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This is a list of monsters and killers that feature in horror films. All characters are listed under their appropiate surname, otherwise they are listed under their first name if the latter does not apply. Please ensure to check that the character has not already been listed before adding to this article.

• 351 Peterbilt Tanker truck - from Steven Spielberg's Duel
• 1958 Plymouth Fury - from Christine, created by Stephen King
• 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III - from The Car, directed by Elliot Silverstein.
• 1974 Black Dodge Charger - from Christopher Cain's Wheels of Terror

• Alessa Gillespie - from the film Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans
• Mickey Altieri - from Scream 2
• Rotten Aliens - from Peter Jackson's movie Bad Taste
• Ted Allison (The Ghoul) - from The Mad Ghoul
• Angela - from the Night of the Demons series
• Aylmer (Elmer) - from Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage

• Baby Firefly from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
• Angela Baker from the Sleepaway Camp series
• Doctor William Barton from The Creature Walks Among Us
• Patrick Bateman - from American Psycho, created by Bret Easton Ellis
• Brenda Bates from Urban Legend
• Norman Bates - from the Psycho films, created by Robert Bloch
• Besty Bell - from Courtney Solomon's An American Haunting
• Attacking Birds - from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
• The Blair Witch from The Blair Witch Project
• Blob creature from The Blob
• Blood Parasites - from David Cronenberg's Shivers
• Bloody Mary (Mary Banner) from Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
• Jimmy Bones - from Bones, starring Snoop Dogg
• Frank Booth - from Blue Velvet, created by David Lynch
• Belial Bradley - from Basket Case, created by Frank Henenlotter
• The Breather - from Student Bodies, created by Mickey Rose
• Brother Papa from Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs
• Roman Bridger - from Scream 3
• Bub - lead zombie from Day of the Dead, created by George A. Romero
• Roy Burns - from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
• Blade puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features

• Max Cady - from Cape Fear
• Stanley Caldwell - from Po-Chih Leong's Cabin by the Lake (2000) IMDb and Return to Cabin by the Lake (2001) IMDb
• Dr. Caligari - from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the 1989 cult film Dr. Caligari directed by Stephen Sayadian which features Caligari's supposed great grand-daughter, and the 2005 remakeThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
• Dr. David Callaway (Charlie) - from John Polson's Hide and Seek
• May Dove Canady - from Lucky McKee's May
• Sutter Cane - from John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
• Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers - from the film C.H.U.D.
• Mama Cecile from The Skeleton Key
• Cenobites - from the Hellraiser series, also created by Clive Barker
• Cesare the somnambulist - from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. (Philip) Channard - from Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• Billy Chapman - from Silent Night, Deadly Night
• Chucky doll (Charles Lee Ray) - from the Child's Play films, created by Don Mancini
• Chatterer - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker
• The Clown - from Camp Blood, created by Brad Sykes
• Conal Cochran - from Halloween III: Season of the Witch created by Tommy Lee Wallace
• Colin the Janitor - from Silent Hill created by Christophe Gans
• Matt Cordell - from the Maniac Cop series
• Frank Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
• Julia Cotton - from the Hellraiser series created by Clive Barker
• Vera Cosgrove (Mother Cosgrove) from Peter Jackson's Braindead
• Hugh Crain - from The Haunting, created by Shirley Jackson
• Crawlers - from the movie The Descent
• The Creep (Craig) from Creep
• The Creeper - from the Jeepers Creepers films, created by Victor Salva
• Crites or Krites (commonly called Critters) - from the Critters film series
• Cropsy the gardener - from The Burning
• Cyclops puppet - from the Retro Puppet Master film, produced by Full Moon Features

• Jerry Dandridge - from Fright Night
• Darla - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
• Deadites - from The Evil Dead trilogy, created by Sam Raimi
• Death - from Cemetery Man, created by Michele Soavi

also, Death is the main killer in the Final Destination series, created by James Wong and Craig Perry

• Dr. Death puppet - from the Retro Puppet Master film, produced by Full Moon Features
• Decapitron puppet - from Puppet Master 4, produced by Full Moon Features
• Dr. Philip K. Decker - from Clive Barker's Nightbreed, starring David Cronenberg
• Alex DeLarge - from A Clockwork Orange, created by Anthony Burgess
• The Djinn - from the Wishmaster films
• John Doe - from David Fincher's movie Se7en
• Francis Dolarhyde (The Tooth Fairy) - from Red Dragon and Manhunter, created by Thomas Harris
• Donald Duck voiced Killer - from Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper
• Count Vlad Dracula - from Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, created by Bram Stoker
• Jonathan Drew - from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger
• Otis B. Driftwood - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
• Irena Dubrovna from the Cat People films
• The Dutch Businessman - from Eli Roth's Hostel
• Dwarf killer - from Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now

• Erik The Phantom - from The Phantom of the Opera, created by Gaston Leroux

• Fannie - from American Gothic
• Dr. Alan Feinstone - from the films The Dentist and The Dentist 2 , directed by Brian Yuzna
• Female Cenobite - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker
• The Firefly Family - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
• The Fisherman - from the I Know What You Did Last Summer films
• Ginger Fitzgerald - from the Ginger Snaps film series
• Randall Flagg (Dark Man) from Stephen King's The Stand
• The Fly (David Hedison in 1958 version, alternatively Seth Brundle in 1986 remake) - from The Fly (1986) and The Fly (1958) films, created by George Langelaan
• The Four Fascist Libertines (The Duke, The Bishop, The Magistrate - Curval, The President) - from Pier Paolo Pasolini's adaptation of de Sade's Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• Frankenstein's Monster - from Frankenstein and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, created by Mary Shelley
• Sheriff George Fraser - from The Prowler (also known as Rosemary's Killer and The Graduation)
• The Carnival Freaks from Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks
• Jack Frost - from the 1997 horror film Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)

• Gabriel - from The Prophecy films, created by Gregory Widen and starring Christopher Walken
• The Gemini Killer - from the movie The Exorcist III
• Ghosts of lepers from The Fog, created by John Carpenter
• Ghostface - from the Scream series, created by Kevin Williams
• The Gill Man from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Godzilla - from the Godzilla movies produced by the Toho Film Company Ltd.
• Golem - from the 1915 film The Golem
• Jacob Goodnight - from Gregory Dark's See No Evil
• Graboids - from the Tremors films
• Delbert Grady also Grady the Caretaker - from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, created by Stephen King
• Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray, created by Oscar Wilde
• Great White Shark - from Steven Spielberg's Jaws
• Gray Child - from Christophe Gans's Silent Hill
• Dr. Jack Griffin - from The Invisible Man, created by H.G. Wells
• Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) - from The Silence of the Lambs, created by Thomas Harris

• Alex Hammond - from the 1980 film Prom Night
• The Hessian Horseman (The Headless Horseman)- from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, created by Washington Irving
• Henry - from John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
• Karl Hochman - from Rachel Talalay's Ghost in the Machine
• Hiruko - from Shinya Tsukamoto's Hiruko The Goblin
• Baby Jane Hudson - from Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, created by Henry Farrell
• Grandpa Hugo - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
• Mr. Edward Hyde - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, created by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Imhotep The Mummy - from the Universal Horror The Mummy film starring Boris Karloff

it -by Stephen King's novel It

• Professor Henry Jarrod - from André De Toth's House of Wax
• John Kramer/Jigsaw - from the SAW series, created by James Wan
• The Judas Breed (cockroaches) - from the Mimic films, created by Guillermo del Toro
• Jupiter's Clan - from The Hills Have Eyes, created by Wes Craven
• Papa Justify - from The Skeleton Key
• Jackson Rippner - from Red Eye, created by Wes Craven

(although not necessarily a killer, per se, he still qualifies as a horror film antagonist)

• Jester puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features

• Kakihara - from the movie Ichi the Killer, created by Hideo Yamamoto
• Principal Kastleman - from the 1987 film Return to Horror High IMDb, created by Bill Froehlich
• Reverend Henry Kane (also known as The Beast) - from the Poltergeist movie series, created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor
• Kayako Saeki - The ghostly female spirit from the Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
• Kharis The Mummy - from the Universal Horror sequels: The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse
• Kong from King Kong, created by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper
• Mickey & Mallory Knox - from Natural Born Killers, created by Oliver Stone
• Cyrus Kriticos - from the movie Thir13en Ghosts, created by William Castle
• Freddy Krueger - from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, created by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund
• John Kramer - from the Saw series, created by Leigh Whannel and James Wan

• Leatherface - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film, created by Tobe Hooper
• Dr. Hannibal Lecter - from The Silence of the Lambs, created by Thomas Harris
• Leech Woman puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• The Leprechaun - from the Leprechaun series
• Mark Lewis - from Michael Powell's Peeping Tom
• Edward Lionheart - from Theatre of Blood
• Ben London - from William Butler's Madhouse (2004) IMDb
• Billy Loomis - from Wes Craven's Scream, created by Kevin Williamson
• Mrs. Loomis/Debbie Salt (Billy's mother) - from Scream 2, also created by Kevin Williamson
• Reverend Lowe - from Silver Bullet

• Ma - from American Gothic
• Doctor Mabuse - from the Dr. Mabuse films, created by Fritz Lang
• Stuart Macher - from Scream, created by Kevin Williamson
• Machine from the 1999 film 8mm
• Regan MacNeil (possessed by Pazuzu) - from The Exorcist films, created by William Peter Blatty
• Marie (The Trucker/Killer) - from Alexandre Aja's Haute Tension
• The Martian Ghosts - from John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
• Mephisto (Mephistopheles) - from F.W. Murnau's Faust
• Metals Fetishist - from Tetsuo: The Iron Man, created by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Reno Miller - from The Driller Killer, created by Abel Ferrara
• Molasar (Rasalom) - from the 1983 film The Keep, directed by Michael Mann and created by F. Paul Wilson
• Trevor Moorehouse from the Bloody Murder film series, created by John R. Stevenson
• Samara Morgan from the American version of The Ring series
• Mother Firefly - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
• Mountain Men - from Wrong Turn, created by Alan B. McElroy and from Deliverance, created by James Dickey
• Michael Myers (also known as The Shape) - from the Halloween film series, created by John Carpenter

• Nemesis - from the Resident Evil series
• Rachael Newman - from Morgan J. Freeman's American Psycho II: All American Girl
• Nubbin (Edward Sawyer) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film, created by Tobe Hooper

• Onryou - from the Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
• Count Orlok - from the 1922 film Nosferatu by F.W. Murnau
• Otis - from John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer

• Pennywise the Clown - from Stephen King's It
• Rhoda Penmark - from The Bad Seed, created by William March
• Peter and Paul (also known as Tom and Jerry and Beavis and Butthead) - from Michael Haneke's movie Funny Games
• Dr. Anton Phibes - from The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, starring Vincent Price
• Pinhead Cenobite - from the Hellraiser series, created by Clive Barker and starring Doug Bradley
• Pinhead puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• Pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Reverend Harry Powell - from The Night of the Hunter, created by Davis Grubb
• The Predator (also known as Yautja) - from the Predator films
• Doctor Septimus Pretorius from Bride of Frankenstein
• Prospero - from Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, created by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pumpkinhead - from the movie Pumpkinhead
• Puppets - from the Puppet Master film series
• Pyramid Head - from Silent Hill created by Christophe Gans

• Quasimodo - from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, created by Victor Hugo

• Doctor Evan Rendell - from Dr. Giggles
• Returners (Living Dead) - from Cemetery Man, created by Michele Soavi
• Daniel Robitaille (also known as Candyman) - from the Candyman series, created by Clive Barker
• Rodan from various Godzilla movies
• Rothman - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
• Grandfather Albert Rua (also known as The Dark) - from Jaume Balagueró's Darkness
• Rusty Nail from Joy Ride
• John Ryder - from Robert Harmon's movie The Hitcher

• Dr. Satan (S. Quentin Quale) - from House of 1000 Corpses, created by Rob Zombie
• The Sawyer Family (Leatherface, Chop Top, Drayton Sawyer and Edward Sawyer) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film series, created by Tobe Hooper
• Drayton Sawyer (also known as The Cook) - from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film series, created by Tobe Hooper
• William Sawyer (also known as Chop Top) - from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 film, created by Tobe Hooper
• The Shamatari (Cannibal) tribe - from Cannibal Holocaust, created by Ruggero Deodato
• Shivers the Clown - from Kevin Kanga's Fear of Clowns (2004) IMDb
• Bo Sinclair from Jaume Collet-Serra's 2005 remake House of Wax
• Vincent Sinclair - from Jaume Collet-Serra's 2005 remake House of Wax
• Sister Mama from Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs
• The Six Names of The Demon (Cain, Nero, Judas, Legion, Belial and Lucifer) - from Scott Derrickson's The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• Six Shooter puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• Slausen from the film Tourist Trap, portrayed by actor Chuck Connors
• Professor Solomon - from Urban Legends: Final Cut
• Captain Spaulding - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
• Carl Rudolph Stargher from The Cell
• Krug Stillo - from Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left
• Lord Summerisle - from The Wicker Man, starring Christopher Lee
• Beverly R. Sutphin - from John Waters' movie Serial Mom
• Simon - from The Ugly
• Scavenger from the film Scavenger

• T-800, T-1000, T-X - from James Cameron's The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Larry Talbot - from the 1941 film The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr.

Tak - from Stephen King's Desperation.

• The Tall Man (Jebediah Morningside) - from the Phantasm film series, created by Don Coscarelli
• Mick Taylor - from the movie Wolf Creek
• Teddy - from American Gothic
• The Thing - from John Carpenter's The Thing
• Damien Thorn - from The Omen trilogy created by David Seltzer
• Lars Thorwald - from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
• Tiny Firefly - from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, created by Rob Zombie
• Tooth Fairy - from Darkness Falls
• Torch puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• Jack Torrance - from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, created by Stephen King
• Toshio - from Ju-on/The Grudge series, created by Takashi Shimizu
• Andre Toulon the puppet-maker - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• Tunneler puppet - from the Puppet Master series, produced by Full Moon Features
• Turkell - from Maniac Cop 2

• Uzumaki or Spiral/Vortex - featured in the Japanese horror movie of the same name directed by Higuchinsky

• Vampires featured in Tom Holland's Fright Night films, Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, the From Dusk Till Dawn series created by Robert Rodriguez, and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

See also: list of other films that feature vampires

• Richard B. Vannacutt from House on Haunted Hill
• Mason Verger - from Hannibal, created by Thomas Harris
• Leslie Vernon from Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
• Officer Joe Vickers from the Psycho Cop films
• Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters II
• Vilmer - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
• Jason Voorhees - from all but two of the Friday the 13th films, created by Sean S. Cunningham
• Pamela Voorhees - from the original Friday the 13th

• W.E. - from Kim Henkel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
• Harry Warden - from My Bloody Valentine
• Dr. William Weir from Event Horizon
• Werewolves featured in Dog Soldiers, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling films and Ginger Snaps trilogy

See also: list of other films that feature werewolves

• Dr. Herbert West - from the Re-Animator films, created by H.P. Lovecraft
• Carrie White - from Stephen King's Carrie
• Annie Wilkes - from Stephen King's Misery
• Woody - from American Gothic

• Xenomorph alien creature - featured in the Alien film series

• Sadako Yamamura - from Hideo Nakata's The Ring series, created by Kôji Suzuki
• Asami Yamazaki - from Miike Takashi's Audition
• The Yanomamo (Cannibal) tribe - from Cannibal Holocaust, created by Ruggero Deodato

• Frank Zito - from William Lustig's 1980 movie Maniac
• Zombies featured in George A. Romero's Living Dead films and the Return of the Living Dead films

See also: List of other films that feature zombies or the undead

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