“Villainy is more seductive than virtue.” With this in mind, New York Times Magazine prepares to launch the latest edition of its Hollywood issue. Aptly titled “Touch of Evil,” the magazine features this year’s best performers in film playing “baddies.” The print issue is accompanied by videos, which have already been published online and can be viewed here. I highly recommend watching these short clips because they feature excellent cinematography and the actors do a really good job of getting into their characters (Can you guess which nefarious movie icon each of them portray? If you can’t, you can use this cheat sheet!). Above all, the videos are just plain fun to watch.

These specific thirteen minute-long clips were directed by Alex Prager, who also shot the photographs that will be in the print issue of New York Times magazine. Born in 1979, Prager is “a self-taught photographer who takes her cues from pulp fiction, the cinematic conventions of movie directors such as Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, and fashion photography.” Her work can be found in the collection of both the MoMA and the Whitney, among many other museums. Anyone interested in seeing more examples of Prager’s fantastic work can browse through this gallery on the MoMA website.

This concise article in the New York Times features some more behind-the-scenes information (with a few pictures) about this year’s project and this article offers some commentary about villains (and their portrayal in movies) in general. This site features the videos that accompanied last year’s Hollywood issue (These were directed by Solve Sundsbo and featured “classic screen types” (Do we want to play the guessing game again?)). I think all twenty-seven videos were fantastically done (Award-worthy, maybe?), and I am absolutely excited to see how the print issue turned out.