User blog comment:Alwaysmore2hear/Nominate Your Essential Villains for the 2018 FANDOM 100/@comment-27714288-20180924231339

I would love to nominate Bathsheba Sherman  from the first "The Conjuring". While yes Annabelle the Doll  and Valak were more beloved and definitely struk a good  chord with their primary audinces (myself included), I would have to say that (even though the woman they portrayed in the movie isn't exaclty who she was in real life documentations of her) the character of the crazy, manipulative, cunning, terrifying, semi team-playing witch that is Mrs. Sherman is just amazing to me. As a villain at least. Compared to Annabelle the Doll, Valak , or even Annabelle Higgins  who are great, greatly designed, powerful and/or sadistic villains/villainesses that kinda seem like they're more of an in-your-face type of group of villains (which again isn't a problem, I love all these characters) while Bathsheba is more quiet and well kept (until she needs to not be). She's an epitome of classic horror movie villain/villainess done right. She never let's her victims know full force what she's going to do achieve her gouls if they are smart enough to even grip what she's gonna do (those people being Ed and Loraine Warren). And if she has more clueless victims like the multiple maids and children we see trapped at her command she would go complete mental sadist and torture them and then torture some more when she possess the mother to kill the children. Also in terms of design (which was great btw, Joseph Bishara did a wonderful job portraying her), she was always a big tease of the film, we saw some glimpses of what we'd guess she'd look like, and we quickly saw her corpse hanging on the show which gave the audince more of a creppy, mysterious vibe about her. So when we see her on the wardrobe it was great. But we still only got a quick glimpse of her face and then a 1 second frame of the rest of her legs. Then we get the final battle where Ed screams her name and we see as close up of her face and her creepiness levels, it's such as nice payoff to see such a well crafted character. As for her as a villain, again we already covered that she's terrifying and sadistic. She's a character who loves to freak the living hell out of her victims. And a nice addition, unlike Annabelle demon and Valak who are powerful demons who can use any other things to do their bidding, Bathsheba and Janice were happy to do their own dirty work. Now yes, if Bathsheba couldn't get to all the victims she wanted to get to, she had her trapped victims unwillingly aid her. But also as we saw, she literally was on top of a wardrobe jumping on a victim, she also almost attacked Loraine in the secret passage, also she (with the Annabelle demon's help) threw a chair at Ed and Loraine's daughter Judy, almost killing her. So yeah she was not ashamed to do her own work and more. Also one last thing, she also can be a team player if she wants. She willingly went to Annabelle the Doll and temporarily freed the demon to work with him to attempt to kill Judy. I remember seeing that Annabelle/Janice also went back with Bathsheba to torment the Bathsheba's family of victims. Though I can't confirm it. But yeah, I know this is long but I honestly love this character. She never reveals her full hand, always has control of who she targets, is very old fasioned styled creepy demon/witch, and without even being a full demon (like Annabelle and Valak) is truly a complete monster. So yeah, I'm done being a crazy fanboy. XD