10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Villains You've Never Heard Of

9. Keller McGavin - A Bothered Conscience (2006)

"The difference between me and most? I will live in the land of legends forever." For two decades, the McGavins have protected their land from poachers and trespassers any which way they pleased, and there are graves filled to bursting with burned and blackened corpses to prove it. The local police have always had their suspicions... but a different kind of law rules the backwoods of rural Arkansas. After his stark, terrifying father Keller McGavin is killed by a relative of a man he cut down years before, his son Lucas is charged with protecting his family's land from interlopers. But Lucas isn't made of the stuff his father was... and it seems that the dead aren't as afraid of him as they were of old Keller... First time writer/director Dennis Smithers Jnr. spent only $2,300 making this, his first ever feature film, and in partnership with veteran sound and editing maven Doug Johnson, put together a genuinely gripping, creepy and occasionally moving horror flick with a cracking surprise ending. But it€™s a film held together by the presence, and then absence, of Smithers€™ father in the role of Keller McMavin. McGavin Senior wasn€™t - and still isn€™t - an actor, but it€™s hard to imagine anyone better in the role of a near feral mountain man, harder than stone and twice as bleak. War veteran Keller McGavin isn€™t some maniac outdoorsman, like the psycho in Wolf Creek, and he€™s not some inbred redneck like the men in Deliverance. He€™s protecting his property from anyone - man woman or child - who sets foot upon it, and doing so with casually lethal force, just as he€™d hunt for game. Cold-blooded and fiercer than any of the wild things in the Arkansas hills, Keller will end you if you stray onto his land.