20 Greatest Horror Villains Of The 2020s (So Far)
7. Brendan - Fresh
An easy way for a horror villain to well and truly stick with audiences is for them to cast an actor wildly against type, and that's precisely what happened with Sebastian Stan's Brendan in Fresh.
Brendan is introduced as "Steve," a charming hunk who has a chance encounter with the romantically disillusioned Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones), causing a whirlwind romance to ensue.
But of course, if something seems too good to be true it usually is, and Steve is actually the worst in a long line of trash men Noa has dated.
In this case, Steve/Brendan happens to be a cannibal who imprisons Noa in order to surgically remove the meat from her body to sell to wealth cannibals. Yup.
That's quite a turnaround from Marvel fan favourite Bucky Barnes, and Stan gives a sublimely creepy performance in the role of a man who clearly relishes every second of his nauseating vocation.
Though it's all too relieving when Brendan is finally killed at film's end, Stan gives such a riotously entertaining turn that you might actually miss him a little bit.