12 Scariest Horror Movie Villains

He’s a man with a chainsaw and someone else’s face skinned off and stuck on top of his own. How can you not find that absolutely terrifying? Born from the infamous beginnings of the slasher genre, Leatherface has rightly terrified generations since the 70s, hanging trespassers up on his meat hooks and chainsawing strangers down the middle because what else is there to do on a farm in the middle of nowhere?

With a penchant for cutting people up and always followed by the spine-chilling buzz of his fuelled up weapon, Leatherface really is one of the scariest villains out there. That he’s classically shown as having the mind of a child and incapable of understanding his wider actions only makes everything that much more worse, as he’s had a family to raise him that way. A man taught by cannibalistic psychos how to be the ultimate killing machine really is going to be nightmarish, and that’s without mentioning his human skin craftwork projects.