Rank the most iconic British film villains — who would you least want to meet down a dark alley?

Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for barely 16 minutes of screen time, mostly spent staring and whispering about chianti. Polite cannibalism at its finest.

He Who Must Not Be Named also turned out to be He Who Lost His Nose. Ralph Fiennes made wizard fascism genuinely chilling.

Robert Carlyle's pint-glass-chucking Edinburgh menace remains the patron saint of pub-night anxiety. You can practically smell the lager and rage.

Ben Kingsley's foul-mouthed gangster turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, like the world's worst houseguest with a Cockney accent.

Malcolm McDowell's bowler-hatted droog made Singin' in the Rain genuinely sinister. Banned by Kubrick himself in the UK for years.