Some of 2011’s stand-out film actors appear in “a video gallery of cinematic villainy” for New York Times Magazine.

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster’s myth.

An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a…

A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.

A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she’s released, and must…

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an ’80s-themed party at the old Wet Valley water park. Things turn gruesome when it’s revealed that…

Stranded in the remote countryside after wrecking their car, a couple seeking to start over discovers that there’s no escape from the sins of their past.

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she’s forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy…

Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin’s consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately…

Both Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. One day, they are involved in a traffic accident and Hitomi loses her sight. She wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri, injured…

A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister’s suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting…

When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil…