10 Horror Movie Villains Everyone HATED

10. Adrian Griffin - The Invisible Man

Leigh Whannell's reimagining of The Invisible Man did a fantastic job of filtering classic Universal Monster sensibilities through a contemporary, topical lens, as deranged villain Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) spends the movie stalking and abusing his ex-girlfriend Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss).

What makes Adrian even more detestable than your average abusive a**hole is that, after Cecilia leaves him, he fakes his own death and uses his optics technology to invisibly terrify her with total plausible deniability - given that he's apparently dead and all.

Adrian makes Cecilia look increasingly insane to everyone around her, even killing her sister in front of her and framing her for it. Basically, it's the ultimate, most horrifyingly heightened form of gaslighting imaginable. And though Adrian is largely invisible, Whannell deserves enormous credit for casting an actor with such a wonderfully punchable face - Oliver Jackson-Cohen's maddening performance evokes privileged smugness from every pore, such that audiences can't wait for him to finally get what's coming to him.