10 Truly Evil Horror Movie Villains Who Never Actually Killed Anyone

Rosemary's Baby may best be remembered for the controversy surrounding director Roman Polanski, the breakthrough performance of star Mia Farrow, or the iconic poster that still hangs on thousands of bedroom walls, but perhaps its most important and intelligent feature is its villain.

Ruth Gordon plays Minnie Castevet, an old-age, upper-middle class New Yorker with a nose for other people's business. She is meddlesome, loud mouthed and exactly the kind of person one finds in everyday life, blending so seamlessly into the melange of the day-to-day that her preoccupation as an evil acolyte of Satan almost goes unnoticed.

Tricking Rosemary (Farrow) into conceiving and carrying the spawn of the devil, Minnie and her unholy coven have the younger woman doubting her sanity up until the last minute. As if that wasn't enough, she is complicit in seizing the child from its mother, drugging her and telling her that it died during childbirth. Sure, Minnie doesn't kill Rosemary or the baby, but for the sake of all humankind it might be better if she did.