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On The Table Read, “the best entertainment magazine in the UK“, experts at PsychicWorld.com used the golden ratio to work out the scariest and sexiest horror villains in time for Halloween.
This Halloween will you be enjoying Mads Mikkelsen’s chiselled Hannibal? Or curling up with Bill Skarsgård in his bone-chilling role as Pennywise? As controversial as it may seem, combining a handsome Hollywood actor with dark subject matter makes movie villains more attractive than we might care to admit.
According to research, the boldness and agression associated with villains can significantly increase a character’s allure.
“There’s an undeniable attraction for creatures of the night, those who are risky, obsessive, perhaps silent. We either want to tame them, or want to hitch a ride on their crazy train,” explains celebrity pscyhic, Inbaal Honigman.
Experts at PsychicWorld.com used the golden ratio* and Twitter data to put this concept to the test to find the scariest and sexiest Halloween villains to ever have graced our screens by creating a scoring system to rank horror villains from most to least sexy, and again to determine the scariest.
Ranking | Villain | Scary Tweets (per 100,000) | Golden Ratio % (Proximity to Golden Ratio) | Scary Score /100 |
1 | Jason Voorhees | 33706.97 | 15.94% | 98.06 |
2 | Michael Myers | 26206.1 | 38.50% | 70.35 |
3 | Freddy Krueger | 35015.25 | 62.37% | 65.89 |
4 | Leatherface | 32415.17 | 67.95% | 57.93 |
5 | Jigsaw | 34945.05 | 79.49% | 53.21 |
6 | Pinhead | 29462.1 | 71.48% | 50.95 |
7 | Pennywise | 20760.63 | 53.67% | 51.13 |
8 | Norman Bates | 11592.29 | 79.37% | 19.46 |
9 | Patrick Bateman | 7090.4 | 83.53% | 18.64 |
10 | Hannibal | 1317.55 | 84.00% | 8.91 |
With rumours of a new Friday the 13th movie on the horizon, Psychicworld.com found that the scariest Halloween villain is Jason Voorhees, who tops the table by far with a ‘scary score’ of 98.06/100. Horror fans all over the world are rediscovering the terror of Voorhees’ silent yet murderous on-screen rampages.
Michael Myers, known for his white-painted Captain Kirk mask comes in second place with a ‘scary score’ of 70.35/100. Myers first appeared in the 1978 horror hit Halloween and continued to terrorise our screens as part of the subsequent franchise for almost half a century.
Freddy Krueger from the 1984 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street comes in third place, with a ‘scary score’ of 65.89/100.
With a ‘scary score’ of only 8.91/100, Hannibal ranks in tenth place as the least scary Halloween villain. . Despite a sufficiently sinister characterisation by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), it is possible that the Hannibal fear factor may have dimmed with Mikkelsen’s recent portrayal.
Ranking | Villain | Sexy Tweets (per 100,000) | Golden Ratio % (Proximity to Golden Ratio) | Sexy Score /100 |
1 | Patrick Bateman | 178.91 | 83.53% | 94.97 |
=2 | Hannibal | 175.27 | 84.00% | 94.02 |
=2 | Norman Bates | 184.84 | 79.37% | 94.02 |
4 | Freddy Krueger | 192.14 | 62.37% | 84.11 |
5 | Pinhead | 166.70 | 71.48% | 81.80 |
6 | Jigsaw | 109.89 | 79.49% | 67.55 |
7 | Pennywise | 134.75 | 53.67% | 57.39 |
8 | Leatherface | 74.67 | 67.95% | 47.99 |
9 | Michael Myers | 97.2 | 38.50% | 46.60 |
10 | Jason Voorhees | 122.64 | 15.94% | 32.95 |
Experts at Psychicworld.com, found that the sexiest Halloween villain is Patrick Bateman, with a near-perfect ‘sexy score’ of 94.97/100. Christian Bale’s striking features in the film adaptation earned him an impressive 83.53% against the golden ratio.
Hannibal, as played by Mads Mikkelsen in the eponymous NBC series comes in second place, joining Norman Bates of Psycho with a ‘sexy score’ of 94.02/100. In fourth place is Freddy Krueger, with a curiously high ‘sexy score’ of 84.11/100, making him technically more sexy than scary.
Known as the machete-wielding killer in the Friday the 13th film series, the hocked masked Jason Voorhees ranks in tenth place with a ‘sexy score’ of 32.95/100, with a mere 15.94% score against the golden ratio.
*Now known as the ‘golden ratio’, the mathematical ratio of 1.618 was discovered in ancient India, and was introduced to Europe by Italian theorist Fibonacci in the 13th century. It is said to determine the compositions that are naturally pleasing to the eye.
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