Top 10 hardest Halloween villains to get away from

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — It’s been said in sports that speed kills, but the same thing is true in horror movies.

But have you ever wondered which scary bad guys were the hardest to get away from?

The possibilities seem endless, especially with plots and circumstances so similar in many classic horror films, but we now have some data to get real answers.

A list created by SportsShoes.com may surprise some, but the proof is in the pudding, so to speak.

The most popular suspects might include Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise, or Michael Myers of the Halloween series. Believe it or not, neither of these iconic horror villains even made the top 10.

But here is who did, starting with one of the scariest bad guys ever to appear in film – who happens to reside in the Lone Star State.

Rank Film Villain Actor’s Name Speed
(miles per hour)
1 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Leatherface Gunnar Hansen 7.52
2 Scream (1996) Ghostface (Stu) Matthew Lyn Lillard 5.01
3 American Psycho (2000) Patrick Bateman Christian Bale 3.96
4 A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Freddy Krueger Robert Barton Englund 3.38
5 28 Weeks Later (2007) The Infected Robert Carlyle* 3.38
6 It (2017) It Bill Skarsgård 3.33
7 Last Train to Busan (2016) Virus ‘Zombies’ Jung Yu-Mi* 3.09
8 The Shining (1980) Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson 2.89
9 Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Pale Man Doug Jones 2.48
10 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Ben Willis Muse Watson 2.39

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