10 Most Hysterical Characters In Horror Movie History

10. Jesse Walsh - A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Elm Street victims aren't known for their stoicism, but some are less equal than others.

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge brings the dream demon back with a vengeance. Five years after the events of the first film, Freddy (Robert Englund) returns to haunt Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton), who has moved into the former home of the last attack's sole survivor, Nancy Thompson. Requiring a host to enact his vendetta on the town's teens, Freddy possesses Jesse and corrupts him from the inside out.

Ostensibly set up as the film's straight man, Jesse is anything but. Beside the fact that many have interpreted Nightmare 2 as a metaphor for Jesse's repressed homosexuality (something supported in no small part by the BDSM killing of his gay coach in the showers), Jesse reacts indifferently to some of the horrifying things happening around him, but goes completely bananas at others, screaming and howling.

That the sound production team didn't have Patton record his scream more than once or twice only makes things stranger – or at least more comical – as every one of Jesse's absurdly high-pitched, OTT screams sounds almost identical.

To be fair to him, Nightmare 2 has the scariest and least wacky Freddy in the entire series, and it can't exactly be easy growing claws and a jumper out of your skin.