15 Best Movie Villains Of The Decade

4. The Armitage Family - Get Out (2017)

Like Candie, The Armitage Family in Get Out are an allegorical construct, but they're a lot closer to our modern home. They're also, crucially, expertly crafted enough to actually look like real characters at the same time.

The Armitage family are a delightful achievement in twist narrative, as they're completely convincing as a totally normal family (albeit with a slight background hum of institutional, old racism and white guilt perhaps) but then just as convincing as a group of murderous evil scientists who belong in a completely different genre at the same time.

Their plan - the perversely logical extrapolation of the fetishism of black bodies and exotic "otherness" - is as disturbing as it is horribly effective and their switch after the twist is revealed is wonderful to watch. So wonderful, in fact, that you'll wonder how you didn't see it all.