imbued with quiet grace with dependable powerhouse Tim Robbins.

The movie's villain is Warden Norton, a monstrous hypocrite puts Dusfrene through his own personal hell whilst all the while preaching about heaven. A crooked and corrupt figure, the warden spouts constant streams of Biblical justifications for his greed and cruelty, but there's not much god in his heart when his personal accountant and money launderer Andy finds a fellow convict who can prove his innocence.

Afraid Dusfrene will reveal his own crimes once free, Norton has the convict killed, locks Dusfrene in solitary for a month, threatens to leave him at the mercy of a violent gang of rapists, and generally deserves the deeply satisfying fate in store for him.

Darabont may have made a successful adaptation of The Mist later in his career, but the most memorable monster in his screen career is a very human hypocrite.