10 Best Horror Movies With More Than One Villain
Two villains are always better than one.
You know what they say: the more the merrier. Even when it comes to murderers.
Horror cinema has a long, proud history of villains. From the likes of classic killers such as Michael Myers in Halloween or Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street to recent ones like Art the Clown in Terrifier or Bughuul in Sinister, horror proves that no genre has a better rogues gallery of baddies. After all, someone has to punish those vile teenagers for all that premarital sex.
Though while one villain is usually the standard, plenty of horror flicks have decided to throw a few more into the mix. This, when done well, can function as an efficient way to give the protagonists an even more dangerous threat to have to overcome.
So, let's take a stroll through the halls of horror history and take a look at the best horror movies with more than one villain. Major spoiler warning ahead by the way, as the big reveal to several of the movies on this list is that there is more than one bad guy. Reader discretion is advised.
10. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
In 2014's The Town That Dreaded Sundown the past comes back to haunt the small town of Texarkana when a copycat killer decides to remake a past tragedy.
There are so many horror movies that use the trope of people being the real monsters that it's almost become redundant at this point. However, what works here is how the movie uses that trope as a way to recreate the unshakable sense of helplessness that comes along with being at the mercy of true madmen.
The film wouldn't be nearly as effective if there was only one killer. By using two it is able to create a feeling that maybe this maniac is more myth than man - perhaps even supernatural in nature.
On top of that, the viscous brutality that both killers seem to relish in borders on inhuman. They didn't have to go as far as they did to get their point across, but they still chose to. It's in this choice to indulge in the worst of themselves where so much of the film's horror lies.