 | Wait Until Dark
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $12.61 Alan Arkin's Harry Roat Jr. is my choice for the scariest, most sinister bad guy in American movies of the last 45 years. He also incited the most terrifying audience scream I've ever heard.
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 | Marathon Man
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.60 Lord Laurence Olivier's Nazi dentist Szell was every dental patient's worst nightmare. The premise was almost a joke, if not for Olivier's seething menace. "Is it safe? . . . Is it safe? . . . ."
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 | Dirty Harry (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $4.16 A hero is only as good as his worst enemy, and Andrew Robinson, forever overshadowed by Eastwood, was the personification of evil as Scorpio in this first Dirty Harry installment.
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 | Experiment in Terror
Buy used from: $41.95 I've never heard anyone comment on Ross ("Wild, Wild West") Martin's chilling turn as an asthmatic kidnapper and extortioner in this early 1960s shocker.
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 | Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.17 He probably doesn't belong on this list because of his cult fame, but Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth bears mentioning if only because you can't ignore him (despite his repeated entreaty, "Don't you f****** look at me!").
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![The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51s50X2MCHL._SL75_.jpg) | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [Blu-ray]
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $10.96 Leatherface is another cult figure, but I don't know that either he or the movie he was in has ever received the respect they deserve. This is a roaring freight train of a horror film, and the engine is in Leatherface's hands.
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