Funko POP figures have become a pop culture phenomenon, with fans eagerly snapping up vinyl renditions of their favorite characters from movies, TV shows, video games and more. Given the enduring popularity of the horror genre, it’s no surprise that some of the most unique and terrifying Funko POPs bring iconic scary characters vividly and chillingly to “life.”
With their trademark oversized heads and dark, soulless eyes, Funko POP figures seem specially suited to transform horror icons into eerily adorable yet still unsettling collectibles. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most petrifying horror-themed Funko POPS lurking out there that will appeal to collectors with macabre tastes.
A Brief History of Funko and Horror POPs
Funko has its roots dating back to 1998, when the company focused on low-profile bobbleheads. By 2010, Funko introduced its signature POP vinyl figures, featuring licensed characters from popular culture with stylized black dot eyes and oversized noggins. Funko steadily expanded its POP catalog through partnering with movies studios, TV networks, video game publishers and comic book companies.
The horror genre, with its enduring popularity spanning decades and legions of dedicated fans, provides a frighteningly fertile source for Funko’s designers. Horror films offer a visual treasure trove of terrifying creatures, disturbed killers and creepy ghosts to inspire Funko’s signature adorably twisted look.
As Funko’s POP horror collection has grown over recent years, the figures have attracted dedicated collectors seeking plastic renditions of their favorite slashers, monsters and ghouls. Horror has proven a killer category for Funko, haunting fan dreams with visions of shelf upon shelf of dead-eyed vinyl terrors.
Killer Characters: Horror‘s Baddest Villains
What’s a scary movie without a violently deranged killer? Some of horror’s most notoriously homicidal maniacs have received the Funko treatment. These figures capture the essence of these legendary villains in chilling fashion.
A Nightmare on Funko Street: Freddy Krueger
Wes Craven’s supernaturally-powered dream stalker Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street has numerous Funko incarnations, but the bloody, syringe-fingers variant is clearly the most nightmarish. The iconic killer’s horribly scarred visage is hidden under his dirty fedora, but his razor sharp-glove leaves no doubt about his murderous intentions.
Jason Makes His Presents Gory: Jason Voorhees
The hockey-masked killer from the Friday the 13th franchise also boasts an impressive array of frighteningly funky looks. The SDCC 2013 GITD Underwater Jason figure, complete with harpoon gun and covered in aquatic algae, will make you think twice about going back into the lake.
Leatherface Carves Up Collectors: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The hulking killer from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has several stomach-turning Funko editions, but the Pretty Woman Leatherface figure is the most unsettling. The deranged murderer wears a female-face mask while wielding his signature power tool – a grizzly yet creative homage to an iconic scene from the original 1974 horror classic.
Patrick Bateman Gets Bloodthirsty: American Psycho
Christian Bale‘s chilling turn as materialistic sociopath Patrick Bateman in American Psycho makes for a memorably murderous Funko. Wearing a clear raincoat spattered with blood, this POP embodies the horrifyingly brutal acts of ultraviolence that Bateman unleashes throughout the film.
Monstrous Mayhem:funko’s Creature Creations
From classic movie monsters to more modern mutation-fueled madmen, Funko has crafted some fantastically fearsome fiends lurking within their horror catalog. These creatures capture a wide range of freakish funkiness sure to thrill fans and chill spines.
Nosferatu: An Iconic Vampire
The 100th anniversary of cinema‘s first bloodsucker received a suitably terrifying commemorative Funko edition. Sporting bat ears, fangs, claws and a nightmarish face only a mother could love, this stylized take on Nosferatu still evokes a timeless sense of vampiric menace.
Werewolves Run Wild with Funko
Under a full moon, even a huggable Pop figure can unleash a frightening funky lycanthrope. Whether in classic Wolf Man garb or a more modern monster mash-up, Funko werewolves snarlingly signal trouble. Glow-in-the-Dark variants up the goosebump factor even further for these supernatural beasts.
Mummifying Funko Fans: Imhotep
Boris Karloff’s portrayal of reanimated Egyptian priest Imhotep in the 1932 horror classic The Mummy receives royal treatment from Funko designers. Emerging from his sarcophagus to wield fearsome powers, this vinyl-wrapped terror looks ready to curse collectors with swarms of locusts and sandstorms aplenty.
Cenobite Tortures Collectors: Hellraiser’s Chatterer
From Clive Barker’s brutal Hellraiser films, the Chatterer stands out as a memorably menacing monstrosity. His blood-drenched visage, malformed beyond human limits and visibly stitched together, perfectly encapsulates the extreme body horror that makes Hellraiser such an ordeal to endure. This Chatterer Funko will leave you speechless.
The Licker Gets Funko Fans Salivating
The nightmarishly named Licker creatures from Resident Evil inspire some icky excitement themselves. Boasting exposed brains, razor fangs and a gruesomely long tongue, this mutant menace triggers tremors of terror. Now that face even a mother would flee from has got Funko flavor!
Scary Supernatural Sets from Funko
Drawing from paranormal terrors that haunt dreams and nightmares alike, Funko has summoned all manner of ghostly ghouls and demonic dolls from the depths of horror history. These figures will have you sleeping with the lights on for countless nights.
Killer Klown from Outer Space
The Crazy Creepy Clowns from the cult horror-comedy Killer Klowns from Outer Space receive perfectly playful yet unsettling Funko POP care. With his fiendish furnace of a mouth wide open, Jumbo displays the proper pantomime panache to haunt hapless human victims. A terrifying twist on crude clownish antics.
Annabelle the Unholy Doll
The demonically possessed doll introduced in The Conjuring has fast become an icon of utterly unchildlike creepiness. Funko’s Annabelle edition sits malevolently in a chair, her lifeless gaze hinting at a sinister soul lurking within. Keep her locked away except for extremely occasional viewing.
The Exorcist: Extreme Possession Edition
With a head that spins almost as frightfully fast as Funko produces new POPs, young Regan from The Exorcist projectile vomits pea soup and spouts Satanic curses in one of horror’s most unforgettable performances. Funko’s take on possessed Regan captures her mid-backbend, overcome by wicked impulses.
The Nun Delivers Unholy Despair
A recent addition to The Conjuring film franchise, the central demonic force inhabiting the sinister nun has spawned one of horror’s freshest frightening icons. Funko provides a faithful rendition, with the Nun sporting a ghoulish face and finely crafted rivulets of blood streaming from hollowed out eyes. A blessing for fans of the macabre.
Black Phillip Leads You Astray
In clever, Ferryman-esque fashion, Black Phillip guides the young Puritan protagonists toward their shocking fates in the indie sensation The Witch. This diabolical Funko goat seems to promise similar ominous outcomes for collectors. Beware his alluring gaze and come-hither tilt of the head.
The Stephen King Funko Collection: Scary Stories Galore
As perhaps the world’s most popular and prolific purveyor of horror across decades, legendary novelist Stephen King has birthed nightmare after nightmare that beg for a Funko POP conversion. Funko has granted the wishes of countless Constant Readers with gloriously ghoulish renditions of some of King’s most iconic creations.
Killer Clowns and Creepy Kids: Pennywise from IT
With his shriek-inducing clown visage emerging from sewer grates to prey upon children in the small town of Derry, Maine, Pennywise from Stephen King’s doorstop horror tome IT terrifies across generations. Funko offers both the sinister clown and bloody-faced variant, his mouth smeared from feasting on a severed child’s arm.
Redrum! The Shining Figures
With an entire Overlook Hotel playset available for recreation of key moments from Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of King’s classic haunted house chiller The Shining, Funko has gone all out in translating visions from the novel into toys. Scene-stealers like the chilling Grady twins and a maniacally-swinging-an-axe Jack Torrance richly deserve their places amongst the finest figures in Funko’s horror catalog. Redrum!
Undead Gage Attacks: Pet Sematary
After receiving an ill-considered supernatural burial behind the Creed family home in King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary, toddler Gage Creed returns as murderously malicious as he is mouthful of maggots. Teaming with the similarly resurrected feline Church, Funko’s gruesome graveyard ghoul twosome triggers traumatic memories for fans regarding scalpels and Achilles tendons alike.
Collect the Funko Frights That Frighten You Most
Funko has summoned forth no shortage of memorably menacing miscreations from the depths of horror history, rendering them in the company’s signature style as highly sought-after collector’s items. With killer characters, sinister supernatural specters and sinister sidekicks aplenty lurking across Funko’s ever-expanding horror catalog, there’s a sleep-depriving vinyl boogeyman awaiting every horror hound’s discovery.
