A look at the best horror villain origin stories, including Chucky, Freddy Krueger, Jigsaw, Annabelle, and more.
Everyone's got a story. Some of those stories are just more terrifying than others. From Freddy Krueger to Jigsaw, here are the best horror villain origin stories.— not showing the shark. Still, there are a lot of ways to skin a cat. Other films opt to lay it all bare, betting that the film can show youIn that latter category, we get a lot of origin stories for the horrors at the center of the scariest films.
Child's Play, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky, Child's PlaySome origin stories are painfully dumb. That can ruin a movie, or it can cause a kind of magic to happen.falls firmly in the latter category. In the first movie, serial killer Charles Lee Ray is wounded and cornered by police in a toy store. He performs a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into the now-familiar Good Guy doll.
The series has gotten a lot of mileage out of that origin, which all takes place as the credits are still rolling. The voodoo has mercifully fallen by the wayside, for the most part. , a.k.a. Jigsaw. He's the heartbeat of the series, even if he isn't exactly the central villain in each of the films following his.
Freddy Krueger's origin is, aptly, horrific. It's teased throughout the first movies but gets fleshed out in. While institutionalized, Krueger's mother was repeatedly sexually abused. As a result, she had Freddy and didn't know who his father was. Krueger endured an abusive childhood at the hands of a foster parent played by. Ol' Fred didn't endure that trauma and grow up to be a swell guy. He turned the violence of his life onto others and murdered some children.
No amount of trauma or nightmarish villainy was too much to heap onto Krueger's backstory. All that horror ended with Krueger reborn as the nightmare-inhabiting, knife-fingered monster of nine films.Horror film origin stories come in a whole lot of forms. Some are the basis of the first film. Frequently, a series backtracks to an origin to keep the franchise alive.
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