10 Terrifying Horror Movie Villains Ruined By Terrible Backstories

1974's Black Christmas is one of the first examples of the slasher genre starting to find its place in the horror world, with the Canadian film finding the exact formula needed to bring even the most of goriest of kills to audience's own neighbourhoods rather than just out in the middle of nowhere.

As well as the uneasy sensation of seeing a mass murderer hard at work in an area pretty much anyone watching could see themselves living, what made Black Christmas so striking was how it kept the identity of the killer hidden from the audience all the way throughout. Not only did this lend the film with the paranoid feeling of a whodunnit, but it also allowed director Bob Clark to get creative with zoom ins on the killer's eyes, back or just concentrating all the camera's focus on his gruesome kills.

The 2006 film of the same name is practically a remake of the original, but does attempt to provide something new by ruining all the mystery and suspense of the killer in the original, a man named Billy, and showing off everything about his hellish upbringing.

Granted there's never too much originality in a remake, but this sudden backstory, that no one asked for, literally takes away possibly the best part about the original film that said remake owes its entire existence to.