9. Norman Bates

played by Anthony Perkins in Psycho

Charlie Kaufman would never have been able to lampoon the multiple personality serial killer genre in Adaptation if said genre had never had a strong basis from which to take flight. Perhaps Norman Bates should have been on this list twice, so fully and terrifyingly does he portray both the disturbed young man and his deceased yet controlling mother.

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