There have been some seriously iconic characters in horror movies - The horribly burnt dream demon Freddy Krueger, the hockey mask-wearing Jason Voorhees, the eerie Michael Myers and the horrific Pinhead. But for every terrifying horror figure, there are countless ridiculous examples. Quite how some writers come up with some of these ideas is beyond me, and what makes them possibly think that these characters will be scary is baffling, but they're out there nonetheless. Animals, food, vehicles, appliances... you name it, there's a horror villain out there to represent it and, in this article, we'll have a look at a few of the weirder examples. Here are ten incredibly weird horror movie villains...
10. Tomatoes (Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes)
This film, in its opening sequence, had the audacity to compare itself to the birds, as words scroll on the screen saying that, when Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' was released, people laughed at the notion of birds as horror characters - yet no one laughed when birds really did attack humans at some point in 1975. Of course, the ridiculousness of this comparison is twofold; First, birds can actually attack humans, given that they are living creatures. Second, The Birds was an excellent piece of cinema while this movie was a steaming pile of crap. Anyway, after a ludicrous sequence of events in which tomatoes kill people on land and in water (in a parody of Jaws), it turns out that the President's press secretary Jim Richardson is behind the tomatoes and uses a song - 'Puberty Love' - to control them. Honestly, it's just too tedious and ridiculous to even talk about...