| “ | You are nothing Arthur! You hear, nothing! You loser! I have dedicated my entire life to this. Every waking moment for years. Have you ever shown that kind of dedication? | „ |
| ~ Cyrus telling Arthur he is worthless and that his plan came from lifelong dedication. |
| “ | You just can’t teach some people. I thought I told you, greatness.. requires…sacrifice. | „ |
| ~ Cyrus’s final words to Kalina after crushing her to death. |
Cyrus Kriticos is the main antagonist of the 2001 horror film Thirteen Ghosts (also known as Thir13en Ghosts), a remake of the 1960 horror film of the same name.
He is a power hungry man who wishes to open the Oculus Infernum so he can receive unlimited knowledge and become the most powerful man in the world. He captures and keeps 12 ghosts hostage in his machine house, and tricks his nephew and his family into thinking he died, and that they inherited his house in order to sacrifice Arthur as he was revealed to be the thirteenth soul needed.
He is the arch nemesis of his nephew, Arthur Kriticos and his family. He was portrayed by F. Scott Abraham, who also voiced Grimmel the Grisly in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
What makes him Pure Evil?[]
- Casually have his own men slaughtered by one of the ghosts, showing no care when they die just as long he can capture said ghost.
- He captured 12 ghosts and forced them to be imprisoned in Basileus’s Machine in order to sacrifice them once he captures all the souls, with one of the ghosts being a child.
- Some of the souls also appear to be in constant agony, forced to suffer in order to become sacrifices to Cyrus.
- He is indirectly responsible for all the deaths in this movie caused by ghosts as he is the one who put everyone in harms way to begin with
- He tried to kill his nephew’s children
- One of the souls he kept was also his nephew’s wife
- He brutally killed his own lover, Kalina by crushing her
- While she is dying he berates her, saying that greatness requires sacrifice, which proved he never cared about her and just used her to help achieve his goals and was quick to dispose of her once she no longer proved useful.
- He tried to sacrifice his own nephew in order to open the Oculus Infernum
- His death is played for satisfaction as the ghosts take revenge on their tormenter by throwing him into his machine.
- Overall, he is a egotistical psychopath who cares about no one but himself and his goals and will stop at nothing to achieve them, even sacrificing his own family.
External Links[]
- Cyrus Kriticos on the Villains Wiki