List of horror film villains
The following is an alphabetical list of horror film villains.
A
B
- Baragon (Frankenstein Conquers the World)[1]
- Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) – Christian Bale[2][3]
- Norman Bates (Psycho franchise) - Anthony Perkins, Vince Vaughn
- Billy[4] (Black Christmas and the 2006 remake) - Bob Clark, Albert J. Dunk, Nick Mancuso, Robert Mann, Cainan Wiebe
- Billy the Puppet (Saw and its sequels) – Tobin Bell
- Biollante (Godzilla vs. Biollante)
C
- Max Cady (Cape Fear) - Robert Mitchum, Robert De Niro
- Billy Chapman (Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise) – Robert Brian Wilson
- Clover (Cloverfield)
- The Creeper (Jeepers Creepers) - (Jonathan Breck).
D
- Daimajin (Daimajin and its sequels) - Chikara Hashimoto
- Jerry Dandrige (Fright Night) - Chris Sarandon (Colin Farrell in the 2011 remake)
- Destoroyah (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
- Francis Dolarhyde a.k.a. The Tooth Fairy (Manhunter and Red Dragon) - Tom Noonan, Ralph Fiennes
E
F
G
- Gamera (Gamera, the Giant Monster) - Teruo Aragaki
- Ghostface (Scream franchise) - Dane Farwell (stunts), Roger L. Jackson (voice)
- Gigan (Godzilla vs. Gigan)
- Godzilla - (Gojira) - Haruo Nakajima
- Gorosaurus (King Kong Escapes)
- Graboid (Tremors)
- Jamie "Jame" Gumb a.k.a. "Buffalo Bill"[5] (The Silence of the Lambs) - Ted Levine
H
- Hedorah (Godzilla vs. Hedorah)
- Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog (Dead Snow) - Ørjan Gamst
- Mark Hoffman (Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D) - Costas Mandylor
I
- Igor (Universal Classic Monsters)
- Imhotep (The Mummy and its sequels) - Boris Karloff
J
K
- Kamacuras (Son of Godzilla)
- Kharis (The Mummy's Hand and its sequels) - Tom Tyler, Lon Chaney Jr.
- King Ghidorah (Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster)
- King Kong (King Kong) - Willis H. O'Brien
- John Kramer a.k.a. Jigsaw (Saw franchise) - Tobin Bell
- Freddy Krueger[6] a.k.a. The Springwood Slasher (A Nightmare on Elm Street) - Robert Englund, Jackie Earle Haley
- Kumonga (Son of Godzilla)
L
- Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) - Andrew Bryniarski, Gunnar Hansen, R. A. Mihailoff
- Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs and its sequels) - Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Gaspard Ulliel
- Lester Lowe (Silver Bullet) - Everett McGill
M
- Manda (Atragon)
- Mechagodzilla (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
- Mechani-Kong (King Kong Escapes)
- Megaguirus (Godzilla vs. Megaguirus)
- Megalon (Godzilla vs. Megalon)
- Mictlāntēcutli (El Muerto)
- Moguera (The Mysterians)
- MUTO (Godzilla)
- Michael Myers (Halloween) - George P. Wilbur, Tyler Mane, Nick Castle, Don Shanks, Bradley Loree, James Jude Courtney.
N
O
- Orga (Godzilla 2000)
- Count Orlok (Nosferatu) - Max Schreck
P
- Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk till Dawn) - Salma Hayek
- Rhoda Penmark (The Bad Seed and its 1985/2018 remakes) - Patty McCormack, Mckenna Grace, Blair Brown
- Pennywise the Dancing Clown (It and its 2017/2019 remakes) - Tim Curry, Bill Skarsgård
- Pinhead[7] a.k.a. Captain Elliott Spencer (Hellraiser and its sequels) - Doug Bradley
- David Powers (The Lost Boys) - Kiefer Sutherland
- Predator (Predator) - Kevin Peter Hall, Ian Whyte, Brian Steele, Carey Jones, Derek Mears
Q
R
- Charles Lee Ray a.k.a. Chucky[8] (Child's Play franchise) - Brad Dourif, Mark Hamill
- Rodan (Rodan)
- Daniel Robitaille a.k.a. "the Candyman" (Candyman and its sequels) - Tony Todd
S
- Kayako Saeki, Toshio Saeki (The Grudge) - Takako Fuji, Yuya Ozeki
- Slappy the Dummy (Goosebumps) - Jack Black
- Slender Man (Slender Man) - Javier Botet
- SpaceGodzilla (Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla)
- Captain Spaulding a.k.a. Mr. Ding Dong a Bo-Bo/Johnny Lee Johns/James Cutter (House of 1000 Corpses) - Sid Haig
- Emma Spool (Psycho II) - Claudia Bryar
T
- Larry Talbot (The Wolf Man) Lon Chaney Jr., Benicio del Toro
- Ed Thompson (Fright Night) - Stephen Geoffreys, Christopher Mintz-Plasse in the 2011 remake
- Damien Thorn (The Omen) - Harvey Spencer Stephens[9]
- Titanosaurus (Terror of Mechagodzilla)
- Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) - Johnny Depp
- Jack Torrance (The Shining) - Jack Nicholson
- Tall Man (Phantasm) - Angus Scrimm
U
V
- Tiffany Valentine[10] (Bride of Chucky and its sequels) - Jennifer Tilly
- Varan (Varan the Unbelievable)
- Mason Verger (Hannibal) - Gary Oldman
- Jason Voorhees[11] (Friday the 13th Part 2 and its sequels) - Kane Hodder, C. J. Graham, Ken Kirzinger, Derek Mears
- Pamela Voorhees (Friday the 13th) - Betsy Palmer, Marilyn Poucher, Paula Shaw, Nana Visitor
W
- Harry Warden a.k.a. The Miner[12] (My Bloody Valentine) - Peter Cowper, Richard John Walters
- Annie Wilkes[13] (Misery) - Kathy Bates
X
Y
- Sadako Yamamura (Ring) - Rie Inō
- Ygor (Son of Frankenstein and The Ghost of Frankenstein) - Bela Lugosi
- Yonggary - (Yongary, Monster from the Deep) - Cho Kyoung-min
- Amanda Young[14] (Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw VI) - Shawnee Smith
Z
- Zilla[15] (Godzilla)
- Frank Zito (Maniac and its 2012 remake)
- Zombietoid (Dollman vs. Demonic Toys)
See also
- List of comedy horror films
- List of natural horror films
- List of horror anime
- Lists of horror films
- List of horror video games
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- ^ "Where in the Horror are they Now? The Cast of My Bloody Valentine (1981)!". JoBlo Movie Network. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ AFI list of 100 heroes and villains
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