10 Greatest Horror Movies Villains Of The 2020s So Far
4. Athena Stone - The Hunt
Boy howdy, did The Hunt kick up a hell of a fuss before it even came out.
Co-written by Damon Lindelof of Lost fame, The Hunt imagines a world in which a radical left wing group kidnaps and hunts right wing people for sport. Think of it as The Hunger Games, only taking place in an actual dystopia instead of a fictional one.
Leading up the murderous bunch is Athena Stone, played by Hilary Swank. The former Disney star is far from sunshine and rainbows in this picture, as she pushes her ideology to the wicked extreme in an attempt to do what she thinks is right.
That's where the beauty of this character lies. Stone is fighting what she believes to be the good fight, only she does it in entirely the wrong way. Watching her will make you question your own beliefs and just how far you'd be willing to go to enforce them.
Releasing a movie like this in the charged climate of Trump-era America was always going to create headlines, but The Hunt did at least provide us with a memorable villain in amongst the controversy.