Halloween no longer feels like a single date on the calendar. The whole month of October is full of discount candy aisles at megamarts, haunted house attractions (many opening their doors on October 1st), and a significant increase in featured horror movies on television and our preferred digital streaming services.
And while that’s not all bad, it’s not exactly all good. Not all horror movies are created equally, nor are all horror movie antagonists created equally. In some cases it can be fun – like when you know you’re watching a B-movie horror (and its even more fun when the producers and directors of those movies know and embrace that they’re making a B-movie). But its pretty sad and self-defeating when a horror movie attempts to scare you with a big-bad and he/she/it falls flat.
So I’m treating you to two lists this week aimed at pointing you towards some reliable horror movie material. This first one focuses on horror movie antagonists that were at some point real people, even if they are no longer so. The next list will focus on monsters, aliens, and other entities that have no historical claim to once being human.
Here are my Top 7 Horror Movie Villains (in no particular order):