10 Worst Villains in Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Ranked

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COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Many of Alfred Hitchcock's villains rank among the most iconic in cinema. There's the sinister Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca, the suave Phillip Vandamm of North by Northwest, and, of course, Psycho's Norman Bates , the archetypal crazed killer. Heck, even the titular avians from The Birds are pretty unsettling.

Foreign Correspondent is an odd and difficult film to rate because it has both very strong and very weak elements. On the one hand, it's essentially a B-movie and propaganda aiming at getting the US to enter the war. On the other, some of the suspense is handled well and there's an impressive scene of a plane crashing into the ocean. Krug, however, is one of Hitchcock's most boring and least intimidating spy villains.

Roddy never confronts Mabel, and there's no resolution to their conflict; instead, she serves only as a catalyst before being forgotten. The loathsome pair really deserve each other, bringing out the worst in each other despite never quite selling their devious actions. 2 Levet 'The Pleasure Garden' Close "You have no idea, Miss Brand, how empty and lonely life is out there..." The Pleasure Garden was Hitchcock's feature debut, so it's understandably rough around the edges. Set in the glamorous world of London's theater scene, it tells the intertwining stories of two chorus girls, Patsy and Jill . Their friendship is tested when they both fall for the charms of the same man, the suave theater producer Levet .

 

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