The Fairy, an Italian woman living in Mussolini's Fascist regime, is brutalized by her husband after she smiled at another man. He beat her mercilessly and pulled out all of her teeth one by one before locking her in a closet to starve and waste away. Now, she's after the young Helena, and more specifically, after a whole new set of teeth to replace the ones she lost when she was still alive. The Fairy is a lesser known entity, but is no less scary for it in the little known Amazon Prime streamer.9. Diana Walter (Lights Out)
Lights Out is based on a short film, which was actually better than the full movie. Though, the producers did create a pretty frightening entity in the dark-craving Diana Walter, whose debilitating skin disease and subsequent maltreatment at the hands of hospital staff gives her the will to haunt, and to kill. The actual movie is pretty much trash, but Diana still manages to be a frightening enough malevolence, stalking the dark with her eerily-lit eyes and long, claw-like fingernails.8. The Bride (Annabelle Comes Home)
One of the scariest aspects of The Bride, which may or may not even be her name, is that she really doesn't have a backstory. Like so many of the creatures and killers in The Cabin in the Woods, The Bride's murderous rage is left to our imagination as an unleashed Annabelle reanimates her will to kill and maim. All we know is that a cursed wedding dressed possesses every woman who wears it to kill a host of new husbands. I can only hope that James Wan and the other creators of Annabelle will pitch us a standalone story of The Bride, similar to what they did with Valak from The Conjuring 2, and with the upcoming The Crooked Man, also a creeping oddity featured in The Conjuring 2.7. Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk Till Dawn)
She's sultry, she's sexy, and she's serpentine, not to mention that she can morph into a vampire at the drop of a hat. From Dusk Till Dawn is as campy a horror movie as they come, but it's a lot of fun nonetheless, with Santanico providing house entertainment at the Titty Twister. She seems to have a thing for Richie Gecko, and the television series takes that fascination a step farther. Salma Hayek was born to play this role, as minor as it may be, with her headdress and her albino bao and that tequila down the leg trick.6. Kayako (The Grudge)
From sexy to sinister, we head to The Grudge baddy, Kayako. After being abused and strangled by her jealous husband, Kayako returns as a malevolent entity, hallmarked by her throaty rasp, one that continues to haunt viewers to his day. Like The Ring, The Grudge was a Japanese remake for an American audience, and boy, were we terrified. Kayako pops up where you least expect her, including in your bed and crawling destitute down your staircase.5. The Angry Princess (13 Ghosts)
The Angry Princess, or Dana Newman, was a tragedy of her own making. She could never be quite beautiful enough in her own mind, which is why she engaged in breast implants and nose jobs and countless other procedures. When she attempted another procedure on her own, it left her blind in one eye. She then went home, climbed into her bathtub, and slashed herself with a knife until she bled out. Abusive boyfriends were also part of the equation, which might explain why the princess was so angry. That, and seeing other people who didn't have to endure the things that she did during her lifetime.4. Edith Brennan (Mama)
Edith is the only entity on the list who is completely CGI. She still manages to be pretty scary in her looking after feral children Victoria and Lily. Edith is a jilted former asylum patient whose child was taken away from her, so ever since her death, she's been haunting the woods, searching for a child, or children, to inflict her maternal instincts upon. She takes an overprotective nature to the extreme in Mama, resulting in a few deaths along the way.3. Valak (The Nun/The Conjuring 2)
Valak was pretty frightening when she first appeared in The Conjuring 2. She was the scariest thing about the movie. Taking the audience response to her and running with it, producers quickly cooked up and crapped out a standalone movie called The Nun, which was wholly disappointing. Valak is a demon who has possessed a Romanian nun, one who animates from cryptic portraits and floats down long hallways to bring forth her doom and gloom.2. Mary Shaw (Dead Silence)
"Beware the stare of Mary Shaw, she had no children, only dolls, if you see her in your dream, be sure you never, ever scream or she'll rip your tongue out at the seam." This is the nursery rhyme that accompanies Dead Silence, the horror movie featuring the frightening antagonist Mary Shaw. She was a ventriloquist who grew ill at a child heckler, whom she kidnapped. The townspeople of Raven's Fair then rushed her and ripped out her tongue, silencing her forever. She was then buried with all 101 of her dolls, but continued to plague the town as a menacing poltergeist.1. Madeline O'Malley (The Innkeepers)
Madeline is the most frightening entity on this list, and she also probably receives the least amount of screen time. She is a 19th-century bride who was jilted at the altar and promptly hung herself at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, a once-grand hotel on the verge of closure. Madeline haunts the basement of the hotel, where her body was brought by the owners out of fear that her death would drive away business. The Innkeepers as a whole is not very good in my opinion, though it did feature quite an antagonist with the ghost of Madeline O'Malley.
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