Announcing the Great Villain Blogathon!
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” So said one of the greatest movie villains ever, but many classic films have convinced us quite thoroughly that evil does indeed exist, and usually in the form of a compelling, riveting, powerful character, a villain brought to life by superb writing and acting, then seared into the memory of movie fans.
And so we announce that you are cordially invited to participate in the Great Villain Blogathon, a celebration, an examination, a rumination on your choice of classic movie menace, whether monster or family member. Whether human, fantastical, alien, mineral or animal, whether on horseback or spaceship, clad in toga, trenchcoat or cardigan, whether mantrap, mild mannered or commanding vast armies, write up a post on your favorite movie baddie, doer of dastardly deeds or offender of moral order.
Your co-hosts in this exploration of villainy are
Ruth of Silver Screenings 925screenings [at] gmail.com
Karen of Shadows & Satin thedarkpages [at] yahoo.com
Kristina of Speakeasy mail.speakeasy [at] yahoo.com
If you wish to take part, please leave a comment or send an email, help yourself to one of these banners to paste up on your blog, and prepare to share who you think is filmdom’s worst.
This event will unfold over the week of APRIL 20 – 26, 2014, so if you want to post on a certain day make sure to mention that, otherwise you will be assigned a date.
Here’s the lineup so far:
Ruth @ Silver Screenings: Angela Lansbury / The Manchurian Candidate (April 24)
Karen @ Shadows & Satin: Dan Duryea / Scarlet Street (April 20)
Karen @ Shadows & Satin: Clark Gable / Night Nurse (April 26)
Kristina @ Speakeasy : Henry Fonda / Once Upon a Time in the West (April 21)
Kristina @ Speakeasy : Terence Stamp / Superman II (April 25)
Mike @ Mike’s Take on the Movies: Eli Wallach / Magnificent Seven (April 23)
Stephen @ Classic Movie Man : Joseph Cotten / Shadow of a Doubt
Pete @ Furious Cinema : Rutger Hauer / The Hitcher
Fritzi @ Movies, Silently: Les Vampires (April 20)
Dorian @ Tales of the Easily Distracted : Anthony Perkins / Psycho (April 26)
Maedez @ A Small Press Life : Gene Tierney / Leave Her to Heaven (April 25)
Emily @ The Vintage Cameo : Bette Davis / Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Kellee @ Outspoken & Freckled; Orson Welles / The Stranger
Aurora @ Once Upon a Screen : Robert Mitchum / Cape Fear ‘vs’ Night of the Hunter (April 26)
geelw @ Destroy all Fanboys : Ann Savage/ Detour
Ivan @Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Henry Brandon / Babes in Toyland & Our Gang Follies of 1936 (April 22)
Paul @ Lasso the Movies : Maleficent / Sleeping Beauty (April 21)
Craig @ Viking Samurai Peter Sellers/Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu
Aurora @ Once Upon a Screen Lionel Barrymore / It’s a Wonderful Life (April 23)
Kristen @ Journeys in Classic Film: Terence Stamp / The Collector
Le @ Critica Retro: Peter Lorre / The Man Who Knew too Much
Nitrate Diva @ http://nitratediva.wordpress.com/ Robert Montgomery / Night Must Fall
Jennifer @ http://virtualvirago.blogspot.com Laird Cregar / Hangover Square
Tom @ http://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com Robert Ryan / Billy Budd
Ginny @ http://oldmoviesnostalgia.com Orson Welles / The Third Man
Todd @ http://forgottenfilmcast.wordpress.com/ Butch & The Woim /Our Gang AND William Zabka / The Karate Kid, Back to School, Just One of the Guys
Todd @ http://forgottenfilmcast.wordpress.com/ William Zabka / The Karate Kid, Back to School, Just One of the Guys
Anna @ http://filmgrimoire.wordpress.com/ Death / The Seventh Seal
Marlee @ http://marleewalters.com/ Moriarty Incarnations
Vincent @ http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/ C. Aubrey Smith / No More Orchids
Vicki @ http://girlsdofilm.wordpress.com/ Margaret Hamilton / The Wizard of Oz
Debbie @ http://debravega.wordpress.com/ Waldo Lydecker / Laura
Madeline @ http://classicmoviegab.com/ Broderick Crawford / All the King’s Men
Jo @ http://thelastdrivein.com/ Gloria Holden + Gloria Swanson as sympathetic anti-heroes
Jo @ http://thelastdrivein.com/ James Caan / Lady in a Cage
Gary @ http://midnightpalace.com Olga Baclanova / Freaks
Parker @ http://theartisticpackrat.wordpress.com/ The Joker / The Dark Knight
Patricia @ http://caftanwoman.blogspot.ca/ Andrea Spedding / The Spider Woman
Becky @ http://movielottery.wordpress.com/ Bela Lugosi / The Human
Jill @ http://sittinonabackyardfence.com Claude Rains / Notorious
Leah @ http://hardboiledgirl.wordpress.com/ Richard Widmark / Kiss of Death
Jenni @ http://portraitsbyjenni.wordpress.com Conrad Veidt / A Woman’s Face
jtr @ http://thabto.wordpress.com/ Raymond Burr / Rear Window
Andrew @ http://1001movieman.blogspot.com/ David Carradine / Kill Bill
Eve @ http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/ Robert Walker / Strangers on a Train
Adam @ http://ocdviewer.com/ Kjell Nilsson / The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
Joe @ http://fadedvideolabels.blogspot.com/ Orson Welles / Touch of Evil
John @ http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/ Michael Powell / Peeping Tom
Aubyn @ http://thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.ca/ Vincent Price / Dragonwyck
David @ http://moviedavid.blogspot.com/ Otto Kruger / Saboteur
Beth @ http://www.mildredsfatburgers.com/the-blog.html Geraldine Fitzgerald / Three Strangers
Leah @ http://carygrantwonteatyou.com/ Charles Boyer / Gaslight
Dan @ http://dandayjr35.blogspot.com Michael Gough / Konga
ImagineMDD @ http://imaginemdd.blogspot.com/ Judith Anderson / Rebecca
Constance @ http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/ Professor Fate / The Great Race
Sean @ http://lipranzer.wordpress.com/ John Huston / Chinatown
Sean @ http://lipranzer.wordpress.com/ Al Pacino / The Godfather, Part 2
Judy @ http://movieclassics.wordpress.com/ Laurence Olivier / Richard III
Kerry @ http://prowlerneedsajump.wordpress.com/ Gary Oldman / Take as Directed
Angelica @ http://madwomenandmuses.com/ Bette Davis / The Little Foxes
Margaret @ http://thegreatkh.blogspot.com/ Disney Villainesses
Patti @ http://classicmoviesnippets.blogspot.ca/ Steve Cochran / Private Hell 36
Bill @ http://friscokidtx.com/ Al Pacino / Devil’s Advocate
Vanessa @ http://www.bwallover.blogspot.ca/ Porter Hall / The Thin Man
Robert @ http://www.dejareviewer.com/ Dick Jones and Clarence Boddicker /RoboCop, Loki /The Avengers, Bob Parr’s boss /The Incredibles, The Grim Reaper /Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, The Wet Bandits /Home Alone, Greedo /Star Wars, the Corleones /The Godfather Part II
Marcie @ http://thecinematika.com/ Dennis Hopper / Blue Velvet
Danny @ http://pre-code.com/ Impotep / The Mummy
Charlie @ http://iloveterriblemovies.wordpress.com/ Mocata / The Devil Rides Out
Captain Video @ http://captainvideossecretsanctum.blogspot.ca/ Ming the Merciless / Flash Gordon movies
Emily @ http://funkyforestfirstcontact.wordpress.com/ Satan / The Exorcist
Sofia @ http://filmflare.wordpress.com/ Cary Grant / Suspicion
Gary @ http://moviefanfare.com/ Frank Gorshin, Burgess Meredith, Lee Meriwether and Cesar Romero / 1966 Batman movie
N.R. @ http://thegreatbaz.wordpress.com/ Necessity of Villains featuring Basil Rathbone
Terry @ http://mercurie.blogspot.ca/ Henry Frankenstein / The Hammer Films
Lara @http://backlots.net/ Barbara Stanwyck / Double Indemnity
Constance @http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.ca/ The Great Race
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Grab a banner and do your thing!
shadowsandsatin 
Delighted to be taking part in this, so I gave it a plug at my site: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/671606.html. (And note that the following week, I’m co-hosting a blogathon about romantic comedy.)
Thanks so much for the plug, Vincent — we’re looking forward to your entry!
Hi, Karen — Please put me down for Otto Kruger in “Saboteur.” Thanks!
You got it, David — thanks! Looking forward to reading your entry! 🙂
Hi Karen — I’d like to take Geraldine Fitzgerald in “Three Strangers” on any day you choose.
Thanks, Beth — got it! I’m looking so forward to your write-up — I caught part of this movie recently and was most fascinated by Fitzgerald’s character. Even though I didn’t know what was going on, I knew that she was not very nice!
What a great idea! Could I take Charles Boyer in Gaslight?
Leah
You bet, Leah! We have you down for that perfectly awful Sergis Bauer! Looking forward to reading your post!
Great! Thanks so much. Looking forward to it.
Hi. This is Dan from the Hitless Wonder Movie Blog (http://dandayjr35.blogspot.com). I would like to contribute to the Great Villain Blogathon and I’d like my subject to be Michael Gough in “Konga”.
Hi, Dan — sounds great! I have you on the list, and we look forward to your entry!
May I write about evil female Disney villains?
You sure can, Margaret — what a great idea! Just post your site (and choose a day, if you like), and I’ll put you on the list straightaway!
Thanks so much! I’ll skip Maleficent because I see she’s taken, but I’ll do all the rest. If somebody else would like to do one of the one’s I’ve bagged, they’re welcome to her. My list can stand a little whittling!
Hey Karen– I know I waffled on this one quite a bit, but is it cool if I do Imhotep from The Mummy?
You got it, Danny! (I can’t wait to read this one!)
Hi there! I got the word I’m on board with my Rasputin 2-fer, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRIA and RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS, and I’m so excited. This one is right up my alley. I love this idea, thanks!
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