20 Greatest Horror Villains Of The 2020s (So Far)

The Evil Dead franchise has served up its fair share of unforgettable Deadite villains, but it well and truly outdid itself with Evil Dead Rise and its central antagonist, the Deadite-possessed Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland).

For starters, actress Alyssa Sutherland's incredibly striking looks make her appear positively diabolic in Deadite form, to say nothing of her bracingly intense physical performance, making her one of the most viscerally terrifying antagonists in the entire franchise.

In the Deadite tradition Ellie also has a ton of fun mocking both her sister Beth (Lily Sullivan) and her three children, chillingly telling her kids, "Mommy's with the maggots now."

And even for the standards of Deadites, Ellie is mean, given that she ultimately causes the deaths of two of her three children, leaving behind only her youngest daughter, Kassie (Nell Fisher).

As such there's an obvious under-layer of tragedy to all this, that Ellie's body is hijacked and perverted to such depraved ends, and so when she's finally fed into a woodchipper at the end, it feels like a huge mercy.