10 Most Underrated Slasher Movie Villains

10. Frank Zito - Maniac

A remake of William Lustig's 1980 video nasty, this 2012 psychological slasher film cast Elijah Wood as the demented Frank Zito, mannequin store owner and murderer.

A troubled young man with a traumatic past and a fetish for collecting human scalps, Frank's life is further complicated when he begins to fall for artist and photographer Anna (Nora Arnezeder). Struggling to balance his growing affection for Anna with his passion for murdering women and sticking their scalps onto his mannequins, Frank cuts a bloody swathe through Los Angeles, before finally coming for Anna directly.

While Lustig's original movie is considered to be a cult classic in some circles, this remake, by Franck Khalfoun, isn't to be sniffed at either. Wood is delightfully chilling as Frank, building on the budding menace viewers first saw him display in 2005's Sin City - marking the star as one of his generation's most interesting character actors.

His Frank Zito emerges as one of horror cinema's creepier slasher villains.