10 MORE Ridiculous Horror Movie Villains That Shouldn’t Have Worked… But Did

A forgotten gem of Ryan Reynolds admittedly less than impressive filmography, The Voices offers a killer thriller with a twist: the main character is the villain. Average factory worker Jerry Hickfang (Reynolds) proves himself to be anything but when he goes off his meds and hallucinates his way to multiple murders, assisted by talking animals and the talking dead - all products of his fractured imagination.

Schizophrenics in cinema are old hat, usually deployed as a worn and potentially offensive trope designed to serve some larger plot function, and usually the villain of the piece. In The Voices, Jerry is just that, but he's kind of also the good guy, with his dog and cat adopting the classic angel and devil-on-the-shoulder function, vying to tip the scales in the favour of good and bad respectively. 

As both protagonist and antagonist, we understands Jerry's motives, we understand his conflicts, and we sympathise with him even when he's enacting bloody murder. The fact that he is something of an average Joe humanises him and, rather than be a mere plot trigger, his mental illness (while fantastical) is given sincere roots in the trauma of his past. As if all that wasn't enough, the film ends with Jerry, his dead parents, the people he murdered and Jesus (who else?) performing a disco song and dance number in a white void that just might be heaven.