15 Greatest Ever Horror Movie Villains
3. Ghostface (Scream)
Not necessarily one singular bad guy, but a different one each time that dons the cheap Halloween mask, Ghostface offered a radical change in the industry when he made his debut in the '90s.
Recognising the tropes of his slasher predecessors and taking a satirical outlook at the world before him, Ghostface is one of the most-well crafted spoof villains ever, purely in the sense that he functions entirely well whether you choose to take him seriously or not.
Especially under the notion that literally anyone, at anytime, can become the masked killer and utilise the legacy of a Halloween caricature to get away with it. Horror films have never been so meta.