9 Horror Movie Villains We ALL Foolishly Thought Had WON

9. Pastor Abin Cooper - Red State

One of the all-time great character actors, there's an argument to be made that Michael Parks was never better than he was as Pastor Abin Cooper in Kevin Smith's Red State.

Smith's first venture into horror, Red State sees Pastor Cooper heading up the Five Points Trinity Church fanatics who rule with an iron fist (and a loaded gun) against anyone who doesn't abide by the words of the Good Book.

While Parks is on phenomenal form here, so, too, is John Goodman as ATF Special Agent Joe Keenan. Goodman's character is initially called into investigate firearm usage at Cooper's property - but this soon turns into an all-out battle between Keenan's crew and Cooper's loons.

As bullets fly, this is all interrupted by a deafening trumpet blast that means the Rapture is upon us, that Pastor Cooper and his crazed followers were right in their mission, and that he and his crew will ascend to Heaven while the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ravage the Earth.

Instead, Red State jumps ahead to reveal that Cooper is now incarcerated - having been headbutted by Keenan and arrested - and that the 'Rapture' was a prank played by college kids pissed off at Five Points Trinity.