10 Best Horror Movie Villain Designs
6. The Thing - The Thing
Nothing is more disturbing than a regular guy opening up inside out, exposing all manner of sentient blood and viscera. The Thing is indescribable. Every time it reveals that it is not a person, this otherworldly beast takes a form different from the last.
This alien being is presented as if every part of the insides of a person are aggressively clawing their way out, ripping its fleshy prison with a furry. If this creature is hard to describe, it is hard to know how to kill. Forget the paranoia of which one of you is the shapeshifting monster, and get to the part where it's already exposed itself and you still know nothing. Which part of its exposed body is a weakness? In what way will it try to move this time? What part of it will try to grab you? Is it done transforming, or is still getting bigger? Will it attack or will it leave?
The only thing to expect, is that the presence is going to have tendrils and multitudes of teeth. There is nothing to humanize. The leftover parts of its human disguise, like the eyes, mouth, or hair, are just creepy vestigial parts. What is this Thing?
If this list is about paranoia and gore, then The Thing wins by a landslide of blood.