10 Best Characters From 2024 Horror Movies

2024 proved itself to be quite the banner year for the horror genre, offering up a bevy of incredible, even unforgettable films that audiences will be talking about for many years to come. But what would any great movie be without its characters? They're the conduits through which a compelling story is typically told, and a strong script will present viewers with memorable characters for them to latch onto.

Across the horror genre over the past 12 months, no characters quite captured the public's imagination like this lot, one way or another.

Great characters can come in many forms, from brutal antagonists to plucky heroes, scene-stealing supporting players, and everything else in between. Hell, they might even be a lot better than the movie they're actually in. Whatever they are, the following 10 horror movie characters took command of the screen every time they were on it, ensuring we lamented their absence every time they weren't.

These characters all felt fleshed-out, well rounded, and were brilliantly acted, to boot, ensuring they left a deep imprint on anyone who watched, regardless of their feelings on each movie overall.

The very idea of a child ballerina who also happens to be a bloodthirsty vampire is so inherently amusing that Abigail's title character really didn't need to be all that great to carry the movie, and yet, she's a sheer riot.

Alisha Weir is excellent as a seemingly adorable young girl who is actually neither adorable nor young. Rather, she spends the bulk of the movie toying with her kidnappers - playing with her food, even - while brutally picking them off one-by-one.

Despite the absurdity of the premise, Abigail does genuinely feel like a fleshed-out character in the pantheon of vampiric lore, even as much of her backstory is left enticingly ambiguous. The climactic reveal, that she's implied to be the daughter of Count Dracula (Matthew Goode) himself, and that she's got some weapons-grade daddy issues to boot, is just the icing on the whole delicious cake.

Even though the movie as a whole falls a little short of its promise, the filmmakers nailed the feature attraction.