The villains of the horror genre have always captivated the audience. Despite their actions the audience are often drawn to these villains, feeling compassion towards them. This paper aims to explore why. While some authors believe the society can thrive only through empathy, others believe that empathy is the leading cause of inequality and rationalization of heinous acts. I would argue that empathy is inevitable and it is natural to empathize with bad people, especially those whose stories we hear or see in detail. The problem arises when we justify their behavior, but not when we feel compassion towards their struggles which led them to such behavior. I am exploring the empathy towards the villains through four movies: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Jonathan Demme's Silence of The Lambs (1991) and M.Night Shyamalan’s Split (2016). In an attempt to answer why we feel empathy towards these characters, I have concluded that we attach ourselves to their humanity the moment we recognize it and their inhumanity becomes secondary in the formation of our attitudes towards them.