Most of us like to get in the Halloween spirit in October, watching scary movies and concocting gruesome costumes. But some people celebrate Halloween all year long. For them, there are horror movie tattoos. If you assumed there weren’t many people who would be down to see Pennywise or Leatherface every time they look at their upper arms in the mirror, then you’d be wrong — just about every major horror villain and monster is well represented among the inked masses. So, in honor of both the approaching holiday and Sunday’s The Walking Dead premiere, we present to you 25 tattoos that are nightmares made flesh.
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Zombie, The Walking Dead
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Jack Torrance, The Shining
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Pennywise, IT
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BOB, Twin Peaks
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The Thing, The Thing
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Xenomorph, Alien
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The Reaper, Jeepers Creepers
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Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
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Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street
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The Candyman, The Candyman
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Pinhead, Hellraiser
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Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th
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Norman Bates, Psycho
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Jaws, Jaws
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Leatherface, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Michael Myers, Halloween
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Jigsaw, Saw
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Chucky, Child’s Play
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Kayako Saeki, The Grudge
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Bela Lugosi’s Dracula
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Nosferatu
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Night of the Living Dead zombie
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Ghostface, Scream
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Regan MacNeil, The Exorcist
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Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein