There’s nothing more emotionally resonant than a good monologue. We all love to hear our heroes make sweeping speeches (sometimes set to a soaring score) that really drive home their current motivations or feelings. But, protagonists aren’t the only ones who can deliver a series of lines that stick to the ribs. Horror villains are pretty chatty characters too, and they can also do a monologue like no other. So, in honor of our never-ending love of scary movies, here are a few fantastic monologues by horror villains.
Roman Bridger (Scream 3)
It’s no secret that Roman Bridger is one of the best Ghostface killers in the film franchise. He had the strongest and most complex motivation for his actions, which we hear all about during his epic killer reveal/villain monologue. In just a few minutes, Roman changes everything that Sidney (and the audience) thought they knew about the origin story of the Woodsboro murders forever. Like a true director, Roman paints a cinematic picture of his abandonment, anger, and quest for revenge that set everything in motion. It is a chilling and twisted account, indeed.
You’re not going anywhere, Sidney. It’s time you came to terms with me and with Mother. Maybe you never knew her at all, Sidney. Maybe you just can’t get past the surface of things… I searched for a mother, too, an actress named Rina Reynolds, tried to find her my whole life. And four years ago, I actually tracked her down, knocked at her door thinking she’d welcome me with open arms. But she had a new life and a new name: Maureen Prescott. You were the only child she claimed, Sidney. She shut me out in the cold forever, her own son…Roman Bridger, director and brother.
She slammed the door in my face, Sid. She said I was Rina’s child and Rina was dead. And then it struck me. What a good idea. So I watched her. I made a little home movie, a little family film. It seems Maureen, Mom, she really got around. I mean, Cotton was one thing. Everybody knew about that. But Billy’s father? That was the key. Your boyfriend didn’t like seeing his daddy in my film too much, he didn’t like it at all. Once I supplied the motivation, all the kid needed was a few pointers. Have a partner to sell out in case you get caught, find someone to frame. It was like he was making a movie…
John Kramer a.k.a. Jigsaw (Saw II)
Is John Kramer full of crap and absolutely a sadist? Yes. Is his villain monologue about death and how the knowledge of it can shatter a person all facts? Absolutely. In the midst of Saw II’s blood and torture gore, there’s a very human moment from John about how his cancer diagnosis and failed attempt to die by suicide set him on this path. He could’ve become a therapist or something, but that’s beside the point. This speech is a sad, sobering moment for those who don’t understand the gravity of a terminal illness.
…You see, the knowledge of death changes everything. If I were to tell you the exact date and time of your own death, it would shatter your world completely. I know. Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you’re dying? The gravity of that? That the clock’s ticking for you. In a split second, your world is cracked open.
You look at things differently, you smell things differently. You savor everything, be it a glass of water or a walk in the park… But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock’s gonna go off. And the irony of it is that it keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water, but never really tasting it…
Pamela Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
A mother’s love for a child is one of the fiercest forces in the universe. And sometimes that pure devotion can turn deadly. When it comes to killer mamas, there’s no one quite like Pamela Voorhees. This monologue is quite chilling considering her quick switch from a seemingly concerned and sweet old lady to a straight up murderer. It truly shows that you cannot judge a book by its cover, especially when you’re at a murderous campground.
…You see, Jason was my son, and today is his birthday…Oh I couldn’t let them open this place again, could I? Not after what happened. Oh my sweet, innocent Jason. My only child. Jason…You let him drown! You never paid any attention! Look what you did to him…
Wayne Mackey (Summer of 84)
Summer of 84 (2018) is highly underrated and probably one of the best horror films to come out in the past ten years. Davey suspects that his neighbor, Wayne Mackey, is responsible for a string of disappearances at a campsite. And, spoiler alert, he was right. Wayne is nuts and his villain monologue chills you right to the bone for real.
All I wanna do is kill you…That’s not enough for you. You have spent so much time thinking about me… I want you to keep thinking about me. I want you to imagine what I’m going to do when I come back for you. And I am going to come back for you. After you have spent your life looking over your shoulder… after you have wondered every single day if that is the day that I’m gonna come for you… one day… you’ll be right!
Pearl (Pearl)
Pearl’s monologue is much longer than the average one on this list (or in most films period), but it is absolutely stellar. Mia Goth pours her heart, soul, and tears into Pearl as she opens up about her dreams, pain, and truth. We can’t detail it all here because, again, it is long, but there’s not a minute that won’t totally have you enthralled.
You seem so perfect all the time. Lord must’ve been generous to you. He never answers any of my prayers. I don’t know why. What did I do? What is wrong with me? Please, just tell me so maybe I can get better. I don’t want to end up like Mama. I want to be dancing up on the screen like the pretty gals in the pictures. I want what they have so badly, to be perfect, to be loved from as many people as possible to make up for all my time spent suffering.
Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night and the fear washes over me, ’cause what if this is it? What if this is right where I belong? I’m a failure. I’m not pretty or naturally pleasant, or friendly. I’m not smart, or funny, or confident. I’m exactly what Mama said I was, weak. I don’t know why. What did I do? Why wasn’t my family like yours? I hate what it feels like to be me and not you.
Henry/One/Vecna (Stranger Things 4)
Stranger Things has given us lots of epic moments over its run. One of its most underrated is the villain monologue from Henry Creel aka One aka Vecna in season four. He is very pointed on his views of humanity and how we are collectively a terrible pest that have built really stupid systems in the name of “order.” Buddy spoke nothing but pure facts. Give this man a bigger microphone, honestly.
I found a nest of black widows living inside a vent. Most people fear spiders. They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me, they are solitary creatures. And deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. The most important of all predators. They immobilize and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem.
But the human world was disrupting this harmony. You see, humans are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straight jacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades. Each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before.
Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce, and die. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over. All while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness. I could not pretend. And I realized I didn’t have to.
Norman Bates (Psycho)
It’s clear to see why Scream’s Billy Loomis was inspired by Norman Bates. There’s something engaging yet deeply disturbing about that guy. And he did get an iconic life off with “We all go a little mad sometimes.” This moment in Psycho is perhaps one of the most unsettling in the film with loads of tension. Anthony Perkins truly delivers a flawless performance that cements his status as a horror movie icon.
People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest oh so very delicately. Of course, I’ve suggested it myself. But I hate to even think about it. She needs me. It’s not as if she were a maniac raving things. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes.
John Milton/Satan (The Devil’s Advocate)
Al Pacino can literally do no wrong as an actor. That’s not hyperbole at all. He is one of the greatest thespians to grace the screen ever. And what better way to show off his acting chops than having him play the Devil himself. If ever you were gonna give a fiery monologue to a person that mocks God himself, you have to give it to this master of words.
Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He’s a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift and then what does he do? I swear for his own amusement, for his own private cosmic gag reel, he sets the rules in opposition.
It’s the goof of all-time! Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, don’t swallow. And while you’re jumping from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He’s laughing his sick f**king a** off. He’s a tight a**, he’s a sadist, he’s an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never!
Hannibal (Hannibal)
Few episodes in TV history can rival the intensity of Hannibal’s “Mizumono.” The season two finale is as horrifying as it is beautiful. And that dichotomy is fully captured in the final speech Hannibal delivers to Will before smashing all the plates, literally and figuratively, and disappearing into the night. The most bone-chilling part of it all is Hannibal’s true sadness and heartbreak as he mutilates the love of his life, professing his vision of the beautiful world they could have lived in if only Will hadn’t gotten so caught up in semantics like whether or not cannibalism was morally acceptable.
And the even more crushing part is that Will DID want it. We could have had it all. Instead, we got Will lying in a pool of his own blood as his adoptive daughter daughter with Hannibal died in front of them. But, at least this gorgeous “villain” monologue saw us off into the long night of our soul. We’ll always have you, “I let you know me, see me, I gave you a rare gift.”
Time did reverse. The teacup that I shattered did come together. The place was made
for Abigail in your world. Do you understand? That place was made for all of us, together. I wanted to surprise you. And you, you wanted to surprise me. I let you know me. See me. I gave you a rare gift. But you didn’t want it… You would deny me my life. My freedom then. You would take that from me. Confine me to a prison cell. Do you believe you could change me, the way I’ve changed you?…Fate and circumstance have returned us to this moment when the teacup shatters. I forgive you, Will. Will you forgive me? You can make it all go away. Put your head back. Close your eyes. Wade into the quiet of the stream.
Clifton (The Blackening)
The Blackening leans for more into comedy and satirizing horror tropes and Black stereotypes than actual scary stuff. The film follows a group of college friends who reunite after a decade for a Juneteenth weekend full of fun and games. But things go awry when a killer in a blackface mask forces them to play a game to try to save their lives. In the end, that killer is nothing more than NPC twins under the thumb of Clifton, a nerdy guy who is outside the friend circle because he’s not “Black enough” … and cannot play Spades. Their mocking led him to make a choice that took his life down a terrible path. His monologue is kinda sad, even though he’s actually nuts.
You see, I was just so excited to be around people that looked like me. And I’ll be the first to admit, I was never the best dancer, Dewayne, or the funniest, Shanika, or the best cheater, Nnamdi… Relax. Or whatever you do, Lisa… But you know, one thing that I love more than all that is games. Monopoly, chess, checkers, Connect Four, whatever you wanna play me in, I’m a monster at it, you know. But the one game I could never, ever really get a handle on was Spades. Because nobody plays Spades in Vermont!
So that night I made on honest mistake… I thought I was out of clubs… And it could’ve happened to anybody… It was an honest mistake! It was a simple mistake. A mistake that you all couldn’t let go. You turned it into some ultimatum about how Black I was. And you laughed at me, and you attacked me about my Blackness. And then you ruined my life…
Honorable Mention: Red (Us)
Lupita N’yongo gave us the dual performance of a lifetime as Us’ Adelaide and her doppelgänger Red. We cannot in good conscience include Red as a proper villain because she was actually the victim of this film. But her first encounter with the (fake) Adelaide paints a truly disturbing picture of what she has had to endure as a member of the Tethered community. To be fair, her second monologue is just as powerful but in the essence of time and space, let’s look back at the first words she spoke.
Once upon a time there was a girl and a shadow. They were connected…tethered together. When the girl ate, her food was given to her… warm and tasty. But when the shadow was hungry, she had to eat rabbit… raw and bloody. On Christmas, the girl received wonderful toys…soft and cushy, when the shadow’s toys were so sharp and cold, it sliced through her fingers when she tried to play with them.
The girl met a handsome prince and fell in love. But the shadow at that same time met Abraham. It didn’t matter if she loved him or not, he was a tethered to the girl’s prince after all. Then the girl had her first child –a beautiful baby girl. But the shadow…she gave birth to a little monster. Umbrae, was born laughing. The girl had her second child, a boy this time. They had to cut her open and take him from her belly. The shadow had to do it all… by herself. She named him Pluto. He was born to the fire. So you see the shadow hated the girl so much for so long, until one day the shadow realized she was being tested by God…
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