Survey: Favorite Movie Villains

I have been toying with the idea of doing a monthly survey, but I need more readers than the six followers I've gained in my first month of blogging. Please bring your friends, even if they don't want to participate in the blog on a regular basis. This month's question: who is your favorite movie villain of all time? I myself am partial to Jason Voorhees, who I always feared would hack my limbs off when I was walking home from my friend Brandon's house after a Friday the 13th marathon on TNT's MonsterVision. The guy wouldn't die, even if he took a machete to the face. Plus, I always took a shortcut through a couple of neighborhood backyards, which saved me time, but looked remarkably like the woods at Camp Crystal Lake, especially if you'd just spent four hours with the poor, unsuspecting, promiscuous teenage camp counselors in installments I through VII. (And yes, that wasn't too far from my average Saturday night in high school, rather than doing whatever the cool kids do. I wouldn't know).

I also think that Buffalo Bill/Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs was much scarier than the famed Dr. Lecter, who you could almost classify as a protagonist in the film/book. Gumb was just creepy, making his woman suit and speaking to his prisoners as inanimate objects. I actually kind of aspired to be like Dr. Lecter: refined, polite, and brilliant, just without the taste for human flesh. Oh, and I just have to pass this on: I ran across a Japanese anime-style cartoon caricature of villain Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men. He looks so happy as he searches for the next victim of his airgun. Isn't he cute?

Anyhoo, who are your favorites? Discuss.