These are the baddies that turn our dreams into nightmares.
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Some horror villains are quite simply larger than life.
Now, enjoy EW’s ranked list of the 25 best horror villains of all time.
Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’; Kathy Bates in ‘Misery’; the Babadook in ‘The Babadook’.Credit:Orion/MGM; Columbia/Everett; IFC Films
Mr. Hyde,Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931)
Are two heads really better than one?
Kevin Jacobsen
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Ben Chapman and Julie Adams in ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’.Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
Not that he needs such an advantage when he can just slice and dice with his handy chainsaw.
“It’s a terrible day for Leatherface,” Hooper explained.
“He keeps wondering, ‘Where the hell are all these kids coming from?'“S.T.
Fredric March in ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’.Paramount Pictures/Getty
The Jigsaw Killer, theSawfranchise (2003present)
Fans, do not play a game with this man!
John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is one of the most intelligent and ruthless horror villains in history.
No spoilers here, but there’s only one way out of Jigsaw’s trap: a saw.
The Babadook in ‘The Babadook’.IFC Films
“I had a car payment or two that I needed to make,” Bell explained.S.T.
Lawrence “Larry” Talbot a.k.a.
Sadly,Ankers didn’t get along with Chaney, but their onscreen chemistry still comes across.
Gunnar Hansen in ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’.Everett Collection
However, it’s hard to reason with a werewolf behind all of Jack Pierce’s fantastic movie makeup.S.T.
Sadako Yamamura/Samara,Ringu(1998) andThe Ring(2002)
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“Seven days.”
1 fan” takes him to her home and tends to his wounds.
Tobin Bell in ‘Saw’.Everett
Chaney was a brilliant actor, and he was dubbed “a Man of a Thousand Faces.”
He garnered the moniker because of his unique and complex makeup whichhe himself designed and applied.
Chaney’s makeup kit still survives to this day, preserved at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.S.T.
Lon Chaney Jr. in ‘The Wolf Man’.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty
“I have these extraordinary lines and this wonderful language,” Bradley said.
The Invisible Man,The Invisible Man(1933)
Now, you see him…now you die!
Unfortunately, the scientist’s groundbreaking method for becoming invisible is slowly driving him wild.
Daveigh Chase in ‘The Ring’.DreamWorks/Everett
AnotherFrankensteinalum, Colin Clive, was then approached by Whale, but he also turned down the part.
Anyone is fair game!
Besides giving birth to one of the most powerful horror villains of all time,Jawsbecame thefirst summer blockbuster.
Kathy Bates in ‘Misery’.Columbia Pictures/Everett
Today, all the big movies open during the summertime, butJawswas the trendsetter.
In preparing for the audition, Spacek claims to have deliberately arrived to read for the role all disheveled.
All his iterations have one thing in common, though: Jason cannot be killed.
Lon Chaney in ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.John Kobal Foundation/Getty
Of course, Pennywise merely presents himself (itself?)
A symbol of nuclear destruction, Godzilla trampled Japan and scorched it with his fiery, atomic breath.
No, the King of the Monsters unleashes his fiery breath on the man and incinerates him instead.S.T.
Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist’.Everett
Just killing the Elm Street children wasn’t good enough for Krueger.
Ghostface, theScreamfranchise (1996present)
“What’s your favorite scary movie?”
Don’t answer that question over the phone, because this is Ghostface’s trademark taunt.
Doug Bradley in ‘Hellraiser’.Everett Collection
Well, $320,000 to be exact.
Count Dracula, theDraculafilms (1931present)
Dracula is the most influential horror villain of all time.
“I wanted to play Stoker’s character,” Lee explained.
Claude Rains in ‘The Invisible Man’.Bettmann/Getty
“It wasn’t remotely like the book.
‘Jaws’.Everett Collection
Sissy Spacek in ‘Carrie’.Everett Collection
Richard Brooker in ‘Friday the 13th Part III’.Everett
Bill Skarsgård in ‘It’.Brooke Palmer/Warner Bros.
King Ghidorah and Godzilla in ‘Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah’.Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett
Robert Englund in ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’.Everett Collection
Ghostface in ‘Scream’.Everett
Tony Todd in ‘Candyman’.Everett Collection
Nick Castle in ‘Halloween’.Compass International Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty
Anthony Perkins in ‘Psycho’.Paramount Pictures/Getty
Boris Karloff in ‘Frankenstein’.Silver Screen Collection/Getty
Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.Orion
Bela Lugosi in ‘Dracula’.Everett Collection
