10 Scariest Characters In Horror TV Shows
3. Marianne - Marianne
What is a classic horror creature that instils fear in the hearts of kids everywhere? Witches, I hear you say? Indeed that is true.
Marianne is a French TV show you can find on Netflix about a talented horror novelist that comes to find that the woman who haunted her childhood dreams, the woman that plagues the very novels that brought her success, is actually real. And she's pissed.
While Marianne had brought young novelist Emma fame, fortune and popularity, Emma begins the show having decided to end her book series for good. For that, Marianne is not happy.
Emma returns to her hometown, plagued by the knowledge that her tormentor is real, and that she will do just about anything to get her to write again. But returning proves that Emma will have to come across Marianne at every turn.
The witch is terrifying, possessing the people around Emma and twisting their faces into a frightening expression with bulging eyes and an unsettling smile. It's this image that truly makes Marianne haunting. And it's the things she forces her victims to do that makes her downright petrifying.
For years writers have used the trope of a wronged witch to terrify audiences, and Marianne superbly utilises it to create an unnerving evil that seems wholey original.