Top 19 Slasher Movie Villains of All Time

The slasher genre gave us cinema's most enduring icons of fear — masked, relentless, and seemingly indestructible. From Michael Myers' blank stare to Freddy Krueger's razor wit, who is the greatest slasher villain?

1. 1
   Michael Myers

   The featureless Shape from Haddonfield who has stalked Laurie Strode since the original Halloween (1978).
   1000pts
2. 2
   Billy Loomis

   The original Ghostface killer revealed in the climax of Wes Craven's Scream.
   667pts
3. 3
   Ghostface

   The pop-culture-savvy masked killer whose identity shifts with each Scream installment.
   618pts
4. 4
   Angela Baker

   The traumatized camper whose shocking identity twist made Sleepaway Camp legendary.
   533pts
5. 5
   Leatherface

   The chainsaw-wielding cannibal who wears a mask of human skin in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
   400pts
6. 6
   Candyman

   The hook-handed son of a slave summoned by mirror and condemned to haunt Cabrini-Green.
   200pts
7. 7
   Freddy Krueger

   The razor-gloved dream stalker who kills teenagers in their sleep in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
   200pts
8. 8
   Patrick Bateman

   The Wall Street psychopath from American Psycho who may or may not be committing murders.
   200pts
9. 9
   Victor Crowley

   The deformed, super-strong swamp monster from Adam Green's Hatchet slasher series.
   200pts
10. 10
    Art the Clown

    The mute, sadistic mime-clown from the Terrifier series, celebrated for extreme practical effects gore.
    57pts
11. 11
    Pinhead

    The Cenobite leader of extra-dimensional origin, delivering pleasure and pain in Hellraiser.
    57pts
12. 12
    Chucky

    The pint-sized Good Guy doll possessed by serial killer Charles Lee Ray in Child's Play.
    57pts
13. 13
    Jason Voorhees

    The undying hockey-masked killer from Camp Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th franchise.
    1pts
14. 14
    Norman Bates

    The mild-mannered motel keeper with a deadly split personality from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the film that laid the groundwork for the slasher genre.
15. 15
    Pamela Voorhees

    Jason's vengeful mother and the real killer of the original Friday the 13th (1980), whose twist reveal still surprises first-time viewers.
16. 16
    John Kramer (Jigsaw)

    The dying engineer behind the deadly moral 'games' of the Saw franchise, who has tested his victims' will to live since 2004.
17. 17
    Pearl

    The farm girl with dreams of stardom whose frustration turns murderous in Ti West's X and its 2022 prequel Pearl.
18. 18
    Stu Macher

    Billy Loomis's manic accomplice in the original Scream (1996), the second Ghostface whose giddy confession made him a fan favorite.
19. 19
    Mick Taylor

    The jovial outback bushman who preys on backpackers in Australia's Wolf Creek films and the later Wolf Creek television series.

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