The Best Horror Movie Villains

A horror movie would not be a horror movie if there wasn't some crazed lunatic trying to kill tons pf people. But many horror movies have different types of killers. There are the calculating killers who plan each murder and then there are the slashing killers who will kill anyone in sight. This list will show the10 best horror movie villains of all time.

10. Jigsaw (Saw)

Jigsaw is the villain in the Saw series. He is a calculating killer who tortures people as punishment for their sins. For example, in the first Saw movie, Jigsaw puts a man who has attempted suicide in a barbed wire trap where to escape he must keep cutting himself on the wire. Jigsaw believes that he's helping his victims get past their past problems by putting them in a situation where they must decide what they are willing to do to survive. However crazy Jigsaw may be, he is so high on this list because he never actually killed anyone. In his torture devices there is always a way for the person to live it just depends on how far they are willing to go to save their own lives.

9. Jason ( Friday the 13th, 2009)

Jason Voorhees drowned at Crystal Lake summer camp as a small boy. In the original, Friday the 13th Jason's mother did all the killing, but this was changed in the remake. Jason's mother dies within the first few minutes of the new movie which allows for him to kill whoever he wants. Like Jigsaw, Jason kills people who have committed some sort of sin. His victims are teenagers who are either drinking, doing drugs, having sex, or some other immoral act. He slowly stalks his victims while breathing heavily announcing his presence. However, the main reason Jason is such a bad killer is that he ignores all the potential weapons around him. In one scene, Jason had a perfectly good wood chipper to put his victims in and he chose to ignore the wood chipper and chases them around consequently allowing his victims to strangle him using the wood chipper making him a very stupid killer.

8. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Let me be honest, I feel asleep watching A Nightmare on Elm Street the first time I watched. Freddy Krueger just did not scare me. He was disgusting looking, but I think he look was a little over the top. It passed scary and just went into disgusting. And the fact that he was dead at the beginning of the movie just makes him seem even less dangerous. However, Freddy is still higher than Jason and Jigsaw because he kills people when they are the most vulnerable, in their sleep. More specifically, he kills people in their dreams and since people have no control over their dreams this makes him very powerful and creepy.

7. Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974)

Leatherface is creepy for three reasons: He seems mentally challenged, he wears a disturbing leather mask, and he carries around a huge chainsaw. Yeah mentally challenged and a huge chainsaw...usually not a good mix. And on top of that, he's a cannibal. And on top of that he kills people randomly. The teenagers he killed didn't do anything to him. They just happened to approach his house, and go inside, and trespass on his property, and probably just ruin his whole day so maybe they did deserve what they got. And besides, I would have tried to kill that one girl too, just to make her stop screaming like a maniac.

6. The Firefly Family (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects)

The Firefly family consist of Mother Firefly, Captain Spaulding, Otis Driftwood, Baby Firefly, and Tiny. They are a nice, loving family who truly care about each other. They live in a large house out in the country and may seem like an average family from the outside. But they are far from average, they are serial killers. They kill anyone who crosses their path and they will kill for any reason. They like to torture their victims and murder them in gruesome ways. For example, in The Devil's Rejects, a man is skinned and his wife is forced to wear his face as a mask. All the while, the Firefly family is laughing hysterically. They may sound crazy and disgusting, but they are so high on the list because there is something so cool and funny about them you just can't help but like them.

5. Michael Myers (Halloween)

Like Leatherface, Michael Myers is creepy because of the mask. No matter what mask he is wearing, Michael Myers will scare whoever he looks at. Not only that, but he is one of the rare slasher killers who is actually alive at the beginning of the movie which makes it a much more realistic plot than most movies of its kind. However, Michael Myers, like Jason and Jigsaw, doesn't just kill randomly. He kills people who have wronged him and kills many teens who have committed immoral acts likes drinking and sex. But, while the mask is terrifying, he is a slow moving, heavy breathing killer who an athletic teenager could easily run away from.

4. The Strangers (The Strangers)

Not only is this one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, the killers are probably the most terrifying killers out of any movie ever made. Many killers wear masks to keep their identity hidden, but usually the viewers know who the killer is. However, in the Strangers, the viewers are as clueless about the identity of the murderers as the victims and this makes the killers very mysterious and creepy. And the mask are pretty creepy looking too, but they are not really smart to wear when killing someone when you consider the fact that it makes the male killer sound like he's having an asthma attack. Maybe if he had cut himself a nose hole he could have done a more effective job at killing the people considering only one of the victims dies. But despite the breathing issues, the killers are very creepy. Two out of three of the killers are young women who look like they could be as young as fifteen and they both wear these creepy little doll-like masks. And to top it all off, the killers play a cat-and-mouse game with the victims, chasing them around the house, playing weird sounding music, and moving things around just enough to make things disturbing. However, their job of killing the people wasn't that difficult considering the fact that the victims just ran around the house like idiots leaving behind the big rifle and all the bullets in the closet. The scariest thing about the killers though is that they had absolutely no motive. They just picked a house and they would have killed anyone who was inside and they would have enjoyed it.

3. Ghostface (Scream)

Ghostface isn't your average killer. He isn't scary or even creepy looking. He makes jokes and plays trivia games with his victims. He asks them about horror movies and if they answer wrong he kills them. If they answer right, well, that didn't happen in the movie so I don't really know what he would have done. He probably would have killed them anyway though. What truly makes Ghostface different from most killers, though, is that he is actually two different people which cleverly explains how he can pop up in so many different places at one time. But there is one thing that actually makes him pretty creepy, one of the two killers has absolutely no motive at all. He is just a crazy young man who claims that "peer pressure" caused him to lose his mind and go on an insane killing spree. The other killer has a motive, but after watching the movie several times, I've come to the conclusion that even if he hadn't had a motive, he still would have turned into a psychopath. His love of horror movies caused him to believe his life was movie and caused him to lose his mind.

2. Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)

Silence of the Lambs is more of a thriller than a horror movie, but I think Hannibal Lecter is still cool enough to be on this list. Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant psychiatrist who treated many patients. Then he turned into a psychopath himself. He turned into a cannibal. But he was a completely genius cannibal. He probably took his victims back to his apartment, discussed Shakespeare, then dined on their legs or eyeballs or brains. What makes Lecter incredible is how interesting and awesome he is while simultaneously being completely disturbing. His brilliant one-liners and disgusting puns all add to his cool demeanor. Hannibal Lecter aids in the capture of serial killer Buffalo Bill by assisting Agent Starling in her investigation. The almost sexual tension between Lecter and Starling is so obvious that it adds to Hannibal's creepiness by making him seem so human. But the fact that he is just so darn likable is what makes his character terrifying.

1. Norman Bates (Psycho)

Not to be too predictable or anything, but Norman Bates has to be number one on this list. There has never been another character as crazy as Norman Bates and there never will be. While the movie itself was not very scary, the idea of a grown man taking orders from his dead mother who is stuffed up in his house is just too disturbing. For when this movie came out, the plot is just so intense that it is easy to see why Norman Bates has scared so many people out of taking a shower. There's not much I can say about Norman Bates that hasn't already been said, but Bates is definitely the craziest, creepiest, most horrifying horror movie killer to ever scare people all around the world.


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