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Like humor, Horror is often In the eyes of the spectator. What scares me may seem laughable, and vice versa (but probably not, because when it comes to frightening films, I am a big baby). But then there are these terrors which are so large that they are practically universal - the killers and the monsters, essentially, everyone agrees them. Read the continuation for 10 which is held among the most frightening cinema characters ever designed.

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It is difficult to think of an image of horror more emblematic than that of Freddy Krueger ( Robert Englund )) Glove with razor fingers, but the horribly marked serial killer prevails over his contemporaries (including Jason dressed in a hockey mask Friday 13 franchise) for the pure terror of his Modus Bruid Operandi. By entering the dreams of his victims, Freddy has the power to injure ourselves where we are the most vulnerable (our subconscious) when we are the most vulnerable - everyone must sleep, right?

(Do not take into account the subsequent incarnations of the character, which spends as much time making bad puns as sculpt the victims.)

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I can't find Michael Myers terrifying for his appearance, but an obstacle guy with a huge knife and a ghost William Shatner mask is definitely frightening, but for the way he sees. John Carpenter's Halloween Mainly perfected the modern slasher film, but its chronicle of an unleashing of an incessant killer in a small troubled town and terrifies the most when the camera takes The point of view of the murderer Himself, caught up with his unspeakable acts while we look through the eye holes in his mask.

Another masked killer, the stab (s) maniac (s) Shout The films are frightening for both general vibrations - which lying down Edvard Munch The mouth will never crawl me; There is also something so close and personal in a knife as a murder weapon - and for the mystery of whom is under the mask. Because like a film after the other in the series showed us, he is probably someone you know, and maybe even someone you think is your friend. And you will not know that you are wrong as long as they don't stick it to you. Literally.

THE Extraterrestrial The franchise covered with genres, Epic action (1986 Alien ) to prison drama (the very dissected Alien3 ), but Ridley Scott 1979 Original is a horror film from start to finish, the threat of another world representing a number of more human serial killers. The emblematic design of the creature - impossible, elongated, sparkling with deadly sticky, far too many teeth and one more mouth than what seems strictly necessary - is quite terrifying; The fact that the film shows it to us in just overviews makes it much more frightening.

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Many films of serial killers position the killer as an attractive threat - Lecter Channical is as charming as it is a cannibal murderer, for example. But the nameless antagonist of David Fincher Seven , his sadistic narcissism perfectly embodied by Kevin Spacey in the ways that feel Even more disturbing in retrospective , is a much more bizarre creation: an obsessive self-aggregating that is convinced of the moral clarity of its cause, even if it is the victim. Its plans may not be as elaborate as the wild traps of Saw Films, but there is no doubt that John Kramer learned of Joe Doe's knee.

There is an argument to argue that the horrors faced by the young protagonist of Guillermo del Toro Fantastic horror drama Pan's Labyrinth are all metaphorical - manifestations or manifestations of trauma forged on the young girl by fascism in French Spain. But real or imagined, things do not become much more frightening than the pale man (played by a famous creature actor Doug Jones ), with his eyes without eyes, his painful hands without use and his apparently insatiable appetite for the flesh of children. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

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Located in an abandoned housing project in Chicago and focused on a series of macabre supernatural murders, the 1992 urban thriller Candy Would already be frightening enough for its sorry frame and its dark themes (racism and racial violence) were the holder figure, played by Tony Todd , also not so damn frightening: an imposing silhouette in a trench, brandishing a meat hook like a weapon and announced by swarms of bees. Simply say his name five times in a mirror, I challenge you.

Before Mr. Babadook became A meme or one queer icon , he was simply the monster in a horror film independent of the Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent - Although we keep defending complex metaphorical themes (sorrow, depression, trauma) which are all more frightening because we fight with them in real life. In addition, with its elongated limbs, its pale skin, its incredibly oversized mouth and its shroud like a trench - without mentioning the way it moves through the ceiling like a spider - it is also terrifying at the visceral level as well.

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The most human monster on this list, Stephen King Creation of the obsessive fan Annie Wilkes (brought to life in an indelible and Oscar -winning performance of Kathy Bates ), draws the broken body from its favorite author with a car wreck and proceeds to bring him home to "take care" of him - which means forcing him to shape his art to his whims. In the Internet era, the character looks like a premonitory prediction of Culture of toxic fans This has become standardized in social media discourse and problematic parasocial relationships. She is also frightening in a less symbolic way, which is accompanied by her demands to give her what she wants, because she wants, even if she needs a hammer to bring you to her point of view.

Henry SELICK Coralie (based on Neil Gaiman Novel) is ostensibly an animated film in hitchhiking for children, but I would not dream of letting my little ones look. When her young titular protagonist finds his way in a magic mirror world, everything seems initially better, animals that speak in the colorful garden of his house to the best, more friendly and more accommodating of her parents, in particular her other mother (expressed by Teri Hatcher ), the same thing in all directions, with the exception of her wider smile and her shiny button eyes. But these unknowable eyes hide a dark hunger, and there is nothing like to face the knowledge that your own mother wants to swallow you up, the soul of abord.

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