AVClub.com ranked the 40 greatest horror movie villains of all time. To make it simpler, they disqualified animals, sorry “Jaws” and “Cujo”.
Here are the Top 20:
1. Freddy Krueger from the “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movies
2. Michael Myers from the “Halloween” movies
3. Chucky from the “Child’s Play” and “Chucky” movies
4. The Xenomorph from the “Alien” movies
5. Jason Voorhees from the “Friday the 13th” movies
6. Dracula
7. Ghostface from the “Scream” movies
8. The Thing from John Carpenter’s “The Thing”
9. Regan MacNeil / the demon Pazuzu from “The Exorcist”
10. Norman Bates from the “Psycho” movies
11. John Kramer / Jigsaw from the “Saw” movies
12. Dr. Hannibal Lecter from “The Silence of the Lambs”
13. Pennywise from “IT”
14. Pinhead from the “Hellraiser” movies
15. Leatherface from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movies
16. The Predator from the “Predator” movies
17. Jack Torrance from “The Shining” (Since he’s possessed, does that still qualify him as a villain?)
18. Carrie White from “Carrie” (Is she the real villain of her movie? Or is she just a victim of bullying?)
19. Frankenstein
20. M3GAN from “M3GAN”
(You can see the complete list at AVClub.com.)
