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Forbidden Fruit: 10 Sexy Male Horror Villains
Not all horror movie monsters capture the physical embodiment of the word “monster.” In fact, some are quite attractive, and some even use this to their advantage when luring victims. As fans we know we’re not supposed to be attracted to them. In fact, their evil deeds should send us screaming for the hills! But they are just so swoon-worthy! Here are ten sexy male horror villains who make our blood run hot!
Dr. Hannibal Lecter – Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen portrayed Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the recently axed series Hannibal. We all know Anthony Hopkins left some pretty intimidating shoes to fill following his critically acclaimed performance of the cannibalistic doctor. However, Mikkelsen rose to the challenge and exceeded all expectations. Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter is certainly a man of taste. With his naturally cool and even keel, smoldering eyes, and a voice that purrs, it is easy to see how this Danish actor’s style is a perfect fit for the good doctor.
Daniel Robitaille “Candyman”- Candyman
The legend of a man you summon in the mirror only to have him kill you isn’t the most romantic love story. However, the legend of Daniel Robitaille, the man behind Candyman, is. Beginning as a forbidden love story Robitaille was a slave commissioned to paint a portrait of a wealthy landowner’s daughter, Caroline. As fate would have it, Robitaille and Caroline quickly fall in love. Unfortunately their forbidden love affair is discovered and Robitaille pays the ultimate price with his life.
Living on as the Candyman, the 6’5” urban legend patiently stalks his female victims, crooning their name from the shadows. In the first film Candyman pursues Helen, who he believes to the reincarnation of his lover, Caroline. While on one hand he is a bloodthirsty killer, he is also a hopeless romantic.
Patrick Bateman- American Psycho
Set in 1990’s yuppie New York City everyone is concerned about appearances, no one more so than Patrick Bateman. Each morning he has a routine consisting of intense exercise, luxurious bath products to clean and enhance the skin, and finally an herb-mint facial mask. He is a fine specimen indeed! Men want to be him, and women (and even some men) want to have him. Never has a maniac running nude down a hallway wielding a chainsaw ever looked so good!
Mickey- Scream 2
Lacking much character development, as most slasher films do, we don’t spend a long time with Mickey on the campus of Windsor College. Yet there is just something about those big brown eyes that say “trust me” as he comes to the comfort of career victim Sydney Prescott. Come to find out at the climax of the film he wasn’t as trustworthy as he seemed. *sigh* Why are the cute ones always crazy?
Dr. Oliver Thredson- American Horror Story: Asylum
Our second doctor on the list is Dr. Thredson from the second season of American Horror Story, portrayed by Zachary Quinto. Thredson believes compassion instead of the severe physical and mental treatments of the times would yield more promising results for mental patients. Unfortunately, beneath this well dressed exterior and perfect hair, this cutie is coo coo for Cocoa Puffs. Having been abandoned at a young age by his mother he seeks out the comfort only a mother could provide. However, if the women he chooses don’t fit the bill he kills them, often using their skin for furniture or mask making. With a face like that we can overlook those pesky mommy issues, right?
Vilmer Slaughter- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Very few good things came out of the fourth installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series. However, many of us received our first introduction to the then unknown actor Matthew McConaughey. The blonde Texas native starred in this film as the hootin’ and hollerin’ head of the Slaughter family, Vilmer. Vilmer certainly was crazy, but underneath all of that grease and motor oil on his not so charming overalls there was a glimpse of the handsome man we know him as today!
George Lutz- The Amityville Horror (2005)
In the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror, a pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds is casted as leading man George Lutz. While Lutz begins as the typical family man and “good guy,” the influence of the house at 112 Ocean Avenue with a sordid past begins to take a toll on him. As Reynold’s character becomes more and more under the house’s oppression he becomes angry and shirtless… a lot. While the house is really the villain of this movie, its vinyl siding and iconic “eye” windows just can’t compete with Reynold’s abs!
Dandy Motts- American Horror Story: Freak Show
American Horror Story sure has a way with torturing our hearts with pretty boys who are bat shit crazy. This time in Freak Show, privileged and often bratty Dandy Motts is a beautiful male specimen on the outside, but on the inside it’s a much different story. He feel like he relates to the freaks in the side show, but he also has an inherent madness that makes him a sociopath. It may be hard to believe, but there’s a lot of conflicting issues going on in that brain of his. If only his instincts to kill could have been tamed, maybe this gorgeous man didn’t have to meet his demise so soon by those he wronged.
Shane Walsh- The Walking Dead
Shane may not be seen as a villain in a television show filled with flesh eating zombies, but his character traits at times don’t cast him in a light that is any better than the undead he is running from. Being extremely jealous of his best friend Rick for his leadership qualities as well as his family, Shane becomes more unstable with each episode. After Rick’s return he can no longer to carry on the forbidden affair he had with his best friend’s wife, and is therefore left with a growing obsession from afar. As his instability increases so does his disregard for those who are not in their group. Shane makes it clear he has no qualms about killing or abandoning those he sees as liabilities to group and its safety. It’s unfortunate this cold hearted dictator has the face of an angel.
Lestat de Lioncourt- Interview with the Vampire
Ok, let’s face it, every vampire in the film adaptation of Interview with the Vampire is beautiful. However, we are just focusing on Lestat to round out our list of sexy male villains, but I’ll include Louie in the picture. You’re welcome.
Whether Lestat is a “villain” is really a matter of perspective as well as how much you know about the character. Yet for the sake of this article we will say he is. The beautiful blonde vampire tries to persuade his new fledgling, Louis, killing is permissible, even insisting it’s a way of life and a means of survival. At least Lestat’s killing methods, regardless of race, age, and gender, increases our odds of coming face to face, or fang to neck, with this beautiful creature of the night!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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