9 Well Deserved Movie Villain Deaths
8. Howard - 10 Cloverfield Lane
If there was one person you wouldn’t want to share a survival bunker with, it’s a controlling and psychopath who could kill you for winning at scrabble one too many times.
But that’s what Mary-Elizabeth Winstead’s Michelle has to contend with when she is “rescued” by John Goodman’s Howard and locked up in his survival basement as the aliens/monsters invade Earth.
Even though it’s cuddly John Goodman we don’t trust him. And Michelle is right to do so too when he immediately begins to display suspicious acts of control amongst the other residents in the bunker.
When Michelle discovers the bunker wasn’t necessarily built for surviving the impending apocalypse, we quickly learn that Howard is a child-abducting killer and has trapped Michelle (and John Gallagher Jr’s Emmett) in the bunker with him.
Howard makes his cold intentions open when he threatens the group with acid and calmly kills Emmett. The heroes journey ends with elation when Michelle dumps acid on Howard and sets him alight.
The character paves the way for scepticism in the future; anyone you know who is super keen on building post-apocalypse bunkers should probably get a second look. Especially ones who glare like John Goodman.