October 16th sees the release of The Stepfather, a new take on the classic 1987 thriller starring Lost’s Terry O’Quinn. The new film stars Dylan Walsh as a dad who may be just a little more sinister than he first appears to his new family. In honor of the film’s release, we’re presenting our list of the creepiest movie fathers in horror film history – FEARnet’s Top 10 DILFs (Dads I Like to Fear). Check out our picks below, and reassure yourself that no matter how bad your dad can be, he’s still probably better than these guys!

Pan's Labyrinth – Captain Vidal
Brutal fascism is this guy's thing. He'll tie up ten rebel guerillas and slice them up finger by finger just to get a word out of them…or to watch them bleed. And he tops off our list at number 10. In Guillermo del Toro's gorgeous Pan's Labyrinth (set during the Spanish Civil War) Captain Vidal added a bit of, well, ugly—as he tied up those he considered his enemy, or even suspected of treason, and applied various torture methods to guarantee their gory demise. But FEARnet DILFs don't stop at torture. This guy took it to the next level: after his housekeeper (a secret liaison of the rebel force) slashed his mouth and escaped him, Vidal stumbled into the titular labyrinth to kill his innocent stepdaughter. Ultimately though, this out of control nut job got what he deserved: a bullet right to the face. Ahh, justice...

The Last House on the Left – John CollingswoodNot all DILFs are bad. Take John Collingswood, for example. Upon discovering their daughter was killed by a savage gang of thugs, the sweet Mr. and Mrs. Collingswood exacted revenge. Only, daddy Collingswood took that revenge to a chainsaw-wielding extreme, and made dead certain that each of the murderous gang members lay in a blood-soaked puddle at the Collingswood's home. But they do say behind every great man there's a great woman. And John Collingswood's woman stood right by his side. That's where she sliced the throat of a crummy gang whore!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Grandpa
He may not have been able to run, jump, scale barns or tackle his victims to the ground like his beloved offspring, but Grandpa was much loved by his family, a group of skin-slicing, chainsaw-revving lunatics who brought the meat of young, lost travelers to the man! (To be fair, he did what blood-sucking and head-hammering he could.) Maybe he should be called a grand-DILF (technically a G-DILF), but, regardless, this granddad said "No" to assisted living and "Yes, please" to assisted killing.

#7 Peeping Tom – Dad
Like to record the expressions of horror on women's faces just before you murder them? Well, you my friend are a sick, sick freak. But you're not alone! In the classic 1960 Michael Powell film, Peeping Tom, (one of the sickest flicks ever) a voyeur named Mark followed women and, on the fly, murdered them just to catch their reactions on his camera. But this hobby wasn't fueled by video games, horror films or stealing K'NEX from the neighborhood boys. It turned out Mark had an abusive and sadistic father (only seen in home movies, and played by Powell himself), who used his son in a series of psychological experiments, among them recording his reaction as he sat by his mother on her deathbed. Wacko, right? Eventually, Mark turned his camera and his knife on himself, to record his own dying moment. We here at FEARnet commend you, father of Mark, for you are a DILF beyond our wildest dreams—a sick freak who spawned and raised an ever sicker freak. Now that is a good lesson in parenting! 

The Devil's Rejects – Captain Spaulding
Everybody loves a clown—except for the unfortunate victims of Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen (which just happened to be a front for Dr. Satan's sadistic superhuman experiments)! In House of 1000 Corpses, the precursor to The Devil's Rejects, Captain Spaulding was established as a jovial clown with a deep affinity for death and destruction. But we fell in love with the half-cocked clown of chaos not only because he was a lunatic, but because he was a rather devout DILF! In Devil's Rejects, Spaulding really proved his worth. As dear-old-clown-dad to Baby and Otis, of the killer Firefly clan, the Captain showed his kids a good time as they tried to take down an entire police force!

The Stepfather – David Harris
So what if he's not your REAL daddy? This disturbed psychopath will still try to turn you into the perfect child to complete his perfect family. After being exposed as a kid to American family propaganda and dealing with his own much-less-than-perfect fam, David Harris was determined to achieve perfection regardless of the measures it would take. 

The Saw Franchise– Jigsaw
Building a metal contraption that sinks into a ribcage and disassembles a human body—spraying blood and flesh bits across a room—in sixty seconds is no easy task. It takes a truly demented soul to think it up, and an even more deranged soul to make it happen. Since 2004, when the first Saw film premiered, Jigsaw has been murderously advocating gratitude for life. And throughout the series of Saw films, his motivation was always questioned. Well, in Saw IV that question was answered. It turned out Jigsaw wasn't just a mere sadist with a penchant for death traps, he was distraught over the loss of his son! Though he never quite became a dad, Jigsaw is a DILF to the max. He took the loss of his child really, really, really hard, and decided to take the rest of humanity under his wing—and teach it a horribly valuable lesson. 

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – Darth Vader
Our number 3 DILF came to us in one of the biggest "nu-uh" moments of all time. As you well remember, at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader revealed that he was not only a master of evil (and a severe asthmatic), but also papa-bear to Jedi superstar Luke Skywalker. While, all that time, we thought Vader was a daddy-killer, it turned out that Darth was a killer daddy! Oh yeah, this guy's a DILF for the ages. And not even those awful Star Wars prequels can change that.

The Omen – Devil Dad
There have been plenty of deadbeats, scores of abusive fathers and tons of overprotective macho-man dads in history, but this DILF surpasses any drunken beatings anyone's daddy ever doled out. In fact, he's evil itself! Being the spawn of the devil isn't an easy task and poor little Antichrist Damien Thorn had to bare the burden alone. While his human dad Robert suspected the kid (the fact that everyone around him wound up dying tipped him off), his real dad, Satan, churned out all those hangings, impalements, and decapitations just to keep his boy safe. When your mother's a jackal, your human parents think you're a creep, and you've been put on earth to, well, make it a living hell, it's only right that your dear old dad protect you, and secure your imminent rise to the utmost in awfulness!

The Shining – Jack Torrence
All together now—"Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!" Ah, Jack Torrence, the mother of all fathers gone homicidally insane. Intent on simply getting some peace and quiet in which to work, Torrence brought his family to a secluded hotel one winter, and ended up becoming our number 1 DILF! This dad dreamed of writing his next great novel, but the dream soon became a nightmare—as he was quickly consumed by the thought of hacking his innocent wife Wendy and their adorable son Danny to pieces! Sure Torrence got an axe and shoved his head through a door in an effort to slaughter them. But who the hell knows his real story? Does any DILF really deserve to freeze to death in a snow-covered labyrinth? Well, maybe just this one…