i have a crush on scary movie villains

This may be true. Last week I was doing some research for the podcast on horror villains. I came across some youtube videos of some of the best lists according to the youtube video poster. I thought it was an interesting topic considering I'm really scared of scary movies yet I LOVE THEM. So I figured with Halloween on Monday, lets talk scary.

My top 10 list of scary movie villans:

10. Stuart and Billy from the original Scream movie.



This was one of the first "slasher" movies I ever watched as a kid. Yep, that's right. As a kid. Okay, I was eleven but that's still young. I wanted to watch this movie so bad, back when video stores had waiting lists for new releases...luckily my LITTLE sister brought it over when I babysat her one day and we sat on the couch and watched it. I still remember being more afraid than any of my younger siblings of these two, and when I see Matthew Lillard I still get the heebies. Out of all the Scream villians, these two were by far the best.

9. Room 1408 from the movie 1408



I am a recent watcher of this movie (meaning in the last year) and I have to say I thought it was pretty good. The room itself was extremely creepy and in no way would I want to spend the night there. I have a hard enough time with hotel rooms (which you'll see later in the list), and this one is just another one that I'm like....gah. SCARY.

8. Henry Evans from the movie The Good Son



Macaulay Culkin makes my blood run cold. Kid is really talented I swear, he can go from sweet bee sting kid in My Girl, to evil devil spawn child in this movie. Sometimes it is almost painful to watch such a cute kid be such a terror. It still creeps me out to watch this, I showed it to Zack a few months ago and surprisingly I think it creeped him out too, and he doesn't get creeped out often.

7. Alex from A Clockwork Orange



Okay, so I'll admit I've only made it through this movie a full time once. I know it's a classic but Alex absolutely terrifies me. Even now, seeing Macolm McDowell in Star Trek: Generations I had to look away from the screen periodically. Something about a droog running around murdering people and casually breaking into Singing In The Rain? Yeah, nothing messed up about that at all.

6. The Joker from the movie The Dark Knight



Heath Ledger is brilliant in this role, anyone will tell you this, it's no secret. And he was taken too early, some say this character drove him to his death, I'm not sure of my feelings on it, but it was clear he was extremely invested in this role. After this I would have loved to see more from his character.

5. Hannibal Lecter from the movie The Silence of the Lambs



Hannibal Lecter is the reason I am oddly obsessed with weird serial killers. Clearly I don't like them but I'm always intrigued with why they do what they do in the psychological aspect. For a while I wanted to be Jodie Foster's character. I wanted to get deep into the minds of these weirdos and find out what makes them tick. Hannibal was such a nice guy until he's eating your upper lip off of your face. Awkward.

4. Peter and Paul from the movie Funny Games



Two nice boys that are total nutjobs. They show up at a summer home and terrorize a family INCLUDING A CHILD. When scary movies mess with child I get a little weird. I don't like sadistic humor but for some reason it draws me in. Regardless of how messed up this is it's a brilliantly made film, at least worth viewing once. Polite murder is the way to go.

3. The Dragon from Faerie Tale Theatre: Sleeping Beauty



And she still is. My mother thought it would be fun to tape all of Shelly Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre's and it was a good idea until this one came along and I peed my pants watching it. I still have nightmares about her, and I know she's not technically a "movie" villian but I don't care, she is freaky. Watch this scene on youtube and you tell me if you'd let your kids watch this. Her voice alone is enough to make me pee and I will be interested to see if I am alone in this.

2. Jack Torrence/The Hotel from The Shining



*Lots of Simpson's Treehouse of Horror references up in here

I couldn't choose. Where Jack Torrence is a total creep, the hotel is just as freaky, if not moreso. Bloody elevators, rooms with naked women who want to make out with you, a ghostly bartender who looks like Odo from Deep Space Nine? That's enough to send me packing (told you, hotels freak me out). Apparently there is a lovely hotel in Colorado, The Stanley Hotel which Stephen King based The Shining off of, and is considered to be one of the most haunted places in America. I want to go to there.

If you know me at all, you shouldn't be surprised this is number one. Don't laugh.

1. Candyman from the horribly not scary but totally scary to an 8 year old movie Candyman



Thanks Dad for showing this movie to me when I was 8 and freaking me out for the rest of my life. When Zack tries to taunt me by yanking me into the bathroom and whispering Candyman in my ear I usually kick him before coiling into the fetal position on the carpet where I begin convulsing. Yes, I have THAT big of a problem with this hooked man, and even when he showed up as a Klingon brother of Worf's on The Next Generation I couldn't even like him because I knew what he would eventually become: the centerpoint of my inner-most fears. And to think, my grandma thought something titled Candyman was a children's move. Catholics are weird.

That took me so long to write, I hope it was enjoyed because wow...it was fun to make. Now go watch all of these movies and give me your opions on them.