From M3GAN to Candyman to A Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy Krueger, some horror movie villains ended up becoming more popular than their victims.
While most horror movies leave viewers rooting for the Final Girl to kill the villain, there are some perennially popular killers that fans can’t help but support. It is hard to create a great horror movie villain. The perfect villain needs to be scary but also entertaining. A great antagonist has to simultaneously repel viewers and also draw them in, leaving the audience cringing in terror while still coming back for more.
9 Ellie While Stephen King movie adaptations are full of sympathetic anti-villains like Carrie, the Evil Dead series is a lot more straightforward in its morality. In the Evil Dead movies, there are reasonable, decent people and the sadistic, demonic Deadites that torture and murder them. Despite this, Evil Dead Rise still managed to make viewers root for its villain Ellie. A single mother possessed by Deadites, Ellie was a force of nature.
6 Jason Voorhees Much like Freddy Krueger, Jason became the de facto lead of the Friday the 13th movies after Friday the 13th Part III introduced his iconic hockey mask. Unlike Halloween’s Michael Myers, who was always depicted as an embodiment of pure evil, Jason had a sympathetic backstory to justify his killings. Not only that, but most of the interchangeable teens that he hacked and slashed his way through were downright annoying.
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