Villains is a 2019 American black comedy horror film written and directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen.

It stars Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner, Jeffrey Donovan, and Kyra Sedgwick.

Lovers Mickey and Jules clumsily rob a gas station and take off, celebrating their last score before moving to Florida.

Returning upstairs to find a way to release the girl, the two meet the surprised homeowners George, Gloria, and their infant son Ethan.

Finding the room empty and the window open, George and Gloria head outside to search for Mickey and Jules.

[2] Development began with the casting of Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe in the lead roles in March 2018.

The website's consensus reads: "Led by a quartet of strong performances, Villains offers genre fans a delightfully dark thriller with a sharp comic streak.

"[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, John Defore stated that the film "has enough of its own offbeat energy not to come off as just another collection of young filmmakers' influences.

Variety's Dennis Harvey noted "this black comedy thriller has a good cast to spark a scenario that's intriguing enough to hold attention, if not quite clever enough to be a knockout.

"[11] The New York Times' Teo Bugbee gave the film a less positive review, stating "despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, "Villains" is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance.

He assers that the film suffers from a lack of stakes, as its main characters feel more like exaggerated quirks than authentic individuals, with their bizarre behaviors appearing "more like the filmmakers’ desperate attempts to get a rise out of the audience.