10 Horror Movies Where The Monster Isn't The Villain

In Michael Dougherty's Halloween anthology, the town of Warren Valley is home to ghosts, werewolves, and a pumpkin-faced spirit called Sam. On the surface, these dark fiends should be villains, since they torment, hunt, and kill anyone who crosses their path.

However, it's impossible not to root for this horrid bunch, since every person they slaughter had it coming. (Except the woman in the opening. She got a raw deal.)

Sam tortures a curmudgeon, Kreeg, seemingly because he doesn't like Halloween. Even though Kreeg is a grump, his punishment seems a tad overkill. But after it's revealed Kreeg drove a bus full of children into a quarry to drown them, any sympathy for him dries up in an instant.

Elsewhere, when a horde of bloodthirsty werewolves rip apart a child-murderer, all viewers see is a scumbag getting his well-earned comeuppance. And after a group of trick-or-treaters play a cruel joke on a kid who's implied to have learning difficulties, it feels like pure karma when they're abandoned and left at the mercy of the undead.

The supernatural creatures in Trick 'r Treat may be monsters, but their victims were much, much worse.