1 'Halloween' (1978)\n\n Donning his signature mask, Michael stalks babysitters on Halloween night and murders them, before meeting his match in Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the greatest ever final girl. The definitive slasher movie, Halloween is the most influential work in the genre.

1 Michael Myers\n\n While he seemed like a scary babysitter killer in the first movie, he became a little more supernatural as the series wore on. Michael has been in 12 out of the Halloween movies, including both reboots, and he might be the most unstoppable slasher villain in history.