10 Horror Movie Characters That Didn't Deserve The Hate

10. Franklin Hardesty - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Any list of overhated horror movie characters must surely include The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's Franklin Hardesty (Paul A. Partain) - the doomed, paraplegic brother of protagonist Sally (Marilyn Burns).

In popular discourse Franklin is simply an annoying a**hole that many were happy to see sliced up by Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) later in the movie.

And while Franklin is indeed a cantankerous and bitter individual, he nevertheless deserves our sympathy not only for the physical hand he's been dealt - especially in such a horrific scenario - but also how socially clueless the guy is.

Franklin is evidently lacking in even the most basic social tools most of us are born with, which when combined with his disability, the boiling heat, and the group's eventual run-in with a family of cannibalistic killers, makes it tough to resent him too much.

Sure, Franklin's never going to win any Mr. Personality awards, but given that the poor guy just wanted to check that his grandfather's grave hadn't been vandalised and ended up getting cut by a deranged hitchhiker, can you really blame him for being so irascible?