Thanks to a weekend marathon of the ‘Paranormal Activity’ flicks (fave-raves around the MS-QOTD household, lemme tell you), my irrational fear of Katie Featherston has once again been stoked. More terrifying than a Dracula, with a more piercing wail than any banshee, she is scarier to me because she’s just a normal woman caught up in something beyond anyone’s control. Since my house is literally teeming with normal woman (also comic books and canned meat, apropos of nothing), it’s a more familiar terror for me. A non-monster antagonist is the character equivalent of the scare chord, where everything seems normal until “BWAAAANG!”, leading us to today’s splatterpunk query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) finds human/humanoid villains to be the most terrifying of all, especially Jason Voorhees in his hockey mask, asking: Who’s the most frightening non-monster in all of fiction?
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Regan from Exorcist. Its still unbelievable child can act like that. And probably wrong too.
Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter. She’s so twisted, and there is a legit amount of fear wrapped into my revulsion of her because she reminds me of one of my real teachers I had in my second year of Junior High that made my year a living hell.
John Doe from Seven. blughughuh.
John Kramer aka Jigsaw. You can survive if you have the willingness. Live or die…. Make your choice..