2024 brought some surprisingly great villain performances from actors who dont usually play villains.

This year brought some really great movies, and with those great movies came some great villains.

Cage is a magnetic screen presence as usual, but hes also deeply disturbing.

Close-up of Jason Statham as Levon Cade in A Working Man

But the firstGladiatormovie didnt have Denzel Washington chewing the scenery as power-hungry Macrinus.

She creates her younger counterpart, Sue, to boost her self-esteem.

But Sue just becomes the Hyde to her Jekyll, and siphons out what little youth she has left.

Ochi with its mouth open in The Legend of Ochi

Sue is a perfect body-horror metaphor for the notion of daughters stealing their mothers beauty.

As Sue enjoys more and more time in the spotlight, Elisabeth devolves into a monster.

It wouldve been easy to depict Anxiety as a monster, but its much more complicated than that.

Custom image of a Scorpius Rex and a Troodon behind greenery

Butlers unsettling grin alone makes Feyd the best movie villain of 2024.

Collage of Macrinus in Gladiator II, Feyd-Rautha in Dune Part Two, and Anxiety in Inside Out 2

Josh Hartnett smiling creepily in Trap

Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible looking furious in Wicked

Ed Harris in Love Lies Bleeding

Nicolas Cage wearing prosthetics and staring intensely ahead as Longlegs

Dr. Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed looking intense in Heretic

Denzel Washington Smiling and shaking someone’s hand in Gladiator 2

Sue blowing a kiss in The Substance

Anxiety arrives with its baggage in Inside Out 2

Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha screaming in Dune Part Two trailer

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