My Top 30 Sexiest Movie Villains List

Is there anything more compelling than a sexy villain? Doubtful. I recently saw “Batman Begins” and determined immediately that Cillian Murphy’s performance as Scarecrow was a sexy villain for the ages. Thus inspired, I contrived to determine my top 30 hot movie villains. Mad props to the four gentlemen who made the list more than once. Some guys just have a knack for being bad (Messrs. Rickman and Isaacs, this means you!)

• Yul Brynner as Ramses, “The Ten Commandments” (1956)
• Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, “Psycho” (1960)
• Malcolm McDowell as Alex, “A Clockwork Orange’ (1971)
• Malcolm McDowell as Caligula, “Caligula” (1979)
• Frank Langella as Dracula, “Dracula” (1979)
• Sam Neill as Damien Thorn, “Omen III: The Final Conflict” (1981)
• Sting as Martin Taylor, “Brimstone and Treacle” (1982)
• Sting as Feyd-Rautha, “Dune” (1984)
• Davie Bowie as Jareth, “Labyrinth” (1986)
• Kiefer Sutherland as David, “The Lost Boys” (1987)
• Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber, “Die Hard” (1988)
• John Malkovich as Valmont, “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988)
• Colin Firth as Valmont, “Valmont” (1989)
• Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham, “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves” (1991)
• Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lechter, “Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
• Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt, “Interview with the Vampire” (1994)
• Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith, “The Matrix” (1999)
• Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade, “Quills” (2000)
• Jason Isaacs as Colonel Tavington, “The Patriot” (2000)
• Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus, “Gladiator” (2000)
• Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, “American Psycho” (2000)
• Alan Rickman as Professor Snape, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (2001)
• Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (2002)
• Guy Pearce as Fernand Mondego, “The Count of Monte Cristo” (2002)
• Tom Hardy as Shinzon, “Star Trek Nemesis” (2002)
• Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dolarhyde, “Red Dragon” (2002)
• Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook, “Peter Pan” (2003)
• Gerard Butler as the Phantom, “The Phantom of the Opera” (2004)
• Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, “Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith” (2005)
• Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow, “Batman Begins” (2005)

For more fun with villains, I recommend www.hotbadguys.com.

Anyone I left off? Feel free to post!