10 Horror Movie Characters Who Made Our Skin Crawl

2. Richie Gecko - From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn Quentin Tarantino Richie Gecko
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For full disclosure, Quentin Tarantino's Rickie Gecko is the character who inspired this entire article.

Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn is such a brilliant mish-mash of a movie, flitting between being a road movie, an action movie, and a horror movie - all while being a ridiculously cool movie.

While George Clooney's Seth Gecko merges from an all-out criminal to an antihero of sorts while this 1996 picture plays out, Seth's brother Richie doesn't quite follow the same trajectory. Instead, Richie is a self-serving, manipulative, lying scumbag from the first moment we see him, right up until he becomes a vampire and is then killed off.

Of course, that's not even mentioning the grim fact that Richie is a convicted sex offender, and his early movie rape and murder of a female bank clerk is then followed by him constantly leering over Juliette Lewis' Kate Fuller.

The interactions between Richie and Kate are clearly troubling, but the most chilling moments of From Dusk till Dawn are the exchanges between Tarantino's character and the doomed bank clerk who is left in his charge while Seth goes hunting for supplies.

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