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“Played by: Mercedes McCambridge (voice)

Film(s): The Exorcist (1973)

It's the mocking, malevolent entity that seizes hold of an innocent young girl and proceeds to turn her into a hellish shock jock, so that it can settle old scores with two priests. Besides that, Pazuzu ha”

53 - Asami

“Played by: Eihi Shiina

Film(s): Audition (1999)

She's a serial seducer and torturer who keeps her victims in sacks. Remember, words create lies but pain can be trusted. Kiri kiri kiri...

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54 - Blade

“Played by: Wesley Snipes

Film(s): Blade (1998), Blade II (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004)

Unusually violent for a Marvel property, Blade avoids the moral ambiguities of the similarly trigger-happy Punisher by only slaughtering vampires. He's also cooler than Steve McQueen at t” read more

69 - Peter Vincent

“Played by: Roddy McDowall

Film(s): Fright Night (1985)

Roddy McDowall's prissy, hammy horror show host, forced to discover his faith and become the thing he's pretended to be for thirty years when he's confronted with real vampires, is a delight. Miles away from David Tennant's” read more

70 - Chief Brody

“Played by: Roy Scheider

Film(s): Jaws (1975)

One of the wonders of Jaws is that its three heroes seem like ordinary guys, played by men who didn't wander straight out of modelling school and onto a movie set. When Roy Scheider's Martin Brody takes his shirt off, there's no ri” read more

72 - Darryl Revok

“Played by: Michael IronsideFilm(s): Scanners (1981)Michael Ironside's cocksure scanner will blow your mind. Sometimes literally, on live TV.” read more

73 - Candyman

“Played by: Tony Todd

Film(s): Candyman (1992)

Tony Todd's hook-handed legend has, unusually for a franchise fiend, layers of emotional depth and something of a tragic sheen. We know what happens if you say his name five times into a mirror, but what happens if you type it? Cand” read more

76 - Dani Ardor

“Played by: Florence Pugh

Film(s): Midsommar (2019)

Listen, just don’t dump a girl when she’s dealing with the death of her entire family. Ari Aster makes the scariest break-up movie you’ve ever seen, in which Florence Pugh proves she wears both a frown and a flower crown ” read more

83 - The Tall Man

“Played by: Angus Scrimm

Film(s): Phantasm (1979)

Angus Scrimm, in a suit that's too tight for him to accentuate his slender frame, squints and scowls for all he's worth as the iconic bad guy of Don Coscarelli's completely (and we mean this with love) bonkers franchise. An inter” read more

78 - Lawrence Talbot

“Played by: Lon Chaney Jr.Film(s): The Wolf Man (1941)Sorry Benicio. There's only room enough for one Wolf Man on this list and that goes to Chaney Jr., whose quiet, tormented dignity makes his monster Universal.” read more

79 - Pale Man

“Played by: Doug JonesFilm(s): Pan's Labyrinth (2006)Nightmarish craziness from the mind of Del Toro, The Pale Man carries his eyeballs in his hands. Bizarrely, it's still all the better to see you with.” read more

84 - Randy

“Played by: Jamie KennedyFilm(s): Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997)Given that he's been astonishingly unlikeable in virtually everything else he's done, it's a huge surprise that Jamie Kennedy's cine-literate Randy is so adorable in the first two Scream movies. Maybe it's because film fans so readi” read more

87 - Jessie Burlingame

“Played by: Carla GuginoFilm: Gerald’s GameIn survival horror movies, characters go through the wringer – and Jessie is no stranger to trials and tribulations. For one, she’s handcuffed to a bed with no hope of unlocking them. Secondly, she’s taunted by the spectre of her husband Gerald who” read more