Villains Beginning With 'A'
Annie Wilkes
Misery film (1990)
Annie Wilkes is the antagonist of the 1987 novel Misery, by Stephen King and the 1990 movie.
She is a nurse by profession, Annie lives in a house in the mountains near Sidewinder, Colorado. She was once married until her husband left her, and she has no friends or family. She retired from working after being tried and acquitted of the murders of several newborns in a Boulder, Colorado hospital, where she was the head maternity nurse.
Wilkes is a serial killer, responsible for over 30 victims, including the children of her childhood neighbors, her college roommate, a hitchhiker she once slept with, and even her own father, mainly old and sick patients in the hospitals where she works, but occasionally targets other acquaintances if she views them as a threat. She documents every death in a scrapbook, and is extremely careful to hide the evidence. She was charged with the murder of only one newborn baby, but she was later acquitted and was forever branded the "Dragon Lady" and retreated into isolation in her cabin.
She has an obsession with romance novels, particularly the Misery series written by Paul Sheldon. She often has difficulty in differentiating between these and reality.
She abhors profanity, and flies into fits of rage and expresses anger with childishly strange words like "cockadoodie," "dirty bird," or "dirty birdie." Paranoid and depressed, she thinks everyone is persecuting her and frequently has unexpectedly violent tantrums ,(possibly a severe case of paranoid schizophrenia).
Wilkes initially saves Sheldon who is crippled in a car accident and takes him to her home. When she discovers the ending of his latest novel, in which, her beloved Misery Chastain, dies, she subjects him to a series of physical and psychological tortures, including forcing him to burn his new novel. She forces him to write a new novel according to her wishes. When his broken legs heal, she re-hobbles him so he can't escape.
Knowing Wilkes will kill him eventually, Sheldon writes the new novel and pretends to go along with her plans, but then overpowers her by throwing a typewriter into her back and choking her with the pages of his book. Disoriented, she slips and falls onto her mantle, fracturing her skull. Sheldon is then rescued by police.
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
Paul Sheldon. |
STRENGTHS : |
Smart and cunning and doesn't mind applying a bit of torture to her victims. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Completely mad and overweight. |
WEAPONS : |
Anything she can get her hands on. |
QUOTE : |
"And don't even think about anybody coming for you. Not the doctors, not your agent, not your family. 'Cause I never called them. Nobody knows you're here. And you better hope nothing happens to me. Because if I die... you die! " |
EXTERNAL LINKS
Annie Wilkes - Wikipedia
Misery film (1990) - IMDb
Movies based on Stephen King's works
Stephen King Biography - IMDb
Stephen King official site - new horror book and dvd news
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