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Gob
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Top Ten Psychos

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Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye."


Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, The Silence of the Lambs

"It rubs the lotion on its skin."


Jack Torrence, The Shining

"Heeeeeeeere's Johnny"


John "Jigsaw" Kramer, Saw

"Live or die. Make your choice."


Norman Bates, Psycho

"No, Mother. I won't do that. You can't make me kill her."



John Doe, Se7en

"DETECTIVE! You're looking for me."


Ghostface (Stuart and Billy), Scream

"Do you like scary movies?"



Max Cady, Cape Fear

"Counsellor! Come out, come out, wherever you are!"


Mick Taylor, Wolf Creek

"See? Head on a stick!"


Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford, The Killer Inside Me

"Nobody has it coming, that's why nobody can see it coming."

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I'd add Betty from 37 degree le matin

Sure she only hurts herself, but as a portrayal of a whacko, unbeatable!

(It helps that Beatrice Dalle is not only jaw droppingly beautiful, and French, but also several shrimps short of a barbie IRL.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Jeanette in Vinyan; sexy, psychotic and surreal; not you nor her story characters can fathom the depth of her madness...

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I'd add Frank Booth from Blue Velvet ("Don't be a good neighbor to her. I'll send you a love letter, straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!").

Also, Early Grayce from Kalifornia, everything you want in psycho serial killer--sometimes charming, short fuse, brutal, paired with Juliette Lewis as his wierd girlfriend ("He only hits me when I deserve it").

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I always direct the "Brad Pitt is sooo cute" crowd to Kalifornia.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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The house, in the original "The Haunting" (Not the shit CGI remake.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction,

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lots of stuff like this in there;
Background: Jules tells Vincent that [thier boss] Marsellus had someone thrown off a fourth-floor balcony for giving his wife a foot massage.

Jules: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop right there. Eating a bitch out and giving a bitch a foot massage ain't even the same fucking thing.
Vincent: It's not, it's the same ballpark.
Jules: Ain't no fucking ballpark neither. Now, look, maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but you know touching his wife's feet and sticking your tongue in the holiest of holies ain't the same fucking ball park. It ain't the same league. It ain't even the same fucking sport. Look, foot massages don't mean shit.
Vincent: Have you ever given a foot massage?
Jules: Don't be telling me about foot massages, I'm the foot fuckin' master.
Vincent: Given a lot of them?
Jules: Shit, yeah! I got my technique down and everything, I don't be tickling or nothing.
Vincent: Would you give a guy a foot massage?
Jules: [pause] Fuck you.
Vincent: You give them a lot?
Jules: Fuck you.
Vincent: You know, I'm getting kinda tired, I could use a foot massage myself.
Jules: Yo-yo-yo, man, you best back off, I'm getting pissed here. Look, just 'cause I wouldn't give no man a foot massage don't make it right for Marsellus to throw Antoine into a glass motherfucking house fucking up the way the nigga talks. That shit ain't right. Motherfucker do that shit to me, he better paralyze my ass because I'd kill the motherfucker, know what I'm saying?
Vincent: I ain't saying it's right. But you're saying a foot massage don't mean nothing, and I'm saying it does. Now, look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something. We act like they don't, but they do, and that's what's so fucking cool about them. There's a sensuous thing going on where you don't talk about it, but you know it, she knows it, fucking Marsellus knew it, and Antoine should have fucking better known better. I mean, that's his fucking wife, man, he ain't have no sense of humor about that shit. You know what I'm saying?
Jules: That's an interesting point. [pause] C'mon, let's get into character.
<Their expressions go grim and they draw their pistols>


Jules has the best lines though;
Brett: [to Jules] Look, I'm sorry, I-I didn't get your name. I got yours, uh, Vincent, right? But-But I-I never got your...
Jules: My name is Pitt, and your ass ain't talking your way outta this shit.
Brett: [rising] No, no, no. I just want you to know how – [Jules motions him to sit down] I just want you to know how sorry we are that-that things got so fucked up with us and-and Mr. Wallace. I-I-It, we-we got into this thing with the best intentions. Really. I never inte–
[Jules shoots Flock-of-Seagulls, Brett recoils in horror]
Jules: Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue. You were sayin' something about "best intentions"? [silence] What's the matter? Oh, y-you were finished? Oh, well, allow me to retort!
It's not that they're so violent, it's that they're so caviler, eloquent and stylish about it.
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...do I know psychos, or what?

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