It’s Friday the 13th again, and it’s Freudian Fridays again, so time for some subconscious slasher movie psychoanalysticle synergy. As Sigmund (or Siggy as we now call him) would tell you if he were still around and an avid consumer of splatterfest films (which he totally would be), killers in such movies are often motivated by all kinds of sublimated sexual desires. Many of these impulses are related to stunted Oedipal development (the origin story Siggy compares all human relations to), so that killers often develop strange and unsettling relationships to parents, siblings, and the trappings of childhood. To illustrate this point (and to make some Friday the 13th movie recommendations), here are Listicles’ 5 Oedipal Slasher Movie Villains.

Pennywise from IT

We just found out that IT is slated for a re-make (who could possibly replace Tim Curry, silly Warner Bros. execs?), which makes us all the more nostalgic for this movie about nostalgia. Pennywise’s serial-killing of school kids comes from deep-seated envy and resentment over his own lost childhood.

Jason in the Friday the 13th series

He starts killing kids at the camp where his overbearing mother worked after she went on a killing spree against the kids she thought had killed her boy. He’s a total momma’s boy, and tends to end up being outsmarted by a woman he’s picked to fetishize as a substitute.

Michael Myers from the Halloween series

Incarcerated in a psychiatric ward at age 6 after killing his older sister for becoming a sexual young adult (instead of an innocent child), the creepy family fetish-fest only becomes more convoluted and incestuous as the series continues.

Norman Bates in Psycho

Obviously. After internalizing his dead mother’s overbearing personality, Bates plays the emasculated son and the jealous mother, killing off and disappearing all those who threaten their creepily close bond.

Will Benson in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Less well regarded in the slasher canon than the entries above, this film is especially interesting for adding an Oedipal plot in its sequel that wasn’t there in the original. The first was about class revenge and adulthood initiation, but here the lead villain is the original killer Ben Willis’s son, Will Benson (get it?). Always trying to please and outdo his fisherman father, Will has some serious daddy issues.