Halloween has something for everyone. There’s pumpkins, cider, donuts, trick or treating, dressing up, and movies. Halloween movies have given us some of the scariest villains in cinematic history. From old school horror where things go bump in the night to gory slasher films, horror cinema has given us some truly terrifying antagonists. So, in honor of Halloween, here are, in no particular order, the top horror villains of all time.
1. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
2. Norman Bates in Psycho
3. Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street
4. Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th
5. Tate Langdon in American Horror Story
6. Jennet Humfry in The Woman in Black
7. Annie Wilkes in Misery
8. Leatherface in The Texas Chain Massacre
9. Carrie White in Carrie
10. Samara in The Ring
11. Oliver Thredson in American Horror Story
12. Jack Torrance in The Shining
13. Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
14. Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist
15. Black Philip in The Witch