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13 Horror Villains Who Might Just Be Worth Swiping Right
There truly is no better time to explore the characters who combine the concepts of “fatal” and “attractive” into one beautiful whole: horror villains. Here, I’ve decided to break down some of the most dateable horror villains alive (or dead).

It’s Fatal Attraction month here at Horror Press, so there truly is no better time to explore the characters who combine the concepts of “fatal” and “attractive” into one beautiful whole: horror villains. Here, I’ve decided to break down some of the most dateable horror villains alive (or dead).
Don’t misunderstand me. You will probably find many of these characters hot in a reasonably conventional way, and I certainly do as well, but hotness is only one piece of the puzzle. The higher up they are on the list, the more they would be a genuinely worthy romantic partner. This is why you’re not getting Jason Voorhees on the list, for instance. Not much for conversation, that one. Or the Xenomorph. You can’t bring it home to meet your parents if it’s going to eat your parents.
This is but a small sampling of the wide world of horror villains you should probably swipe right on, but let’s hope it whets your appetite this Valentine’s season. Oh, and Ghostface isn’t on here, because I couldn’t pick just one, and I didn’t want half the list to just be Scream villains. Maybe that’ll be a list of its own one day. If you want that, take it up with management.
The Best Horror Villains Worth Dating
#13 Frank (Hellraiser, 1987)
Now, on the “fuck, marry, kill” spectrum, he’s obviously much more in the fuck/kill arena. But doing either would be such a pleasure, wouldn’t it? Pinhead certainly thinks so.
#12 Brahms (The Boy, 2016)
OK, hear me out… You’re telling me this scruffy lumbersexual hunk wouldn’t be killing it in the Brooklyn dating game? He just needs a bath and someone who can follow his rules. The “no guests” one is pretty rough, but “never cover his face?” Done. Easy. “Read a bedtime story?” Sure. “Kiss goodnight?” Yes, please. The rest are pretty much just chores, and who doesn’t have to do those from time to time?
#11 Asami Yamazaki (Audition, 1999)
Now, this is a woman who loves hard. Maybe unfollow any attractive people on Instagram before you date her, but as long as you can stay faithful, she’ll always be attentive, and you’ll never be bored.
#10 Bill Farrell (I Married a Monster from Outer Space, 1958)
Sure, when lightning strikes, he does have a pretty scary alien monster face. But a man who looks like Tom Tryon and flew his spaceship millions of miles specifically to breed with you is kinda romantic, if you think about it.
#9 David (The Guest, 2014)
He’s got great taste in music, he can charm your friends and family, he looks like Dan Stevens. He’s the total package, as long as you’re not involved in whatever mission he’s assigned to. There’s no way to know for sure that you’re not involved, but maybe it’s worth the risk?
#8 Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996)
We all already know the downsides to dating a sexy vampire, don’t we? That’s right, there are none! Moving on.
#7 Dr. Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975)
Dating Dr. Frank-N-Furter would be a good-ass time, and you know it. Singing, having sex, making inventions, doing some light cannibalism, dancing the Time Warp again and again… The only issue would be a major lack of attentiveness. Look at what became of poor Columbia. Frank will forget about you at certain points, and it might feel hard to compete with the perfect specimens coming out of the lab. But Frank definitely wouldn’t mind if you messed around with whatever hot young thing wanders into the manor, so it’s not like you’ll be bored.
#6 Armand (Interview with the Vampire, 1994)
Speaking of sexy vampires… Armand might be a little ruthless, but, being an Anne Rice creation, he has a sensitive soul. Also, you can also be with him for centuries and he will never not look like a 1994 Antonio Banderas, so that’s a plus.
#5 Billy Chapman (Silent Night, Deadly Night, 1984)
As long as you spend the period between Halloween and New Year’s in a country that doesn’t celebrate Christmas, you get to be with this strapping 1980s hunk! Everyone has their triggers, you shouldn’t shame him for his.
#4 Jennifer (Jennifer’s Body, 2009)
Jennifer was obviously going to be high on this list. Who doesn’t want to date someone with succubus powers? But frankly, I like her for her, not for the demonic spirit possessing her. And that might cause issues down the road as you try to disentangle the two.
#3 Christian (Good Boy, 2022)
You’re telling me I just have to survive a little pup play to get with this chiseled-from-marble Norwegian millionaire? Sign me up.
#2 Candyman (Candyman, 1992)
That voice. That face. That coat! There are very few downsides to giving in and becoming Candyman’s victim, so you can be together forever in the hearts and minds (and mirrors) of the terrified populace. You’d have to die, of course, but there are worse ways to meet someone. Really, my biggest personal hurdle is that I have a huge phobia of bees.
#1 Leslie Vernon (Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006)
When he’s not murdering teenagers, he’s an adorkable goofball. And it’s always good to have a passion! If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life, and he’ll bring that good energy home to you. Plus, the movie specifically shows that his serial killer role model is in a healthy long-term relationship, so I think Leslie has what it takes to truly commit.
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FANGORIA Releases 2025 Chainsaw Award Nominees

Get ready to take the substance, party at Pearline’s, and invite in Orlok, because FANGORIA has released their list of nominees for the 2025 Chainsaw Awards. Alongside the Dead Meat Horror Awards, the Chainsaw Awards are the most anticipated and prestigious Horror Film and TV accolades out there. The most exciting part is that, unlike most popular awards shows, the Chainsaw Awards will continue to allow fans to help choose the winners.
According to FANGORIA, the competition will continue its tradition of having films from the second half of 2024, and this first half of 2025. FANGORIA Editor-in-Chief Nobile Jr. said in their nomination release, that this should cause voting to be “vicious and voluminous.” He describes the award show as, “Like the Grammy’s, but gorier.” It should be a bloodbath of a competition, because this year’s nominees are absolutely killer.
The Substance and Sinners, two of the most talked about films of the past year, seem to sweep the nominations. Both blockbusters land in the categories for Best Screenplay, Director, and Best Wide Release. Nosferatu and Longlegs, both 2024 releases, are also in almost every category they qualify for, and the recently released Bring Her Back made a handful of nominations. The Monkey, Heart Eyes, and Presence did not make this year’s list of nominations.
Horror fans can cast their votes for FANGORIA’S Chainsaw Awards HERE.
SOURCE: Our friends over at FANGORIA
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The ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Franchise, Ranked

The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise is a peculiar beast. Think about it. First of all, it never really got started. I consider the foundation of a horror franchise to be the movies that got released at a relatively steady clip (generally one or two years apart) before the series went on hiatus, then took a sharp turn into legacy sequels, direct-to-video sequels, reboots, and the like. For Friday the 13th, that foundation is eight movies. A Nightmare on Elm Street had five. Scream and Child’s Play were founded on solid trilogies. The Conjuring Universe is at eight and counting (and that’s if you skip Curse of La Llorona, which I am loath to do). And what did I Know What You Did Last Summer get? A measly two.
Not only did it fail to get started, it also kind of failed to get going. After the original two movies (the first of which is based on a 1973 young adult novel by Lois Duncan), which were directly in continuity with one another, it had a direct-to-video sequel eight years later and a short-lived television reboot 15 years after that. And yet, like any good horror villain, it refuses to die. With a 2025 legacy sequel coming our way, I thought it was high time to take a look at this misbegotten but indefatigable multimedia series and see just what we can make of it, by ranking its efforts from worst to best.
#4 I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)
It makes sense that the world was not kind to this one-season Prime Video reboot. When the last entry in a franchise that anyone remotely cared about was more than 20 years earlier, and then you pull a big swing like this, more or less completely removing everything about the characters and premise that was compelling, it’s not going to go well. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that this is an ugly and incompetently-made series, with an outright disdain for the 180-degree line that makes the mere act of watching it feel like aesthetic water torture if you care about film craft even a little bit.
Really, the only thing that it had going for it was the fact that it was set and shot in Hawai’i. In addition to giving it a really grounded sense of place, it also evoked the specificity of the fact that the original movie was set in North Carolina.
#3 I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
I honestly admire the extravagantly goofy choice to have original killer Ben Willis (Muse Watson in the original movies, Don Shanks in this one) return as a ghost who has become some sort of cross-country specter of previous-summer-themed vengeance. However, this direct-to-video sequel that is otherwise unrelated to anything else in the franchise is bland as all get out and boasts the weakest acting of the franchise. This is somewhat forgivable, given the fact that the original director was fired and the new director had to scramble to get everything together in just two weeks. And that original director was Joe Chappelle, who might have the actual worst filmography of any horror director (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Phantoms, parts of Hellraiser: Bloodline), so we probably dodged a bullet. This could have been even lower!
#2 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is immensely, deliriously, outrageously stupid. Mileage will vary on this movie, but if you read my paean to the stupidity of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer from two years ago, you know my mileage is fully “Rascal Flatts in a Prius.” I’m getting that hybrid car highway mileage, baby, and I’m riding it all night long.
That said, it’s obviously not the best entry in the series. As charismatic as Brandy is, the new characters around Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) don’t hold a candle to the duo’s original friends in terms of complexity or entertainment value. And the choice (probably made by necessity) to keep the two surviving characters apart for basically the entire span of the story results in the movie completely deflating every time it has to cut back to whatever boring shit Ray is up to.
#1 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I know, I know, it’s boring when the obvious choice is up top. But sometimes the original is simply the best, and you just have to deal with it. As I’ve already mentioned, the specificity of its setting in a North Carolina fishing town is unique and interesting for a slick, post-Scream slasher. And while the script doesn’t boast the Kevin Williamson-esque touches of his other work from the 1990s (it was written before Scream, and it shows), it’s a solid meat-and-potatoes slasher movie with a fun killer M.O. (hook-wielding murderers are so popular in urban legends for a reason) and a group of friends that includes Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar at the heights of their powers.