Most believable killer(s)

[Deckerd]

Who do you think is/are film and TV's most credible killer/s?

My vote goes to Chris 'n Snoop from The Wire, mainly because they were so outwardly normal. Chris even had a wife and kids. Yet they were utterly remorseless and were unaware that they should have any remorse for what they did. I believe this is most likely what habitual killers must be like in order to live in society.

 

[Aragorn]

Tom Cruise in Collateral, when the first guy had his gun pointed right at him and he gunned them both down in like 2 seconds.

 

[captcalhoun]

Jason Bourne. completely convinced me he could whup anyone's ass and not care.

similarly Karl Urban's Russian sniper in Bourne Supremacy.

 

[Starkers]

Denzel Washington in Training Day always scares the crap out of me, as do the Mexican gangbangers in the same film, don't wanna spoil it but the scene in the bathtub makes my toes curl.

Brosnan in The Matador

Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs (even down to dehumanising his victim)

Chigurh in No country for Old men

Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynsky in Heavenly Creatures, one of the most horrible film deaths, always disturbs me when I watch it. Not clean, not quick, not painless.

Can't really call Bond believable anymore than you could call Bourne believable, but I quite like Daniel Craig's take. Not every time but you can almost see something shift in his eyes after he's killed some one, as if he's making a mental note of another face he'll remember.

 

[captcalhoun]

the Terminators.

 

[Deckerd]

the Terminators.

Oh ... kaaaaayyyy

 

[Brikar99]

Jason Bourne. completely convinced me he could whup anyone's ass and not care.

similarly Karl Urban's Russian sniper in Bourne Supremacy.

"You know, I always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but I think he's rockin' the shit in this one!"

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Dexter's brother, Brian, from S1 is a believable serial killer, a sociopath who doesn't care about anything but his own obsessions. Dexter himself is the least believable killer on TV. I don't think anyone could have his unique combination of psychological elements in real life. That show almost qualifies as science fiction.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones. He was seriously creepy.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski in Defiance. What really strikes the performance for me is that at first he didn't want to kill the Nazis, but then he just gives up trying to peacefully hide away from the Germans and slowly becomes a killer.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones. He was seriously creepy.

Yes, good one!

Also: Charlize Theron on Monster.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Tony Soprano. I've heard anecdotally that James Gandolfini was approached by several actual mobsters who complimented him on the authenticity of his performance (as creepy as that is).

 

[stj]

Heavenly Creatures was a good call, as was Monster. For movies based on real killers, you could throw in Leopold and Loeb in Compulsion, and Robert Blake in In Cold Blood.

For fictional killer, I think I'd add De Niro in Jackie Brown.

 

[Star Wolf]

Det. Sergeant "Crazy" Lloyd Hopkins of the James Ellroy novels and the James Woods movie Cop. For me it gives a back story of how a Dirty Harry became Dirty Harry