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. All characters are listed under their appropiate surname, otherwise they are listed under their first name if the latter does not apply. Please ensure to check that the character has not already been listed before adding to this article.

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[edit] 0-9

351 Peterbilt Tanker truck - from Steven Spielberg's Duel
1958 Plymouth Fury - from Christine, created by Stephen King
1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III - from The Car, directed by Elliot Silverstein.
1974 Black Dodge Charger - from Christopher Cain's Wheels of Terror

[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
Angela - from the Night of the Demons series
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 - from Bones, starring Snoop Dogg
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
Blade puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features

[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
Billy Chapman - from Silent Night, Deadly Night
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 created by Christophe Gans
Matt Cordell - from the Maniac Cop series
Frank Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
Julia Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
Vera Cosgrove (Mother 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
Cyclops puppet - from the Retro Puppet Master film, produced by Full Moon Features

[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 the Final Destination series, created by James Wong and Craig Perry

Dr. Death puppet - from the Retro Puppet Master film, produced by Full Moon Features
Decapitron puppet - from Puppet Master 4, produced by Full Moon Features
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

Fannie - from American Gothic
Dr. Alan Feinstone - from the films The Dentist and The Dentist 2 , directed by Brian Yuzna
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 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
The Gemini Killer - from the movie The Exorcist III
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 (The Headless Horseman)- from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, created by Washington Irving
Henry - from John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
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

it -by Stephen King's novel It

[edit] J

Professor Henry Jarrod - from André De Toth's House of Wax
John Kramer/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
Jackson Rippner - from Red Eye, created by Wes Craven

(although not necessarily a killer, per se, he still qualifies as a horror film antagonist)

Jester puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features

[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
Freddy Krueger - from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, created by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund
John Kramer - from the Saw series, created by Leigh Whannel and James Wan

[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
Leech Woman puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
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
Reverend Lowe - from Silver Bullet

[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 (Mephistopheles) - 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 (Rasalom) - 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
Pinhead puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
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
Pyramid Head - from Silent Hill created by Christophe Gans

[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