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Summary
Horror moviesare imply to make the audience empathise with the victims and heroes and fear the villains , but some horror villains have tragical backstories , make them complex character . villain in repulsion movie are not meant to be likable , though some movie have made the mistake of overexplaining their story so the audience feel pity for them . However , there are some typesetter’s case where their backstories were explain in ways that added to what make them so chilling without ram the interview to root for them .
A horror villain having a sad backstory does n’t mean that their crimes and horrifying action mechanism are directly forgiven , and rather , it helps the audience understand why they do what they do , without apologize them or turning them into victims . The backstories of these repugnance villains were n’t always revealed aright away , and some of them were explained in sequel and prequels as their universes expanded , while others were explored in remakes .
10Sweeney Todd from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd had strong reasons to seek revenge.
Tim Burton’sSweeney Todd : The Demon Barber Of Fleet Streetis the motion picture adjustment of the musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler , and it introduces the TV audience to the deed of conveyance barber , play by Johnny Depp . Sweeney Toddopens with the barber arriving in London , in 1846 , and it ’s later give away why he was come back and why he was going after Judge Turpin ( Alan Rickman ) . Fifteen years in the first place , Todd was falsely convicted by Turpin and expatriate to Australia .
9Toshio from The Grudge
Toshio was part of a family tragedy.
Toshio is the ghost son from theJu - onandThe Grudgefranchises , and in both the Nipponese and American timelines , he has a tragic backstory . In the Japanese timeline , Toshio was the Logos of Takeo and Kayako Saeki , and his teacher at primary school , Kobayashi , was Kayako ’s old crush . This rekindle Kayako ’s smell for Kobayashi , and when Takeo found her journal , in which she expressed her look for Kobayashi , he believe she was cheating on him and that Toshio was n’t his son . When Kayako came home that day , Takeo stabbed her to death and killed the khat she had given to Toshio .
Toshio was sent to his room , but when he escaped to the attic , Takeo left him there to die . In the garret , Toshio found his female parent ’s corpse and was spirited aside by her ghost . In the American timeline , Kayako had a crush on her college instructor , Peter Kirk , leading to a misunderstanding with Takeo that ended with the latter snapping Kayako ’s neck . Takeo then took Toshio and drowned him in the bathing tub , along with his computed axial tomography . All this led Toshio to become a ghost in the house , along with his mother .
8Corey Cunningham from Halloween Ends
A traumatic event led Corey to make terrible decisions.
Corey Cunningham ( Rohan Campbell)became a Michael Myers copycat inHalloween Endsafter a traumatic event . On Halloween night in 2019 , 21 - class - old Corey was babysitting a male child name Jeremy , who decide to prank Corey by put away him inside the dome . despairing to get out , Corey kick back the doorway open , knock Jeremy over a staircase , bolt down him just as his parents get in . Despite not being intentional , Corey was check for worsen manslaughter but was cleared – however , Haddonfield does n’t draw a blank , and Corey faced rejection and intimidation from other townsfolk residents , leading him to get revenge by nonplus as Michael Myers .
7John Kramer from Saw
John Kramer channeled his pain in dangerous ways.
John Kramer ( Tobin Bell ) did n’t become the Jigsaw sequent killer just because . John and his wife , Jill , were expecting their first nestling , and John was so happy he even work up a ventriloquist doll for his child . Unfortunately , an incident at the infirmary where Jill work led to a miscarriage , with John return into a depression . John and Jill got a divorce some time afterwards , and concisely after , John was diagnosed with Crab , but due to a regardless error by a resident , his cancer evolved and was no longer treatable .
John then render to kill himself by drive his car off a cliff , but he pull round , giving him a new perspective on life and a new desire to live . This also lead him to decide to drop the quietus of his life testing other people ’s will to populate , specially those who were wasting their lives – the trouble is , he chose to do so through venomous trap and straining .
6Billy Lenz from Black Christmas (2006)
The Black Christmas remake expanded on Billy’s disturbing past.
The 1974 slasher filmBlack Christmasgot a open remake in 2006 , which , unlike the original flick , where everything about the villain was a mystery , research Billy ’s backstory . This reading ofBilly was pay in 1970 with severe icterus due to liver disease , which top to his female parent , Constance , abusing him . Five geezerhood afterward , on Christmas Eve , Constance and her devotee bump off Billy ’s father , and as Billy witnessed everything , he was shut up in the attic . Billy ’s tarradiddle got even bad when , in 1982 , Constance raped him to conceptualize another child as her boyfriend was impotent , and she gave birth to a girlfriend , Agnes .
In 1991 , Billy escaped from the attic , disfigured Agnes , and kill Constance and her buff . When the constabulary caught him , he was wipe out biscuit made out of Constance ’s anatomy , and so Billy was mail to a mental asylum . Billy escaped 15 years by and by and return to his former home , which was now a sorority house , and the rest is account .
5The Mother from Barbarian
The Mother’s actions were the result of a lot of trauma.
Barbarianhad a couple of surprisal for the hearing , among them the reveal of The Mother , who survive in the hidden corridor in the cellar of her house , which was possess by an histrion who rented it to tourists and more . It ’s later on revealed that , in the eighties , the sign ’s original owner , Frank , abduct women , sexually abused them , and prevent them jailed in the tunnel , and it was imply that he also blackguard the offsprings . The Mother , then , was the result of geezerhood of incest and ill-treatment , which is why she was deformed and had other sport .
4Daniel Robitaille from Candyman
Robitaille’s backstory is one of injustice & hate.
Candymanexplored the caption of the same name through Helen Lyle ( Virginia Madsen ) , a semiology graduate researching urban legends . Candyman is a emotional state muster up when someone suppose his name five times in front of a mirror , and he was unite to various murders at the Cabrini - Green Homes public lodging project . It ’s then explain that Candyman was a man named Daniel Robitaille , a Black homo born in the 1800s and the Word of a slave . Robitaille grew up to be a mountain lion , and he fell in love with a white fair sex , who became meaning .
The cleaning lady ’s founder sent a lynch mob after Robitaille , and they tailor off his right hand , smeared him with honeycomb , and let bees bite him to expiry . His body was later burned on a funeral pyre put up on the land site where Cabrini - Green Homes were later build , which is why his presence was linked to this specific seat .
3Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th
Jason’s tragic past affected his mother, too.
Although Jason Voorhees was n’t the scoundrel oftheFriday the 13thfranchiseuntil the second movie , his tragical backstory was revealed by his mother , Pamela , in the first movie . Jason had hydrocephalus , which caused an abnormally large headway , deformed facial features , and genial disablement . Pamela took Jason with her when she become a task as a Captain Cook at Camp Crystal Lake , butJason was bullied by other kids , who throw away him into the lake . As the counselors were consume sexual practice instead of supervising the children , Jason drown , which drove Pamela harebrained , lead her to take care for retaliation .
It was later revealed that Jason did n’t die , and he somehow made it to land safely , where we waited for his mother to find him . After finding his female parent ’s cadaver , Jason now looked for revenge and went after his female parent ’s killer , kick off his long account of murders in the horror music genre .
2Ms. Collins from Last Night in Soho
Last Night in Soho’s villain twist came with a tragic story.
Last Night in Sohospends a magnanimous part of its prison term leading its independent character , Ellie ( Thomasin McKenzie ) , and the audience into believing the scoundrel is Jack ( Matt Smith ) , Sandie ’s ( Anya Taylor - Joy ) young man and pander . The plot twirl inLast Night in Sohoreveals that Ellie ’s landlady , Ms. Collins ( Diana Rigg ) , was the real scoundrel as she was Sandie , and she had kill Jack and every other adult male she was pander to , obliterate their consistence in the firm ’s floor board and wall . Sandie was a untried , aspiring singer in the sixties who was seduced and flim-flam by Jack , who ended up pimping her to his manful business associates .
1Hannibal Lecter from the Hannibal Franchise
Lecter’s disturbing past led him to become the criminal everyone now knows.
The Silence of the Lambsestablished Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ) as one of the scariest and most dangerous villains in thehorror writing style , but his backstory was n’t reveal untilHannibal Rising . Lecter came from a sept of the Lithuanian nobleness , but his parent were wipe out when a Nazi Stuka bomber assail a Soviet armored combat vehicle in front of their forest hideout . Lecter and his younger sister , Mischa , were the only survivor , but before long after , they were catch by Nazi collaborators . After years of repressed memories , Lecter at long last unlock the traumatic memories of Mischa ’s decease : she was killed and cannibalized by Nazis , who also fed him his sister ’s corpse .
days by and by , after escaping from an orphans' asylum , Lecter was adopted by his uncle and his Japanese wife , with whom he formed a strong bond . Driven by trauma and an fixation to avenge Mischa ’s expiry , Lecter killed for the first time as a stripling , using a katana to decapitate a Isle of Man who insulted his aunt .
