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09-02-2009, 06:34 PM
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The Best
FREDDY KRUEGER
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
It says a lot about our culture that a child-molesting serial killer with poor taste in sweaters has become, over the years, a semi-cuddly, Bond-ian purveyor of quips. But in the original, Wes Craven-directed creepshow, Robert Englund's Freddy is as nasty as anyone could want him to be.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080318/Sweaters/Nightmare-On-Elm-Street_l.jpg
PINHEAD
Hellraiser (1987)
You could kill quite a few of the horror villains on this list by driving a bunch of nails into their heads. But, for Doug Bradley's sado-masochistically-inclined ''Cenobite,'' that would be the equivalent of getting his tips frosted.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Hellraiser-Pinhead_l.jpg
MICHAEL MYERS
Halloween (1978)
The eerie mask worn by the teen-slaying Myers in John Carpenter's original movie was a spray-painted facsimile of William Shatner's face. Which seems appropriate given that the slasher icon has proven to be every bit as impossible to kill as the career of the onetime Captain Kirk.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Halloween-Jason-Curtis_l.jpg
JASON VOORHEES
Friday the 13th (1980)
We could spend all day discussing the Freudian implications of the hockey mask-sporting Jason's penchant for carving up sexually active teens in the Friday the 13th franchise (though, of course, it was actually Ma Voorhees who was responsible for the mayhem in the first movie). Or we could merely quote one witness to his destructive ways in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason: ''Dude, that goalie was pissed!''
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Friday-13th-Jason_l.jpg
COUNT ORLOK
Nosferatu (1922)
Yes, these days, all the popular vampires have great hair. Many really frightening cinematic bloodsuckers, however, have preferred the chrome dome look as pioneered by Max Schreck in F.W. Murneau's horror classic (and subsequently aped by Reggie Nalder in the Salem's Lot miniseries and Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu remake).
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080828/nosferatu_l.jpg
LEATHERFACE
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
As played by Gunnar Hansen, the monstrous man-child Leatherface takes care of the ''chainsaw'' portion of Tobe Hooper's hugely successful, original Texas Chainsaw Massacre pic. He also takes care of the massacre part. In summation, without him, Hooper's movie would have been called The Texas.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/061024/142224__texas_chainsaw_l.jpg
JIGSAW
Saw (2004)
Tobin Bell's highly judgmental killer ''Jigsaw'' likes to say that he never hurts anyone with his fiendish traps, that his so-called ''victims'' merely hurt themselves. Try telling that to Cary Elwes in the first Saw movie! Actually, don't bother, he's making too much noise sawing his own foot off to hear you.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070807/gallery/saw_l.jpg
CANDYMAN
Candyman (1992)
Pity Mr. Candyman! In order for this urban legend to cross over into the real world someone must recite his name five times while looking into a mirror. And, given that he's a ticked off ex-slave with a hook for a hand, who would do that? Except, as it turns out, everyone.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/Candyman-bees_l.jpg
ANNIE WILKES
Misery (1990)
In this increasingly dumbed-down world, we have mixed feelings about Kathy Bates' psychotic ex-nurse. Yes, it is true that she will break your ankles with a sledgehammer if you displease her. On the other hand, you can't argue with her bibliophile ways. Well, you could. But she'll probably break your ankles with a sledgehammer.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090415/Misery-kathy-Bates_l.jpg
THE TALL MAN
Phantasm (1979)
Not for Angus Scrimm's The Tall Man the simple pleasures of teen butchery. Nope, he uses electric drill-equipped, flying metal balls to help him turn the human race into miniature zombies so that they can do his bidding in another dimension. Hey, it takes all sorts to make a world! Of terror! In another dimension!
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/Tall-Man-Phantasm_l.jpg
HANNIBAL LECTER
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Anthony Hopkins' Lecter isn't actually onscreen that long in Silence, yet the character was still memorably scary enough to bag the actor an Oscar. Maybe it's that creepy slicked-back hair. Or maybe it's that story about him chewing someone's face off without his pulse ever rising above 85 bpm.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080417/Silence-of-Lambs-Hannibal_l.jpg
NORMAN BATES
Psycho (1960)
I don't know why Norman Bates' twitchy motel manager is on this list. It's his mother who's the real villain of the piece. You know, maybe I should watch this movie until the end one day....
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070911/gallery/psycho_l.jpg
SYLVIA GANUSH
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Not only does old gypsy woman Ganush curse Alison Lohman's unhelpful bank employee with a fate quite literally worse than death in Sam Raimi's horror movie, but she's got really dirty fingernails.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080716/Comic-Con/drag-me-to-hell_l.jpg
MINNIE CASTEVET
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
In Roman Polanski's demonic yarn, Ruth Gordon's incessantly babbling New Yorker has ''doomed comic relief'' written all over. Until, that is, she replaces that writing with ''utterly evil handmaiden of Satan.'' To be fair, even then, she still serves a nice cup of Lipton's tea.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/rosemarys-baby-gordon_l.jpg
The Best
FREDDY KRUEGER
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
It says a lot about our culture that a child-molesting serial killer with poor taste in sweaters has become, over the years, a semi-cuddly, Bond-ian purveyor of quips. But in the original, Wes Craven-directed creepshow, Robert Englund's Freddy is as nasty as anyone could want him to be.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080318/Sweaters/Nightmare-On-Elm-Street_l.jpg
PINHEAD
Hellraiser (1987)
You could kill quite a few of the horror villains on this list by driving a bunch of nails into their heads. But, for Doug Bradley's sado-masochistically-inclined ''Cenobite,'' that would be the equivalent of getting his tips frosted.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Hellraiser-Pinhead_l.jpg
MICHAEL MYERS
Halloween (1978)
The eerie mask worn by the teen-slaying Myers in John Carpenter's original movie was a spray-painted facsimile of William Shatner's face. Which seems appropriate given that the slasher icon has proven to be every bit as impossible to kill as the career of the onetime Captain Kirk.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Halloween-Jason-Curtis_l.jpg
JASON VOORHEES
Friday the 13th (1980)
We could spend all day discussing the Freudian implications of the hockey mask-sporting Jason's penchant for carving up sexually active teens in the Friday the 13th franchise (though, of course, it was actually Ma Voorhees who was responsible for the mayhem in the first movie). Or we could merely quote one witness to his destructive ways in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason: ''Dude, that goalie was pissed!''
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090825/Friday-13th-Jason_l.jpg
COUNT ORLOK
Nosferatu (1922)
Yes, these days, all the popular vampires have great hair. Many really frightening cinematic bloodsuckers, however, have preferred the chrome dome look as pioneered by Max Schreck in F.W. Murneau's horror classic (and subsequently aped by Reggie Nalder in the Salem's Lot miniseries and Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu remake).
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080828/nosferatu_l.jpg
LEATHERFACE
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
As played by Gunnar Hansen, the monstrous man-child Leatherface takes care of the ''chainsaw'' portion of Tobe Hooper's hugely successful, original Texas Chainsaw Massacre pic. He also takes care of the massacre part. In summation, without him, Hooper's movie would have been called The Texas.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/061024/142224__texas_chainsaw_l.jpg
JIGSAW
Saw (2004)
Tobin Bell's highly judgmental killer ''Jigsaw'' likes to say that he never hurts anyone with his fiendish traps, that his so-called ''victims'' merely hurt themselves. Try telling that to Cary Elwes in the first Saw movie! Actually, don't bother, he's making too much noise sawing his own foot off to hear you.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070807/gallery/saw_l.jpg
CANDYMAN
Candyman (1992)
Pity Mr. Candyman! In order for this urban legend to cross over into the real world someone must recite his name five times while looking into a mirror. And, given that he's a ticked off ex-slave with a hook for a hand, who would do that? Except, as it turns out, everyone.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/Candyman-bees_l.jpg
ANNIE WILKES
Misery (1990)
In this increasingly dumbed-down world, we have mixed feelings about Kathy Bates' psychotic ex-nurse. Yes, it is true that she will break your ankles with a sledgehammer if you displease her. On the other hand, you can't argue with her bibliophile ways. Well, you could. But she'll probably break your ankles with a sledgehammer.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090415/Misery-kathy-Bates_l.jpg
THE TALL MAN
Phantasm (1979)
Not for Angus Scrimm's The Tall Man the simple pleasures of teen butchery. Nope, he uses electric drill-equipped, flying metal balls to help him turn the human race into miniature zombies so that they can do his bidding in another dimension. Hey, it takes all sorts to make a world! Of terror! In another dimension!
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/Tall-Man-Phantasm_l.jpg
HANNIBAL LECTER
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Anthony Hopkins' Lecter isn't actually onscreen that long in Silence, yet the character was still memorably scary enough to bag the actor an Oscar. Maybe it's that creepy slicked-back hair. Or maybe it's that story about him chewing someone's face off without his pulse ever rising above 85 bpm.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080417/Silence-of-Lambs-Hannibal_l.jpg
NORMAN BATES
Psycho (1960)
I don't know why Norman Bates' twitchy motel manager is on this list. It's his mother who's the real villain of the piece. You know, maybe I should watch this movie until the end one day....
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070911/gallery/psycho_l.jpg
SYLVIA GANUSH
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Not only does old gypsy woman Ganush curse Alison Lohman's unhelpful bank employee with a fate quite literally worse than death in Sam Raimi's horror movie, but she's got really dirty fingernails.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080716/Comic-Con/drag-me-to-hell_l.jpg
MINNIE CASTEVET
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
In Roman Polanski's demonic yarn, Ruth Gordon's incessantly babbling New Yorker has ''doomed comic relief'' written all over. Until, that is, she replaces that writing with ''utterly evil handmaiden of Satan.'' To be fair, even then, she still serves a nice cup of Lipton's tea.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/rosemarys-baby-gordon_l.jpg