TAG 5: Horror Movie Villains

(TAG 5 is a top five list compiled by secret ballot, submitted by the four horsemen of TAG. An extremely complicated equation is used to calculate the polls. Ties broken by first-place votes and ballots appeared on. A new ballot is released every Monday. Most of the time TAG 5 is related to SGF, sometimes it is not. )

What slasher flick bad guy is your favorite?

To keep our Halloween week of TAG 5s moving along, TAGsgf.com settles the debate of best horror movie villain. In horror movies, there’s a thin line between cheesy and realistic, scary and comical. The best doesn’t necessarily mean the scariest, but that helps. Some villains are downright horrifying, while the spookiness of Jack in The Shining and Norman Bates in the original Psycho is mostly because they appear like actual people. You might know that guy. Which villains would make your top five?

TAG 5

Four votes (as of 10/26/10)
Total points, first-place votes in parenthesis
1. Jack Torrance, The Shining – 10 (1)
T2. Leatherface, Texas Chainsaw Massacre – 7
T2. Alien, Alien – 7
4. Michael Myers, Halloween – 6 (1)
T5. Norman Bates, Psycho – 5 (1)
T5. Jigsaw, Saw – 5 (1)

Others receiving votes: Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street – 4, Jason, Friday the 13th – 4, Count Orlok, Nosferatu – 3, Damian, Omen – 3, Pinhead, Hellraiser – 2, Zombies, Night of the Living Dead – 2, Satan, The Exorcist – 2.