Johnny Bartlett
Johnny Bartlett is a male film character who features in The Frighteners.
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Biography
Johnny Bartlett was a serial killer who was crazy about being a prolific serial killer and often compared his achievements to those of other murderers. In 1963, he came to work as an orderly at a hospital but he soon lost his mind and killed pretty much all the patients and hospital workers. In order to accomplish his goal of being better then others, he murdered 12 people at the mental hospital with the aid of his girlfriend Patricia Bradley. Both were tried and arrested with Patricia being sent to prison while maintaining her innocence though she eventually was released to live with her overbearing mother who kept her under careful observation. Barlett himself was put into the electric chair where he shouted "one more than Starkweather" at which point he was killed as the electricity was channelled into his body. However, that was not the end of Bartlett became a ghost and was determined to continue his reign of terror. Unable to move to the afterlife, Bartlett became a ghost and learnt to manipulate his ethereal form to form a grim reaper appearance that embarked on a series of mysterious deaths in he mortal world. By 1990, Patricia was finally released from prison where she used a Ouijia boards to contact and resurrect Johnny. They continued killing again, starting with Frank Bannister's wife. Johnny then began to disguise himself as an ethereal Grim Reaper-like figure where he continued murdering people. During this time, Johnny racks up 24 more murders. Local psychic, Frank Bannister, begins predicting the people who are going to die, and becomes a suspect in the eyes of FBI agent Milton Dammers.
Overview
Personality and attributes
As an undead being, he came to shape his form to resemble that of the Grim Reaper where he was a hooded figure.
He and Patricia Bradley were madly in love with one another with him keeping contact with her even after he became a ghostly entity.
Powers and abilities
Originally, Johnny Bartlett was an ordinary human being with no special inherent powers or abilities. By adulthood, he came to be a prolific serial killer having murdered people.
In his grim reaper form, Bartlett appeared as a spectral black mass shaped as a cowl creature with two arms but no legs. His face was not visible and a black mass which appeared almost feral in its actions. This Reaper Bartlett used a scythe to achieve his goals of killing ghosts or mortal Humans.
He was capable of thrusting his hand into the body of a living mortal and crushing the life from the victim.
Notes
- Johnny Bartlett was created by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson where he was portrayed by actor Jake Busey and featured in the setting of The Frighteners (1996).
Appearances
- The Frighteners: (1996)
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