10 Horror Movie Villains Who Became Smarter In The Sequel

10. Juno Kaplan - The Descent 2

This may constitute a mildly erroneous entry as the true villains of the wildly successful The Descent franchise are the crawlers. Well, that's if you can call animalistic, mindless pre-humanoids "villains" in the traditional sense of the word. They won't be monologuing gleefully to you about the brilliance of their evil plans, put it that way.

Juno Kaplan, on the other hand - Sarah's duplicitous friend from the original - was plenty villainous. Not only did she accidentally murder their dear friend Beth, leaving her for dead in the nightmarish darkness, she was also revealed to have had an affair with Sarah's late husband prior to his death. Audiences were practically cheering when Sarah crippled her with a pick-axe in the film's climactic sequence, seemingly leaving her to die screaming in the darkness.

While the quality fell off spectacularly in the jump to The Descent 2, what clearly did not were Juno's levels of intelligence. Already an accomplished caver and climber, she is revealed to have survived her injuries as a bona-fide Rambo-esque crawler killer underground; you simply don't do that unless you adapt to your surroundings in double time. Juno may be a terrible human being, but she was already as sharp as a whip - a factor that was only honed by her time underground with the abhorrent creatures.