
British cinema has gifted the world some genuinely terrifying baddies, from posh psychopaths to gangland nightmares. Time to settle who tops the villain leaderboard.
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Hannibal Lecter
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for barely 16 minutes of screen time, mostly spent staring and whispering about chianti. Polite cannibalism at its finest.

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

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

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

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