Who is the baddest of the bad in the horror film genre?
Who is the scariest onscreen horror villain?
One company has ranked the scariest horror villain out of the hundreds who have graced the big and small screens.
A survey by Claims.co.uk analysed jump-scare, kill-rate and runtime data from 162 horror movies to decide which Hallowe'en villain is the most effective.
Michael Myers ranked first place as the most terrifying Hallowe'en villain with a score of 8.71 out of 10. He has killed an average of 18 people and caused an average of 11 jump scares per film.
In second place is the Werewolf who appeared in An American Werewolf in London and its sequel An American Werewolf in Paris. While his amount of jump scares is similar to the Hallowe'en film series, the kill count is down at only 10 per film, resulting in a score of 7.74 out of 10.
In third place is the cult classic The Grudge, with the main villain Kayako earning a score of 7.58 out of 10. The series lands a death rate of eight people per film and 13 jump scares per film.
Interestingly, the villain Bo in the slasher film House of Wax wins the dubious accolade of being the genre's most ruthless slasher. In a 113 minute film, Bo accumulates a staggering 154 fatalities.
Surprisingly low on the list is the Xenomorph from Alien, with only 19 deaths attributed to the main beast throughout the series, although the spawn of the Xenomorph adds to the list of fatalities.
The company studied data from leading entertainment sites 'listofdeaths' and 'wherethejump'. The dataset was subsequently filtered to those with a minimum of 10 jump scares, for maximum horror accuracy.
The list of movies were cut down to 52 films, covering 32 film franchises where it was possible to identify a specific killer as the main villain. Deaths attributed to the villain and jump scares attributed to the villain were identified.
Where there are multiple films in the same franchise featuring the same main villain, an average was calculated per film.
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The data was analysed on Tuesday, October 18, and is correct as of then.