10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Villains You've Never Heard Of
2. Thorn - Legacy Of Thorn (2014)
This town has allowed this to happen for at least the last half century who knows how much longer Mycho Entertainment Group is the evil brainchild of British horror auteur M.J. Dixon, existing to provide a base for his budget-but-brilliant horror franchises. Like Marvel before him, Dixon figured out that shared universes help foster dedicated fanbases. Unlike Marvel, who carefully built up a following for their characters with the Iron Man, Thor and Captain America movies, Dixon threw himself at the deep end and started with his Avengers: 2012s Slasher House, a brilliantly off-kilter high concept slice n dice with his heroine and Final Girl trapped in a locked-up building with four of the worst killers in the world. With the success of Slasher House, Dixon then set about making films starring the monsters hed introduced in the first film in the Mycho Universe franchise. The result was Legacy Of Thorn, featuring Thorn, the terrifying seven foot tall supernatural monster that made such an impression in Slasher House. A gigantic throwback to the halcyon days of Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, Thorn would appear out of nowhere every leap year on February 29th and wreak unimaginable havoc before disappearing again as the month rolled around to March. For one day every four years, no one is safe... Dixon really knows how to make a monster monstrous. This Thorn doesnt have the giant manga-inspired machetes from the first film, having to make do with two perfectly ordinary massive great machetes instead. The kill scenes are inventive, stylish and occasionally irreverent, a perfect combination with this kind of slasher flick. More importantly though, Dixons backstory is expertly played out in the films structure, with the flashbacks to Thorns last leap year slaughter taking place in reverse chronological order, the background revelations expertly played out over the films running time, lighting effects achieving separation between past and present.
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