bullied as a child and drowned in Crystal Lake he returned years later to avenge himself and his mother. He didn't put on his trademark hockey mask until part three in the series but the vision of a hockey mask killer has become synonymous with slasher killers ever since. Jason preferred to wield a machete but again he was no stranger to improvisation and as the endless slew of sequels continued he murdered teens using anything that was to hand from a pitch fork to a party hooter.
Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street) - Freddy was the most imaginative of all the slasher villains. A child murderer who was burned by the local townspeople after the police failed to put him away, he returned to haunt the children of his murderers in their nightmares. Brutally scarred and armed with a razor finger glove Freddy wasn't limited by the rules of the physical world and could perform all sorts of ridiculous murders in the dream world where he took on other forms and dispatched teens in a series of over the top and imaginative sequences.
Michael Myers
(Halloween) - Michael Myers was the original supernatural slasher villain and he established a pattern of behavior which has remained largely unaltered within the genre. A slow methodical masked killer who never spoke and delighted in targeting teens and then displaying their bodies in order to scare new victims, Myers was a huge hit with audiences. He started out as a psychotic killer at a young age and our first encounter with him formed the unforgettable opening scene of Halloween. As the series progressed Michael went from being a psychotic killer who was still human to a supernatural and unstoppable murder machine. His weapon of choice was usually the knife but he wasn't above improvising and committed a number of murders with his bare hands.
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