15 Worst Horror Villains Of All Time
The bad, the worse and Troll 2.
Iconic screen bogeymen - Myers, Krueger et al - force us to watch through fingers clamped over our eyes, while we breathlessly await their next act of onscreen savagery. If exposed to their antics at an impressionable age, youll be afraid of the dark for the rest of your life. At the other end of the scale, however, there are horror movie villains that force us to ask such important questions as Why am I watching this? and How the hell did this get made and did they think theyd get away with it? Horror is one of the hardest genres to get right and one of the easiest to screw up, and nothing spells disaster like an antagonist who either puts the audience to sleep or has them laughing in the aisles. When we should be getting worked up, with our palms moistening and our knuckles tightening, were yawning because weve been here before. Anyone who sat through the Prom Night remake knows what Im talking about. Every so often, a filmmaker will go out of their way to create an antagonist so fearsome, and fail so spectacularly, that their efforts beg that age old question, What on earth were you thinking? There are many epic fails listed here, plus a few snorers. Youll have no difficulty deciding which is which.