10 Horror Movie Villains So Dumb They Deserved To Fail

10. Dracula - Nosferatu The Vampyre

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre may offer up a more sympathetic, tragic depiction of Dracula (Klaus Kinski), but he's still Dracula, and in an ironic twist like only Herzog could serve up, goes out like an absolute chump.

Lucy Harker (Isabelle Adjani) hatches a plan to both exploit her beauty and take advantage of Dracula's overpowering loneliness, by luring him to her bedroom and inviting him to drink her blood until dawn, effectively sacrificing herself for the greater good.

And the ruse works - Lucy's radiant beauty distracts Dracula for long enough that he fails to notice the sun rising while feasting on her, causing him to suddenly collapse to the floor, dead. And to finish the job, Van Helsing (Walter Ladengast) then shows up and drives a stake through the Count's heart.

While Dracula dying such an anti-climatic and avoidable death certainly fits Herzog's vision of the horror icon as tortured and anguished, it doesn't make him seem any less stupid.