The most frightening villains aren’t the ones who look dangerous. They’re the ones you’d willingly invite into your life.

That’s what makes Cobb from Christopher Nolan’s Following so unsettling. He was intelligent, calm, fascinating and completely in control.

The film reveals something much darker: a man who doesn’t need to threaten people because he can make them believe his decisions are their own. What if the person manipulating you never looked like a villain at all?… Read More Cobb from Following (1998): The Movie Villain I Find Most Frightening