Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Norman Bates Powers: Average, yet psychotic, human Voted: Best smile Equivalent Smiley: vs Count Orlok Powers: Otherworldly and mostly undefined, standard vampiric abilities, signs of telekinesis Voted: Quietest Equivalent Smiley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Bates, in a heartbeat. Orlok may have been around longer, but in a simple match up of which scares the fuck out of me more, Bates wins, every time. And, as people said earlier, not even Vince fucking Vaughn can ruin him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 In before all the "but Bates is REAL" arguments. It doesn't matter. Orlok is an icon, he's fucking terrifying and he'll never be duplicated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Psycho is a great film. No doubt. It is, however, overrated. There are others that do it just as well from the same era. Bates is fantastic. But he just hasn't proven to have the longevity of Orlok, who has defined a subgenre for eternity. Look at the stills from the film and it looks as though it is a real picture of a vampire. It hasn't been done as well since and will never be done as well as Nosferatu. Not even Klaus Kinski could outcreep the creepy Max Screck (whose very name means "fear"). Orlok wins this round for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 And in response to the "he's real" argument. He is even more of an adaptation than Orlok is. He is taken from a book (better than the movie) basing the character on a menagerie of real-life killers (all scarier than Bates). Stoker's widow wouldn't allow an adaptation of Dracula so they changed him radically and made him better. No contest here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 It came back to one thing: Orlok is completely cognizant of the evil that he's inflicting upon the world. Bates, in the end, suffers from multiple personalities so his villainy isn't even completely in his own hands. Orlok wins out here for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm going to let one side convince me, here. I'm not sure, just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Again a battle between two different types of horror. In this match, I'm going to have to side with Orlok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Really really tough one for me, but I gotta go Orlok. One of the great things about Orlok is, you really get sucked in to believing that maybe, just maybe, he is real. And that is kinda terrifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Bye bye Bates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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