Gustof26 said:
Jerry Dandrige, from the original Fright Night. Not only is he one of the best horror villains ever, he's next to Dracula and Carmella as one of the most frightening and memorable vampires ever put on the big screen.
I'm watching that right now. Never has a man wearing a damn turtle neck looked so menacing.
Captain Rhodes from day of the dead. The man is, plainly, a psycho. The ease with which he throws aside "Frankenstein's" possibly z-war ending research is shocking, the crazy look in his eyes is terrifying, and the lengths he goes to in order to maintain control over the bunker are cruel and vicious.
Showing that "we are the real monsters" is a huge cliche, especially in zombie films, but George a Romero did it well with a human villain that made the zack practically loveable. Especially bub. You gotta love bub.
And really, do you have to care about cliches when you practically made the genre?
y'know what? I'm gonna mention a horror game villain. You can't gorram stop me!
Silent hill. Itself. It's not a town, it's an entity with it's own agendas and sick ways of making YOU fulfil them. It simply disappears roads to force you onto a certain path. It shifts to an even worse state when things were starting to look up, it tricks you, manipulates you, makes you relive and confront your worst moments and impulses, and it never even had the decency to fully explain itself.
Until the damn western developers got their mitts on it. Gorram homecoming...