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Decided by Scientists: 9 Most Realistic PSYCHOPATHS in Cinema History
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- Published on Mar 15, 2026
- In the early 2010's, a scientific study led by psychiatrist Samuel Leistedt analyzed how realistically psychopathy has been portrayed in cinema. By examining hundreds of film characters through a clinical psychopathology lens, researchers discovered that only a handful truly resembled real-life psychopathy - while most were exaggerated, stylized, or misunderstood.
In this video, we count down the most realistic psychopath characters in cinema, ranked from 9 to 1, based on how closely they align with clinical definitions. While the original research identified a definitive top three, the remaining characters were considered controversial - yet still fascinating.
From iconic figures, to disturbingly accurate portrayals, this breakdown explores where Hollywood gets psychopathy wrong - and where it gets terrifyingly right.
This is not about shock value or cinematic spectacle.
It’s about what psychopathy actually looks like when stripped of drama, emotion, and myth.
True psychopaths are not chaotic.
They are not driven by rage.
They are emotionally absent - and that’s what makes them unsettlingly real.
Watch till the end to understand why the most accurate portrayals are also the least comforting.
Javier Bardem was perfection in "No Country for Old Men."
I loved his cold,emotionless way of speaking...its neither this or that-just how its gonna be!!!
@NinaGuth-hg5ehThat's right. Equally creepy was Hopkins in "Silence of the Lamb."
Still, not the reality.
@Speedyrene1963the thing is one of Antons traits is that he hates pointless small talk. Is funny how anytime people try to have a casual conversation with him, hes throwing away the words that do not matter to get to the point. How hes more realistic.
@yeahyeahwowman8099I agree
..he gets to the point of his purpose...
I think Betty Davis's turn as Baby Jane deserves a mention: probably more a malignant narcissist, but she ain't no picnic.
O indeed!!!Now Bette did carry that crazy-no way to reason w her type expression that bcame her wonderful trademark!!Another top of the top of my favorites as well!
Absolutely 💯 🎬💥
There's rats in the cellar 😅😅😅🎉😂❤
She scared Victor Buono good!
👍
The character Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr Ripley, played by Matt Damon.
I thought he was going to be on this list to be honest
Definitely, and if you read the books, you realize just do it a psychopath he is.
that might ASPD or sociopathy.
Yes, they definitely left this one out.
Nah, he's lonely and wants to be loved and shows regret over some of his crimes. He's more BPD with ASPD traits. Except in Ripley's Game, where he's more of a psychopath.
Anton Chiguhr is so frightening, and so well played by Javier Bardem. That haircut is seriously disturbing.
that bowl cut is his worst crime
long in the short places and short in the long places lol
I dare you to say that to his face
@KamwickW Chiguhr: "The HAIR made me DO IT!!"
Javier has a knack for scary character with weird hair. One of my favorites is his role in Perdita Durango. Horrifying.
Rutger Hauer in "The Hitcher"
Yes... great choice.
Ye that one was awesome also!
Most Definitely!
Absolutely and the sick part is that he was turning thomas c howells character into his replacement
Great movie, I don't rewatch it because I feel so bad for what happens to the girlfriend.
I came across psychopaths in the Army and they really do not feel fear or i think even understand it . They are only comfortable in chaos and from what i saw were very miserable because they just couldn't feel much of anything. So they mostly lost themselves in drink drugs and violence.
That's VERY disturbing.
@martinmunnelly5532 - My ex-husband was an airborne paratrooper training in Columbus, Georgia years ago. He relayed a very disturbing story about one of his fellow trainees: Several detectives came out to their bivouac site and took one of his bunkmates back to town. He never came back, but the story came out about him being a Serial Killer. After the guy left for basic, his wife went to law enforcement and showed detectives his dumping ground where he buried the bodies. She didn't speak up sooner because she was terrified of him (I don't blame her) and waited for his departure to boot camp. That story always creeped me out!
Yeah you are full of shit and have no idea; You apparently cared not for your battle brothers.
@AuronVanguard69 i dont understand. Why would i care. I am fine their problems are their to deal with. Trust me men like that are a liability a danger to themselves and everyone else because they don't understand the danger of any situation. Nobody ever wanted them in any unit not even for guard back up when on lorry manoeuvres because they couldn't see any DANGER
The army look for them and often promote them.Well known fact.
"The Lovely Bones" - a truly disturbing movie.
So upsetting and depressing.
I started watching it once and then said 'no thank you' to the rest of the movie.
I read the book, which is so bleak and couldn’t watch the movie afterwards.
I was a kidnap victim in 1974 when I was eight years old. I fought and got away. "Lovely Bones" is the one movie I cannot watch. I felt rising terror just in the first ten minutes.
@FlowerBoots omg, so glad you survived ❤.
Dennis hopper as Frank booth in blue velvet.
Rough watch
🩸🫀💋
Sadist
That movie freaked me out when I was a teen. Still can't watch it again.
Oh Yeah. That dude was scary fr.
I don’t care what anyone says, Nightcrawler is a horror film and a very good one at that.
Great freaking movie.
I cannot fathom how he didn't win an Oscar for that role.
Nope. No Horror. But still a good movie.
Horrifying, but not horror. Definitely a fabulous movie with an Oscar worthy performance from Gyllenhaal.
@YoSasch What makes Nightcrawler scary is just how depraved corporate news media is with its unspoken “if it bleeds, it leads” credo. Gyllenhaal is frightening not because he sinks lower than the average amateur journalist, it’s because if he doesn’t do what he does then someone else will and he’s fully aware of that. He has no morality but he is not the true villain, the system is.
Peter Lorre was brilliant in M.
There are few hundred-year-old films still relevant today. The fact this one is still worth a view speaks volumes.
Absolutely, 'M' is a great film.
I agree totally!!Watching Lorre ,who is famous for doing some really whack people.I truly loved to watch Peter for that reason!!!
If I remember correctly Peter Lorre was an actual psychiatrist, too. 🤔... I was wrong about that. 😢
I had to stop for a second when the narrator said that M was made almost 100 years ago.
Absolutely. Probably the only character in a film that actually makes me feel sorry for a psychopath. And that may have more to do with the elements that are discussed above that take him outside the realm of a true psychopath. The fact that he understands that what he is doing is wrong but can't help himself because he is addicted.
Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark in "The Bad Seed", Gene Tierney in "Leave Her to Heaven". And my all-time favorite, Robert Mitchem in "Night of the Hunter".
Brilliant classics!
Classics 🎉
Great 2 psychopaths..
Patty McCormack was perfect as Rhoda.
I was almost sure Night of the Hunter would be in here somewhere.
I thought Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter was pretty psychopathic.
Of all of them, Javier, and the Coens, totally nailed it. He had less empathy than The Terminator.
Like a living machine...
I saw “M” several years ago. There are certain roles that actors play that are so outside of what you expect from them that it alters your perspective permanently. This movie did that for me. He was truly creepy af. I don’t understand German, but his performance was astounding.
M is such a good movie: creepy, satirical, tense, even nuanced in who the real criminals are. The trial conducted by the criminal underworld is such a surreal moment.
looked like Peter Lorre from the clips, a fine actor
@montecarlo1651 It is. He's pretty young in the movie.
Mitchum \ DeNiro , Max Cady in Cape Fear
Robert Mitchum for me
I couldn't stand DeNiro's character in that remake. I prefer the original with Robert Mitchum.
Come on out, Counsela !!
@TheSeptemberRosesame. De Niro is too over the top. Mitchum is simply creepy.
Both did an excellent job!!
Denzel’s Alonzo Harris (Training Day) deserves a mention.
Agreed.
A Sociopath is not the same thing
I have met a psychopath and would like to forget I did.
How was the experience?
Try working with them in a system that encourages them. No one ever finishes therapy, they can’t make money like that.
Your tax dollars at work folks.
Same here. I've met more than a few.
LOL You might have met lots of them but never known. Statistically they make from 1 to more than 4 % of the population. It means 1-4 of every 100 people you know might be psycopaths, but you just might not know. They mask very well. Especially those with high IQ. You need either to be very good at reading people to understand that they're psycopaths, or be a very good empath to feel that they don't feel anything. Or you have to be unfortunate enough to see them when the mask goes off
A fellow who shared a cubicle wall with, had softest spoken word and seemed to be the kindest man you have ever met. I came in one day to a departmental meeting to be informed that he murdered his wife.
From the thumbnail I thought I was going to get an explanation about The Mystery Man from Lost Highway.
That's the only reason I clicked on this! Despite baiting all us grieving David Lynch fans, the video was psychologically accurate enough to appreciate.
@virgojoe72: Lynch's movies are notoriously vague and up for interpretation.
I'm fairly certain Robert Blake's character doesn't actually exist, but was a figment of Bill Pullmans imagination.
@BlackTarInTheChinaWhiteHouse No Frank?
@darrylross2644
Like Frank Booth from Blue Velvet? That would be interesting.
What about Rutger hauer in the hitcher?
I was once a disability case manager. A man with psychopathy was required to file for disability as a condition of his release, they tend to not file on their own. I helped him fill out the paperwork, not knowing who or what I was dealing with. From the very first moment he sat down, I got this overwhelming feeling of dread, terror, deep anxiety like everything in my body knew I needed to get away. I didn’t understand what I was feeling, I was totally unaware of psychopathy like this. I’d never felt that before or after in my life and I helped thousands of clients throughout my career. He stared at me, right INTO me like he already knew everything about me and was curious as to what would be the most horrible thing he could to do to me, killing wouldn’t have been enough for him. He answered all the questions calmly with no affect, at all, but also very honestly and clearly, all while piercing my soul with his eyes the entire 1 1/2 hour interview. He never got distracted, never looked away. Then when we were done he got up without saying a thing and left, it felt like he totally violated me and walked out. He wouldn’t have stood out in a crowd at all. I’m still shaken up about it after 10 years. This was beyond what I’d seen in any movie but I’d have to agree Javier was the closest to capturing the essence, or absence there of, of a psychopath. True psychopathy is extremely rare, thank God. Thinking on it now, there should have been a prison officer with him, I can’t believe I was made to endure that, glad I’m still here.
John Ryder.-Rutger Hauer.The Hitcher,You should watch it.
One of my favorite films of all time.
Agreed rip rutger hauer
Yes! Terrible.
seen it, can't rewatch due to what happens to the girlfriend.
I think We Need to Talk about Kevin is so disturbing and scary that people choose to avoid talking about it altogether.
Boring movie. So the kid is screwednul and the mom never wanted or loved him properly.
Robert De Niro in Cape Fear creeped the beJesus out of me.
Sy Parrish (Robin Williams) in One Hour Photo. 2002
No because he cared about the woman being deceived. Psychopaths do not care about anyone not even about their parents.
That movie sucked
Not remotely a psychopath.
@BRR42922 They don't. That's literally what makes them what they are.
@Sol_Badguy_GG Exactly bro.
Edward Norton in Primal Fear was one of the scariest things ever. Right up there with the Javier thing.
I’d say Norton set the bar.
It's refreshing to find a video completely free of music. Just pure narration. Thank you, watched the whole piece. I'm quite surprised by Hannibal Lecter not to rank higher, but of course, I suspected Anton Chigurh to be the rightful number 1.
I'd say Hannibal Lector is realistic, especially when you think of killers like Harold Shipman, Michael Swango and Josef Mengele. To get away with murder that long, you have to have above average intelligence. Consider the case of Israel Keyes and you'll come to the conclusion that sometimes evil and super intelligence can meet in one individual.
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) is such a great actor.
He was terrifying in that movie.
I read that he said he would not star in the movie unless he could make his character look completely different from how he looks in real life.
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, anyone?
He was great in that movie.
Most definitely should have won an Oscar
Outstanding character. I don’t care whether he fits the remit. 😬
👍💥
I think the Teddy Bass character is way more of a psycho
John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire"
Anything J.Malcovich does will retain that emotionless & yet spit fire anger that i adore with eny of his films.Plays a "scary" unpredictable macadamian!!!!
YES!!!!
He was good
Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter?
He's a bit over the top, but it's an excellent film. I love it! The little girl is so adorable!
Nicole Kidman portrayed one in
To Die For
One of the WORST actresses of all time. She ruins every film she's in for me.
Kevin cosner in Mr Brooks.
that was such a great movie
Ty- I was trying to remember this film
It was great
The film wasn’t really well received which I don’t understand. I loved it lol
Or Kevin Costner in 3000 Miles to Graceland
I don't think he was a psychopath. He had loads of guilt for each of his murders.
5:02. He looks normal? That is the creepiest looking normal I’ve ever seen. Excellent film btw.
The actor even looks different. Scary.
Sam Rockwell should have been mentioned for his wild bill roll in green mile
Iron Man 2 also. If you pay attention you see right through him, and I don't think there's any humanity back there.
He was brilliant.
He wasn't even remotely psychopathic though. Most of his interactions in both the book & the movie were driven by either emotion or his own need for gratification. Psychopathy isn't simply an absence of empathy. If that were the case, it wouldn't be rare at all. Wild Bill may not have displayed- or even felt- any empathy but he most definitely had plenty of emotional reactions. He displayed more sociopathy than anything really, & that's not really a clinical diagnosis but more of a collection of other symptoms itself. One being narcissism, which he absolutely put right out on stage several times. His desperate need to be seen as a "dangerous man" or someone to be feared & catered to being one of the most obvious signs.
@mommy2librasI'm no phycologist but he was very convincing whatever was wrong with him
He played a homocidal pedophile, not a psychopath...
The most realistic psychopaths in cinema are the ones who aren’t identified. Example: the character Charlize Theron played in “A Million Ways to Die in the West”.
It's funny how this list calls characters like Hannibal Lecter and Patrick Bateman as being "too well thought out, too elaborate to be actual psychopaths", then in the 1st place it puts Anton Chigurh, who is just as super-humanly immaculate, cunning, well planned and thought out as the other two mentioned (if not more). So maybe real psychopaths can also be brilliant, more than they think.
Israel Keyes comes to mind but even he made a dumb mistake and got caught.
That's what I was sayin.
Thats was only the issue with Lecter and not with Bateman. Also you are leaving out how Lecter is not just a Genius but also an artist. Chigurh is intelligent but not a Genius and he has no artistic side or a tragic backtstory like Lecter. Bateman is mostly a 90s satire who is super deep into 90s culture. He is also very emotional. Chigurh is non of that. He is simply cold without any emotion.
This video has confused psychopathy with sociopathy. It is the sociopath who is reckless and not intelligent. Psychopaths can definitely be brilliant.
Israel Keyes constantly made dumb mistakes. But he didn’t get caught for most of them because his main strategy was to do most of his criminality far from home. He made his living by robbery - often robbery-murder - but usually in trips well away from where he lived. When caught in a stolen car, he had a whole bunch of juni in the car tied to everything from mother & child murder-rape to bank robbery.
Nah Don Logan in Sexy Beast. That's a proper psycho.
Don was an insecure narcissist, I think Teddy was the most psychotic character in that film.
He touched my front bottom. Something isn't right with a couple of folks in that masterpiece 🤣
If he wasn't he'd surely do until a proper one showed up. Chilling.
@malcolmkendall1547nice paraphrase of sherif from No Country for Old Men
Wrote the samething.
My sister is a criminal psychopath. She was a nightmare until she took drama classes in high school. Then she transformed herself into a person people would like while she steals, sells drugs, violates the law. She has friends who have no idea what she really is. When I was six years old, she took me on a burglary of the neighbor's house. I saw her torture a baby when she was nine years old, started doing drugs at age ten, and starved her cat to death. I have so many stories of her, you would beg me to stop. She was arrested six times as an adult and never spent a day in prison. Few of her friends have any idea what she is, so good an actress is she. She is a predator.
Unalive her then.
Pretty evil. I watched the mini series on Amazon about Ted Bundy. Lots of interviews with his long term girlfriend who eventually realized what he was doing. I believe they used to call it 'the mask of sanity' ruclips.net/video/g0R9qISIz5w/video.html
Is she hot?
@J.C.aLL4Hm No, you wouldn't. She's always feared that, so she spent decades telling her friends and our mother with dementia I was crazy. My Machiavellian sister is brilliant in her tactical self-defense. She learned how to be a criminal from real criminals. She knew one day I would want to expose her, so she made sure I'd never be believed. There's nothing I can do to stop her, short of taking her out. Then I die in prison. There's nothing I can do. She's going to get away with it all. She's got a lot in common with certain other psychopathic politicians. It's amazing how they get away with it all. If I spoke up, I lose everything. She rigged it that way. And I probably won't get anything anyway, even though I took care of our mother all my life while she flew around the world with drugs in her vajayjay. She decided at my birth, I was the one to wreck, blaming me for her parents' split. You cannot fight that level of hate. Especially with love.
@FlowerBoots Stay away from her as far away as you can. Let her do her awfulness. Save yourself, and don't allow her to harm you any further.
John Doe (Kevin Spacey) from Seven
Yesssssssss 😎😎
I was not very impressed, especially compared to some other actors listed here.
Oh dang, yes!
I'd also add Scorpio from Dirty Harry.
"Row, row, row your boat"
Andy Robinson actually got death threats after the movie came out because he was so convincing that some people actually thought he was a psychopathic serial killer 🤦🏻
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer I believe is the most accurate representation of a serial killer. I lived in Chicago where the movie was filmed and some of the places I went to such as The Show of Shows at 12th and Cicero. That movie scares the shit outta me to this day. Chigur was too menacing, stuck out a bit too much in a crowd, a bit obvious. Henry was the guy you brush past at the truck stop outside of Holbrook on I40 and never give a second look.
Scared the 💩 out of me too.
Frank booth in blue velvet was pretty sick.
RIP dh
The narrator sounds potentially psychopathic to me
AI-chopath?
Sounds more like AI.
@justdopaminingPsychopathic AI
@justdopamining: Who said the two were mutually exclusive 😉?
@dwpixI can't let you do that Dave
Gary Oldman in Leon: The Professional
not sure if that's accurate. that character is too performative. real psychopaths - you cant spot them like that.
A real psychopath would never shout, "EVERYYYYYOOOOONNNNNE!"
@TheValoisMadnessmaybe if he was constantly snorting coke he would 🤔😂😂😂
More like Drexel the Pimp in True Romance. Everything from a diddle-eyed Joe to a damned if I know.
I was told that it is not uncommon that top surgical and legal people are true clinical psychopaths, not homicidal hollywood movie ones, real ones and great at their job, but great at their job because they have no REAL or TRUE feelings/empathy or remorse for destroying a persons life in the courtroom, cutting one up and then sewing them back together again in a hospital. Highly educated and experienced 100% psychopaths, but not like in the movies.
There are certain jobs that tend to attract psychopaths. You are right about the Legal Profession and Surgeons. Amongst Police and certain Military units, there is a higher than average rate of Psychopaths than normal. The normal rate of Psychopathy is about 1 per cent of the population.
Also CEOs of big corporations. They don't care at all about destroying small companies and people's livelihoods.
True. My half brother was a plastic surgeon, (now he’s in obstetrics), but he is a diagnosed psychopath. He’s not evil or anything, just no emotions. When I was younger I noticed he would watch and copy other’s emotional reactions to things, so I wasn’t really surprised by the diagnosis.
ICE agents for sure.
@TheSeptemberRose And politicians.
A most interesting analysis of Norman Bates. Seeing him as a tragic figure despite how dangerous he is has always made sense to me.
How 'bout Michael C Hall as Dexter? and I've always loathed "Old Country for Old Men" . The main character terrified me deeply.
One aspect of psychopathy almost all movies fail to get is that psychopaths also lack empathy for themselfes not just for others. Therefore they take stupid risks and do not think about the mid and long term consequences for their own life. That is the reason why they are no criminal geniuses like in many movies.
How do you know?
@Enolagay1945 That is a well known fact about psychopaths and the reason why even highly functional psychopaths fail in life and are criminals and have to change their lifes (move, change friends, jobs, etc,) regularly.
sounds exactly like my ex, and she made a few huge mistakes this way so I can sue her ass for damages.
yes and this fact is the thing that makes Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lector so silly and stupid. Someone should make a video about stupid/silly movies that everyone thought was good or great and got accolades...like Silence of the Lambs
@51Dss I don't think this affects the movie, because Buffalo Bill is no genius but a quite realistic serial killer. That Lecter is too intelligent and considered does not real affect the story, it would be the same with a less powerful Lecter. What I always realy liked about Silence of the Lamps and Hannibal Lecter is that they did not try to explain why Lecter does what he does. No trauma, no bad upbringing, etc. just a psychopath who enjoys what he is doing without any conscience. That is why I hate the sequel. Also Lecter is more like a supernatural figur with superpowers in Silence of the Lamps.
If Norman bates isn't supposedly a psycho then why is he on your psychopathy list
Michael Myers from halloween 1 and 2 (prior to his supernatural arc) always struck me as the ideal psychopath.
You don't need to see his face because his breathing never changes.
Through his determination hes like a train and pretty much unmovavle from his aims.
Hed cut a line through waves of people just to get to that one target.
He doesnt growl, he doesnt talk.
Hes a shape that keeps on coming regardless of whats in front of him.
He was driven to murder his family but offers no excuse or reasoning, in fact tellinv him to stop is like demanding a river not to flow downhill.
Hes present but also not present simultaneously.
Scariest point is that regardless of injury he'll keep going.
The Rob Zombie remake of Halloween really explored Myers' character development as a child, it's unsettling to watch him change.
@ianvance9035I remember the first time i saw Halloween 2 (the original one) they did this clever thing with the camera where Laurie was in the foreground and michael Myers was in the background flat out and out of focus.
He sits up and doesn't make a noise and simply gets up. Movie magic at its best.
A real psychopath
Rob Zombies trash take made it a typical story of abused kid kills rather than the terror of the so called normal loving family producing a child that is a psychotic killer. Zombies movies are just bad.
@KenpachiofZarakigaggedmesogoodyou're right! Rob zombies movie seemed like they were excuses for him but nature vs nurture doesn't always fall in line with the psychotic and sociopathic.
Sometimes people just are what they are. after all the brain functions on electrical impulses and chemicals
Fascinating take on Norman Bates.
Absolutely correct take
Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo
Definitely! "You and me is PALS!"
I have so wished I could imitate that laugh!
Big man
1:23 Well that s psycho enough to me
no mention of mr. blonde? 'stuck in the middle with you...'
Dr. Emilio Lazardo in Buckaroo Banzai is totally insane
That's because he's no longer Lizardo, but John Whorfin, a Red Lectroid.
“9 Most Realist Psychopaths”? You then disqualify most of them as psychopaths.
Funny the title card character wasn’t even in the video
Two really good ones are on a show on Netflix called Mindhunter the guy that did Charles Manson and Edmund Kemper. If you watch real life interviews with the real people they’re spot on.👌
The Mindhunter guy lost all respect when he took John Ramsey's side in the murder of JonBenet Ramsay. The son did it; there's a mountain of evidence, including the police recording of the 911 call, etc, but "Mindhunter Braggart" sold out.
@mt.shasta6097 yeah I understand where you’re coming from. I always thought her mom or dad did it cause I think her dad was diddling her
Nightcrawler is the performance of Jake's life, and the perfect portrayal of a psychopath's approach to life
Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music
Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins. Zero empathy, but at least she could carry a tune...
@Wichitan Mary Poppins in the books is snarky, irritable, vain.
Ha ha, Excellent.
I 'm sorry...i dont see that w her.I seem ,perhaps nieve or focus or even o.compulsive -but not crazy pscho dribble.Expound please...or is it your OWN sense of wit & convoluted humor.?? Humor is good,but dribble & madness ,mixed w violence is not funny!!
🤣
I need to return some video tapes
Mick Taylor Wolf Creek and its sequel and its series.
Mick Taylor is realistic and horrifying. He is the one killer on film that is probably fall victim too.
"Mick Taylor from Australia. Pleased to meet ya!"
Oh that's a real psycho
What about Chopper?
That makes sense. The killer he's loosely based on, Ivan Milat, at least showed psychopathic tendencies, as well as antisocial/sociopathic traits. For pretty much his entire life, even as a young child, he lacked the capacity for empathy, no real sense of conscience or regret despite doing some absolutely horrific sh*t. How many 10 year olds are just cold while torturing animals? I wouldn't expect him to be sad, or else he just wouldn't do it in the first place, but often when children harm animals or other children, they may get excited about it. Not necessarily causing the pain itself but "to see what happens". Many realize it's incredibly messed up & stop it, others go on to be abusers & possibly killers. But reports from his own brothers & friends around the family then recall him doing things that should cause "charged emotions" in most (even in awful people) with just coldness, no expression or remarks about what he was doing or had just done. And that was when he was a KID.
Ed Gein may not have been clinically a psychopath, but the movie by the same name did really well in un-glamorizing the story, and also showed how not all of them mask well- Gein gave people the creeps.
Well, he must have masked pretty well because he babysat for several of his neighbours. Did the movie show that?
Begbei , Trainspotting.
Yesssss. Was he off the handle or what?? Whether someone triggered it or not,he liked doing & being freakin crazy violent!!!!
@NinaGuth-hg5ehwhen he nonchalantly chucked the pint glass behind him and it shattered in that chicks face...
Carlyle in ravenous 👍🏻
@snelgrave101 Forgot about him, Great shout.
how about Mr Brooks?
Mel?
@robertmatthews2009 the movie mr brooks with kevin costner
Trevor from GTA
Trevor is disturbed, but he shows that he cares for Michael's children, has a sort-of friendship with Franklin and Lamar, has compassion for the guy he was supposed to kill for the FIB after they had him tortured, falls in love with Patricia Madrazo, and his main beef with Michael is over the betrayal of their friendship. He may act in a way that people may consider "psycho", but he's not a psychopath in the clinical sense.
My personal opinion is Daniel Henshall as John Bunting in Snowtown (2011).
That's crazy, at 5:30 he looks a lot like Nick Reiner
I think Nick is more of a schizophrenic made worse by drug use.
Perhaps a video of fictional psychopaths and another of portrayals of real life psychopaths. Tommy DeVito (based on Tommy DeSimone) in Goodfellas and Nicky Santoro (based on Anthony Spilotro) in Casino.
8:36 not "Hans Beckert showed us", the genial Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre did
The Killer. With Michael Fassbender.
Another perspective on Dexter Morgan would be fascinating.
Nah
I would suggest by a country mile - Graham Young from the “The Young Poisoner's Handbook” 1995 based on the very real and terrifying Graham Frederick Young. None suggested even come close to the portrayal of Young by Hugh O'Conor. A film that is really worth a watch.
I saw it years ago, it was a very riveting watch.
He scuttles around like a demented crab. His pointy nose! The scene with the tea cups in the factory break room..that movie made a strong impression on me.
Dylan McDermott in The Clovehitch Killer.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, for real though.
And when they become President of the United States?
You take the auto-pen away from them.
@blairribeca5858 Now THAT was Good !!🤣👍🏻
you honor them for killing a million people ... just like stalin said one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. we put people in jail for 6 months for robbing a loaf of bread ... if someone steals 40 million we say they are pretty smart and they never face jail time.
The cultists often claim it's TDS
@blairribeca5858 It's more like making him serve prison time raping young girls with Epstein, putting him on trial for trying to violently overturn the election he knows he lost in 2020 and on trial for stealing and hiding secret documents in his Florida resort.
Its so interesting that in common lingo “psycho” can be short for “psychosis” and can also be short for “psychopath” which is how you can have two movies with that in the title but protagonists with completely different disorders. Such as Norman Bates in “Psycho” being a schizophrenic or split personality suffering from psychosis, vs Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho” as a cold blooded psychopath. Though both seem to have some delusions they originate from different causes as well. It does cause people to mix up which one is which tbh and probably increases fear of schizophrenics being violent if they are mixed up with psychopaths. Though Norman Bates is a great example of how a person with untreated psychosis can absolutely have delusions that turn violent, that risk pales in comparison to the likelihood of a psychopath becoming violent
But Henry Lee Lucas was just a liar who falsely confessed to hundreds of murders so the cops would keep giving him free food and special treatment
He was, but he had a lot of proven killings.
This reveals what most mental health professionals will admit: All the jargon and Mumbo jumbo are not very useful in the most important thing we foolishly ask of them: predicting violence. The most reliable indicator of future violence is past violence, not big words.
which tells all we need to know about Black American Culture
@51Dss America really is a racist s#ithole isn't it. Now your beffuddled narcissist of a president has declared war on everyone else including your own allies. You are so cooked right now!
@thumper8684 It's time to get on the special bus, Thumper!
@hoibsh21 You tube seems to have a protective eye to what I say to you bigots so let us test this one word at a time... SHOT
@hoibsh21 You tube seems to have a protective eye to what I say to you bigots so let us test this one word at a time... IN
Why isn't the character & actor you used in thumbnail not even mentioned in the video?
Scorpio from Dirty Harry
The miniature is a little bit misleading because he is just a hallucination. Charles Manson, in "The Manson Family" (1997), was also a very good example of how psychopathic gurus manipulate people to make them do the unthinkable.
How about the wife in "gone girl"?
4:13 "Hello..........NEWman....hello.....Jerry."
wellllll ... jerry did say i have looked into his eyes and there is only pure evil ... may6be jerry is very astute
'Psycho's' = either 'psycho is', or something belonging to a psycho. It's not a plural.
So, what would be the plural of psycho?
@niteshmurtipsychos
@shannonrussooooh ya just without the apostrophe
@niteshmurtiRight :)
So, was he a child murderer, or a child murderer?
I'm not sure what it says about me that that was my first thought. I'm also curious how many people read that sentence with the implied shift of emphasis.
If they have no emotion then why do they hurt people? What is their motivation? They have no passion, jealousy, envy...what makes them want to hurt another person?
Boredom and curiosity, plus nonexistant empathy.
That's a good question. My guess would be they still have wants and needs. The problem arises when those wants and needs require violence or criminality to obtain. Most psychopaths go about their life without anyone knowing because they have been able to fulfill those wants and needs without breaking laws.
Starts in childhood- they like to kill kittens
mostly they're just annoying or they get in. our way.
The Usual Suspects: Kevin Spacey’s role as Verbal/Keyser Soze
“A spook story criminals tell their kids! Rat out your pop, and Keyser Soze will get ya!”
Interesting no Alex from Clockwork Orange. Meehan from the Walking Dead is a good Dark Triad example.
'The IceMan' Richard Kuklinski, and his character as portrayed by Michael Shannon in the biography of the same name...
True double-life, and zero emotion about the countless tasks that he carried out over his decades-long career.
Very well done, start to finish. You know your psychopathology and how to provide an engaging and information-dense narrative. I admire that - all too rare on RUclips or anywhere else!
Anton actually uses his coin toss as a compilsion to give him an excuse to kill because it is not fate thay tells him when to kill or who to kill, it's him... he just tosses a coin so he can have an excuse and see himself as an administer of fate's judgement when in fact he is posing the questions on who to kill all along
Not entirely. I see it as Chirgurh killing primarily based on utility and necessity (for his business). Everyone he kills he sees as a threat to him and his activities, even as a witness. The coin toss is ultimately really just a way of telling the gas station attendant to mind his own business and warn him not to report him to authorities. He's probably the best version of an underworld hitman ever portrayed. He's clinically ruthless, but ultimately, it's all just business. The dialog is really just for the story and the viewer's interest; to make him seem more colorful and interesting than obviously he would be in real life. It also shows how sloppy, helpless and incompetent the police are to catch and control him. Obviously, in the 21st century with forensic science, social media, etc. Chigurh is not possible.
@zyxwut321then why did he kill that man's wife at the end. He had no reason to kill her.
Casey affleck in ”the killer inside me”
If you want to find out if someone you know is or isn't a psychopath, just casually take a normal, social photo of them. They can't smile like a normal person; they pull their mouths into what they think of as a smile, but their eyes remain utterly dead. It's quite scary.
in my work i have dealt with one or two or ten in my life and you are exactly right. their eyes are like dolls eyes like the guy in jaws said. their smiles are haunting and scary and lifeless. you can really tell there is evil behind their blank face. i had a psychiatrist tell me that oh no only psychiatrists could diagnose a psychopath with their education and upbringing ... having worked with kids my whole life i knew he was also full of crap. and the few that i warned everyone about ... actually did turn out to be psychpaths
I guessed number one from the start - testament to Bardem's flawless portrayal.
I'd argue that the Trump regime has the highest number of true psychos in one organisation, including Wall Street.
10:07 He is so unsettling looking. The hair is somehow so off but it fits and is just part of him.
Norman stansfield from Leon
I think the most demonstrative act of psychopathy shown by chagur is him shooting the wife just because he promised!
Some of what you say is a bit contradictory. How would you stack up the actual serial killers in Mindhunter on Netflix? Some of them are smart and organized enough not to get caught like Edmund Kemper who turned himself in. Where in the heck would he be on your list? That would be an interesting RUclips video. They are already people that have been researched about because they killed.
There are plenty of contradictory statements in the narration of this video, but he's talking about psychopaths. Not all serial killers are psychopaths and not all psychopaths - outside of cinema - are necessarily violent.
How about the large murderous quiet dude in Fargo? The little highly nervous mouthy guy was a sociopath, but the big silent one was the real psychopath.