How Do You Create A Horror Movie Villain?
So you want to write a horror movie, but you’re not sure where to start? Start with the villain. Unlike other genres, horror movies are all about the bad guy. He’s the one who’ll carry the series into ten sequels. He’s the one who’ll sell all those t-shirts and breakfast cereals. He’s the one who’ll make you M-O-N-E-Y. Step 1 Give him a tortured childhood. His mom locked him in the closet, his dog piddled in his oatmeal and little girls pantsed him daily. Step 2 Give him a reason to hate horny, unsupervised teenagers. Maybe they were too busy fornicating to prevent him from drowning, maybe he was psychologically scarred when he came a-knockin’ on a van that was a-rockin’. Step 3 Give him a haunting ground such as an abandoned campground, an abandoned oil rig, an abandoned marshmallow factory–you get the idea. It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s abandoned and goes well with graham crackers. Step 4 Make him mute. Speaking tends to ruin the moment of decapitation. Step 5 Give him a mask,
