10 Worst Horror Movie Villains To Be Killed By

A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is a fiendish combination of capable and cruel, given how aggressively and creatively he stacks the deck against his victims.

Far from a garden variety killer of defenseless teens, Freddy hunts his victims in their dreams, preying upon them when they're asleep. 

There, they're trapped within his domain and he can spawn basically anything his imagination conjures to torture and eventually kill them.

Though you're generally safe from Freddy in the waking world, the fact that every human being needs to sleep in order to survive makes him a uniquely intrusive monster, one who thrives on exploiting one of the most basic requirements for our survival.

Beyond that, he doesn't afford quick deaths for most of his victims, often subjecting them to inventively nasty executions which might even incorporate some of their deepest, darkest fears.

And because the prospect of a dream demon killing people seems ridiculous to the world at large, when your corpse is eventually discovered, folk are most likely going to assume you did it to yourself, ensuring a unique dose of trauma for your grieving loves ones.

And if that's all somehow still not bad enough, later sequels also reveal that Freddy absorbs the souls of everyone he kills to gain power, so even once he's finished you off, the torment continues in perpetuity.