10 Awesome Horror Movie Villains (With Surprisingly Low Kill Counts)

Ridley Scott's Alien introduced audiences to the terrifying foreign species known as a 'Xenomorph'. With its distinct design created by artist H.R. Giger, this creature has become an icon of both the horror and science fiction genres. After being forcefully impregnated by a facehugger, the alien creature bursts out of the chest of a crew member and continues to hunt down the rest of the unprepared crew.

The Xenomorph's overall mortality rate comes overwhelmingly from its sequels as the species as a whole appears in a total of eight films. James Cameron's follow-up, Aliens, leaned into a more action orientated story where an entire colony of the creatures appear, and wreck havoc on a settlement of humans. Perhaps this film is responsible for the creatures murderous reputation.

In its motion picture debut, the creature manages a respectable five murders, which to its credit was the majority of the Nostromo crew bar a feline and one Ellen Ripley. This is however, surprisingly low after the reputation it has garnered over the years.

KILL COUNT: 5