Who is the most iconic horror villain?

1. Michael Myers. This should come as no surprise. The name Michael Myers is practically synonymous with horror slasher films, and his 1978 character from "Halloween" has spawned countless sequels.
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Who is the most evil horror villain?

10 Most Dangerous Horror Movie Villains, Ranked
  • 8 HANNIBAL LECTER.
  • 7 JIGSAW.
  • 6 MICHAEL MYERS.
  • 5 JASON VOORHEES.
  • 4 FREDDY KRUEGER.
  • 3 PINHEAD AND THE CENOBITES.
  • 2 PREDATORS.
  • 1 XENOMORPHS.
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Who is the most iconic horror icon?

The 10 Most Iconic Horror Movie Villains
  • Chucky – Child's Play. ...
  • Jigsaw – Saw. ...
  • Pinhead – Hellraiser. ...
  • Norman Bates – Psycho. ...
  • Hannibal Lecter – The Silence of the Lambs. ...
  • Leatherface – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ...
  • Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th. ...
  • Freddy Krueger – Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Who is the most popular slasher villain?

Best Slasher #1 - Michael Myers (Halloween, 1978)

Beyond John Carpenter's filmmaking, there are a few reasons why Myers is the ultimate slasher. One, he has no gimmick (he wears a William Shatner mask, but how frightening is that?). Two, he's unstoppable.
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Who is the most famous movie villain?

The Greatest Villains Of All Time
  • Nurse Ratched.
  • The Sheriff of Nottingham. ...
  • Palpatine. ...
  • Norman Bates. Psycho (1960) ...
  • Agent Smith. The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003) ...
  • Freddy Krueger. The Nightmare On Elm Street series (1984-2010) ...
  • T-1000. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) ...
  • Michael Myers. Halloween series (1978-2018) ...
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Top 10 Scariest Horror Villains



Who is the evilest villain ever?

The Joker & The 9 Most Evil Movie Villains Of All Time, Ranked
  1. 1 Amon Göth (Schindler's List)
  2. 2 John Doe (Se7en) ...
  3. 3 Hannibal Lecter (The Silence Of The Lambs) ...
  4. 4 Joker. ...
  5. 5 Norman Bates (Psycho) ...
  6. 6 Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds) ...
  7. 7 Sauron (The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy) ...
  8. 8 Voldemort (The Harry Potter Series) ...
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Who is the OG slasher?

10 Jigsaw, or John Kramer (The Saw Franchise)

John Kramer is the original Jigsaw Killer, the slasher villain in the Saw franchise. Though Jigsaw becomes a legacy character, John Kramer is the original, and so he's most often the one that comes to horror movie fans' minds.
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Who is the weakest horror killer?

Weakest Horror Movie Monsters We Could Easily Escape From
  • 3 Dracula (Hammer Horror Series)
  • 4 Samara (The Ring, 2002) ...
  • 5 Eebee (Evil Bong, 2006) ...
  • 6 Chucky (Child's Play, 1998) ...
  • 7 Millard Findlemyer (The Gingerdead Man, 2005) ...
  • 8 Jack Frost (Jack Frost, 1997) ...
  • 9 Jaws/Bruce (Jaws, 1975) ...
  • 10 The Leprechaun (Leprechaun, 1993) ...
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Who would win Michael Myers or Jason?

Both serial killers are extremely strong and durable, capable of taking umpteen amounts of punishment. But while Myers is still a freak of nature, Jason can easily win this fight. Jason is physically stronger than Myers and can take more damage.
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Who is the scariest character ever?

Scariest movie characters for Halloween
  • Ghostface (“Scream”) ...
  • Jason Voorhees (“Friday the 13th”) ...
  • Freddy Krueger (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”) ...
  • Michael Myers (“Halloween”) ...
  • The Shark (“Jaws”) ...
  • Norman Bates (“Psycho”) ...
  • Hannibal Lecter (“The Silence of the Lambs”) ...
  • Regan MacNeil (“The Exorcist”)
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Who is the oldest horror character?

Examples of early horror icons began with the Werewolf or Lycanthrope introduced in the 1500s, the Frankenstein monster as introduced by Mary Shelley in 1818, and Dracula introduced into literature in 1897 by Bram Stoker.
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Who was the first horror movie killer?

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is sometimes described as the mother of all slasher films. Although there are only two murders in the film, the idea of a disguised and insane killer came to prominence with this film.
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How many kills does Michael Myers have?

Michael Myers is the main antagonist of the Halloween franchise and one of the longest-living killers in the horror genre. Over the course of 8 movies (Excluding Rob Zombie Remakes) Michael has killed 92 people.
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Who could beat Jason Voorhees?

Pinhead from Hellraiser

Physically imposing and hideously evil, Pinhead would utilize every evil trick in the book, ripping into Jason with chains, siccing his fellow cenobites on him, and just tearing Jason Voorhees a new one before dragging him into his realm.
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Who is the oldest slasher?

1. Peeping Tom (1960) Released in 1960, the same year as Psycho, Peeping Tom has been endlessly compared to it ever since. Both have been argued to be the first slasher.
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Who is the best horror slasher?

Michael Myers

It's hard to argue against Michael Myers as the best slasher killer of all time. After all, he's the one that launched the genre craze. And while it's been argued for years who deserved the honors between him, Freddy, and Jason, the answer is simple.
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Who is the king of slashers?

Jason Voorhees, one of the most iconic slasher villains of our time, may have debuted on screen 40 years ago, but the franchise is still alive and relatively well. In fact, Jason has graced our screen a whopping 12 times, in various films, as well as a couple of video games.
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Who is baddest character in the world?

Which is also why our list below does not include all iconic villains, just the truly horrendous ones.
  1. Amy Dunne - Gone Girl. ...
  2. Esther - Orphan. ...
  3. Joker - The Dark Knight. ...
  4. Hannibal Lecter - Red Dragon. ...
  5. Raman - Raman Raghav 2.0. ...
  6. Rahul Mehra - Darr: A Violent Love Story. ...
  7. Amon Goeth - Schindler's List.
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Who is Disney's most evil villain?

The Top 10 Disney Villains of All Time
  • Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians) ...
  • Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) ...
  • Jafar (Aladdin) ...
  • Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) ...
  • The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) ...
  • Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) ...
  • Hades (Hercules) ...
  • Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
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What are female villains called?

A female villain is sometimes called a villainess. Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot".
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Who is the most powerful horror character?

20 Most Powerful Horror Movie Villains, Ranked
  1. 1 Kayako - The Grudge.
  2. 2 Death - Final Destination. ...
  3. 3 The Xenomorph - Alien. ...
  4. 4 The Monster - It Follows. ...
  5. 5 Pennywise - IT. ...
  6. 6 The Demon - Annabelle. ...
  7. 7 Sadako - The Ring. ...
  8. 8 Candyman - Candyman. ...
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Who is the best villain ever written?

40 of the Best Villains in Literature
  • Mitsuko, Quicksand, Junichiro Tanizaki. ...
  • Mr. ...
  • Infertility, The Children of Men, P. D. James. ...
  • The shark, Jaws, Peter Benchley. ...
  • The kid, The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein. ...
  • Professor Moriarty, “The Final Problem,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
  • Mrs. ...
  • Vanity, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
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What is the most iconic slasher movie?

25 Essential Slasher Movies
  • #8. Friday the 13th (1980) 63% #8. ...
  • #7. Stranger in the House (1974) 71% #7. ...
  • #6. Dressed to Kill (1980) 79% #6. ...
  • #5. Terror at the Opera (1987) 91% #5. ...
  • #4. Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) 86% #4. ...
  • #3. Scream (1996) 79% #3. ...
  • #2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 95% #2. ...
  • #1. Halloween (1978) 96% #1.
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What was the 1st slasher movie?

Most importantly for filmmaking in general, Psycho is considered by many to be the first slasher movie, and the success of this film spurred a whole series of slasher films in the near future, ultimately opening the door for the subgenre's golden era, the extremely blood eighties.
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