10 MORE Horror Movie Villains Who Were Completely Unprepared
Did you seriously learn nothing from the first time around?
Yes, it's another raft of ludicrously underprepared horror villains.
As if it wasn't bad enough that the curtain call of thoroughly inept baddies from our 10 Horror Movie Villains Who Were Completely Unprepared had put horror villains' good name and reputation to shame! Unfortunately for any sense of sinister legitimacy, much of the behaviour exhibited by this buffoonish assortment of characters would honestly be better suited to a Looney Tunes sketch.
Prompting the likes of John Kramer and Hannibal Lecter to scream into a pillow with frustration, many of these villains appeared to have an unassailable upper hand over their purported victims. Unfortunately for them, this only serves to compound the sense of disbelief when they merrily squander their notable advantages by failing to properly ready themselves for the resistance coming back in their direction.
Failed to prepare? The horror genre is no exception to the resulting status quo. Whether the character in question happens to be a demented serial killer or a monstrous creature, be prepared to fail in exceedingly spectacular - and often bloody - fashion.
As what should have been a case of shooting fish in a barrel somehow morphs into an example of the villain shooting themselves in the foot instead, abandon all logic and forward planning, ye who enter here.
10. West And His Soldiers - 28 Days Later
Receiving rave reviews and producing a spectacular commercial return, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is credited by many critics with revitalising the zombie genre.
The Cillian Murphy-led outing also features one of the more underprepared villains in recent memory. Christopher Ecclestone's Major Henry West initially appears to be a beacon of hope in the nightmarish world of the "rage virus", offering sanctuary to the film's core group of survivors.
However, West and his renegade soldiers are soon revealed to be an abhorrent cohort of r*pists, using a radio broadcast to ensnare female survivors into sexual slavery to repopulate the world. Unsurprisingly, Murphy's protagonist Jim opposes this appalling plan, prompting West to order his execution.
Unfortunately for Ecclestone's charge, he and his men demonstrate an abject lack of preparation for just how viciously Jim fights back. Not only do his bumbling cronies fail to prevent the unarmed Jim from escaping, but Murphy's character also manages to lure the supposedly savvy Major away from his compound with ease. This allows him to unleash Private Miller - an infected soldier chained up for medical observations - upon the remaining soldiers.
West caps off his incompetency by failing to do away with our heroes at point-blank range after popping up in the back seat of their escape vehicle. Henry is dispatched after Naomie Harris' Selena puts the car in reverse, allowing an enraged Miller to seize the cretinous soldier through the back window.