"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
My personal favorite of all the MST baddies, George Woodard delivers an excellently evil performance as the CEO of Gencorp, big business hell bent on turning Nick Miller's time traveling Cessna into a weapon of corporate greed. "What did you think we were gonna do!? Take kids on history trips!?"
J.K. reigns over his evil empire from his offices at the local branch library where appointments are met with a ghastly circus mirror hanging above the entrance. And like any powerful man he has his own personal crony and right hand man to herald his will; Matthew Paul, a.k.a "Pink Boy"; Whom J.K. shoots with an Uzi after he refuses to kill prisoners. "Hey Matt, you're fired!" BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
Never a man of subtlety, evil seems to seep from his pores in a manner paralleled only by the #2 choice on this list.
#4 Fat Man/NoviCorp Chairman OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK (822)
"FINGAL! YOU ARE MINE!...with Bearnaise sauce!"
It's "Winston Churchill's mobbed up brother Vito". The Fat Man, Chairman of NoviCorp, his zealous protection of company interests is rivaled only by his monstrous appetite. In this classic, lower budget, PBS predecessor to Johnny Mnemonic starring Raul Julia, the Fat Man attempts to derail Fingal's efforts to hack the NoviCorp system by sitting around and screaming a lot. He screams at Appallonia, he screams at Fingal, and in between he has a pork roast or three.
"TO WENDY'S!"
#3 Phantom of Krankor PRINCE OF SPACE (816)
"Hagh! Hagh! Hagh! Ye SCUM!" The Phantom of Krankor isn't really unique at all, I mean there were hundreds of badly costumed "space men" invading earth in the 50's but the Phantom simply out does them all in terms of sheer buffoonery. If you've seen it then I don't have to elaborate but he fails at evil in every conceivable way because he simply has no collective memory. He cannot ever seem to remember that "the Prince of Space cannot be harmed by enemy weapons!" Geez. At least he's persistent.#2 Kalgon SPACE MUTINY (820)
Kalgon is one of those rare villains who surpasses even the snidely whiplashes of melodrama. His neuroses trump the common motives of movie-villaindom and he exists on his own bizarre plane of bad wiring caused by space scurvy or something.On the other hand, though, he loves to laugh! In fact everything related to his treacherous plot he finds incredibly hilarious. Don't get him and his paintball henchman started, they'll go on for hours about much of a riot it is to be stuck drifting in space for eternity.
#1 Torgo 'MANOS' THE HANDS OF FATE (424)
Ah, Torgo! What's there to say that hasn't already been said, or written. A no-brainer for the number one spot Torgo is the lovable, awkwardly unstable, peeping tom inn-keeper that makes "Manos" one of the great bad movies of all time.Viva la Torgo!
HONORABLE MENTIONS...
The Prince Look-a-like in "Agent for HARM"
Jack Palance and his fantastic mushroom hat in "Outlaw of Gor"
Donald Pleasence in "Warrior from the Lost World" and "Puma Man"
The Eye Creatures from film of same name. "YAWN!"
IT from "It Conquered the World".
The Teenager from Outer Space who really wants to..."TORTURE!".
Robert Denby, the world's most elusive man (Riding With Death)
and of course, David Warner, who plays both villain and mentor in the classic fantasy romp Quest of the Delta Knights.
And there you have it. Thanks for reading!
I see Robert Denby was too elusive to make your list ;)
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