# List of horror film villains

Horror films often make use of villains as primary antagonists. Some such characters have become iconic in their own right due to their roles in film.

## Villains

| Name | Film | Actor(s) | Description | Refs. |
| Anguirus | Godzilla Raids Again | Katsumi Tezuka Hiroshi Sekita Koetsu Omiya Tadaaki Watanabe Kin'ichi Kusumi | A dinosaur-like kaiju and enemy of Godzilla. | |
| Art the Clown | All Hallows' EveTerrifier franchise | Mike Giannelli David Howard Thornton | A demonic evil clown. | |
| Ash | Alien | Ian Holm | An android science officer on the Nostromo. | |
| Baragon | Frankenstein vs. Baragon | Haruo Nakajima | A dinosaur-like kaiju and enemy of Frankenstein. | |
| Patrick Bateman | American Psycho | Christian Bale | A psychopathic and homicidal yuppie and investment banker. | |
| Norma Bates | Psycho franchise | Paul Jasmin | The abusive mother of Norman Bates. | |
| Norman Bates | Psycho franchise | Anthony Perkins Kurt Paul Vince Vaughn Freddie Highmore | A man with dissociative identity disorder and a murderous alter that takes the form of his mother. | |
| Billy | Black Christmas franchise | Bob Clark Albert J. Dunk Nick Mancuso Robert Mann Cainan Wiebe | A mysterious murderer that taunts and kills a group of students during the Christmas season. | |
| Billy the Puppet | Saw franchise | Tobin Bell | A puppet used by Jigsaw. | |
| Biollante | Godzilla vs. Biollante | Masao Takegami | A plant-like hybrid kaiju and enemy of Godzilla. | |
| Black Phillip | The Witch | Charlie the goat Daniel Malik | A Puritan family's black he-goat which is actually the disguise assumed by the Devil. | |
| Seth Brundle | The Fly | Jeff Goldblum | A scientist that turns into a fly-human hybrid monster due to an accident. | |
| Max Cady | Cape Fear | Robert Mitchum Robert De Niro Javier Bardem | A criminal with an obsessive grudge against an attorney named Sam Bowden. | |
| Candyman | Candyman franchise | Tony Todd Michael Hargrove Cedric Mays Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | The vengeful ghost of an African American man murdered for an interracial love affair. | |
| Billy Chapman | Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise | Robert Brian Wilson | A toy store employee that embarks on a murder spree on Christmas Eve. | |
| Chop Top | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Bill Moseley | A cannibalistic Vietnam veteran. | |
| Chucky | Child's Play franchise | Brad Dourif David Kohlsmith Tyler Barish Fiona Dourif Devon Sawa Rosemary Dunsmore Zackary Arthur Mark Hamill | An evil possessed toy doll. | |
| Clover | Cloverfield | — | A giant infant kaiju. | |
| Daimajin | Daimajin | Chikara Hashimoto | A giant warrior god kaiju. | |
| Jerry Dandrige | Fright Night | Chris Sarandon Colin Farrell | A murderous vampire. | |
| Death Angels | A Quiet Place franchise | — | A blind alien species that hunts by sound. | |
| Francis Dolarhyde | Manhunter and Red Dragon | Tom Noonan Ralph Fiennes Richard Armitage | A serial killer that murders entire families every full moon. | |
| Count Dracula | Various | Various | An archetypal vampire inspired by Vlad the Impaler. | |
| Ebirah | Ebirah, Horror of the Deep | Hiroshi Sekida | A giant lobster kaiju. | |
| Frankenstein's monster | Universal Monsters franchise | Boris Karloff Lon Chaney Jr. Bela Lugosi Glenn Strange | An undead monster created by the mad doctor Victor Frankenstein. | |
| Angela Franklin | Night of the Demons series | Amelia Kinkade Shannon Elizabeth | A young woman possessed by a demon. | |
| Gamera | Gamera, the Giant Monster | Teruo Aragaki | A giant turtle-like alien kaiju. | |
| Ghostface | Scream franchise | Various | An identity used by multiple killers. | |
| Gigan | Godzilla vs. Gigan | Kenpachiro Satsuma | A cyborg alien kaiju and enemy of Godzilla | |
| Godzilla | Godzilla franchise | Various | A giant dinosaur-like kaiju. | |
| Jame Gumb | The Silence of the Lambs | Ted Levine | A serial killer that murders women to wear their skin. | |
| Hedorah | Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Kenpachiro Satsuma | A kaiju made of sludge. | |
| Mark Hoffman | Saw franchise | Costas Mandylor | An apprentice and successor of Jigsaw. | |
| Igor | Universal Monsters franchise | Bela Lugosi | The laboratory assistant of Victor Frankenstein. | |
| Imhotep | The Mummy | Boris Karloff Arnold Vosloo | An undead Egyptian mummy. | |
| It a.k.a. Pennywise | It (miniseries)WohIt (2017 film)It Chapter TwoIt – Welcome to Derry | Tim Curry Lilliput Bill Skarsgård | A malevolent entity that takes the form of an evil clown. | |
| Kharis | The Mummy's Hand | Tom Tyler Lon Chaney Jr. | An undead Egyptian mummy. | |
| King Ghidorah | Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster | Shoichi Hirose Susumu Utsumi Kanta Ina | A three-headed alien kaiju and enemy of Godzilla. | |
| King Kong | King Kong franchise | Shoichi Hirose Haruo Nakajima Rick Baker Peter Elliott Andy Serkis Terry Notary Toby Kebbell Eric Petey Allan Henry | A giant ape. | |
| John Kramer | Saw franchise | Tobin Bell | A serial killer that tortures victims in elaborate traps. | |
| Freddy Krueger | A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise | Robert Englund Jackie Earle Haley | The evil spirit of a child killer that haunts nightmares. | |
| Leatherface | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise | Andrew Bryniarski Gunnar Hansen R. A. Mihailoff | A cannibal that wears the faces of his victims. | |
| Hannibal Lecter | Hannibal Lecter franchise | Anthony Hopkins Brian Cox Gaspard Ulliel Mads Mikkelsen | A brilliant forensic psychologist and cannibalistic serial killer. | |
| Mechagodzilla | Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Kazunari Mori | A robot version of Godzilla. | |
| Megaguirus | Godzilla vs. Megaguirus | | A giant dragonfly-like kaiju and enemy of Godzilla. | |
| Megalon | Godzilla vs. Megalon | Hideto Odachi | A giant beetle-like kaiju and enemy of Godzilla. | |
| Mothra | Mothra | Haruo Nakajima Katsumi Tezuka | A giant moth-like kaiju. | |
| MUTO | Monsterverse franchise | — | A giant bug-like species of kaiju. | |
| Michael Myers | Halloween franchise | George P. Wilbur Tyler Mane Nick Castle Don Shanks Bradley Loree James Jude Courtney | A mute murderer that kills teenagers on Halloween night. | |
| Count Orlok | Nosferatu | Max Schreck Klaus Kinski Willem Dafoe Doug Jones Bill Skarsgård | A vampire based on Count Dracula. | |
| Rustin Parr | Blair Witch franchise | Frank Pastor | A serial killer that murdered seven children on instructions from the Blair Witch. | |
| Pearl | X series | Mia Goth | A psychopathic killer. | |
| Rhoda Penmark | The Bad Seed | Patty McCormack Carrie Wells Mckenna Grace | A child serial killer and psychopath. | |
| Pinhead | Hellraiser franchise | Doug Bradley Stephan Smith Collins Paul T. Taylor Jamie Clayton | An extradimensional leader of the demonic Cenobites. | [99] [100] |
| David Powers | The Lost Boys | Kiefer Sutherland | The head of a gang of vampires. | |
| Predator | Predator franchise | Kevin Peter Hall Ian Whyte Brian Steele Carey Jones Derek Mears Brian A. Prince Dane DiLiegro | An alien species that trophy hunts other species for sport. | |
| Rodan | Rodan | Haruo Nakajima Kōji Uruki Masaki Shinohara Teruo Aragaki | A giant pterosaur-like kaiju. | |
| Kayako Saeki | Ju-On franchise | Takako Fuji | The vengeful ghost of a woman killed by her husband. | |
| Toshio Saeki | Ju-On franchise | Daiki Sawada Ryōta Koyama | The son of Kayako Saeki, a vengeful ghost. | |
| Slappy the Dummy | Goosebumps | Jack Black | An evil ventriloquy dummy. | |
| Slender Man | Always Watching: A Marble Hornets StorySlender Man | Doug Jones Javier Botet | A tall supernatural being with no face. | |
| Captain Spaulding | House of 1000 Corpses | Sid Haig | A vulgar and murderous clown. | |
| T-1000 | Terminator franchise | Robert Patrick Lee Byung-hun | A time-travelling robot assassin. | |
| Larry Talbot | The Wolf Man franchise | Lon Chaney Jr. | A werewolf. | |
| The Thing | The Thing from Another WorldThe Thing (1982)The Thing (2011) | James Arness Jed Peter Maloney Charles Hallahan David Clennon Wilford Brimley Paul Braunstein Kim Bubbs Trond Espen Seim Kristofer Hivju Joel Edgerton | A shapeshifting alien that mimics its prey. | |
| Damien Thorn | The Omen franchise | Harvey Spencer Stephens Jonathan Scott-Taylor Sam Neill Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Bradley James | The Antichrist. | |
| Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd (1928)Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997)Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | Moore Marriott Tod Slaughter Ben Kingsley Johnny Depp | A barber that kills his customers with a straight razor before giving their flesh to his partner Mrs. Lovett to bake into pies. | |
| Jack Torrance | The ShiningDoctor Sleep | Jack Nicholson Henry Thomas | A writer that goes insane and tries to kill his wife and son. | |
| Tall Man | Phantasm franchise | Angus Scrimm | An extradimensional being posing as a mortician. | |
| Judge Turpin | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | Alan Rickman | A cruel and corrupt judge. | |
| Terminator | Terminator franchise | Arnold Schwarzenegger | A time-travelling robot assassin. | |
| Tiffany Valentine | Child's Play franchise | Jennifer Tilly | An evil possessed toy doll. | |
| Varan | Varan the Unbelievable | Haruo Nakajima Katsumi Tezuka | A giant gliding dinosaur-like kaiju. | |
| Mason Verger | Hannibal | Gary Oldman | A wealthy, sadistic pedophile disfigured by Hannibal Lecter. | |
| Jason Voorhees | Friday the 13th franchise | Ari Lehman Warrington Gillette Steve Daskewisz Richard Brooker Ted White Tom Morga C. J. Graham Kane Hodder Ken Kirzinger Derek Mears | An immortal, undead murderer. | |
| Pamela Voorhees | Friday the 13th franchise | Betsy Palmer | The murderous mother of Jason Voorhees. | |
| Harry Warden | My Bloody Valentine | Peter Cowper Richard John Walters | A miner that kills people on Valentine's Day. | |
| Annie Wilkes | Misery | Kathy Bates | A nurse and serial killer. | |
| Xenomorph | Alien franchise | Bolaji Badejo Tom Woodruff Jr. | An endoparasitoid species of alien. | |
| Sadako Yamamura | The Ring franchise | Rie Inō | The vengeful ghost of a young psychic that was murdered and thrown down a well. | |
| Yonggary | Yongary, Monster from the Deep | Cho Kyoung-min | A large dinosaur-like kaiju. | |
| Amanda Young | Saw franchise | Shawnee Smith | A victim and apprentice of Jigsaw. | |
| Zilla | Godzilla franchise | Kurt Carley | A large dinosaur-like kaiju. | |