12 Scariest Horror Movie Villains

Nightmares for your nightmares.

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Warner Bros

From ghostly apparitions, to hash slinging slashers, to demons brought to our mortal plane, the horror movies of the season offer up a bit of everything when it comes to scaring you silly with their central antagonists.

Whether a genre heavyweight like Pennywise or Jason, or a relative newcomer full of fresh scares, there's something for everyone if you're after your own personal brand of nightmare fuel. And lucky for you, you're in just the right place to find it...

12. Sadako - Ringu

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Hideo Nakata

A little girl stuck inside a cursed VHS tape isn't the most appealing at the best of times, never mind when she makes a break for it and comes at you through the television set. And you thought The Big Bang theory was the worst thing to happen to TV.

Featured originally in Hideo Nakata's Ringu, before being adapted for American audiences into The Ring and its subsequent sequels, Sadako (aka Samara) is a well-dwelling spirit intent on killing those that watch her video tape. With the appearance of a rotting corpse and long black hair obscuring her face, Sadako has long since given people nightmares with her literal fourth-wall breaking visits.

 
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