Slasher movies are known for many things. Primarily, it is the killers enacting the vicious crimes that are the true faces and memorable aspects of the film. However, every slasher movie needs a variably sized set of unfortunate victims who need to be killed off one by one in a variety of gruesome manners.
From the renaissance of the seventies and eighties slasher movies to the modern revival of the sub-genre, there are a vast number of slasher movies and an even greater number of victims at the hands of these killers. It is inevitable that some films will push the viewer to eagerly await the deaths of some particularly irritating characters.
7 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Going all the way back to one of the very first slasher movies, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre took a relatively small group of victims in the forms of Sally, Franklin, and their three friends driving to their grandmother’s house. They were interrupted by a run-in with Leatherface and his cannibalistic clan, but there wasn’t a lot of sadness felt at the passing of these teens.
This went especially for Franklin, who was a paraplegic character that was portrayed as incredibly irritating to the audience. His constant whining and complaining all the way right up to the moment of his inevitable demise was a source of great annoyance for many viewers of this classic horror feature.
6 Friday The 13th (2009)
The Friday The 13th films are known for their revolving door of teenage camp counselor victims, with a few adults mixed in. Most of the films in the long-running franchise are set at Camp Crystal Lake and feature Jason Voorhees tackling counselors at the camp. However, it was the 2009 remake that featured the most obnoxiously annoying set of victims.
The group in question weren’t camp counselors, they were coming to stay in a cabin on the shores of Crystal Lake and got entangled in Jason’s murderous tendencies. Trent, the owner of the cabin and boyfriend to Jenna was particularly egregious in his irritating nature, but the whole cast proved to be a most annoying set that wasn’t mourned as they were (mostly) picked off.
5 Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
While there weren’t a lot of victims to speak of in the original Halloween film, the sequels continued to ramp up the body count. Halloween: Resurrection is known for being one of the worst films in the double-digit set of sequels Michael Myers has appeared in.
This film was set in the Myers house, now being used for a horror-themed reality TV show. Both the cast and particularly the producer, Freddie Harris, who was played by rapper Busta Rhymes, were incredulously annoying. From throwing out some of the worst one-liners in the history of cinema to challenging Michael Myers to a karate battle, this cast of characters was particularly obnoxious.
4 Return To Sleepaway Camp (2008)
Of all the Sleepaway Camp films, which mostly deal with the vicious killing sprees of Angela Baker, Return to Sleepaway Camp is particularly infamous for the incredibly annoying campers. The leading child Alan is nervous and is constantly picked on by other kids, who engage in activities such as lighting their farts on fire and smoking dried cow dung.
The film presents all the victims as hugely unlikeable and childish, which made it easy for the audience to enjoy watching them as they were picked off predictably by the mysterious killer, who ended up being Angela Baker unsurprisingly.
3 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a film infamous for the hateable cast, a set of teens that decide to cover up the murder they accidentally committed. The cast is memorable because they all went on to be big stars, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, Johnny Galecki and Ryan Phillippe.
But the lead of the film and the most terrible character was Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James. This character ground the teeth of many audience members as she and her overtly obnoxious friends dealt with someone who figured out their dark secret trying to hunt them down and kill them off. I Know What You Did Last Summer is notable for the annoying cast, and is well regarded as an example of a film that wants the viewer to root for the killer.
2 Scream 3 (2000)
The Scream films have a witty, fun cast of characters that come and go, but sometimes the right ones don’t survive as long as they should. Leaving Gale Weathers and Dewey Finn to one side, Scream 3 was set in Hollywood and purposefully created a line of actors, producers, and directors to kill off who were all terribly annoying.
The actors playing versions of the characters from the first Scream film got extremely meta, and it became irritating to viewers, prompting most to declare Scream 3 the worst in the franchise.
1 American Psycho (2000)
Patrick Bateman is one of the most charismatic and confusing slasher villains in the history of cinema. Both he and all of his victims were portrayed as obnoxiously as possible in this blackly comedic slasher. Jared Leto as Paul Allen is a great example of just how obnoxious and annoying a movie character can manage to be.
Of course, in this case, the film was completely intentional in its attempts to make these characters quite this annoying, so it is justifiable that the film was genius in accomplishing what it wanted to do. American Psycho is an excellent example of a slasher from the perspective of the killer, an uncommon idea to be explored in such a large-scale film.