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Favourite horror villain?

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Beren, Sep 14, 2008.

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Your favourite hjorror villain

  1. Jason Voorhees

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  2. Freddy Krueger

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  3. Michael Meyers

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  4. The Tall Man

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  5. Carrie

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  6. Christine

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  7. Jack Torrance / Overlook Hotel

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  8. Poltergeist Ghosts

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  9. Xenomorphs

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  10. Predators

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    6.7%

  11. Other

    7 vote(s)
    46.7%
  1. Beren

    Beren Lovesick and Lonely Wanderer Staff Member Member of the Week Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I'm not a connosieur of horror films, but I do watch them occassionally. For some reason I thought of putting up a poll on who your favourite horror villain is. Villains derived from previous works or religious depiction are excluded. (e.g. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Devil) The emphasis is on independent creations who have taken on something of an iconic status of their own.

    Here are the choices:

    1) Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th series

    2) Freddy Krueger - Nightmare on Elm Street series

    3) Michael Meyers - Halloween series

    4) The Tall Man - Phantasm series

    5) Carrie

    6) Christine

    7) Jack Torrance/Overlook Hotel - The Shining

    8) The ghosts from the Poltergeist series

    9) The xenomorphs - Alien series

    10) The Predators

    11) Other
     
    Beren, Sep 14, 2008
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    T2Bruno The only source of knowledge is experience Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Barney - I still have nightmares of purple dinosaurs.
     
    T2Bruno, Sep 14, 2008
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  3. Disciple of The Watch

    Disciple of The Watch Preparing The Coming of The New Order Veteran

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    Predators for me - those guys are badass incarnate.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Sep 15, 2008
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    Loreseeker A believer in knowledge Veteran

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    Never thought of Predator films as of horror films... (although the Predators are cool as creatures)
     
    Loreseeker, Sep 15, 2008
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    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    I'd have to say Jack Torrance - because he seems believable to me. A man could become insane and evil like him even without a supernatural evil influence.
     
    Montresor, Sep 15, 2008
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  6. Gnarfflinger

    Gnarfflinger Wiseguy in Training

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    What about Hannibal Lecter? Anthony Hopkins was a classic villain...
     
    Gnarfflinger, Sep 15, 2008
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    Oh man, the Tall Man was just too creepy as a kid when i first saw Phantasm. He was the opitamy of The ultimate BEBG. You couldn't defeat him for long & he ALWAYS came back with even more suprises
     
    martaug, Sep 15, 2008
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Man..... Jack Torrence, he sure did make it creepy.
     
    Takara, Sep 15, 2008
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    The Umbrella Corporation, without whom we would not have a genre of zombie horror shooters and a trilogy of movies (with more to come)
     
    The Magister, Sep 15, 2008
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    I'll be serious.

    Mother -- Psycho
    The birds -- Birds
    Annie Wilkes from Mistery always gives the shivers.

    My favorite villians are not in horror flicks... Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Mr Potter (It's a Wonderful Life), HAL9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey), and Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects).
     
    T2Bruno, Sep 15, 2008
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    X2. I voted the Tall Man. Creepy. Many of the others are cartoon characters (michale myers, jason, predators, freddy). The Tall Man was genuinely creepy.
     
    Jack Funk, Sep 15, 2008
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    One of the creepiest villains I remember is Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's 'The Night of the Hunter', as preacher Harry Powell. Not exactly horror, but creepy.
     
    Ragusa, Sep 15, 2008
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    Yup. He is MESSED UP!
     
    Jack Funk, Sep 15, 2008
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    I'm with the poster who mentioned Hannibal Lecter -- though as he is written and sometimes depicted in the films he comes off as almost supernatural, he is in fact nothing more than an extremely intelligent, canny, and sadistic villain. He has an element of reality to him that is sadly lacking in slasher flicks. I consider Silence of the Lambs to be a horror film. And a kick butt one.
     
    LKD, Sep 15, 2008
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  15. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    My vote goes to the 'Deadites' from Army of Darkness. What's not to love about the Deadites? :lol: :rolling:

     
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  16. Morgoth

    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    That long-haired chick from Ringu is the creepiest character I've seen, making her my favourite.
     
    Morgoth, Sep 16, 2008
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    Another vote for the unlisted Hannibal Lecter here. Amazing character.
     
    Cap'n CJ, Sep 16, 2008
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