| “ | I have a knife.
I’m going to do blood stuff. |
„ |
| ~ Ians’ first lines in the series. |
Ian McIntyre otherwise known as The Ohio Man is the reoccurring antagonist of the short film series of the same name.
Appearance[]
He’s a rather skinny Caucasian male most likely either in his late 20s or early 30s. He has long, curly, dark brown hair with slight stubble on his chin and upper lip. He’s often seen wearing a white dress shirt under a red suit with black shoes.
Personality[]
Ian is a rather odd and peculiar person With a very little social skills which he claims is due to suffering from social anxiety. He betrays a series of very peculiar mannerisms, such as dancing wherever he sees fit and Rubbing his face against the hands of women similar to a cat. Despite this, he show himself to be rather talkative around people, even if not everything he says isn’t exactly normal. Though at times, he usually ends up, insulting and hitting himself which is most likely the work of some other worldly force.
However, behind his strange oddities, he’s secretly a deranged serial killer willing to take any orders given to him by a mysterious evil entity. Although it’s not exactly specified how he feels about killing these people, but it can be suggested that he is more or less content with carrying out these attacks. Though he is not that relentless when it comes to killing as it is shown that if he loses one victim to perform these ritualistic murders on, then he just moves onto a different one. He also displays rather threatening behaviors, such as when he threatens to murder Lily right in front of her or tells Jerrica that he’s only going to kill her because he hates Virgo’s.
List of Kills[]
- Unnamed Woman - Slashed in the throat with a knife.
- Jerrica - Attacked and stabbed with a screwdriver.
- Lily - Screwdriver stabbed into her neck.
- Kathy - stabbed 666 times with a screwdriver.
- Total - 4 Deaths
Trivia[]
- It can be confirmed that many of Ian‘s actions throughout these films are a direct response of the evil entity, so how he became acquainted with it is unknown.
- Ian‘s relationship with the entity is also shown to be rather abusive and toxic.
- It’s unknown if he truly does have social anxiety, or if he’s just making it up to explain his odd behaviors.
- In the other short films, many of Ian‘s behaviors appear to be references to other medias.
- The first film, opens with Ian, smiling and dancing in the middle of the street, which is a clear and obvious reference to The Smiling Man creepypasta.
- Another reference is when one of the short films shows Ian sitting in the middle of his living room, staring into a camera another clear reference to Benjamin Bennett’s sitting and smiling videos.