15 Worst Horror Villains Of All Time

11. Dr Burke (Mark Rolston) - Asylum (2008)

While the lights flicker, a group of students, eager to learn why their campus has a high mortality rate, listen to the story of Dr Burke. You see, their dorm was previously a mental institution (of course) where schizophrenic kids were cured by an icepick through the eyeball, but when the doc€™s methods were for some reason discredited, he had a nervous breakdown, began murdering his patients and ultimately got his just desserts. However, the doc still roams the corridors as one of those sub-Freddy Krueger boogeymen whose abilities don€™t need to be explained. Somehow able to lure his victims into a dream world populated by their personal demons, Burke kills them one by one in accordance with their troubled pasts: an abused girl is decapitated by her psychotic ex, the fat kid has his tongue torn out, and so on. Burke must be a huge Krueger fan because he has Ol€™ Pizzaface€™s act down cold, from his ability to appear at random to his predilection for killing whiney teenagers in the most over the top fashion possible. He€™s even outsmarted by the Final Girl, who despatches him with the zinger, €œGive me your suffering, motherf**ker!€
 
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'