10 Psychiatric Diagnoses Of Horror Villains And Their Victims
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Not surprisingly, many horror movie villains suffer from serious mental illnesses, mental disorders, or physical diseases that cause bizarre behavior. Becoming monsters, they commit atrocities on innocent victims, stalking, murdering, raping, molesting, and bullying their prey.
A vicious cycle of torment, suffering, madness, and crime is sometimes created in which the victims become the victimizers of still others who are frequently guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their behavior is so hideous that some confuse their deeds with the acts of demonic beings, immortal bogeymen, mutants, ghosts, or the very devil himself.