The horror genre is filled with monsters, killers, ghosts, and demons, most of which have a backstory that explains who they are and why they became such iconic characters. From a guy covered in bees to a boy who almost drowned, Hollywood sure does know how to provide compelling backstories for some of the worsts horror movie villains. We've rounded up the 12 best horror movie origins from the past 40 years.
Many of these origin stories aren't laid out in one film though. You have to watch the whole series to piece together the story for yourself. If you're looking for more origin-based horror movie trivia, check out these horror movies based on true stories. However, his origin is laid out in the original movie.
Jason was born with terrible facial deformities, and was kept isolated from the outside world by his mother, who worked as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake. Forced to bring him to work one day, Jason was tormented by bullies and thrown in the lake. His poor mom, believing him to be dead, unleashed a vengeful killing spree, ultimately meeting her own grisly demise.
Jason survived, and soon took up the machete and mask to stalk the camp again and again and again and again. The needle-faced being at the center of the Hellraiser movies was once a former soldier called Elliot Spencer. Disillusioned with life after World War I, Spencer came across the Lament Configuration, a demonic puzzlebox that enslaved Spencer and turned him into the soul-craving , torture-loving Cenobite leader.
Hell on Earth , Pinhead had shed his human attributes and become an agent of evil, gathering victims for his Cenobite army.
Give me a Rubicks Cube any day. Kids have long made for scary horror villains, and there are few more terrifying than Sadako, the ghostly girl at the center of classic Japanese horror The Ring, plus the range of sequels, spinoffs, and remakes that followed in its wake. There are actually several variations on Sadako's origins depending on which movie you watch, but they all ultimately center upon a girl who was drowned in a well and returned as a vengeful ghost to pass a curse from victim to victim.
Of all the villainous characters on the list, Brundlefly is probably the most tragic. He was developing top-secret teleportation pods, but when Brundle drunkenly tested the pods he failed to notice a harmless housefly in there with him.
His DNA was fused with the fly, and he spends the rest of movie slowly, painfully, disgustingly turning into a vomiting, philosophizing, hate-filled fly-man. It's hard to blame the supernatural being at center of Candyman , Bernard Rose's terrifying Clive Barker adaptation, for the gory mayhem he unleashes, given his gruesome origin story.
Originally the son of a slave, in the late 19th century he was accepted into polite society and became a renowned artist. But his relationship with a white woman led an angry mob to cut off his hand, replace it with a hook, cover his body in honey, and let a swarm of bees sting him to death. Of course, years later there is one way to summon Candyman--as any horror fan knows, you do not want to say his name five times into a mirror.
Go on, we dare you Chucky started life as an innocent, if a bit creepy-looking, plastic doll.
In the original smash Child's Play , voodoo-obsessed serial killer Charles Lee Ray is cornered and shot in a toy shop by cops; as he dies, he transfers his evil spirit into a nearby 'Good Guy' doll. Soon the toy is alive, inhabited by Ray to continue his killing spree across the next six Chucky movies.
Better known as John Kramer, the trap-setting mastermind of the Saw movies is certainly one the more inventive cinematic serial killers.
After studying architecture for five years, he turned his attention to landscape painting, under the instruction of Edward Maury….. Folklorists have dedicated an extensive amount time reseaching this urban legend, from innocuous campfire tales to its reemergence as an overriding theme in the modern day Slasher film.
It is a classic urban legend, a cautionary tale pervasive in both our oral traditions and mass media. And for some, it seems so rooted in our collective consciousness, that it must to hold some a grain of truth, if not more. Of course the most profound emergence in the last few decades has been as the unstoppable villain of a most visceral sort, the slasher film.
The film made in , has a unique predigree, it was produced by Harvey Weinstein. It seems that these stories had a profound effect on many of the baby boomers of today, many of whom grew up and brought their own versions of the CROSPEY legend to popular culture. Other people attribute the hauntings to a specific event: The death of a year-old girl, who was abducted and murdered in Tour the Billopp House also known as the Conference House in Tottenville, a Staten Island neighborhood located at the southwestern extremity of the borough.
Each of the sub-stories came together in the end, but which one stands best on its own? The weirdness of the Maniac sub-stories is rooted in the overall . Titans battle for earth in epic 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' trailer. Enter HorrorLand was a continuing story that was throughout books of Goosebumps HorrorLand. The story The monster hands Brittney a piece of paper and runs away. The piece of . Despite Dr. Maniac's threats, Robby decides to go.
While touring the inside of the house, listen carefully for mysterious knocks, coughs, sneezes and footsteps.