Greatest Horror Icon?

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

This is the debate that has raged for centuries. Now, WE end it.

Who is the greatest Horror Icon of them all?

The rules are simple. First to get 3 votes wins in the first round. Second round its first to 5 and the final is first to 10.

To start things off we go with an odd matchup of sorts. As:

JASON VOORHEES



Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series of slasher films. He first appeared in Friday the 13th (1980), as the son of camp cook-turned-murderer, Mrs. Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Created by Victor Miller, with contributions by Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham, and Tom Savini, Jason was not originally intended to carry the series as the main antagonist. The character has subsequently been represented in various other media, including novels, comic books, and a cross-over film with another iconic horror film character, Freddy Krueger.
The character has primarily been an antagonist in the films, whether by stalking and killing the characters, or acting as a psychological threat to the lead character, as is the case in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Since Lehman's portrayal, the character has been represented by numerous actors and stuntmen, sometimes by more than one at a time; this has caused some controversy as to who should receive credit for the portrayal. Kane Hodder is the best known of the stuntmen to portray Jason Voorhees, having played the character in four consecutive films.[3][4]
The character's physical appearance has gone through many transformations, with various special makeup effects artists making their mark on the character's design, including makeup artist Stan Winston. Tom Savini's initial design has been the basis for many of the later incarnations. The trademark hockey goalie mask did not appear until Friday the 13th Part III. Since Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, filmmakers have given Jason superhuman strength, regenerative powers, and near invulnerability. He has been seen as a sympathetic character, whose motivation for killing has been cited as being driven by the immoral actions of his victims and his own rage over having drowned as a child.[5] Jason Voorhees has been featured in various humor magazines, referenced in feature films, parodied in television shows, and was the inspiration for a horror punk band. Several toy lines have been released based on various versions of the character from the Friday the 13th films. Jason Voorhees's hockey mask is a widely recognized image in popular culture.[6]

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The Terminator


"The Terminator" (also known as the T-850, T-101 and the T-800) refers to a number of fictional characters portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger – a cyborg,[1] initially portrayed as a programmable assassin, main protagonist, and military infiltration unit. "The Terminator" character first appeared in The Terminator, a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, and its sequels. The first film in the series features only one cyborg: the one portrayed by Schwarzenegger, although a second Terminator played by Franco Columbu is shown in a future flashback scene. In the first two sequels, Schwarzenegger's Terminator is pitted against other Terminators; it appears briefly in the third sequel as a CGI model.
In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twist: Schwarzenegger is the hero instead of the villain playing a different but visually identical Terminator in each of the three films. Within the Terminator universe created by Cameron, Terminators of the same "model" share identical characteristics. In the production of the films, this has allowed multiple Terminators to be portrayed by Schwarzenegger. In the context of the stories, this plot device provides a certain continuity for the human characters, by exploiting their emotional familiarity with a particular "human" visage.
"The Terminator" is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the credits of the three Terminator movies. At different times, the character is given more specific designations such as model and series numbers, in efforts to distinguish Schwarzenegger's character from other Terminators.
The Terminator appears in Terminator Salvation. Schwarzenegger reprises the role via facial CGI, while the character itself is physically portrayed by Roland Kickinger.
The title has also been used as a generic name for other human-simulating characters in the "Terminator" universe, notably the liquid metal shape-shifting T-1000 antagonist in the sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Remember first to 3 votes wins.

[Romeo Hotel]

Jason of course. I never have liked the Terminator series to begin with.

[Wolf Hurricane]

JASON!

[Brainbustaaah!]

If this were better film character, I would be more conflicted. As it stands, with this categorization, there's no way I can vote but Jason.

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

Jason demolishes the Terminator. As skynet cleans up the mess, our next competitors enter the battle dome.

Dracula


Count Dracula is portrayed in the novel using many different supernatural abilities. He has strength which, according to Van Helsing, is equivalent to that of 20 strong men. Being undead, he is immune to conventional means of attack. The only definite way to kill him is by decapitating him followed by impalement through the heart with a wooden stake, although it is also suggested that shooting him with a sacred bullet would suffice. Like all undead, he has the potential to live forever and never die, though he is not truly immortal as he can be killed by the traditional vampire methods (silver and/or wooden stakes, holy water, and sunlight). The Count can defy gravity to a certain extent, being able to climb upside down vertical surfaces in a reptilian manner. He has powerful hypnotic and telepathic abilities, and is also able to command nocturnal animals such as wolves and rats. Dracula can also manipulate the weather, usually creating mists to hide his presence, but also storms such as in his voyage in the Demeter. He can shapeshift at will, his featured forms in the novel being that of a bat, a rat, a wolf, vapor, and fog. He requires no other sustenance but fresh blood, which has the effect of rejuvenating him.[9]

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Alien


The Alien (sometimes referred to as a xenomorph)[1][2] is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien film series. The species made its debut in the 1979 film Alien, and reappeared in its sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997), two crossovers Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), as well as the various literature and video game spin-offs from the series.
Unlike many other recurring enemy extraterrestrial races in science fiction, the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization, but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat. Like wasps or termites, Aliens are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors. The Aliens' biological life cycle, in which their offspring are violently implanted inside living hosts before erupting from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect. Their design deliberately evokes many sexual images, both male and female, to illustrate its blurring of human sexual dichotomy.
The Alien design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph called Necronom IV and refined for the series' first film, Alien. The species' design and life cycle have been extensively added to throughout each film.
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Remember first to 3 wins!

[Triwizard Champion]

Dracula

[Wolf Hurricane]

Dracula, the forefather of Vampire Cinema

[Deleted]

Dracula. You can't argue against the character's influence.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Gotta go with Dracula. The Alien has inspired rip-offs, Dracula has inspired a genre.

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

Dracula feeds on the Xenomorph, and though the acid causes some damage the blood of Justin Bieber revives him. Lookie here, the next combatants.

Candyman


His real name was Daniel Robitaille, who was the son of a slave on a plantation in New Orleans. He was chosen by a wealthy landowner to paint a portrait of his daughter, Caroline. They started sharing a close relationship with each other. This resulted in Caroline becoming pregnant, and Daniel being reviled. Daniel was chased out of the town and hunted across the fields by an enraged lynch mob led by Caroline's bigoted father. They managed to catch him and began torturing him by sawing off his right hand and coating him in fresh honey from a nearby beehive. The bees then swarmed over Daniel's body, mortally wounding him. Caroline entered the scene restrained as her father taunted Daniel with her mirror (stating how can his child love Daniel now). Daniel then said the word "Candyman" before dying. Caroline seized the mirror and cradled it. The mirror now held the tortured and hateful soul of the Candyman. Caroline hid the mirror at Daniel's birthplace. She later gave birth to her daughter named Isabel. It is later revealed in Day of the Dead that Daniel was denied burial in favor of being burned to ashes. Before his death he had also hidden away a lifesize self-portrait as a means of a legacy.

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Leatherface


The character was originally played by Gunnar Hansen. His real name is unknown, although older brother Chop Top calls him "Bubba" in the second movie. His surname would most logically be Sawyer, sharing the last name of his older brothers, making his full name Bubba Sawyer.

In the original film, Leatherface is never seen without one of his human-flesh masks on. The reason for this is unknown. He differs from other movie killers in that he is not so much sadistic or evil; he is in fact mentally retarded and most of the time he only does what his family tells him to do. Hansen has stated that Leatherface is "completely under the control of his family. He'll do whatever they tell him to do. He's a little bit afraid of them." [3] Tobe Hooper has argued on the documentary The Shocking Truth that Leatherface is a 'big baby' and kills in self-defense because he feels threatened, pointing out that in the first film Leatherface was actually frightened at all the new people entering his house. [4]

The people Leatherface kills are later made into barbecue and chili, which are sold by his oldest brother, Drayton Sawyer. Aside from Leatherface and Drayton, the Sawyer clan includes his two more brothers, Nubbins and Chop Top, as well as Grandpa, Grandma and Great-Grandma (real names unknown)

[Big Bad Brad]

Leatherface

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Candyman

[Triwizard Champion]

Leatherface

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Leatherface


With Candyman, I honestly had to think...."Who the hell is this guy?" Leatherface, instantly iconic.

[andrew8798]

Leatherface

[Romeo Hotel]

Leatherface for sure.

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

Leatherface wins!!!! Alright guys, I'll be back this weekend, Friday or Saturday for sure, with the rest of the first round, including appaerances from, Chucky, Godzilla, Michael Myers, Frankenstein, Gill Man, and perhaps a few surprises!

[Paul E. Funk]

What happened?

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

Dun dun dun!!!! This thread lives again.... with....

Frankenstein's Monster


Frankenstein's monster (also called the Frankenstein monster or Frankenstein's creature) is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name. He does call himself, when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the "Adam of your labours." He is also variously referred to as a "creature," "fiend," "the demon," "wretch," "devil," "thing," "being," and "ogre" in the novel.[1]
The monster's namelessness became part of the stage tradition as Mary Shelley's story was adapted into serious and comic plays in London, Paris, and France during the decades after the novel's first appearance. Mary Shelley herself attended a performance of Presumption, the first successful stage adaptation of her novel. "The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatic personae came ________, by Mr T. Cooke,” she wrote to her friend Leigh Hunt. "This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good."[2]
The name of the creator—Frankenstein—soon came to be used to name the creation. That happened within the first decade after the novel was published, but it became cast in concrete after the story was popularized in the famous 1930s Universal film series starring Boris Karloff. The film was based largely on a play by Peggy Webling, performed in London in 1927.[3] Webling's Frankenstein actually does give his creature his name. The Universal film treated the Monster's identity in a manner that reflects its resemblance to Mary Shelley's novel: the name of the actor, not the character, is hidden by a question mark. Nevertheless, the creature soon enough became best known in the popular imagination as Frankenstein."

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Pinhead


Pinhead is a fictional character from the Hellraiser series. Created by Clive Barker and portrayed by Doug Bradley, Pinhead is a prominent figure in the series, mostly featured as the main antagonist.[1]
Pinhead is the leader of the cenobites, formerly human creatures from an extradimensional realm who travel to Earth through the Lament Configuration, and harvest human souls. Depicted as intelligent and articulate, the character was deliberately presented as a departure from the mute or wise-cracking 1980s horror movie villains who preceded him, being based more on Count Dracula.[5] As the series became franchised, his motivations and role in the story have fluctuated, with the character being portrayed as an amoral hedonist, blatantly evil, or an entity detached from human existence and tasked with punishing the wicked.
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Remember first to 3 votes wins!

[Triwizard Champion]

Frankenstein's Monster