33 Horror Movie Villains People Online Think Are Manageable To Survive With For 24 Hours
Interview With ExpertIt’s always fun to see the extreme and unrealistic ways you can earn money, isn’t it? For example, an unknown rich relative dying and leaving their whole wealth to you is an interesting concept, yet a highly unlikely one. Or, as one Redditor asked others, what if you must survive a chosen horror movie villain for 24 hours and get a whopping $3 billion in return? Since, as far as we know, horror villains aren’t real, it’s just a fun imagination game. And people online did not disappoint with their answers to this game, so let’s take a scary but survivable trip through them.
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I'll go with Candyman. I can avoid saying Candyman three times in 24 hours. How hard can it be to not say Candyman?
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F**k!
And it has to be said into a mirror. We don't make the rules.
Load More Replies...Same thing with bloody marry only a moron would say bloody marry three time also you’d need to be near a reflective surface like a phone to summon bloody marry .okey this harder then i thought.
Just say Bloody Mary in the side view mirror of your car while driving, and watch her sprint after you, lol.
Load More Replies...Regarding "Candyman": First, I think it's awesome there are so many "Candyman" fans out there. Never saw the remake, but saw the original "Candyman" and loved it. However, about saying "Candyman" on the internet, just a fun thing to consider: A computer screen is also a reflective surface under the right conditions ...So just be careful about where you say "Candyman" and how many times you say it, because you never know when
I'd probably forget the evil word to summon the Candyman/Beetlejuice/Bloody Mary within half of the day.
As a kid i remember saying three times Candyman in front of a mirror and then running my a*s out to my bed under my sheet.
Jaws.
I don't live near the sea. .
The shark wasn't the villain in Jaws; the mayor who insisted on leaving the beaches open because $$$ is the villain, and there are folks like him *everywhere.*
I'll take the aliens from Signs. Catch me in the lazy river with a super soaker.
Bro i can outrun those things on my god dam electric whellchair. They are weak to water. As in the thing that literally falls out of the f ing sky on earth... and they chose that planet to "invade"...NAKED! Yeh i am not even worried if they catch me i will spit on one and watch them melt.
Exactly, just sit into a frog pond or a big puddle or something and wait. Maybe bring a water gun, but they won't get to you anyway
Load More Replies...Very easy to kill these, especially if you live on a lake or something lol
Ngl those things were some ugly mothertruckers, good movie though- I prefer it to Independence Day
currently in a city experiencing 70%+ humidity right now... that'll be constantly burning those bastards.
That movie always made my skin crawl. Obviously, vampires, werewolves, zombies and other monsters are not real. But aliens? It's possible, it is not outside the realm of possibility that aliens could be running around. The aliens in the movie were cheesy but the underlying concept freaks me out every time. The shot of the alien on the barn triggers a primitive fight or flight reflex that has me on edge for hours.
I am super confident I can survive 24 hours in a pool or even my bathtub.
Ahhh. The one time you can be taking a shower and feel utterly confident that it's the safest place to be...
As can be seen in this list, there are many horror villains people think aren't so dangerous. While, yes, they are usually pretty deadly, they also have certain weaknesses that make them survivable, at least for 24 hours.
Another thing you can notice in the list is that we, as a species, are quite obsessed with things that scare us. It takes dedication to create such a variety of villains, and just think about the fact that these are only those people think are survivable!
To talk about this fascination with horror and other similar things, Bored Panda reached out to horror filmmaker Sarah of Horror. Check out the projects and organizations she is involved in!
Essentially, Sarah said that people love the feeling of being scared without actually being in danger. “If we take the very popular horror subgenre, the slasher film, a lot of us love seeing the creative kills and gore. We get to see these fantastic SFX while knowing that what we see is fake.”
As a horror filmmaker herself, she’s interested in knowing how these SFX are made and seeing how it all comes together on the screen.
Freddy. We came to an understanding long ago when I was laying in my bed after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was a kid. I just said “you know Freddy, we cool, you’re not bad, in fact I just think you’re misunderstood, please don’t invade my dreams and kill me.” I haven’t died yet so I’m still working under the assumption the we cool.
I think if Freddy saw my dreams, he'd just sit down and try to process them.
As a kid it was terrifying, this dude can kill you in your sleep, oh boy what a problem to fall asleep after this movie when i was 10
I've always thought that if you were respectful to the creepy things, the creepy things would be respectful as well.
I had a Freddie nightmare once, many many years ago. I ran behind an iron fence, like a jail wall with iron poles. He stuck his clawed hand thru and I slammed the fence open really fast and took off his arm. Never been scared of Freddy since.
At the same time he had trouble dealing with dnd needs, this day and age he would have to deal with anime fans, he'd be absolutely screwed if he came up against an otaku.
Dracula. My skin is so pale and I eat so much garlic all I need to do is flash him and say hello and he’ll disintegrate.
Here's the reason I would choose him: His form of attack is biting, my form of attack is A KNIFE. Who's winning? The one with a knife, or the guy who has to LEAN IN.
He can't die through stabbing with that tho, so you have to bring a stake to stab his heart.
Load More Replies...Vampires like Dracula do actually seem to have a lot of weaknesses lol
How about Gremlins?
They're basically a cute Furby unless you give them water. And even if, they're mostly annoying and I could definitely take one of them for 24 hours but also chilling with the "cute" version doesn't sound so bad either.
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Okay okay, I meant Mogwai you nitpicky basterds 😆😘.
I still want to know what time zone their feeding schedule is on, and what time after midnight is it safe to feed the fluffball?
I've wondered that since I was a kid. Midnight according to who? Daylight savings time? What if you live on the border of a time zone?
Load More Replies...I got two at home they go from mogwai to gremlins as soon as they are hungry (kids)
Having a gremlin in the house is basically like having an angry little monkey harassing you. Sure, it can bite you and damage your house, but what's the worst it can do? Realistically it couldn't kill you, just bite very hard
I freakin love Gremlins 2...the intelligent one lives in my head rent free
Water makes them multiply, food after midnight makes them turn to Gremlins 🙂
Sarah thinks that one of the things that make horror characters memorable and fascinating is good backstories: “Like Jason Voorhes drowning as a kid and coming back, Michael Myers killing his older sister [when he is] six years old, or Victor Crowley getting accidentally killed by his father in a prank gone wrong and then haunting the swamps forever.”
Another thing that makes a horror story captivating, in Sarah’s opinion, is “when it truly feels like you would have almost zero chance of surviving an encounter with the villain in question.” As an example, she gave Art The Clown from “Terrifier.” He is very unpredictable and brutal, which makes making it out alive or killing him seem almost impossible.
As an additional example, she mentioned Jason Voorhes again, especially in later installments of the Friday The 13th franchise, where, due to a supernatural element, he comes back to life and is basically invincible.
The predator. I'm weak and a woman no predator would risk being made fun of for killing such a pathetic prey.
I love Predator; and I kinda like how they have a sort of hunter's code of honor.
Plus, they schedule their hunting times, very polite for murderous beings from a different planet
Load More Replies...The predators wouldn't get any hunting done on Earth. Their fan club would be chasing them around constantly.
We are watching it right now! .... and we are watching Twister at the same time. Have to watch them whenever they are on. If we added Happy Gilmore, Ghostbusters, and Road House it would be a perfect Saturday night.
I have actually thought about this a lot ever since I read Christine way too young. I think it will be quite easy to stay safe from a possessed car.
You say that now wait till you hear highway to hell on full blast while it repeatedly crashes into your hiding spot.
Nope, finding a building with a second story with no garage attached and no extra wide doorways.
Load More Replies...You know what I wonder. If Christine encountered Herbie, would the good car win out?
Call the cops and tell them Christine was involved in a hit and run. Watch the chase begin.
Since the car can self repair it will just do that and park as if there is nothing going on.
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Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. I'm not his size.
I think I'd like to avoid all the scary people in Silence of the Lambs. We don't know the level of taxidermy/sewing skills Buffalo Bill has.
I’m always amazed that Ted Levine wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for this. Also, he played both Buffalo Bill and the lovable Captain Stottlemeyer convincingly, heck of an actor
And the tough-guy ex-cop dad in "The Hills Have Eyes" remake.
Load More Replies..."I'm not his size" apparently OP is unfamiliar with sewing. Too big can be made smaller. Too small can be sewn to other scrap pieces to make it larger.
Yeah, I watched that for the first time a few weeks ago. My brother’s reaction was to be terrified. Mine was to grin like a maniac and smile more authentically than I have in years.
According to your bio you're a school girl and dislike skinning farms. Keep the edginess toned down, miss edgy and dark xD
Load More Replies...I have tattoos and difficult acne and scars on my back so I'm pretty sure that my skin would be considered useless to him.
With all of this in mind, Sarah said that if she had to choose which villain she could survive with for 24 hours for $3 billion, she said it would be Ghostface from Scream. Since Ghostface is human, it means they can be killed: “It would still be a super tough battle, but one that I might win with determination and some luck, unless it turns out that I'm being chased by not just one Ghostface but two!”
Which horror villain would you choose? Share with us in the comments!
Michael Myers or Jason. Those a******s just walk everywhere. I'd go on a road trip in my car. Maybe circle around a few times to honk at them and flip them off.
He can even hotwire. You would think the hospital would pay more attention to what their patient who has been a resident since he was six is learning.
Load More Replies...Incidentally... Did you know that the mask that the character wears is an Halloween mask of William Shatter painted white...
Slight Edit for spelling Shatner's name wrong: Incidentally... Did you know that the mask that the character wears is a Halloween mask of William Shatner painted white...
Load More Replies...The thing from it follows cans to my mind. Just drive to the air port and hop on a plane going anywhere really
Paul Reiser's character from Aliens. He's the real villain of the movie, not the Alien Queen, and I think I could take him.
Especially when they get lots of equally stupid followers/voters 🫠
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Probably the ring, she takes like 7days to show up. I don't even have to change my habits.
SPOILER ALERT: all you have to do is copy the tape.
I'm not sure if she'd fit through my computer screen. She'd either be stuck or very uncomfortable, and I could probably just close the lid
The killer from scream bc it’s literally just a guy in a mask. Get some pepper spray and I’m golden.
I'm short, and the mask adds some protection from the spray. I advise a good punch in the kidneys or stomach to get him to bend down, then pepper spray.
Or just grab the mask and twist it around his head so he can't see
Load More Replies...Honestly, my biggest problem with Scream after watching every movie is they always try and run. IT'S JUST SOME GUY! Literally, just throw yourself at him and start punching. It'd be so easy.
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
I'll just catch a flight somewhere, he'll never catch me. Also, he's easy to see.
I got one, "You're so fat you stepped on your mother." (Yes it is meant to sound like a kid saying it)
Load More Replies..."Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?" "I think so,, Brain, but where are we going to get a graham cracker and chocolate bar big enough?"
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Well I think so brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why's he keep doing it?!
Load More Replies...I guess that's original giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, rather than the mini ones from the new film. The mini ones could probably hide in someone's hand luggage and sneak on the plane.
A couple of dozen flamethrowers, 50 lbs. of Hershey's Special Dark (hey, you do you!) a shìtload of cinnamon graham crackers, and a mob of hyper Boy Scouts. Let the games begin!
Idk, he's a world ending level event, can regenerate and the only real vulnerable spot is the portal, or(in the game) mass saturation with positron particles and a really big fall.
Graboids. I can sit on a boulder for 24 hours.
Better hope you're fighting gen 1 Graboids. The a*s blasters will get you on that rock.
Lets not talk about movies other then first one. It was the only good one.
Load More Replies...24 hours in desert heat ? Yeah one guy in the movie tried that and they found his dessicated corps eventually.
Zombies. I can hide from a Zombie for 24hrs.
I love how some people are safe from zombies. If they run into one, it will pass them by on its way to look for brains to eat.
The zombies in US movies are the slowest, the ones in Japan and South Korea mean certain death.
Especially the ones from Train to Busan or #alive. Or if we want to go with US zombies that might be troublesome, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead zombies (fast moving), World War Z (fast moving, and will only ignore you if you're sick), Resident Evil (mostly slow moving, but they could have a mutated strain of the virus), or certain zombies from Zombieland 2 (mostly the Hawking's, Ninja's, or the T-800's).
Load More Replies...It depends on the type of zombie. I prefer the traditional ones, slow and dumb.
I could easily survive zombies. History has proven I don’t have a brain 🤣🤣
This one depends entirely on what type of zombies you're dealing with. Resident Evil zombies don't give a flip about brains, they're just looking to eat anyone and everyone.
I feel like one average movie zombie would be pretty easy to run from or take on as long as I wasn't trapped in a small room with one. Like if I can get in my car I'm golden.
Plankton.
As long as I wasn't transferred next to him. I don't think I could survive a sudden trip to the bottom of the ocean
Easy, the mummy. He can't bend his legs, so he's definitely gonna run slowly.
I love how cats sometimes are a solution for bad things- just like in life 🐱💛
Load More Replies...A mummy that is not Imhotep. The man filled out eventually, his legs were bendy then.
If he can’t bend his legs could you just put a wall you could duck under that he can’t Minecraft wither Skelton style.
Before he gets his full powers, he can stay at mine for 24 hrs. We have 5 cats. He'd be quivering in a corner.
Well when he mostly got what he needed he was fit i would be willing sacrifice
Mummies were prepared with their legs bound together so not much of a contest.
Selma hayak in
From dusk to dawn
If she catches me I'm not sure that ends badly.... I mean it's Selma hayak.....
I'm not even sure if that pic is from Dust til Dawn. It looks like an Evil Dead character
It's definitely Selma Hayak. Google Salma Hayek as Santanico Pandemonium, the Vampire Queen of the Titty Twister and a former dhampir, in From Dusk till Dawn (Credit: Miramax Films / WENN)
No, that pic isn't Salma, it's one of the other stripper vampires. I put in the Blu Ray to be sure. Haha. When Salma transforms, she looks like a snake vampire.
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Tempted to say the babadook bc i could just buy and feed him worms, so I not only get the money, but also an insanely awesome and relatively cheap pet.
I already breed worms for my salamander to eat, so he'd be pretty simple to take care of for as long as he finds the toilet on his own and doesn't make a mess. I might have to buy more worms if he's hungry, but he should stay relatively timid
I mean, he possesses bodies of people that are afraid of him. He doesn't look like something I'd be particularly scared of - more than anything I'd be horrified that there's a weird demon in my home than that the demon looks like a scene kid that put on too much makeup.
Load More Replies...I can't imagine a full grown babadook would require any vet visits either. Probably wouldn't need any health care at all really.
Look at the state of that picture. It scares the life out of me
He doesn't physically hurt you tho, he just feeds on trauma, so as long as you keep him fed with something else he likes, you'll be golden.
Load More Replies...I can't really remember the ending of this film mainly because we've had quite a few power cuts over the last few months here in our city. I was watching it at around 9pm and all the power went off, everything in my flat and also the street lights outside so it was pitch black... Not exactly the best time to be watching a horror film!!! 😄
That tire that kills people.
So cars, which is driven by people. So stay away from people? I mean I would enjoy that
the movie is called "rubber", a possessed tire that roams around psychically blows up people and things!
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Cujo except my car actually runs.
I know, the book made me cry and hug my dog! 😢
Load More Replies...Cujo didn't really do anything wrong. The book should have been called "Criminally Negligent Owners." If they had just gotten him his rabies vaccine like they were legally required to, Cujo would have been fine and the book would be all of two paragraphs long.
....and also he's a doggo! .yeah you'd die a horrible death BUT he's a doggo and he was a good boy😪
Cujo's owners so they can share in the fun (their neglect caused this).
Easy. Regina George from “Mean Girls”.
"My name is Regina George!" (Sorry y'all I saw an opportunity and took it) finish the lyrics
(late, doing World Burn) "My name is Regina George... And I am a massive deal... I will grind you to sand... Beneath my Louboutined heel..."
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I think I'd go with Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, from 1977's *Death Bed: The Bed That Eats,* because Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a bed.
I think they missed an opportunity to squeeze one more bed in that. I'm not sure where, but...
I find OP's logic to be sound. I vote for Death Bed to be the winner because Death Bed is a bed.
That looks like an incredible movie, definitely on my watch list now
But you like your bed. You don't go wandering around using other beds, do you? You might hurt your bed's feelings. Plus accidentally get into a death bed.
Load More Replies...I'd just sleep on the couch. Or the floor. Or my gaming chair after I pulled an all-nighter.
The merman from "Cabin in the woods". Easily escapable.
Love that part of the movie lol guy expects to see something beautiful and magical, then ends up seeing this. "Ah, come on 😖"
No, I think the "aww come on" was because during the betting he voted for and wanted to see the mermaid. Made a bit of a fuss over it even. I'm pretty sure he already knew that it was a monster, considering he was one of the guys that work there.
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The xenomorph from Alien. I don't think it can get here to earth in 24 hours and I sure the hell not going to space.
(Spoiler alert- political joke:) Tomatoes- the nemesis of the Orange Menace 🍅
Load More Replies...They mostly come at night. Mostly. My sister babysat me when I was 5 and watched Aliens. During the facehugger scene with Ripley and Newt in the lab I asked her whether one of the aliens was in there and she answered that she didn't know. "But aren't they big?" I asked. "Not really," she said, "they can easily hide under chairs and tables." Which was why I spent the rest of the innocent part of my childhood with nightmares and had my mom check my closet for them every night until I turned 12. Quite effective.
Sharon stone from basic instinct because if I fail at least it’s a good way to go out.
Wrong movie. Bunny boiling was Fatal Attraction
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Chucky.
He's like two feet tall, just use a leaf blower to keep him away.
Load More Replies...Would Chucky kill you more or less brutally if you sing the My Buddy jingle at him?
Scary Terry B***h. Just gotta remember homie’s pants and we are solid.
Ok, makes sense. I can't stand their voices so I mostly follow the storylines via memes and random posts like this that make me curious enough to wiki.
Load More Replies...I don't recognize this, but the character appears to have a s c r o t u m chin?
Lets go with Jason. I want to earn the money.
I'm dead no matter what, basically because I am a completely broken person and find myself attracted to a LOT of "villains". Dudes in masks, humanoid monsters, or things like the common portrayal of Death, shadow monsters, etc. 😣 Jason was one of my first movie crushes when I was six. Even if it's not something I'm attracted to, if it's an animal creature, I'm dead cause my doofy àss will try to pet and befriend it. Similar to Babadook poster.
That might even work to survive against Jason as his backstory is that people didn't like and bully him.
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Capitalism, from the movie Parasite.
Man, I'm barely surviving capitalism every day. Although, there's definitely something ironic about earning a million dollars by withstanding death by capitalism.
The thing in It Follows. Easy. Just keep moving for 24 hours.
Well no stipulation on what is "horror" or "villain", so I will go with Torgo, the "horror" "villian" of Manos. Seems easy to outrun. Maybe he can share whatever he is on and just chill.
I would vote for the frogs in the horror movie Frogs. Horrible movie from the 70's or so that was influenced by Silent Spring. It was a bunch of regular frogs that surrounded family members that littered and polluted.
That's also a good one! I'd probably have a blast with Frogs because I love amphibians, reptiles and insects, so I'd presumably be terrorizing the cursed wildlife back with a net to collect them and pick the biggest and most docile ones as pets. Plus, I hate swimming so all the water dangers wouldn't really get to me.
Load More Replies...If I had to pick one that isn't in this list yet, I'd take Annabelle from the movie with the same name. She feeds on trauma, particularly on women who have or had lost babies, and drives people insane by scaring them. I found it hilarious to watch a floating doll when I saw that movie, she'd absolutely fail to scare me in any kind of way, and I never had a baby either so her main strategy wouldn't work. I'd be quite pissed that she blows up all the light bulbs tho. Those are expensive, dolly!
Otherwise, I'd take Jaws. I don't live in a country with an ocean and this is just an animal, it won't try to get to me anyway
Load More Replies...The worm from tremors. Just wear soft slippers, walk softly and veg on the couch as much as possible.
A werewolf - because it's not going to be a full moon for a few weeks yet.
Dunno if this would count as a horror movie villain, but the Blind Man from Don't Breathe. If I was one of the thieves from the movie, I'd have picked out a different location to rob than the house of a blind military veteran with heightened hearing, combat experience, and a vicious dog. Moment I would have seen that dog of his while scouting, I'd have noped out of the job.
I would vote for the frogs in the horror movie Frogs. Horrible movie from the 70's or so that was influenced by Silent Spring. It was a bunch of regular frogs that surrounded family members that littered and polluted.
That's also a good one! I'd probably have a blast with Frogs because I love amphibians, reptiles and insects, so I'd presumably be terrorizing the cursed wildlife back with a net to collect them and pick the biggest and most docile ones as pets. Plus, I hate swimming so all the water dangers wouldn't really get to me.
Load More Replies...If I had to pick one that isn't in this list yet, I'd take Annabelle from the movie with the same name. She feeds on trauma, particularly on women who have or had lost babies, and drives people insane by scaring them. I found it hilarious to watch a floating doll when I saw that movie, she'd absolutely fail to scare me in any kind of way, and I never had a baby either so her main strategy wouldn't work. I'd be quite pissed that she blows up all the light bulbs tho. Those are expensive, dolly!
Otherwise, I'd take Jaws. I don't live in a country with an ocean and this is just an animal, it won't try to get to me anyway
Load More Replies...The worm from tremors. Just wear soft slippers, walk softly and veg on the couch as much as possible.
A werewolf - because it's not going to be a full moon for a few weeks yet.
Dunno if this would count as a horror movie villain, but the Blind Man from Don't Breathe. If I was one of the thieves from the movie, I'd have picked out a different location to rob than the house of a blind military veteran with heightened hearing, combat experience, and a vicious dog. Moment I would have seen that dog of his while scouting, I'd have noped out of the job.
