History YMMV / MidnightMovie

* CompleteMonster: [[MadArtist Ted Radford]], creator and star of the horror film ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'', was institutionalized after he began killing people to instill true fear. Conducting a ritual to possess his film, Radford became the killer he once played, then killed all the patients and staff of the psychiatric ward. Resurfacing when a theater plays ''The Dark Beneath'', Radford uses his PsychicPowers to seal the exits, then begins slaughtering the moviegoers and staff, [[WouldHurtAChild including a child]]. Radford pulls his last two victims into the film world, where it's revealed he keeps the spirits of the people he kills alive and tormented from their mortal wounds, then proceeds to remove Bridget's gag so he can [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming listen to her screams]] as he tortures her.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Ted Radford]], the writer, director, and star of the horror film ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'', eventually decided he wanted to truly scare people by becoming a [[SerialKiller killer]] for real. Committed to a psychiatric ward for forty years, Radford escaped by using his blood to conduct a ritual that allowed him to possess his film and become the killer he once played, after which he proceeded to murder over 70 patients and staff members in the psych ward before disappearing into the film. Five years later, a local theater played a midnight screening of ''The Dark Beneath'', allowing him to enter the real world again and sadistically hunt down every guest and employee in the theater, including a [[WouldHurtAChild young boy named Timmy]], all while using his PsychicPowers to seal off the exits and make his victims feel as helpless and afraid as possible, while also showing [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] when a victim confronts him without fear. It's eventually revealed that Radford has been keeping all of his victims alive inside the haunted film, including the ones from five years prior, [[AndIMustScream suffering in constant pain and unable to die]]. Ted Radford is little more than a sadist who lives for tormenting and torturing his victims in the most horrific ways he can think of, all so [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming he can relish in their cries of terror and agony]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Ted Radford]], the writer, director, and star of the horror film ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'', eventually decided he wanted to truly scare people by becoming a [[SerialKiller killer]] for real. Committed to a psychiatric ward for forty years, Radford escaped by using his blood to conduct a ritual that allowed him to possess his film and become the killer he once played, after which he proceeded to murder over 70 patients and staff members in the psych ward before disappearing into the film. Five years later, a local theater played a midnight screening of ''The Dark Beneath'', allowing him to enter the real world again and sadistically hunt down every guest and employee in the theater, including a [[WouldHurtAChild young boy named Timmy]], all while using his PsychicPowers to seal off the exits and make his victims feel as helpless and afraid as possible, while also showing [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] when a victim confronts him without fear. It's eventually revealed that Radford has been keeping all of his victims alive inside the haunted film, including the ones from five years prior, [[AndIMustScream suffering in constant pain and unable to die]]. Ted Radford is little more than a sadist who lives for tormenting and torturing his victims in the most horrific ways he can think all so [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming he can relish in their cries of terror and agony]].