Radar ranks the ten best horror villains of all time

The scariest cinematic killers slash their way into our subconscious and terrorize us into adulthood. But who are the most terrifying of them all? They have shaped our lives in more ways than we care to know. To thank them, Radar presents the Top Ten Titans of Terror.

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10. Billy Chapman (Silent Night, Deadly Night, 1984)
A deranged orphan who dons a Santa suit and preys on the naughty.
Played by: Robert Brian Wilson
Kills with: Axe.
Why we love him: Long before the American Family Association stumbled upon 2 Live Crew, Silent Night, Deadly Night was picketed by priggish PTA members for portraying Santa as a symbol of greed and crass commercialism.
Rationale for bloodlust: After grandpa warned him that Old Man Kringle doesn't like naughty boys, Billy witnessed the raping and killing of his mother and father by a dude in a Santa suit. Merry Christmas!
Origin of disfigurement: He's not so much disfigured as too scrawny to fill out his costume.
Loosely based on: Halloween, genesis of the fucked-up-things-happen- on-holidays genre.
Sexual orientation: Who knows what he's doing in those pantaloons....
Achilles' Heel: Bullets. He dies in the first film, but his little brother picks up his axe in the sequel.
Up next: Nothing. Since 1992's Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 5: The Toy Maker, creepy Santa portrayals have been the sole province of Billy Bob Thornton and Tim Allen.
Where are they now? Playing a homicidal St. Nick was a career high for Wilson. He followed up with a one-year stint on Santa Barbara, but his trail runs cold in '92, when he was last seen in an episode of Jake and the Fatman.

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9. Regan Teresa MacNeil (The Exorcist, 1973)
A pre-teen is overtaken by Satan, much to the chagrin of her single mom.
Played by: Linda Blair
Kills with: Green bile.
Why we love her: She kick-started Blair's career, then ended it.
Rationale for bloodlust: Possessed by the devil.
Origin of disfigurement: Extreme satanic makeover.
Loosely Based on: The William Peter Blatty novel, which is supposedly based on the only exorcism ever sanctioned by the Catholic Church: In 1949, a 13-year-old named Robbie attempted to use a Ouija board to communicate with his dead grandmother but wound up attracting Satan. He soon began speaking in a demon patois, moving objects with his mind, and finding words scratched in blood on his chest.
Sexual orientation: Autophilia.
Achilles' Heel: Holy water.
Up next: A rumored 2008 remake starring Dakota Fanning, but nothing's confirmed.
Where are they now? Blair's neck-twisting star turn was great practice for her subsequent possession by Rick James in the 1980s. After sobering up, Blair re-surfaced in 1997 to replace Lucy Lawless in the Broadway revival of Grease. Despite her hardships, she must find solace in the fact that her life made for the best E! True Hollywood Story ever.