Supporting Characters in horror films
 

Post your favorites here.

I listed 161 so far.

Most noteworthy ones in, but still let's see your choices.

Remember - no heroes, heroines or villains.

What's the deadline? Have to do research on this one and I'm at work right now.

No deadline. Feel free.

My favorite would be Reggie from Phantasm

Roland Kincaid from the third & fourth Elm St flick always cracked me up too.

Evil from Fright Night

Tangina from Poltergeist

Hooper from Jaws

Quint from Jaws

Ben from the original Night of The Living Dead

Frank from Return of The Living Dead

Spoon from Dog Soldiers

Wouldn't Ben be the male lead?

I guess you would be right


scratch Ben

Renfield (Dracula, 1931)

The Monster's Bride (Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)

Sir John Talbot (The Wolf Man, 1940)

Joseph (The Body Snatcher, 1945)

Karl (The Revenge of Frankenstein, 1958)

Francois Delambre (The Fly, 1958)

Edwin Flagg (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962)

Ralph Merrye (Spider Baby, 1968)

Inspector Trout (The Abominable Dr. Phibes, 1971)

Peter (Dawn of the Dead, 1978)

Dr. Hal Raglan (The Brood, 1979)

Crazy Ralph (Friday the 13th, 1980)

Professor John McGregor (Phenomena, 1985)

Chop Top Sawyer (TCM 2, 1986)

Tallahassee (Zombieland, 2009)

Yes.

Thanks.


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Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

No.

Thanks.

Yes.


Yes.

Titular role. No.

Yes.

Thanks.

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Lead. No.

Lead villain. No.

Yes.

Thanks. In.

Villain. No.

Lead. No.



Keep them coming.

Gnaghi --Cemetery Man

Father McGruder--Dead Alive


Lt. William Kinderman--The Exorcist

Maleva [ the gypsy ] The Wolfman -1941]

Dean Halsey from Re-Animator

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Jimbo - Friday the 13th : The Final Chapter

Of course Dwight Frye in Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein
Una O'Connor in The Invisible Man
Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein
Dr. Preatorious in Bride of Frankenstein
The Hermit in Bride of Frankenstein

The deaf mute wife in The Tingler

The Frog Brothers- The Lost Boys (Corey Feldman & Jamison Newlander)
Buffalo Bill- Silence of the Lambs (Ted Levine)
Art Weingartner- The 'Burbs (Rick Ducommun)
Severen- Near Dark (Bill Paxton)
Dick Hallorann- The Shining (Scatman Crothers)
Bill Towner- House II (John Ratzenberger)
Childs- The Thing (Keith David)
Claudia- Interview with the vampire (Kirsten Dunst)

Thanks.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.


Yes.

Fritz. Yes.

Ygor. Thanks. In.

Jenny. Thanks.

Debating. For the film.

Yes.

Thanks.

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Fairly popular villain. No.

Thanks.

Lead villain. No.

Yes.

Thanks.

Yes.

Thanks.

Sexmachine-From dusk til dawn......err maybe the Preacher Jacob instead

The Cowboy from Mulholland Dr.

Bill Murray - Zombieland

Yes.

Thanks.

Yes.

Dr. Frankenstein - Day of the Dead (original)

Dr. Loomis- Halloween I, II, IV, &V
Reggie- Phantasm
Captain Spaulding- House of 1000 Corpses & The Devil's Rejects
Tallahassee- Zombieland
Lt. William Kinderman- The Exorcist
Hitchhiker- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dick Halloran- The Shining
The Cat Lady- Jeepers Creepers
Dr. John Markoway- The Haunting (1963)
Spoon- Dog Soldiers
Ed- Shaun of the Dead
Granny Boone- 2001 Maniacs
Luke- The Innkeepers
Sitterson & Hadley- The Cabin in the Woods
The Stranger- 30 Days of Night

That's all I can think of right now.

No matter who the favorite is, Franklin from 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was always the most annoying. I couldn't wait for him to get killed off LOL

Bub from Day Of The Dead naturally.
That guy should have won an oscar for that performance.

Surprised not to see

Bishop (Henriksen) from Aliens
and
Hudson (Paxton) from Aliens


Unless someone said them and I missed it.

Cmon Franklin, it's gonna be a fun trip!

The creepy housekeeper Mrs. Dudley from THE HAUNTING (1963)

In.


Basically the male lead. No.

In.

Male lead. Nope.

Male lead. Nope.

In.

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Male lead. Nope.

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Co-lead. Nope.

Female lead. Nope.

Male lead. Nope.

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Main antagonist. Nope.


In.

Almost a lead role. Debatable. Let's see.

In already.

Thanks.



Thanks to everyone for their valuable inputs. The tourney should be up sometime tomorrow.

Ok let's go through this V:

Dr. Loomis is not the leading character, that would be Laurie, so yes

Captain Spaulding, is definitely a side character, so yes

Columbus is the lead in Zombieland and I'll concede that Tallahassee is the co-lead.

Dr. John Markoway, okay I'll concede on this one.

Granny Boone, how you could consider her a lead role is beyond me, I still say yes.

Luke from the Innkeepers, Claire is obviously the lead and Luke barely does anything, so yes.

The Stranger, he is in no way the main antagonist, so he is a yes

Disagree with me if you like but I feel confident that I am right on these. I will only accept a character as a co-lead if said character has just as much air time as the main lead like in Men in Black, Will Smith is the main lead and Tommy Lee Jones is the co-lead.

No heroes, heroines or villains.

Laurie is the female lead, and Loomis is basically the male lead, Myers the villain. Remember their characters recur throughout the series.

Spaulding, Otis and Baby are the 3 leads of the second film. I can include him for House of 1000 Corpses alone, though.

My bad, I should have said female lead antagonist.

Nevertheless, the male lead of the film.

In the context of the film, he sure is.

Protagonists (main, joined, couple) both male & female, and antagonists (either male/female or both) are to be excluded. Purely supporting characters are to be considered here. Someone, like the cat lady from Jeepers Creepers or Mrs Dudley from The Haunting, cannot be compared to other choices listed above.

No Loomis is not the male lead, he is a supporting character.

I agree about Captain Spaulding, he is a supporting character in Ho1000C but a co-lead in DR

Granny Boone I supposed could be called a co-lead antagonist

I don't go for female and male leads, they are either the lead or a co-lead, Luke is neither.

The Stranger isn't even the main antagonist, that would be the head vampire, so yes

Oh, I changed my mind about Dr. Markoway, Elenore is the lead, Markoway is a supporting character

I gotta agree with V. Loomis is definitely the male lead. Now the sheriff in the remake, he would be a side character.

The male lead is Michael Myers

No he's the Villain. A totally different thing.

Has anyone said Rod, Glen or Nancy's father from Nightmare on Elm Street?

Now wait a minute, V and I agreed on the fact that Spaulding, Otis, and Baby were the leads in The Devil's Rejects, yet they are villains. Now you're trying to say that a villain can't be the lead. Hypocrisy!

Not only were they the villains but the movie was about them. Like in A Clockwork Orange, Alex is the villain but it's also about him. Halloween isn't about Micheal Myers, he's just the villain.

Like hell Halloween isn't about Michael Myers, he's is in every one of them but one. When I watch Halloween I root for Michael, same goes for Jason and Freddy. They are the villains but in many horror fans eyes, they are also the heroes. Therefore, to me, your argument is invalid.

It doesn't matter if they're the heroes in peoples eyes at all or if you root for them. If you start using that logic, then every movie is debatable. It's about how the movie portrays them. He is the villain plain and simple. You are not watching Micheal Myer's story unfold like you are The Firefly family in Devil's Rejects. You are watching Myer's victims as they are stalked by him. They are the leads, he is the villain.

We'll just have to agree to disagree, to me, Halloween is the story of Michael Myers and how he progresses from just being a psychotic killer to a demon.