Best Horror Movie Characters

Jason is my favorite slasher villain/character. He's strong, immortal and totally badass! And while he does have the highest body count in horror, he's not all bad. He loved his mother and it was after her death that he came back and started killing to avenge her. And considering he was bullied and drowned as a child, he's actually a killer you can sympathize with. He's both badass and unique at the same time.

Michael would destroy Jason in a fight Jason kills for revenge width means he still has feelings like fear Michael was born a killer Jason would be afraid of Michael because Michael isn't afraid of him Jason would just start crying

My all-time scariest figure. Ruthless, Cruelest, Toughest.
Just looking at his face (mask? ) can make someone's heart stop.

He is not that cruel,but I agree with ruthless and toughest.

I would have to move Michael Myers to #1. He is the original and while Jason may win 1vs1, I feel I would have a greater chance of getting away from Jason. Michael Myers will hide on the pipes on the ceiling and wait for you to turn around, completely unsuspecting and then kill you.

Who does not love him

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The thing I really loved about Nightmare on Elm Street was the fact it was an original concept of what would happen if your dreams could somehow become real! Imagine this homicidal maniac trying to kill you in those dreams!

He can come back to life in peoples nightmares and has very very sharp claws

Fred Krueger is truly evil. Both Michael and Jason has shown weakness as to where Freddy has never. Freddy simply just does not care, he killed his wife, attempted to kill has daughter and had a dire hatred for his mother. Michael showed weakness for his niece in Halloween 5 when he took of his mask for her and even shed a tear. Jason is just a big mama's boy and is scared of water lol. Chucky the doll is harder than Jason.

I believe he is the best. And Robert Englund is the only Freddy. And I love them both, or I could just say I love Robert. So confusing. But he is the greatest because he is a joker and a really scary killer and will get you in your dreams-- something unavoidable as I have said/

I can't call him a killer or psychopath...he just builds all sorts of devices to teach bad people a lesson. I think he's a good guy. I hated watching the part he gets punched and kicked around by the violent and stupid police man! I felt so sad when I continued watching and hearing his story, now I hate crackheads more than ever. But don't worry, I won't go around kidnapping people and put them in torture chambers and let them do dumb choices and get their limbs get sliced off, or burn from acid - Oldia

Jigsaw/John Kramer is creative, however he never actually kills any of his victims. He is really original and finds twisted ways to his victims to kill themselves. Unlike Michael Myers he and Jason kill people for vengeance and not because they are bored. However I think that he is more original than Jason because there isn't a horror movie character that punishes people like Jigsaw

Jigsaw is creative. Unlike most horror movie characters, does not use a machete or claws to kill people, he uses his wits, and simliar to Jason Voorhees, he generally kills people who do bad things.

He's the only horror movie killer who hasn't killed anyone. He's intelligent and says really meaningful things and in most horror movies, when the killer dies, it's over. Not in Saw. The games have only just begun. - Catlover2004

Chucky for me is very scary, he is very hard to kill

To be honest, he started off with great potential but (While I really don't mind this) his arc turned into a child vs doll thing. I really loved him in Child's Play 1 where he acted creepy and horrific. I loved him in Curse of Chucky where he reverted back to his creepy, sadistic ways. - Daviddv0601

I saw the box for this movie once when I was 4 and hid all my dolls downstairs - Queen-aholic

I haven't seen any of the child's play films but the fact the I found out a real life serial killer put his soul into chucky the "good guy" doll actually makes what I know about it less scary.

Remind me not to cross his path. - PandaMan

"I'm going to have a friend for dinner." Ya dont say. - fireinside96

He is the only one in the list who is possible in real life, so my vote goes to hl

He is very intelligent and easily capable of manipulating anyone to do his bidding. I thought he was still an anti-hero, but he still plays off as a horror villain as he brutally beats a security officer and eats the younger guy. Then he comes off with a major twist that I refuse to spoil because it is just so shocking, I wouldn't ant to ruin the experience for your reaction. And the ending, "I'm going to have an old friend for dinner." O_O - Daviddv0601

He really drops the penny in the sewers

I just watched the 2017 version of "It" and let me tell you: It. Was. AWESOME! Pennywise is scary and creepy and he seems really unique. He has this way of making you wish he never gets defeated because he is so cool and charismatic. He is also SUPER weird and has a really unsettling voice. He is my favorite Horror movie villian.

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Tim Curry is amazing - dotexe

leatherface freaks the hell out of me! he still is the best with a chainsaw - 990055njsmith

It's not just Leatherface, it's his entire cannibal family that's scary! Leatherface is just the butcher. Still though, he is one of my favourite horror villains! - Daviddv0601

He was based off a real life serial killer named Ed Gein who did wear a mask out of leather and a belt out of people's nipples.

He is actually real and scary unlike Michael Meyers Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kruger - jflan51

Alien is the best horror icon out there in my opinion.
That second mouth really does a number in the first movie!

Very cool design - blackflower

Alien is definitely one of the scariest films ever made. Maybe even the scariest. Alien creature made many shocking things with humans - Irina2932

By far, the coolest and most elegantly designed horror character

Even a scarier creature than mike and jason together - Q-ube

Really cool ability and weapon set makes him one of the strongest and best. probably not as strong as Michael or Jason or Freddy but still cool.

I don't think it should be freddy vs Jason it should be PREDATOR vs Jason

O-O scared me to death

Love this fave lol

The ghost face is defenintly my favorite,
MAN I THINK YOU STABBED ME TOO DEEP I THINK I'm DYING
i'm feeling a little woozy here

He or she guts his/ her victims. He/she can disappear without a trace. Lastly it is a new person every time so you don't know who the killer is

If we would be a villain in a horror movie we would be ghost face he watches so many scary movies and is funny and stupid and kinda clumsy worst villain but best plus started horror movies

Why is candyman not top 10 its because he's black man

Don't know because he should be number one since he's a lot more serious and captivating as well as being frightening and deadly. The character has a much more enthralling story and is more intriguing than any of the ones in the top ten right now. - PrinceZarbon

Not only is he charismatic and intelligent, but he is a cold and calculating sadist that kills the spirit while forcing the mind and body to endure untold unimaginable suffering. Whereas other movie villains kill indiscriminately and without any remorse, he finds joy on an almost sexually gratifying manner of making you wish he was a ruthless killer.

pinhead is idestructible and immortal as well as jason but he could destroy jason any day of the week and 4 times on sunday

I'm a girl and I practically want to dress up as him for Halloween

Who you callin, Pinhead"

My mom said she watched the exorcist like a couple of years ago AND SHe LOVES SCARY and I asked her about it she said she was still scared

The poor girl must have been scared too. That is if she was aware of what was happening while she was posessed. - blackflower

Whats more scary than a girl being possessed by a ghost, then having a deep voice while the bed rocks back and fourth. Shes screaming in real life! That's not acting! Plus, 9 people died on the set of this movie. It is seriously the scariest movie ever!

If you don't rank her in the top five then you don't know scary. I would put her up against any I mean any characters created today and she would and is the scariest character ever created.

It PUTS the LOTION in the BASKET! - Daviddv0601

Really? #19? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?... Norman Bates is truly one of the greatest, scariest, messed up, and most complex movie/book characters of all time. Anthony Perkins played this character really well, which makes him able to hang around with some of the great actors/actresses.

Such a complex character. You'd rarely see another character like Bates in a horror film.

The key word here is "character." While Jason Freddy and Michal are all great villains, they are for the most part one-dimensional. Norman however is one of the most interesting and complex villains of all time, due to how easily people in real life could become him.

Great twist

Love her

Her character is perfect as she seems perfectly stable at first but you can still notice a weird stigma that is unproveable up until a point where there's evidence

The hobbling scene.., need I say more? - blackflower

She is every celebrities worst nightmare.

I love her!

If only she had a friend. Then the tragedy could have been avoided - blackflower

Teacher should show this movie in class so that bullies would better think twice before doing something horribly, horribly wrong.

You go Carrie you show those bullies whose boss.

Onethey all have super strength two jason has already fought a psychic

You should never make a wish because he only grants wishes to steal your soul. Plus, you're not actually getting what you really want, more like a living nightmare.

An ancient demon who arises every 23rd spring for twenty three days. Shows absolutely no mercy, pity, remorse for his victims. Can't die has extremely high strength able to swoop down and pick anybody (can fly) makes his weapons threw bones out of victims which are really sharp. Very intelligent in human technology able to fix and operate old trucks and cars and make them reach high speeds over 100mph. Can break solid metal with his bare hands can decapitate a person without any trouble. I believe he can Mach up against any of the characters on this list could take Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy at the same time without breaking a sweat. The creepers stomps. He's been around since the time of Jesus Christ. Nothing could kill a beast that has lived for over 3500 years and still living.

He's creepy in some ways to people but not me but the movie is cool I like the movie

Because he is just the perfect vampire character absurd really cool

The grudge is literally the scariest movie I've seen, she can go anywhere you go even under you bed covers! there's no escaping the grudge, how she crawls and moves her body, she makes the ring look like a joke,

Why is she 33 really what! - DENISAE

She’s pretty creative with her kills - blackflower

The fact that I had to put him on this list is so depressing. You people don't know good horror movies.

He is pretty creepy in a good way

He is in the best horror movie ever

Here's Johnny! - Daviddv0601

One of my favorites - blackflower

Incredibly scary. - Userguy44

Samara scared the hell out of me. I couldn't watch the movie because I was afraid of watching her go out of screen.

This is probably my favorite horror movie ever.

The Phantom is mysterious and is willing to kill Raoul to be with christine. He goes around trying to hang people or put them in a trance. Pretty good stuff