20 Best Horror Movie Kills of 2025
3. Gladys - Weapons
But has there been a more detestable horror villain this year than Aunt Gladys (Amy Madigan) from Weapons?
The parasitic witch responsible for the disappearance of the town's missing children and the deaths of many subsequent adults thankfully gets her just desserts at the film's end, and it's absolutely perfect.
In the bonkers climax, Gladys' nephew Alex (Cary Christopher) weaponises Gladys' enchantment abilities against her, taking a strand of her hair from her wig and casting his own enchantment. This leads to an outrageous sequence in which the children under Gladys' control are now turned against her, effectively acting as heat-seeking missiles who make a beeline straight for her.
All Gladys can do is try to run while the kids frantically give chase, diving through windows and anything else that gets in their way until they finally tackle her to the ground and rip her apart, in turn freeing themselves of her influence.
It's a death scene that's at once immensely satisfying, outrageously violent, and above all else absurdly hilarious - a tricky balance to strike, but Zach Cregger absolutely nailed it.