BY: Andres Vallecilla Jaramillo
From childhood we were afraid of clowns and sewers, afraid of sleeping and having nightmares, or of encountering amurderer on October 31.
All this thanks to horror movies, which with films like "CHUCKY, THE DEVIL'S DOLL", "IT", THE KILLER CLOWN or "HALLOWEEN", made us tremble with fear and take refuge under the covers.
They are the worst of the worst and if they find you you will die, today we will talk about the TOP 5 most relevant and chilling horror villains in horror cinema.
5. Chucky from CHUCKY, THE DEADLY DOLL.
After begging many times, the friendly Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) convinces his mother to buy him the latest toy craze, the "Good Guy".
A friend of her mother tells her that there is a homeless man selling the doll for a low price, and the lady decides to buy it as a birthday present.
What he doesn't know is that before dying, Lee Ray, a serial killer, uses voodoo magic to possess the body of this doll who calls himself Chucky and uses the little boy as a distraction to commit his misdeeds.
It's worth noting that we'll soon be able to see this killer doll again in a new movie.
4. Pennywise the clown, from IT, THE KILLER CLOWN
Clowns aren't so funny anymore since we saw this movie. Pennywise has spent centuries terrorizing the dreams of innocent children, and thanks to him, taking a shower meant keeping an eye on the drain (at least in my case).
Pennywise has no fixed form, but he usually appears as a clown. In the film based on King's novel, he is seen as a bald clown with a white face, red hair around his head, a red nose, yellow suspenders with orange buttons, and white gloves; he occasionally carries balloons.
On numerous occasions, he appears with brown fangs to terrify his victims, an appearance that heightens the fear in onlookers. Many people developed coulrophobia (fear of clowns) because of characters like It, who is now a very popular icon among killer clowns. He has a very strange sense of humor. He often laughs and tells grotesque jokes.
3. Michael Myers from HALLOWEEN
Michael Myers was born on October 19, 1957. He had two sisters, Judith Margaret Myers and Cynthia Myers. Due to the amount of time Michael spent alone, he began to hear voices, voices that only he could hear and that urged him to kill.
On October 31, 1963, Michael crossed the street and saw his sister Judith and her boyfriend sitting on the sofa, kissing and engaging in sexual activity. Michael, still dressed in his clown costume from Halloween, entered the house through the kitchen, took a knife from a kitchen drawer, and waited until the boyfriend left. Michael then went upstairs and brutally stabbed his sister to death.
For this crime, Michael is sent to Smith's Grove Sanatorium, a psychiatric hospital, where he remains for fifteen years under the care of Dr. Samuel Loomis. On October 30, 1978, Michael escapes and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill his 17-year-old sister, Laurie, and finish what he started 15 years earlier.
He is attributed with mystical powers and immortality, and as a curious fact, the mask he uses was molded from the face of William Shatner.
2. Jason Voorhees from FRIDAY THE 13TH
Jason was a child who was constantly abused; his mental disabilities due to his hydrocephalus were mocked, and he was physically and mentally abused. The abuse at camp was so severe that Jason's classmates chased him to the lake, where he fell in and, unable to swim, drowned.
The camp counselors were not attentive, as they were under the influence of drugs and were more interested in having sex with each other than doing their job, which is why Pamela Voorhees, their mother, took revenge, thus beginning the Crystal Lake massacre, later known as "the bloody camp".
The mother is killed by a machete blow to the head and Jason returns from the dead to continue the revenge.
His most notable characteristic is that he always wears a hockey mask.
1. Freddy Krueger from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
After raiding his home and finding several versions of his famous bladed gloves, Freddy is found guilty of murdering several children in Springwood. Freddy is sent to prison and then released, as the search warrant against him was not signed properly.
The parents of these children, blinded and thirsty for revenge, decide that night to take justice into their own hands, follow him to his boiler room and set him on fire.
Before dying in the flames, three dream demons approached Freddy. These demons roamed the earth searching for a cruel and bloodthirsty soul to turn dreams into reality. Freddy accepted their offer to become "eternal."«.
Thirteen years later, Krueger had become an urban legend. The parents of Elm Street silently recalled the events of the previous decade, while their children were now teenagers. In late 1981, teenagers in Springwood (specifically those whose parents had been involved in Krueger's murder) began to die, but this time in a peculiar way—in their sleep. Often, the parents ignored or dismissed their children's stories of seeing a man named Freddy who was haunting their dreams.
While the victim slept, Krueger could invade and take control of their dreams, leading them to their death. Any damage inflicted in their dreams persisted in the real world, allowing him to commit multiple murders. Freddy often toyed with his victims, shapeshifting and unexpectedly appearing in the same factory where he was burned. His powers increased as more people believed in his existence. At the height of his powers, he could cause great harm in the real world, such as possessing humans or even his own corpse. By murdering his victims, the souls of the teenagers were absorbed into Krueger's body, granting him even more power.
BY: Andres Vallecilla Jaramillo