Celebrity Villains
With just over 16 minutes of screen-time, Anthony Hopkins won an academy award for his portrayal of this villain in The Silence of the Lambs.
Hannibal Lecter
Picking up on the same night that the first movie ended, this film follows Laurie Strode after she is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital to escape from Michael Myers.
Halloween 2
Less a cult than a community, this 2019 sophomore effort from Hereditary’s Ari Aster features American students joining their Swedish friend in a trip to his hometown that ends in a fiery coronation.
Midsommar
With a premise that puts the viewer into peril, this videotape based ghost story popularized Japanese horror with a whole new generation.
Ring/Ringu
This Friends actress, before crushing on Ross or marrying Brad Pitt, came across the unluckiest pot of gold in 1993’s Leprechaun.
Jennifer Aniston
Surely, this villain is singularly responsible for the repopularization of hockey masks.
Jason Voorhees
It may be a tale of fiction, but the story goes James Cameron sold a room full of producers on this action-packed sequel by writing the title of the original film and adding a $ to the end of it.
Aliens
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, these, the famous Sanderson sisters in this 1993 family favorite.
Hocus Pocus
Despite taking place in Iran and all of the characters only speaking Farsi, this black and white vampire noir was shot entirely in California.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
With a last name that brings to mind crispy strips of porcine breakfast food, this A-lister tried to get his foot loose but was on the receiving end of an arrow in the original Friday the 13th.
Kevin Bacon
Though most frequently appearing as a red-haired circus clown, this mononymous murderer is actually an ancient, cosmic evil.
Pennywise
In this so-meta sequel, the opening kill sequence takes place at a movie theater during the opening night for a horror movie based on the events in the original movie.
Scream 2
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? An off-balancing question asked by this antagonist devil-goat.
Black Phillip
While Takashi Miike is credited with making more than 10 films a year, this entry from 1999 just might put you off of acupuncture for life.
Audition
He has featured in nearly a dozen horror movies, some more musical than others, but it all began in 1984 with a bed and a dream.
Johnny Depp
He said he would never hurt a fly, but this troubled killer did more than that to a string of hapless lodgers at the family motel.
Norman Bates
Charles Lee Ray falls in love with a smaller-than-life Jennifer Tilly in this miniature matrimonial sequel.
Bride of Chucky
Cries of Outlander can be heard aplenty in this 1984 Stephen King adaptation, but by what name do the radicalized children refer to their demonic deity?
He Who Walks Behind the Rows
If you only caught the first twenty minutes of this 2018 movie, you could hardly be blamed for mistaking it as a French entry into the latest reality tv show competitive dancing craze.
Climax
Before becoming one of America’s romcom superhero sweethearts, Paul Rudd starred in Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, as this grown-up neighbor from the original 1978 classic.
Tommy Doyle
Completing a thesis can be hard work, especially when you get mysteriously stalked and framed for murder by this apiculturist subject matter.
Candyman
This author of the original entry’s source material took up the director’s chair in his 1990 supernatural police procedural starring George C. Scott.
William Peter Blatty
A fashion model takes up residence with a blind priest. There’s a joke here somewhere, but don’t look for humor in this 1977 classic.
The Sentinel
“Keep doubting”, these, the final words in this 2008 film that closed the chapter on New French Extreme.
Martyrs
Leatherface gets all the recognition, but three sequels after Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic, this pair of future A-listers would face off against the chainsaw-wielding madman.
Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey