You have to feel bad for some slasher villains.
While Jason Voorhees and Michaels got to return from near or actual death over and over again for decades, some show up in one film, get killed for good, then disappear completely without resurrection, left to be mostly forgotten by time.
The ’80s are filled with stalk-and-slash bad guys racking up an impressive kill count, only to bite the dust.
It has to be embarrassing for them.
Cropsy in The Burning and George Fraser in The Prowler are just two ’80s slasher villains who were in fun films of the decade, but died a bloody and permanent death.
Yeah, in the 90s and after, every Scream film sees that Ghosface (or Ghostfaces) shut up forever, but the masked character still comes back.
If a horror bad guy has to die though, going out in style is the way to do it.
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