List of horror film killers
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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This is a list of monsters and killers that feature in horror films.
[edit] 0-9
- 1958 Plymouth Fury - from Christine, created by Stephen King
- 1974 Black Dodge Charger - from Christopher Cain's Wheels of Terror
- 351 Peterbilt Tanker truck - from Steven Spielberg's Duel
- 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III - from The Car, directed by Elliot Silverstein.
[edit] A
- Alessa Gillespie - from the film Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans
- Mickey Altieri - from Scream 2
- Rotten Aliens - from Peter Jackson's movie Bad Taste
- Ted Allison (The Ghoul) - from The Mad Ghoul
- Aylmer (Elmer) - from Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage
[edit] B
- Baby Firefly from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
- Angela Baker from the Sleepaway Camp series
- Doctor William Barton from The Creature Walks Among Us
- Patrick Bateman - from American Psycho, created by Bret Easton Ellis
- Brenda Bates from Urban Legend
- Norman Bates - from the Psycho films, created by Robert Bloch
- Besty Bell - from Courtney Solomon's An American Haunting
- Attacking Birds - from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
- The Blair Witch from The Blair Witch Project
- Blob creature from The Blob
- Blood Parasites - from David Cronenberg's Shivers
- Bloody Mary (Mary Banner) from Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
- Jimmy Bones (play by Snoop Dogg) - from Bones
- Frank Booth - from Blue Velvet, created by David Lynch
- Belial Bradley - from Basket Case, created by Frank Henenlotter
- The Breather - from Student Bodies, created by Mickey Rose
- Brother Papa from Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs
- Roman Bridger - from Scream 3
- Bub - lead zombie from Day of the Dead, created by George A. Romero
- Roy Burns - from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
[edit] C
- Max Cady - from Cape Fear
- Stanley Caldwell - from Po-Chih Leong's Cabin by the Lake (2000) IMDb and Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001) IMDb
- Dr. Caligari - from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the 1989 cult film Dr. Caligari directed by Stephen Sayadian which features Caligari's supposed great grand-daughter, and the 2005 remakeThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
- Dr. David Callaway (Charlie) - from John Polson's Hide and Seek
- May Dove Canady - from Lucky McKee's May
- Sutter Cane - from John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
- Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers - from the film C.H.U.D.
- Mama Cecile from The Skeleton Key
- Cenobites - from the Hellraiser series, also created by Clive Barker
- Cesare the somnambulist - from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Dr. (Philip) Channard - from Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- Chucky doll (Charles Lee Ray) - from the Child's Play films, created by Don Mancini
- Chatterer - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker
- The Clown - from Camp Blood, created by Brad Sykes
- Conal Cochran - from Halloween III: Season of the Witch created by Tommy Lee Wallace
- Colin the Janitor - from Silent Hill (film) created by Christophe Gans
- Frank Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
- Julia Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
- Vera Cosgrove from Peter Jackson's Braindead
- Hugh Crain - from The Haunting, created by Shirley Jackson
- Crawlers - from the movie The Descent
- The Creep (Craig) from Creep
- The Creeper - from the Jeepers Creepers films, created by Victor Salva
- Crites or Krites (commonly called Critters) - from the Critters film series
- Cropsy the gardener - from The Burning
[edit] D
- Jerry Dandridge - from Fright Night
- Darla - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
- Deadites - from The Evil Dead trilogy, created by Sam Raimi
- Death - from Cemetery Man, created by Michele Soavi
- (Also, Death is the main killer in Final Destination, Final Destination 2, and Final Destination 3).
- Dr. Philip K. Decker - from Clive Barker's Nightbreed, starring David Cronenberg
- Alex DeLarge - from A Clockwork Orange, created by Anthony Burgess
- The Djinn - from the Wishmaster films
- John Doe - from David Fincher's movie Se7en
- Francis Dolarhyde (The Tooth Fairy) - from Red Dragon and Manhunter, created by Thomas Harris
- Donald Duck voiced Killer - from Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper
- Count Vlad Dracula - from Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, created by Bram Stoker
- Jonathan Drew - from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger
- Otis B. Driftwood - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
- Irena Dubrovna from the Cat People films
- The Dutch Businessman - from Eli Roth's Hostel
- Dwarf killer - from Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now
[edit] E
- Erik The Phantom - from The Phantom of the Opera, created by Gaston Leroux
[edit] F
- Fanny - from American Gothic
- Female Cenobite - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker
- The Firefly Family - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
- The Fisherman - from the I Know What You Did Last Summer films
- Ginger Fitzgerald - from the Ginger Snaps film series
- Randall Flagg (Dark Man) from Stephen King's The Stand
- The Fly (David Hedison in 1958 version, alternatively Seth Brundle in 1986 remake) - from The Fly (1986) and The Fly (1958) films, created by George Langelaan
- The Four Fascist Libertines (The Duke, The Bishop, The Magistrate - Curval, The President) - from Pier Paolo Pasolini's adaptation of de Sade's Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Frankenstein's Monster - from Frankenstein and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, created by Mary Shelley
- Sheriff George Fraser - from Joseph Zito's 1981 horror film The Prowler (also known as Rosemary's Killer and The Graduation)
- The Carnival Freaks from Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks
- Jack Frost - from the 1997 horror film Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
[edit] G
- Gabriel - from The Prophecy films, created by Gregory Widen and starring Christopher Walken
- Ghosts of lepers from The Fog, created by John Carpenter
- Ghostface - from the Scream series, created by Kevin Williams
- The Gill Man from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Godzilla - from the Godzilla movies produced by the Toho Film Company Ltd.
- Golem - from the 1915 film The Golem
- Jacob Goodnight - from Gregory Dark's See No Evil
- Graboids - from the Tremors films
- Delbert Grady also Grady the Caretaker - from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, created by Stephen King
- Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray created by Oscar Wilde
- Great White Shark - from Steven Spielberg's Jaws
- Gray Child - from Christophe Gans's Silent Hill
- Dr. Jack Griffin - from The Invisible Man, created by H.G. Wells
- Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) - from The Silence of the Lambs, created by Thomas Harris
[edit] H
- Alex Hammond - from the 1980 film Prom Night
- The Hessian Horseman - from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, created by Washington Irving
- Henry - from John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
- Hill House in the 1963 and 1999 versions of The Haunting
- Karl Hochman - from Rachel Talalay's Ghost in the Machine
- Hiruko - from Shinya Tsukamoto's Hiruko The Goblin
- Baby Jane Hudson - from Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, created by Henry Farrell
- Grandpa Hugo - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
- Mr. Edward Hyde - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, created by Robert Louis Stevenson
[edit] I
- Imhotep The Mummy - from the Universal Horror The Mummy film starring Boris Karloff
[edit] J
- Professor Henry Jarrod - from André De Toth's House of Wax
- Jaws the Shark - from Jaws created by Peter Benchley
- John/Jigsaw - from the SAW series, created by James Wan
- The Judas Breed (cockroaches) - from the Mimic films, created by Guillermo del Toro
- Jupiter's Clan - from The Hills Have Eyes, created by Wes Craven
- Papa Justify - from The Skeleton Key
[edit] K
- Kakihara - from the movie Ichi the Killer, created by Hideo Yamamoto
- Principal Kastleman - from the 1987 film Return to Horror High IMDb, created by Bill Froehlich
- Reverend Henry Kane (also known as The Beast) - from the Poltergeist movie series, created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor
- Kayako Saeki - The ghostly female spirit from the Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
- Kharis The Mummy - from the Universal Horror sequels: The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse
- Kong from King Kong, created by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper
- Mickey & Mallory Knox - from Natural Born Killers, created by Oliver Stone
- Cyrus Kriticos - from the movie Thir13en Ghosts, created by William Castle
- Fredrick Angel "Fred/Freddy" Krueger - from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, created by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund
[edit] L
- Leatherface - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film, created by Tobe Hooper
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter - from The Silence of the Lambs, created by Thomas Harris
- The Leprechaun - from the Leprechaun series
- Mark Lewis - from Michael Powell's Peeping Tom
- Edward Lionheart - from Theatre of Blood
- Ben London - from William Butler's Madhouse (2004) IMDb
- Billy Loomis - from Wes Craven's Scream, created by Kevin Williamson
- Mrs. Loomis/Debbie Salt (Billy's mother) - from Scream 2, also created by Kevin Williamson
[edit] M
- Ma - from American Gothic
- Doctor Mabuse - from the Dr. Mabuse films, created by Fritz Lang
- Stuart Macher - from Scream, created by Kevin Williamson
- Machine from the 1999 film 8mm
- Regan MacNeil (possessed by Pazuzu) - from The Exorcist films, created by William Peter Blatty
- Marie (The Trucker/Killer) - from Alexandre Aja's Haute Tension
- The Martian Ghosts - from John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
- Mephisto - from F.W. Murnau's Faust
- Metals Fetishist - from Tetsuo: The Iron Man, created by Shinya Tsukamoto
- Reno Miller - from The Driller Killer, created by Abel Ferrara
- Molasar - from the 1983 film The Keep, directed by Michael Mann and created by F. Paul Wilson
- Trevor Moorehouse from the Bloody Murder film series created by John R. Stevenson
- Samara Morgan from the American version of The Ring series
- Mother Firefly - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
- Mountain Men - from Wrong Turn, created by Alan B. McElroy and from Deliverance, created by James Dickey
- Michael Myers (also known as The Shape) - from the Halloween film series, created by John Carpenter
[edit] N
- Nemesis - from the Resident Evil series
- Rachael Newman - from Morgan J. Freeman's American Psycho II: All American Girl
- Nubbin (Edward Sawyer) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film, created by Tobe Hooper
[edit] O
- Onryou - from the Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
- Count Orlok - from the 1922 film Nosferatu by F.W. Murnau
- Otis - from John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
[edit] P
- Pennywise the Clown - from Stephen King's It
- Rhoda Penmark - from The Bad Seed, created by William March
- Peter and Paul (also known as Tom and Jerry and Beavis and Butthead) - from Michael Haneke's movie Funny Games
- Dr. Anton Phibes - from The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, starring Vincent Price
- Pinhead Cenobite - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker and starring Doug Bradley
- Pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Reverend Harry Powell - from The Night of the Hunter, created by Davis Grubb
- The Predator (also known as Yautja) - from the Predator films
- Doctor Septimus Pretorius from Bride of Frankenstein
- Prospero - from Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, created by Edgar Allan Poe
- Pumpkinhead - from the movie Pumpkinhead
- Puppets - from the Puppet Master film series
- Pyramidhead (or Red Pyramid) - from Silent Hill (film) and Silent Hill 2 (video Game)
[edit] Q
- Quasimodo - from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, created by Victor Hugo
[edit] R
- Doctor Evan Rendell - from Dr. Giggles
- Returners (Living Dead) - from Cemetery Man, created by Michele Soavi
- Daniel Robitaille (also known as Candyman) - from the Candyman series, created by Clive Barker
- Rodan from various Godzilla movies
- Rothman - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
- Grandfather Albert Rua (also known as The Dark) - from Jaume Balagueró's Darkness
- Rusty Nail from Joy Ride
- John Ryder - from Robert Harmon's movie The Hitcher
[edit] S
- Dr. Satan (S. Quentin Quale) - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
- The Sawyer Family (Leatherface, Chop Top, Drayton Sawyer and Edward Sawyer) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film series, created by Tobe Hooper
- Drayton Sawyer (also known as The Cook) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film series, created by Tobe Hooper
- William Sawyer (also known as Chop Top) - from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 film, created by Tobe Hooper
- The Shamatari (Cannibal) tribe - from Cannibal Holocaust, created by Ruggero Deodato
- Shivers the Clown - from Kevin Kanga's Fear Of Clowns (2004) IMDb
- Vincent Sinclair - from Jaume Collet-Serra's 2005 remake House of Wax
- Sister Mama from Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs
- The Six Names of The Demon (Cain, Nero, Judas, Legion, Belial and Lucifer) - from Scott Derrickson's The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- Slausen from the film Tourist Trap, portrayed by actor Chuck Connors
- Captain Spaulding - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
- Carl Rudolph Stargher from The Cell
- Krug Stillo - from Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left
- Lord Summerisle - from The Wicker Man, starring Christopher Lee
- Beverly R. Sutphin - from John Waters' movie Serial Mom
[edit] T
- T-800, T-1000, T-X - from James Cameron's The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Larry Talbot - from the 1941 film The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Tall Man (Jebediah Morningside) - from the Phantasm film series, created by Don Coscarelli
- Mick Taylor - from the movie Wolf Creek
- Teddy - from American Gothic
- The Thing - from John Carpenter's The Thing
- Damien Thorn - from The Omen trilogy created by David Seltzer
- Lars Thorwald - from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
- Tiny Firefly - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
- Tooth Fairy - from Darkness Falls
- Jack Torrance - from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, created by Stephen King
- Toshio - from Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
- Trevor from Urban Legends: Final Cut
[edit] U
- Uzumaki or Spiral/Vortex - featured in the Japanese horror movie of the same name directed by Higuchinsky
[edit] V
- Vampires featured in Tom Holland's Fright Night films, Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, the From Dusk Till Dawn series created by Robert Rodriguez, and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
- See also: list of other films that feature vampires
- Richard B. Vannacutt from House on Haunted Hill
- Mason Verger - from Hannibal, created by Thomas Harris
- Officer Joe Vickers from the Psycho Cop films
- Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters II
- Vilmer - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
- Jason Voorhees - from all but two of the Friday the 13th films, created by Sean S. Cunningham
- Pamela Voorhees - from the original Friday the 13th
[edit] W
- W.E. - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
- Harry Warden - from My Bloody Valentine
- Dr. William Weir from Event Horizon
- Werewolves featured in Dog Soldiers, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling films and Ginger Snaps trilogy
- See also: list of other films that feature werewolves
- Dr. Herbert West - from the Re-Animator films, created by H.P. Lovecraft
- Carrie White - from Stephen King's Carrie
- Annie Wilkes - from Stephen King's Misery
- Woody - from American Gothic
[edit] X
[edit] Y
- Sadako Yamamura - from Hideo Nakata's The Ring series, created by Kôji Suzuki
- Asami Yamazaki - from Miike Takashi's Audition
- The Yanomamo (Cannibal) tribe - from Cannibal Holocaust, created by Ruggero Deodato
[edit] Z
- Frank Zito - from William Lustig's 1980 movie Maniac
- Zombies featured in George A. Romero's Living Dead films and the Return of the Living Dead films
- See also: List of other films that feature zombies or the undead
[edit] See also
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