During this spooky season, are you in a horror state of mind? If you are, then you and I are gonna have some fun. Most of the time, the movie in general or the protagonist is praised, but the horror movie villains are often overlooked.
But that is not gonna happen anymore, not today, we are going to give these antagonists or the “villains” the appreciation that they deserve because, without these characters, the movies won’t be half as good as they are now.
So if you wanna know more about these horror movie villains, then you are at the right place, all you need to do is keep on scrolling through the whole blog.
1. Mona Wassermann, Beau Is Afraid
The surrealistic horror winding story of Beau Is Afraid will scare you to such an extent that you won’t know what hit you. The movie is even more bone-chilling due to the performance of Patti LuPone, who played the character of Mona Wassermann, Beau’s mother.
Two actresses play the character. Zoe Lister-Jones plays the flashback scenes, she is equally horrifying and scary in the role.
2. Mia, Run Rabbit Run
Without spoiling Netflix’s new horror movie Run Rabit Run, stars Sarah Snook. “The film follows a single mother and her seven year old daughter Mia, who becomes attached to a stray rabbit found in their house. From there, things go out of control.”
3. Bughuul, Sinister
“One of the best horror films of the last 20 years, Sinister stars Ethan Hawke as a true-crime writer who finds brutal snuff films in the attic of his new family home.”
4. The Hand, Talk To Me
“A24’s newest horror hit, Talk To Me, is currently in theaters, so far be it from us to spoil before it streams. Just know, the film follows a group of teenagers who communicate with the dead using an embalmed hand.”
5. Jeremiah Sand, Mandy
“Mandy is a 2018 horror film starring Nicolas Cage and To Leslie’s Andrea Riseborough. The film follows a couple living in the mountains who encounter a dangerous religious cult, led by Jeremiah Sand.”
6. Max Cady, Cape Fear
“Did you know Robert De Niro has played a non-Mafia villain? He plays Max Cady in the 1991 thriller Cape Fear, a recently released convict who terrorizes the family of his former lawyer.”
7. Clover, Cloverfield
“This found footage film features a villain that is far from human, a towering creature who decimates New York City.”
8. Buffalo Bill, The Silence Of The Lamb
“A horror flick so great it gives us two villains—Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill. The latter is a serial killer who targets young women and skins them.”
9. Count Orlok, Nosferatu
“The 1922 silent film Nosferatu is one of the earliest iterations of vampire lore, aka the first Twilight. The main villain in this horror is Count Orlok, a vampire who targets the wife of his real estate agent, which is comical for 1922.”
10. Slender Man. Slender Man
“This 2018 horror film brings the lore of Slender Man to the screen, so it’s obvious who the villain is here.”
11. Biological Essentialists, Clock
“Fielding pregnancy queries at family functions is already a real-life horror, but this new film raises the stakes. Dianna Agron plays a woman who enrolls in a clinical trial aimed at igniting her dormant child-bearing instincts, “fixing” her “broken” biological clock in horrifying fashion.”
12. M3gan, M3gan
“The campy horror icon of the year, the people’s princess–welcome to the stage, M3gan. This self-aware AI companion is the It Girl of 2023, playing opposite another emerging horror icon, Allison Williams.”
13. Maud, Saint Maud
“Maud of is a hospice nurse who, fresh off of a religious awakening, becomes fixated on a patient in her hospital. Convinced that she must save the patient’s soul, Maud turns to increasingly dangerous (read: creepy as hell) tactics.”
14. Joker, The Dark Knight
“Christopher Nolan’s second Batman movie is not a horror movie, but Heath Ledger’s Joker definitely thinks he’s in a horror movie. That’s what’s so scary and chaotic about him.”
15. The Nun, The Nun
“The only thing scarier than the Nun is the fact that she’s based on an IRL nightmare of a true story.”
16. Leatherface, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
“Spoiler alert: That’s not really leather.”
17. Pazuzu, The Exorcist
“What, you thought it was gonna be Regan MacNeil on this list? You can’t blame her for all that green vomit and floor pee! It was all Pazuzu’s fault.”
18. Pennywise, It
“As Carrie Bradshaw so wisely said, “Nothing’s scarier than a clown,” and no clown is scarier than Pennywise, who is not even really a clown but an evil otherworldly entity that just takes the form of a clown so he can more easily murder children.”
19. Norman Bates, Psycho
“If a boy tells you his best friend is his mother, run.”
20. Jack Torrance, The Shining
“No matter how many times you see The Shining, the image of Jack Nicholson’s face popping through that door after he bashes it in with an axe will never stop being bury-your-face-in-the-couch terrifying. ”
21. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lamb
“He could have just been a serial killer with a talent for uncomfortably compelling conversation. But no, he had to be a cannibal too. Have the lambs stopped screaming, Clarice? No, Hannibal and they never will as long as your face is visible on cable 40 times a month.”
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22. Samara Morgan, The Ring
“Actually, forget what I said about “super cute and adorable.” Children are terrifying. This is a fact. Even in real life, they talk to people who aren’t there, they think a fairy comes to their rooms at night and hands over money in exchange for lost teeth, and they could accidentally kill themselves at any moment.”
23. Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare On Elm Street
“Everyone’s had nightmares, and everyone knows they’re awful. Freddy Krueger is what happens when those nightmares come alive and actually start killing you. Sweet dreams, suckers!”
24. Annabelle, The Conjuring And Annabelle
“Annabelle certainly isn’t the first villain to prove that dolls are horrible and should never be allowed in the hands of human children, but she does hold the distinct honor of being based on an IRL doll believed to be responsible for the death of at least one person.”
25. Ghostface, Scream
“Ghostface is terrifying. I get that most people, at this point, associate Ghostface with things like their little brother’s Halloween costume or Scary Movie and maybe don’t find him that scary. But no. Literally, LOOK at that mask. The eyes are too empty and the mouth is way, way too long to be natural.”
26. Griffin, The Invisible Man
“This 2020 retelling of H. G. Wells’s classic novel of the same name modernizes the evil Dr. Griffin by making him a super-possessive ex-boyfriend/inventor who fakes his own death and makes a techy suit that turns him invisible so he can terrorize his ex-girlfriend Cecilia.”
27. Esther, Orphan
“Listen, obviously little kids can be super cute and adorable, but they can also be freaking CREEPY. Exhibit A: Esther, from Orphan. Esther epitomizes Evil Child Syndrome, which is a real thing, apparently.”
28. Sweeney Todd And Mrs. Lovette, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
“Not gonna lie, any time a movie shows someone getting shaved by a straight razor my blood turns to ice. It’s 100 percent because of this musical.”
29. Carrie White, Carrie
“You could argue that Carrie White is actually the victim in this story. But just because her murdering rampage is kinda warranted doesn’t mean it’s not also horrifying as hell.”
30. Jennifer, Jennifer’s Body
“This underrated film is fuh-in-ah-lly getting the praise and recognition that it deserves. It’s such a good campy horror movie. Megan Fox is incredible as the villain. It’s funny and feminist and so freaking good.”
31. Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
“Nostalgia for the ’80s hits differently when you’re watching one of its most iconic characters commit brutal murders with a Rembrandt smile. The fact that Bateman’s killing may or may not be happening in his head makes him somehow scarier. If even he doesn’t know what’s real…do you?”
32. Dean, Missy, And Jeremy Armitage, Get Out
“The entire Armitage family in Get Out is terrifying and freaking psychotic. They possess the kind of passive, manipulative creepiness that absolutely fucks with your head and sends shivers through your whole body.”
Wrapping Up!
Well, there you go, seeing the list of horror movie villains, it is safe to say that because of these characters, horror movies became so popular and are considered classics in the genre.
If you agree with our list, then give this article a like, and also, if you think that I have missed a few classic villains, then write them down in the comment below.
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