10 Horror Movie Villains Who Deserved The Win
7. Cropsy - The Burning
Someone else out for vengeance is Cropsy, the caretaker of Camp Blackfoot from 1981's The Burning.
At the start of the movie, Cropsy is the target of a harmless prank by some of the campers. By "harmless prank", we mean "they set a skull on fire and put it next to his bed".
What a jape!
Understandably alarmed by seeing a flaming skull on his bedside table. Cropsy panics, which in turn sets him and his cabin on fire. The campers flee as the caretaker perishes in the flames... or does he... no, he doesn't.
His face badly burnt from the incident, Cropsy goes on a killing spree with a pair of garden shears. At least it wasn't a hook - there's only so many of those we're allowed to mention per list.
He targets another camp and begins murdering teens in typical slasher fashion. However, rather than this being a random spree, one of the teens at the camp was part of the group that burned Cropsy in the first place!
So yeah, Cropsy was just out to give his attackers a taste of their own medicine, but instead ended up being burnt to death for real this time.
Poor guy.