As a fan of the horror genre, I've gone up against some of the most terrifying things imaginable. I've seen mannequins come to life, murderous ghost children, massive pink wheelchair demons, and even a blood-spewing behemoth made of human corpses. One of the (many) great things about video games is that those who create them build their worlds and the twisted creatures that inhabit them from nothing. This means the twisted mockeries of sanity you encounter were created with the sole purpose of making you fear-pee yourself as you run to your mother's open arms. Here are ten spine-chilling creatures that did just that.
1. The Witch (Leaf 4 Dead)
The Witch is especially interesting because you know she's nearby when you hear her pitiful sobbing. If it's your first time playing the game, you'll probably have to fight the urge to come to her aid. After all, she's a lone crying woman in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world, and sane people will generally feel compelled to help someone in need. But if you did decide to put on your good Samaritan hat, you were undoubtedly torn to shreds by her bizarrely elongated claw-like fingers. As if she wasn't terrifying enough in the original Left 4 Dead, for the sequel Valve decided it'd be good fun if she was no longer constrained to a spot on the floor—now she could walk. There's also a level in Left 4 Dead 2 that has you cautiously walking through an area that's littered with Witches, and it's easily one of the most anxious moments I've ever experienced in a video game.
2. Shibito (Siren)
Whereas the Witch is a more drawn-out approach to horror that allows the tension to really build up, the Shibito are decidedly more in-your-face. The Siren series has been sadly overlooked by many, despite it being one of the best horror games to come out in the last decade. In a grotesque alternate universe where it rains blood and those who inhabit it are chilling zombie-like creatures called Shibito, your character also has a remarkable ability that lets them "hack" into the eyes of nearby creatures. At first, this sounds like an incredibly useful ability. But there is a catch. You see, the Shibito tend to roam the world looking for something to maim and/or bludgeon, so there's a pretty good chance you'll happen to hack into a Shibito's eyes right as they're silently creeping up behind you. This happened to me on more than one occasion and it terrified me each time.
3. Alma (F.E.A.R)
Alma's character might have gotten stranger with each subsequent F.E.A.R., but it was the first game in which she was at her most terrifying. Back when she was a little girl with psychic powers and the impressive ability to cause gruesome carnage wherever she went, Alma was another reason to be terrified of little girls with dark hair. She might look a lot like the girls from Japanese horror flicks like Ju-On (The Grudge) or Ringu (The Ring), but she managed to set herself apart when she single-handedly vaporized an entire military unit, leaving nothing but crimson stains and charred skeletons in her wake.
4. Cherub (DOOM 3)
Continuing the increasingly disturbing trend of scary video game children is the Cherub, one of the newest additions to the Doom fiction. What's more terrifying than a screaming baby with insect hands and wings? Oh, you don't know? That's because the list of more terrifying creatures is a short one. Speaking of which...
5. Crawlers (Dead Space 2)
Is anyone else noticing a trend here? Alma, Cherubs, and now the Crawlers? It seems to me that game developers have a thing for scary childlike monsters. The Crawler is a new addition to Dead Space that was featured in the second game released early last year, and boy is it twisted. Most of the monsters on this list offered a good scare and/or weren't terribly pleasant to look at, but these things were memorable because they were infected newborn babies. On a related note, Dead Space definitely has something against kids as there are two other types of Necromorph children: the Pack and the Lurkers. Still, the Crawlers are by far the most unsettling.
6. Berzerker (Gears of War)
I'll never forget my first encounter with the Berzerker in the first Gears of War. After having just barely survived a Locust ambush and watching our squad leader get murdered by an intimidatingly large Locust general, all of a sudden, a Cog soldier was violently and repeatedly bashed into the ground by a big, hulking shadow. A few seconds later, the thing that mangled that poor soldier revealed itself, and despite my immediate instinct to shoot my teammates in the knee so I could outrun them as I hauled ass in the opposite direction, a voice inside my head reminded me it's just a game. With that in mind we went on to Hammer of Dawn to send that sucker into the dirt. That's still one of the best boss fights in the series, and that's saying something for a series like Gears of War.
7. Reika Kuze (Fatal Frame III)
Like so many evil characters in gaming, Reika Kuze's story is a tragic one. She was a young lady when it was decided that she would be sacrificed by impalement in a cultish ritual put on by the village in which she lived. She became a Tattooed Priestess, as magic tattoos covered most of her body, in response to a giant unknown tragedy that befell her town. The sad thing about it is that she was in love with a dude named Kaname, and in her ritualistic death sentence, she was torn way from him. In defiance, she allowed for her tattoos to overcome her eyes, which apparently is a very, very bad thing, and from that act the Unleashing occurred. The Unleashing being the opening of Hell and the unleashing of evil spirits. With terror now set upon Earth, Reika wandered the Rift -- a patch between the physical and metaphysical -- where she would unleash her own Hell upon those that dared to cross her.
Insanity Diagnosis: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The numerous evils that crossed Reika before and after her death led her to become the horror that she is. Be it a lost love, a destroyed home, or the flood of Hell onto Earth, Reika has seen it. And probably caused some of it.
8. Lisa Trevor (Resident Evil: The REmake)
One of the most tragic and frightening characters of all time is Resident Evil's Lisa Trevor. She was the human test subject on numerous experiments that mutated her both mentally and physically. The Spencer family researchers gave her "type-B" Progenitor virus, along with her mother, who received the "type-A." Lisa unfortunately survived this infestation. Her mother, on the other hand, was killed -- not by the virus itself but by the Spencer family, who were displeased with her body's reaction. Lisa became unstable and cruel with the loss of her mother, and searched for the tomb where her mother was buried. She found it, eventually, but could not open it and was forced to return to the facility to be subjected to more tests. Now, years later, she lurks alone in the Arkalay mansion where she was tested on. The only goal in her hideous life is to be reunited with her dead mother, though her shackles and blurred mental state make that a near impossibility. Without some outside help, at least.
Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder. Lisa Trevor goes between feeling a loping, numbing loneliness and a violent and unpredictable rage. Her traumatic past mixed with the insane viruses side-effects make Lisa a fearsome, psychotic monster.
9. Pyramid Head (Silent Hill)
A list of terrifying video game characters that doesn't include the most recognizable one from Konami's longstanding Silent Hill series is not a very good list at all—leaving him out is almost as bad as excluding Nemesis from Resident Evil. Pyramid Head had one of the more unusual introductions, as we first saw him violating a mannequin in Silent Hill 2. He's often referred to as the "Bogeyman," and the nickname suits him well; he's a physical manifestation of your darkest fears and is literally unstoppable. Everything about him is strange, from his pale skin to his tetrahedron-shaped helmet and huge sword. In Silent Hill's sea of memorable monsters, Pyramid Head is by far one of the best.
10. Regenerator (Resident Evil 4)
I really hope you weren't expecting Nemesis. While he's arguably one of the most widely known monsters from Resident Evil, I don't think he's the most terrifying. Anyone who's played Resident Evil 4 is fully aware of the Regenerators: the creepy bulbous creatures that roam several of the buildings on the island. These guys are particularly memorable to me because they awake within me a primal fear. I'm not sure if it's their abnormally long arms, their shaky, broken breathing, their jittery glowing eyes, or the way they pounce at you from the floor after you've blown their arms and legs off, but something about them still terrifies me, even after I've beaten Resident Evil 4 dozens of times. Nemesis is a brutish, nearly unstoppable creature, but he's never had the same effect on me as the Regenerators—or their spiky cousins, the Iron Maidens.
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