“They’re just standing there… MENACINGLY”

Basically characters (not necessarily villains or antagonists) who create fear in the audience by just standing still.

N (Mandela Catalogue) - This can sort of apply to most alternates. But this scene in particular is terrible (in a good way). In Volume 5, N stalks Jude the entire time. And in the end, enters his home, and calmly walks into it, following Jude deeper and deeper into it. Until Jude has nowhere to go, and N just stands over him. It’s just a terribly hopeless situation to be in. Nowhere for Jude to go, and no way of getting out.

Michael Myers (Halloween) - The most classic example of this. He spends a lot of the movie stalking Laurie, and she’ll catch him just staring at her at times. No weapon in hand or anything, just watching her. It’s chilling because you don’t know when he’s going to strike. He could have done it ages ago, clearly. But he didn’t. And you don’t know why. So you don’t know how or when he’ll eventually strike, you just know he probably will.

Mike (The Blair Witch Project) - First Non-Villain. And if I had a nickel for every time a guy called Michael fit into this trope, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice. Anyways, at the end of the movie, Mike and Heather go into the house. And in the end of the scene, Heather finds Mike standing in the corner of the basement, and then she herself is dragged away and killed. The fear in this scene just comes from the unknown. Why is Mike standing in the corner? What dragged Heather away? Was it the Witch? And it’s such an unusual thing to do in a scenario like this. Turn your back away from any danger and face into the corner? That’s such an unusual thing to do in this situation. It’s a very good way to invoke the fear of the unknown in this ending. Much better than the alternate endings the studios wanted to see.