Big Payback: The 10 Sickest Movie Revenge Plots

#8: THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960)

Character: Tore (Max Von Sydow), a God-fearing husband and father of two living in medieval Sweden.

How he's wronged: After Tore sends his daughter Karin into town to bring candles to church, three filthy herdsmen rape and murder her.

How he gets revenge: Unfortunately for Karin

#7: V FOR VENDETTA (2006)

Character: V (Hugo Weaving), a masked freedom fighter taking down the conservative totalitarian government in a futuristic Britain.

How he's wronged: To gain public approval for its rights-violating imprisonment and disappearing of political dissidents, homosexuals, and other "enemies of the state," Britain's fascist government concocts a biological weapon for a self-inflicted bioterrorist attack by experimenting on V and other prisoners, killing many of them.

How he gets revenge: After destroying and escaping from his detention center, revolutionary V dons a Guy Fawkes mask and cripples the regime by bombing government buildings, assassinating officials, and exposing propaganda programming as lies, ultimately turning the masses, who turn out to watch him explode Parliament, against the weakened state.

#6: FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

Character: Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), a middle-aged, not to mention bloodthirsty, woman.

How she's wronged: Her handicapped son, Jason, was left to drown 23 years earlier while at Camp Crystal Lake. His counselors were too busy indulging in life

#5: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)

Character: Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a former banker wrongfully convicted for his wife

#4: MEMENTO (2000)

Character: Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a special kind of amnesiac—his brain can

#3: KILL BILL, VOLS. I & II (2003, 2004)

Character: The Bride (Uma Thurman), a former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, a band of hit-women (and one dude) overseen by a mostly unseen shot-caller named Bill (David Carradine).

How she's wronged: Tired of her assassin

#2: DESCENT (2007)

Character: Maya (Rosario Dawson), a smart, sexually inexperienced college student.

How she