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

8. Simon - Session 9 (2001)

€œI live in the weak and the wounded€€ Brad Anderson€™s underrated chiller is set in the decaying remains of the real life Danvers State Hospital. That€™s the Massachusetts lunatic asylum that inspired H.P. Lovecraft€™s Arkham sanatorium, which in turn gave its name and evil vibes to Batman€™s Arkham Asylum. Quite a pedigree - and Session 9 more than lives up it. A group of asbestos removal men are sent to the abandoned hospital to€ well, remove asbestos, but hear spooky noises and whispers coming from the tunnels beneath the estate. When one of them men recovers a box containing tapes of the hypnotherapy sessions conducted with one of the more bizarre patients, a murderer with dissociative identity disorder, things begin to get ugly really quickly. So far, so predictable€ but the genius of Session 9 isn€™t in the story being told, but the things that aren€™t said. Everything appears askew, curdled: the angles are slightly off, the blocking of each scene is weirdly placed, the banter between the workmen is tense and forced, the building and its environs are both claustrophobic and open plan at the same time. And then there€™s those tapes€ Mary Hobbes killed her entire family when she was fourteen years old. One persona, the Princess, is sweet and childlike while another, Billy, tries to protect her from remembering things that might distress her, like a big brother. To do so, he €œlives in the eyes€ - he sees everything, and then choose what to tell the Princess. That€™s why Billy€™s the only one who knows about Simon€ Simon, who scares Billy half to death, and who is inevitably responsible for what happens to the workmen at the abandoned asylum. The jury€™s out as to whether €˜Simon€™ is even an individual entity at all. One theory has it that it€™s just the name that Mary gave to her homicidal impulse, and that a separate homicidal impulse causes the deaths at the site€ but then why does it talk in Simon€™s voice? A stylistic conceit€ or is Simon possessing him as he possessed little Mary Hobbes? Whatever the case, his bruised, slightly upper class voice on that final tape describing the horror he put Mary through is harrowing as all hell, and that€™s nothing compared to the events he orchestrates in the film itself. Poor, poor Peter Mullan.