There’s been a fair few good looking bad guys in Hollywood over the years, but traditionally, the antagonist is ugly as sin. It’s been that way since the silent film era when the rat-like Nosferatu (the father of all movie vampires since) stalked the halls of his castle. “He has a bald head, pointy ears, elongated hands with clawlike nails and two conspicuous fangs where his front teeth should be,” The New York Times said of F. W. Murnau’s classic monster. “This guy is no cutie face.”
Of course, you expect some creepy characters when you watch a horror movie, but the ugly villain trope actually exists across every genre.Disney helped to perpetuate this with its animated features and continues to do so today with its live-action output, as you’re about to find out.
Does this mean that the Mouse House needs to change its ways? Not according to an actual study by Georgia State University, which suggests that real criminals are usually unattractive people, a fact that pretty much lets the big studios off the hook. They can make their villains as aesthetically unpleasing or as downright frightening as they choose, and some of them have really pushed the boat out in recent years. But what about the actors beneath the makeup and prosthetics?The following movie villains might be designed to disgust, but they’re all gorgeous in real life.
formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.