For this month's top ten, we decided to list our favorite screen villains of all time. If that sounds like we're ripping off the AFI (who published their top 50 last month), that's because we are. Just keep in mind that we're only doing so because, while some of their picks are solid (and are even duplicated on one or more of our lists), most are nuttier than a shit-house rat. Travis Bickle? Wasn't this guy a hero? Or, Man (from Bambi)? What's that all about? I mean, that's just silly. Almost as silly as is listing the city of Las Vegas. Anyway, without further adieu, here are the real top villains of all time. And no, Curt isn't serious when he mentions Shute (from Vision Quest) as a "screen villain."

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CURTIS RAINES:

The parameters to this list are endless. After all, I would consider Shute from Vision Quest a "screen villain." So where do I go with this list…? Let me think? I'm just gonna jot down the top ten bad guy roles that I've enjoyed watching the most. If you think to yourself, "Hmmm, he's not a villain," then you're taking this list way too seriously. Easy big fella and enjoy.

1) Michael Myers in Halloween (John Carpenter/1976): Yeah, I'd say he's a villain -- unless you consider trying to hack up Jamie Lee Curtis a good thing. And if you've seen some of her recent movies, you just might.

2) Darth Vader in Star Wars (George Lucas/1977): This just in -- I'm a nerd.

3) Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (James Cameron/1984): I'm not a big action movie guy. But I gotta admit - Arnold revolutionized the action villain role with his performance. He was fresh, entertaining and one bad mother. The only negative was that for the next fifteen years, I had to suffer through those annoying people who thought they were clever and funny by saying in their best Schwarzenegger accent, "I'll be back," every time they went somewhere. Great, T3 is coming out. Oh well, here we go again.

4) Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan in Rope (Alfred Hitchcock/1948): One of my favorite Hitchcock films and definitely his best-written villains. There's nothing better to watch than eerie characters portrayed perfectly on the big screen. I could watch these two in Rope all day… and that has nothing to do with me liking it, but rather, I have absolutely no life and a lot of free time to boot.

5) Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (Mike Nichols/1967): Mrs. Robinson is the best villainous female role ever written and there's nothing you can do about it.

6) Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman/1975): Damn, I wanted to slap her while watching this movie for the first time. That's how convincing she was. I wonder if she got that mean streak from her brother Frank "The Animal" Fletcher, former middleweight boxing contender.

7) Joe Pesci in Casino (Marty Scorsese/1995): Save your Goodfellas retort for someone who cares. I know he basically played the same character, but I have a severe acute gambling problem in the late stages far beyond any help that some twelve-step program could provide - therefore I liked him better in Casino. The blackjack scene in which Pesci refuses to leave the table is one of my favorites of the 1990s. I feel your pain Joe -- now slap that smile off the dealer's face. Him demanding his fifty thousand dollars back from the banker is also a classic film moment.

8) Mr. T in Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone/1982): Clubber Lang is the meanest guy ever. He's makes Mike Tyson look like a Girl Scout. And my Mr. T key chain that spouts off terms like "dead meat" and "I pity the fool" with the simple push of a button is perhaps my most prized possession. Not to mention, it's slightly above the wheel on the list of greatest inventions of all time.

9) Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg/1993): What? Ralph Fiennes isn't a Nazi in real life? Yeah right. Next you're gonna tell me that Joe from The Facts of Life insisted on showering with Tooty because she "wanted to save water."

10) Paul Gleason (Principal Vernon) in The Breakfast Club (John Hughes/1985): This really was a toss up between him and the "What do you want to do with your life?" guy in Animal House. But then I thought about it. Paul Gleason has played the same damn character in every movie he's been in… Johnny Be Good, Die Hard, Morgan Stewart's Coming Home, Trading Places and the list goes on and on. So damn it, Paul Gleason, since you are the epitome of a typecast and will be forever known as "that guy who's a dick in every movie," you've earned the tenth spot fair and square, pal.

DAN TESTER:

Movie villains come in all types, and I was a little overwhelmed when I actually sat back to compile a list of the worst of the worst. I mean, some villains are just pure evil, some are kind of funny and some are actually protagonists of a film (like Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon) in which we are actually kind of rooting for them. So I decided to focus solely upon the meanest, sickest villains in screen history, but even this resulted in a strange mishmash of different types. And while this probably isn't any kind of definitive list for me, these are the ones that came to my head most quickly. Top Ten Lists aren't exactly brain surgery anyway, so this is my "official, definitive in the moment, Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time!"

1) Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton/1955): No one in the history of cinema comes close to matching Mitchum's evil preacher out to kill his stepchildren and find their inheritance, in this magically ahead of its time horror/thriller. I am really convinced this movie could be re-released in theaters today and it might be Rated R. Charles Laughton only directed one movie in his entire life, and probably just decided he could do no better than this. Mitchum gives the performance of his legendary, badass career as "The Preacher." Night of the Hunter is surreal, suspenseful and genuinely scary, and just the thought of Mitchum's creepy call of "Chhhiiilllllldddddrrrreeeeennnnn!!" sends shivers down my spine to this day.

2) Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme/1991): Let's face it; Hopkins is brilliant as the evil Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs, and as fashionable as it is these days to kind of write him off in the wake of the two sequels, Silence was an amazing film, and it all rested on Hopkins' shoulders. The scene in which he "makes his escape" at the expense of Demme regular cast member Charles Napier is one of the best directed of the 90s, and Hopkins is horrifically great as we witness the animal hidden within the intellectual, emerge full tilt.

3) Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich/1962): As Bette Davis' long career was waning, she decided to go out with a bang as the 60-ish former silent film child star who now passes her pitiful days wallowing in past glory and torturing her wheelchair bound sister (Joan Crawford, also great here). Bette Davis is ghoulish in caked on make-up and a baby doll outfit, and her over-the-top performance is one that walks the fine line between camp and horror perfectly. This is a great, great movie.

4) Bruce the Shark in Jaws (Steven Spielberg/1975): Sure, Bruce is probably the most famous "non-human" villain in movie history, but thankfully, he was also a monster off-camera as well. Bruce's refusal to cooperate with director Spielberg in filming the simplest of scenes necessitated that Spielberg "film around him" most of the time, thus creating one of the great thrillers of all time. Thanks Bruce. And Godspeed.

5) Bill Murray in Kingpin (Bobby and Peter Farrelly/1996): How many actors would ever have the balls to play an unadulterated, unredeemed and utterly hateful character like Big Ern McCracken? I know it's a comedy, but it seems that most actor's egos would disallow them from sinking into the depravity in which Bill Murray finds himself in Kingpin, without some kind of sell-out at the end. But not Bill Murray. That is why I love Bill Murray. I love him.

6) Alan Rickman in Die Hard (John McTiernan/1988): Villains are probably almost always more fun to play than heroes are. No one seems to have ever grasped this concept more than Alan Rickman in Die Hard has, and he is both alternately threatening and hilarious as the suave Englishman battling renegade Bruce Willis. Just the scene when the two first meet in the air vent is filled with such tension that it immediately shot Die Hard to the top of my list of favorite action films! Rickman is fantastic here.

7) Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone/1969): It is hard to believe that at some point Sergio Leone was considering who to cast as the evil, heartless, despicable villain in his sprawling Western epic, and pondered the scene in which the villain forces the stunningly beautiful Claudia Cardinale to strip naked and lay down to be raped, and a light bulb went off and he exclaimed "Henry Fonda!!!!" I dunno how this casting came about, but it is perfect, and somehow Henry Fonda (of all people) makes it onto my list of the Top Ten Dirtiest Scum of Movie Villains of all Time. Aw, shucks!!

8) Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (David Lynch/1986): "Don't you fuckin' look at me. Mommy. Mommy. Don't you fuckin' look at me. I'll fuck anything that MOOOOOVES."

9) Evil Oil Tanker in Duel (Steven Spielberg/1971): This is the second Spielberg film on my list, and the second of his featuring a non-human villain. This time, it is not even alive at all (or is it?). The Evil Oil Tanker that battles poor Dennis Weaver to the death on those hot, desolate desert roads is nothing short of evil, and whether it is the devil behind that wheel, a pissed off teamster, or just a guy having a bad day, it doesn't much matter. This is one of my favorite Spielberg films, and one that is often forgotten. Don't forget next time you go to the video store!!

10) Las Vegas in Lost in America (Albert Brooks/1985): To those few that have the courage to drop out and find themselves, may God be with you and take you through Utah, avoiding Nevada completely.

RYAN KUGLER:

1) Alan Rickman in Die Hard (John McTiernan/1988): Not a ruthless terrorist (as it at first appears), but a super suave, super slick and super badass thief. I don't know how to explain it, but Hans Gruber is hands-down my favorite screen villain of all-time. He's charming, he's charismatic and goddammit, he has a killer sense of humor. I guess I just flat-out love the guy. There have been several imitators (of Rickman and of this classic action flick as well), but no duplicators in the fifteen years since.

2) Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (David Lynch/1986): Frank Booth is quite possibly the sickest and scariest character in the history of cinema. So, as I raise my can of Pabst Blue Ribbon I say, "here's to your fuck, Frank." A true love letter sent straight from my heart.

3) Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (Ridley Scott/1982): Even though this is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Hauer comes immediately to mind when I think of classic villains, I almost left his Roy Batty off this list. My emotions always waver near the end of the film, when Hauer does such a good job (especially during his "Tears in Rain" speech) at making us feel sympathetic towards him. In fact, I always leave the film thinking that the system is the villain rather than the robot. I then remember his brutal slayings of guys like Hannibal Chew, J.F. Sebastian and his maker Tyrell and feel justified in his high list placement.

4) Kurtwood Smith in Robocop (Paul Verhoeven/1987): In this brilliant futuristic satire, we get not one, but several baddies (including the snaky Miguel Ferrer, the ruthless Ronny Cox and that ugly guy from Fame), but none are as evil, as menacing or as downright mean as Smith's Clarence Boddicker. This guy is seriously one mean m'er f'er and his orchestration of the murder of police officer Murphy is one of the most sadistic filmed.

5) Vernon Wells in The Road Warrior (George Miller/1981): Although Wez only has about as much dialogue (and screentime) as the Feral Kid, it's his "disturbing" image that haunts this action classic. He's also on this list because Wells recently signed my Road Warrior DVD and I figured I owed him one. Can't wait for Mad Max 4.

6) David Hess in The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven/1972): In a sick movie filled with sick and depraved bastards, this sick and depraved bastard takes the cake. Along with Frank Booth, Krug is the vilest character in cinema history. But like all sick and depraved bastards, this guy gets his in the end. …And the road leads to nowhere.

7) Frank Silva in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch/1992): Technically, Leland Palmer is the killer (and therefore villain) in both the groundbreaking television series and in this film that followed, but Bob is the scary one. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the mere sight of him produces more goose bumps (especially in the scene where he's hiding in Laura's bedroom) than any other screen character.

8) Gary Oldman in Leon - The Professional (Luc Besson/1994): The pill-poppin', neck crackin' psycho, Agent Stansfield, is the most fun and over-the-top (if that's possible) character that Oldman has played so far (with his Drexl from True Romance coming in a close second). Here he gives us EVERYTHING! and the kitchen sink. Favorite Stansfield moment -- when he does away with the kid's ball, just for the fun of it.

9) Jeffrey Jones in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes/1986): When Jones, as Principal Ed Rooney, says of Ferris, "his ass is mine," I suppose he literally means it. Rooney is a classic screen villain and Jones, recently arrested for possessing child porn and for engaging in obscene acts with a male minor, is a classic villain in real life. Sick prick. Chicka. Chicka.

10) Chuck Mitchell in Porky's (Bob Clark/1981): Porky is one bad ass mother that you don't want to mess with. Why Tommy didn't learn his lesson, I'll never understand, but in the end, those Angel Beach pussies (who are a little smelly) sure gave that piece of pigshit a night to remember. Best line spoken by the hog himself -- "How was the pussy boys?"