Who is the best slasher movie villain 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

Michael Myers

The featureless Shape from Haddonfield who has stalked Laurie Strode since the original Halloween (1978).

1000pts

2

Billy Loomis

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

667pts

3

Ghostface

The pop-culture-savvy masked killer whose identity shifts with each Scream installment.

618pts

4

Angela Baker

The traumatized camper whose shocking identity twist made Sleepaway Camp legendary.

533pts

5

Leatherface

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

400pts

6

Candyman

The hook-handed son of a slave summoned by mirror and condemned to haunt Cabrini-Green.

200pts

7

Freddy Krueger

The razor-gloved dream stalker who kills teenagers in their sleep in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

200pts

8

Patrick Bateman

The Wall Street psychopath from American Psycho who may or may not be committing murders.

200pts

9

Victor Crowley

The deformed, super-strong swamp monster from Adam Green's Hatchet slasher series.

200pts

10

Art the Clown

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

57pts

11

Pinhead

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

57pts

12

Chucky

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

57pts

13

Jason Voorhees

The undying hockey-masked killer from Camp Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th franchise.

1pts