From Jamie Campbell Bower's intriguing take on Stranger Things' Vecna to Bill Skarsgård's chilling iteration of Nosferatu, there's a surprising amount of hot monsters on our screens these days. Skarsgård has made a name for himself playing strangely appealing creatures since his blood-hungry character on Hemlock Grove. From there, Skarsgård terrified Us as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the It franchise - and as Count Orlok in Nosferatu. "He's gross. But it is very sexualized," he told Esquire in 2024 about the role he considered "erotic" for viewers.