10 Horror Movie Villains Who KILLED Other Villains

You could argue that there is more importance put on villains in the horror genre than anywhere else across Hollywood. Here, more than anywhere else, the antagonist is the figure who keeps audiences coming back for more. Sure, there may be final girls and recurring heroes aplenty, but villains rule the roost in most horror franchises, whether it's Michael Myers and Halloween, Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, or Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

This emphasis on all things evil can also enable the genre to plunge deeper than just the standard good vs evil story. Horror movie heroes have killed heroes, heroes have killed villains, villains have killed heroes, and there are even moments when villains have killed other villains.

This could be down to revenge, alien instinct, a fallout between one-time allies, or very rarely to seemingly help their own enemy.

Giants of the genre and lesser known antagonists alike have found themselves opposite another bad guy, for the moment forgetting the war they were waging on the story's protagonist, and have either pulled the trigger, plunged the knife, or locked the dungeon behind them on their way out...

Throughout the Saw franchise, John Kramer (Tobin Bell) never picked his targets randomly, there was a reason why each and every victim found themselves in the predicament that they did. Some of them had done bad things, but they certainly weren't the villains of the story as Kramer saw them.

Until one, that is.

Kramer was killed by Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) in Saw III, which saw Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes), one of the involuntary participants from the first game back in Saw, take his place. Though he had been assisting the Jigsaw killer for years, he wasn't the only one.

Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) had also wanted to continue the work of Kramer, which ultimately put him on a collision course with Gordon, thanks to Kramer's instructions for the latter. If anything were to happen to Kramer's ex-wife, Gordon was to exact revenge, which he did after she was killed by Hoffman.

In what was a rather poetic and full circle moment for the now villainous Gordon, he had Hoffman abducted and restrained in the same bathroom he had found himself in years earlier. He didn't task his victim with an elaborate game, or even give him a way out. Instead, he simply left the room, leaving Hoffman to rot just like Adam (Leigh Whannell), whose corpse still lay there from the events of the first franchise installment.