Freudians
Freudians would argue that horror villians satisfy our "return of the repressed".
Feminists
Feminists argue that more often than not horror films are a portrayal of the battle between the sexes. With more recent films showing that battle to be won by women.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a dual recognition from the audience between both the villian and the heroic protagonist. Nietzschean notion explains that in the case of an increase in the feeling of power there is pleasurable and accounts for horror-pleasure in terms of such power feelings.
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