Summary

• Iconic horror movie monsters like Billy the Puppet and Freddy Krueger are known for terrifying audiences.
• Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise are deadly killing machines with unique abilities like acidic blood.
• Villains like Pazuzu and Valak from The Exorcist and The Conjuring series exhibit powerful and malevolent characteristics.

Horror movies are known for their spectacular spooks and the incomparable tension that'll have you gripping your seats. But what horror movies are better known for are the terrifying monsters that stalk and terrorise t♊he protagonists.

From ghouls, ghosts, demo🤪ns and aliens, there have been numerous movies and franchises that have produced some of the most nightmare-inducing monsters we've ever encountered.

10 🍰 Billy The Puppet

The Saw Series

Billy is undoubtedly a creepy-looking puppet, and you know you're doomed the instant you see him. Billy became the icon of the Saw series created by James Wan, 🐬sending shivers down your spine due to his unnerving red eyes and unnaturally pale face.

Billy was created by the notorious Jigsaw killer, John Kramer, a man known for playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sadistic death games with his victims. Kramer has a penchant for dramatiꦬcs, using Billy as an intermediary to communicate the rules through video or approaching the victims firsthand. There have been multiple versions of Billy throughout the series, continuing to serve as a harbinger of doom in Kramer's sch💯emes.

9 🌠 Freddy📖 Krueger

A Nightmare On Elm Street Series

One of the most iconic horror movie monsters in history, Freddy Krueger has maintained a lasting legꦺacy in the horror genre. D🏅espite his demonic appearance, Krueger was once an average-looking human who, in truth, was a bloodthirsty serial killer.

Krueg🉐er carried his sadistic tastes into the afterlife, turning into a fearsome demon that's capable of infiltrating people's dreams and killing them in their sleep. Krueger's popularity extends beyond A Nightmare On Elm Street film series, as he was featured in the Friday The 13th series, and even became a playable character in the 2011 Mortal Kombat.

8 Sadako

The Ring Series

The antagonist of the Ring's film and novel series, Sadako was not always a vengeful spirit. Before, she was a living girl with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:powerful psychic abilities, who met a tragic fate at the bottom of a well.

Sadako sustained herself in the afterlife through sheer hate, using her psychic powers to spread a curse through a videotape. Her victims had seven days to live after watching the entire tape unless they passed on the ꦬcur🎀se by sharing the tape with someone else, whereupon Sadako would kill them by either planting a throat tumor or emerging from the TV.

7 Xenomorph

The Alien Franchise

One of the most resilient, deadly and dreadful monsters of sci-fi horror, the Xenomorph is an efficient killing machine. Physically powerful and agile, the alien's skin is extremely durable, with bullets unable to deal damage to it and acidic blood that can ꧟melt through anything.

What is terrifying about the Xenomorph is its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:life cycle, unleashing facehuggers to insert a parasitical embry✅o into a living organism, whereupon they'll burst out of its host's body. The Xenomorph matures very quickly and is near-unkillable, with unbelievably sharp senses ideal for hunting down its prey.

6 Pennywise

The It Series

The brainchild of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:renowned author Stephen King, Pennywise is the antagonist of the It film series. A shape༒shifting entity, Pennywise terrorises the town of Derry ༒and largely targets the children, dragging them (or their corpses) down into the sewers where he lives.

Bloodthirsty with a penchant for mischievousness, Pennywise awakens every 27 years to hunt. It instinctively knows its prey's fears and grows stronger by feeding on them. However, Pennywise's reign of🦹 terror ends after it is killed by Derry denizens Billie, Richie, and their gang of close misfits.

5 Pazuzu

The Exorcist (1973)

Pazuzu had the world in its grip when the horror smash hit The Exorcist flooded the screens in 1973. Undoubtedly powerful, Pazuzu is based on a Mesopotamian deity of the same name, who is the king of💦 the wind demons.

Pazuzu sows chaos wherever he goes, possessing 12-year-old Regan McNeil after she played with an Ouija board. Although he eventually leaves Regan's body, he manages to kill both priests sent to exorcise him from his vessel. His reign of terror continues in the sequel and the TV series made thereafter, showcasing his manipulative, perverse and sadistic natu♛re every chance he gets.

4 Mi🥂ster Babadook ✃

The Babadook (2014)

Mister Babadook is a malevolent entity that delightꦑs in playing with its victims. It particularly loves to psychologically torture its prey, as shown wiꦺth the Vanek family in the movie.

It isn't known how the Babadook picks its victims, but it would leave behind a child's picture book, and begin terrorising its chosen family after they read the book's poem aloud. Garbed in a black trenchcoat and top hat,𝓰 the Babadook gains power through instilling fear and paranoia to the point it's able to possess its victims and force them to do unthinkable things.

3 The Thing

A monster that induces paranoia in its victims and the audience, The Thing is si♛ngle-minded in its goal to consume and duplicate all living organisms. The Thing was awakened from its thousands of years' worth of hibernation and began absorbing all the life forms it could find.

In both the original 1982 film and its 2011 remake, The Thing quickly establishes itself with absolutely 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fantastic practical effects. This hostile alien life form could separate itself into multiple oཧrganisms, which makes it extremely efficient at absorbing and replicating its victims, with everybody else none the🎃 wiser until it's too late.

2 T🍷he Bride In Black 🐎

The Insidious Series

Althougജh the first Insidious movie centres on another monster, The Bride In Black quickly stole the show. A spirit꧒ roaming The Further, The Bride In Black became the central antagonist in Insidious: Chapter 2, terrorising the Lambert patriarch since childhood.

It turns out that The Bride In Black was, in fact, a man. Abused by his mother (who was upset he was born male), the Bride continues to be haunted by his mother's spirit as an adult, which pushes him to become a serial killer. He successfully possesses Josh Lambert and yearns to have a normal boಞyhood, but his mother's ghost sticks with him even then.

1 Valak

The Conjuring 2 And The Nun Series

With a ghastly white face and gaunt appearance, Val🔯ak debuted in The Conjuring 2, proceeding with a memorabl♋e jump scare scene using Ed Warren's painting.

Valak is a ꦺmalicious, powerful demon who influences the narrative of The Conjuring series multiple times, such as being behind the Enfield Haunting and the Amityville hauntings of the first two movies. Valak was popular enough to warrant its own standalone film series, with The Nun in 🔯2018, and a sequel in 2023.