Top 10 Horror Movie Villains with Understandable Motivations

[Music] we hate to say it but we can see where these baddies are coming from welcome to watchmojo.com V villains with understandable motivations for this list we'll be looking at horror movie villains whose motivations are understandable and whose actions are somewhat logical now we're not saying that we condone their actions because we obviously don't we're just saying you know we get it and just so you understand our motivations a spoiler warning is now in effect you're right that the cemetery then the gym now here what are you doing that's odd if you like what you're hearing be sure to check out the full song at the link below [Music] [Applause] number 10 Pamela Voorhees Friday the 13th his name was Jason I was working the day that it happened preparing meals who care I was the cook as Casey tragically discovered in scream it was Pamela Voorhees committing the murders in the first Friday the 13th not her psychotic son Jason it wasn't very good swimming we can go in though yeah and she has a much more understandable reason to be doing so back in the late 50s her son Jason supposedly drowned in the lake because all the camp counselors were busy getting freaky you know as horror movie teenagers always are the counselors weren't paying any attention they were making love while that young boy dropped she murdered the two counselors she believed responsible and later kills the batch of newcomers because she doesn't want another tragedy to befall someone else's child so she directly causes more tragedy and kills other people's children her logic is a little out of whack on that one but everyone processes grief differently coming here it would be easier for you than it was for chase number nine Samara the ring based on Sadako from the original Japanese film Samara has one of the most tragic backstories in horror history her biological mother attempted to drown her in a fountain she was ostracized by her community and when she caused her adoptive mother to go insane she was suffocated with a garbage bag and thrown down a well she then died of hypothermia and starvation after seven days she then created the videotape both to exact vengeance on the world which he sees as heartless and to share her tragic story it's a win-win for her not so much for victims though [Music] number eight the ghosts poltergeist [Music] the ghosts and poltergeist aren't messing around sure they start pretty small by bending silverware and stacking furniture but before long they're kidnapping young Carol Anne however we later learned that most of these ghosts are merely lost and Confused souls that are attracted to the comfort and warmth that is Carol Ann's life force we also learned that there's a head honcho ghost called the Beast manipulating all the spirits around him most of whom just want to move on in peace now just imagine being a confused spirit clearly dead but not knowing that you are wouldn't you to be attracted to the so called earthly pleasures of Carol Ann's life force number 7 Gilman Creature from the Black Lagoon to the water planet evil come on everybody look around quick demon a creature from the Black Lagoon has a lot in common with King Kong and much like that classic film the titular villain is rather sympathetic he's the last surviving member of an ancient race of creatures from the Devonian period which certainly sounds lonely and terrible and when his secluded home is intruded upon by outsiders he goes to investigate the expedition's camp only to be attacked by scared and panicked research assistants [Music] he kills them in a fit of rage and self-defense and naturally begins to think that these intruders are violent and untrustworthy poor Gillman was just trying to live his best life and these nosy scientists just had to go and ruin everything [Music] number six jigsaw Saw franchise what is that excuse me the jigsaw killer is a complete psychopath no doubt about that but unlike a lot of fictional serial killers he actually has a motive back when he was just a civil engineer named John Kramer he learned that he had an inoperable brain tumor and attempted suicide to spare himself the agony upon surviving John discovered a newfound love for life and attempted to help others who don't appreciate their own in John's own words most people are so ungrateful to be alone yeah good intentions dude but that doesn't mean you get to torture them with these absolutely insane traps and contraptions you could have just like become a therapist or something number five red and the tethered us so you see the shadow the girl the tethered are some of the creepiest villains in some time thanks to their complete lack of humanity and emotion as red explains this is because the tethered are clones created by the government to control their real-world counterparts however the project was a failure and they were abandoned underground mindlessly tethered to the surface world and there was bunch needless to say they wanted their freedom read story is even more tragic as we learned that read is the real Adelaide having been choked out and swapped with her tethered as a child now just imagine being choked kidnapped taken from your parents at a young age and forced to live underground with a bunch of freaky mindless zombies we think we would lose it to you people number four the controllers The Cabin in the Woods and I seen what you don't want to see puppeteers the cabin in the woods is basically the horror movie version of that old moral thought experiment do you intentionally divert a trolley and kill one person to save five others you can die with them or you can die for them that's essentially the predicament that the controllers are put in in order to appease the eldritch ancient ones and literally save the planet from total annihilation they're forced to kill five people every year waka men yeah they killed these people in horrific violent ways with zombies and serial killers and freaking mermaids or whatever but really it's five people in exchange for billions no one said being a cabin director was easy what if you don't pull it off they rise who does what's beneath us the Ancient Ones number three the Candyman Candyman I came for you despite his fun-sounding name the Candyman is not sugary and sweet in fact he's a vengeful and murderous figure of folklore who grotesquely disfigures his victims with a sharp metal hook but once upon a time the Candyman was simply a man trying to live his life he had a prodigious talent as an artist and was much sought-after when it came to the documenting of one's wealth and position in society in a portrait he was a famous portrait artist in the late 1800s and he fell in love and fathered a child with a white woman however this resulted in a lynch mob cutting off his painting hand hence the hook and smearing him with honey resulting in bees literally stinging him to death he now haunts the location where his ashes were scattered wreaking vengeance upon an area that wrongfully and unceremoniously caused his death [Music] [Applause] [Music] number two Carrie White Carrie I don't want to stay with you mommy this horror movie is different than most as all the scary stuff happens in the last 15 minutes the rest of the movie is devoted to the exploration of Carrie's character and the planning of the famous climax Carrie is a shy tormented girl bullied at school and subjected to horrific abuse from her fanatically religious mother and just when Carrie finally feels accepted and loved she's doused with a bucket of pig's blood in front of her classmates causing her to snap and Massacre the entire school Carrie White has remained a sympathetic villain throughout the years and both the story and its themes are just as relevant now as they were back in 1976 before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one the monster Frankenstein aside from maybe Dracula Frankenstein's monster is the paragon of horror movie villain II and Boris Karloff's made up face is the very symbol of classic movie monsters that said he's arguably the most understandable and humane villain in movie history it all begins when his frightened response to a torch is mistaken for aggression and he's chained in a dungeon and tortured after understandably disposing of his captors and escaping he unintentionally murders a young girl while playing with her by a lake resulting in the mob that eventually kills him he's a far more sympathetic figure than he was in the novel and it makes us wonder what all this have happened if the scientist simply treated him humanely [Applause] do you agree with our picks let us know in the comments and hey if you're a fan of the song playing right now be sure to check out the music video for it right here

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Length: 11min 57sec (717 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 29 2019