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

3. Mahogany - The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

€œStep away from the meat€€ Taken from Clive Barker€™s short story of the same name, The Midnight Meat Train was a lovely surprise when it was released in 2008: a faithful adaptation that also worked like gangbusters in getting across the core ideas of the story, while becoming a quality little horror movie in its own right. Vinnie Jones is, for once, perfectly cast in as a character other than a small time gangster, football hooligan or other barely articulate thug. Jones plays Mahogany, a New York butcher with a secret life as an unstoppable, near-supernatural serial killer. Jones doesn€™t have to worry about wrapping his gums around tricky lines here, and there€™s not a vast amount of emoting required. But that€™s being unnecessarily harsh, because he does here what the similarly limited Arnold Schwarzenegger did in The Terminator. Mahogany€™s impact doesn€™t just come with his killings. It comes with every second his stiff, thousand yard stare is on screen, or in the set of those shoulders, the pace of his steady, pitiless walk. Jones has all of that down pat, and has only one line in the whole movie, so the rest of his limitations as an actor don€™t ever come into it. It€™s a brilliant performance, in the end. It shouldn€™t be, but it€™s right up there on the screen: Mahogany is bloody terrifying. Even at the end, when hero Bradley Cooper is taking him on, weapon to weapon, in the tunnels under the city, he€™s magnetic, hypnotic: fully intent on delivering the meat to his lizard masters. Yeah, seriously. Lizard masters.