10 Worst Horror Movie Characters Of 2022

10. Dr. Nate Samuels - Beast

Dr. Nate Samuels is not 2022's very worst horror character by any stretch of the imagination. Idris Elba portrays a father who must protect his teenage daughters from the film's titular beast - a terrifying, man-eating lion.

Beast makes the most of its very limited premise with some suitably thrilling action sequences and a carefully cultivated atmosphere of tension. Make no mistake, though, this is a relentlessly dumb movie - was anybody really asking for a killer lion flick in 2022? At a time where the message of conservation is so vitally important, such a premise seems laughably misjudged and out of touch.

Elba's character primarily lands himself on this list due to the fact that audiences have come to expect so much more from the actor himself. The Englishman is a critically acclaimed, A-list performer; watching him in what essentially amounts to a guilty pleasure-esque B-movie is a jarring experience after seeing him appear across multiple blockbuster franchises. Beast ultimately feels like the type of movie that Nicolas Cage would agree to do after glancing over the script for approximately eight seconds - accordingly, this feels like a bizarrely misjudged career move from the man who brought the brooding DCI Luther to life.

Samuels is hardly a disastrous character, but this writer expected far more from an Idris Elba-led horror effort.