A while back I wrote an article about top ten dumb chick victims . Although I thought my article was filled with light humor and was not to be taken too seriously, there were a few peeved women readers out there who didn’t think the same. Of course, that’s their freaking problem. Only positive thing that came out of their whining was that it inspired me to make this list.
In a lot of cases, women in scary movies fit within two categories, the victims or the heroines. But, there have been women in horror that have been able to give the audience the heebie-jeebies as well. Here is my list of the top ten lady-killers that have freaked me out. (And hopefully I will be able to please both male and female horror fans!)
1. Catherine-Basic Instinct (TIE)
When I was mentioning my top ten to a friend of mine and when he asked, “Do you have Sharon Stone on this list?” I freaked! I couldn’t believe I forgot probably the biggest bad ass of all lady killers. Although, this movie kind of left it open if she was the “ice pick” killer, the latest sequel basically just tells you she is. I loved her character, because she knew exactly how to work people, particularly horny men. But, please no more Basic Instinct sequels! The last one was enough.
1. Carrie-Carrie (TIE)
I never understood why kids were such as*holes in high school. It’s always really hard for me to watch this movie, because I hate watching the teens ridicule and make fun of Carrie. (Sissy Spacek) Then I remember how she ends up killing all of them with her telekinetic powers at the prom after the whole pig blood incident, and then I suddenly have the momentum to watch the movie again.
2. Mrs. Voorhees-Friday the 13th
A lot of people who aren’t avid horror fans still to this very day still don’t know that Jason was NOT in the original film. I swear, I’ve had debates on the topic with people who are convinced I am lying. (I always tell those idiots to watch Scream, and see what happened to Casey Becker when she said Jason was the killer in the original Friday the 13th to the killer on the phone.) Betsy Palmer was terrifying in the role of the psychotic and troubled killer. Her performance gave me nightmares as a child. ( Too bad they couldn’t get her to cameo in Freddy Vs. Jason…not like it would helped much.)
3. Annie-Misery
No wonder Kathy Bates won an Academy Award for this role. Annie, the psycho nurse was so freaky! Watching this movie really frustrating me, because I just wanted Paul (James Caan) or anyone to kick the living sh*t out of this woman! I think I really wanted her dead when she “hobbled” poor Paul. By the end of the movie, I think everyone was cheering when she finally got her comeuppance.
4. Angela-Sleepaway Camp
There are two types of Sleepaway Camp fans. There are the ones that rooted for the original Angela, and the other ones that rooted for Bruce Springsteen’s little sister. Although watching Pamela Springsteen butcher stupid teens in the sequels was very amusing.
I am more of a fan of the original film with Felissa Rose butchering the stupid teens. Although, I think it could be due to the fact that the original has the most f*cked up ending I have ever seen in a horror movie before.
5. Baby-House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil’s Rejects
In House of 1000 Corpses, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) really creeped me out during the scenes when she scalped one of the victims, and stabbed to death the girl in the bunny suit. The only thing I couldn’t stand about her was her goddamn laugh. (I’ve never been so annoyed by a laugh since watching The Evil Dead.) In The Devil’s Rejects, she thankfully lost the laugh, but was able to keep her disturbing and quirky personality. Every time she smiled, she sent chills down my spine, because she kind of resembled the real life killer, Karla Homolka. (I don’t know if I was the only one who thought that.)
6. Angela-Night of the Demons
I am a huge fan of the Night of the Demons series. The first one to me never gets old. I can watch it over and over again. (particularly around the Halloween season with a bunch of booze) It actually took me years to watch the film, because as a child, the cover of the movie with the hideous demon, Angela holding up an invitation scared the f*ck out of me.
Although some people may think this movie is dated, I still get a little creeped out seeing Angela floating down the halls of Hull House to butcher the next doomed teen. (But that famous Angela dance could have seriously been cut down!)
7. Sil-Species
I’m not afraid to admit I loved this movie. It was quite amusing seeing a movie about an alien-human hybrid (Natasha Henstridge) killing a bunch of stupid and horny men. To me, this movie seemed liked an analogy to the repercussions of having unsafe sex with total strangers. Although, I wish they stopped with this one, because the last two sequels have been awful. I don’t even want to think about the next installment that is coming out soon.
8. Debbie Salt-Scream 2
When I first watched this movie, I couldn’t believe my eyes when Laurie Metcalf was chasing Neve Campbell’s character, Sidney Prescott on the stage with a huge knife and a crazed look in her eyes. I kept thinking to myself, ‘Wow..I can’t believe that’s Jackie from Roseanne!’ Even though it was quite obvious from the moment her character showed up in the movie that she was one of the killers, her over the top moments and dark sense of humor made up for it.
9. Mallory-Natural Born Killers
I was so disturbed by this movie when I first saw it. Sure, now I realize it was supposed to be depicted as a satire, but when I watched this, all I could think about was the Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate case. It freaked me out that there were people out there actually like that.
Mallory (Juliette Lewis) creeped me out, because seeing a woman kill people with no absolutely no remorse (expect for the Indian they killed in the movie) was so taboo. I was more angry with her character, because women usually don’t have that ‘violence’ in them.
10. Peyton Flanders-The Hand That Rocked The Cradle
I first saw this movie when I was nine years old, and I used to pray to God that my parents never got so busy that they needed to hire a nanny to look after my brother and I. In this Fatal Attraction meets The Nanny thriller, we got to see the former sexpot, Rebecca De Mornay, go completely insane, kill anyone who got in her way of ruining Claire’s (Annabella Sciorra) life, and going off on a school bully in a very inappropriate way. In my opinion, Peyton was probably one of the most popular villains in the nineties.
