10 Disturbing Video Game Characters We'll Never Forget

10. The Nurse - Silent Hill

While it's hardly a hot-take or a startling new 'revelation' (not sorry) to state here that the nurses in Silent Hill are as creepy as all hell, it is no less true for its widespread acceptance.

These blood drenched, disturbingly contorted, faceless but for exposed jaw and tooth creatures are a mainstay of the Silent Hill series.

Carrying dirty scalpels and convulsing in horribly inhuman ways, these bizarrely over-sexualised monsters are all cleavage and short skirts, representing the sexual insecurity and discomfort of those from whose minds these nightmare Nightingales sprung.

Second only to good old Pyramid Head, these practitioners of pain are as infamous as the series itself, and with good reason: they're absolutely horrendous.

In terms of their actual usage within their parent games, the nurses are not especially difficult to defeat in combat, even when there's a few of them at once.

It's not the challenge they present to the player, but the sheer dread and terror they incite which grants them their infamy.

Appearing in various guises in nearly every mainline Silent Hill title, and making a terrifying cameo in the grossly under-appreciated Silent Hill movie, it is very hard to forget these nightmare nurses once you've had the pleasure.