Hollywood knows how to sell a movie. If you put a good looking dude or a hot chick in
the lead role and put them front and center in all the posters and trailers for a movie,
then you’ve got a hit on your hands. For some, that’s enough. Other producers have
gone the extra mile and realized that hey, if you want a truly successful movie, then
cast a good looking dude or a hot babe as the villain, too! So here are the 10 sexiest
female villains in movie history.
O-Ren Ishii
Kill Bill is a movie (yes, it’s only one movie – it may have been released in two
parts to maximize the commercial potential, but according to its writer and director Quentin
Tarantino and every cinephile on the planet, it is just one, whole, complete movie, okay?)
that is mostly made up of villains. There is one protagonist, the Bride, who has been
beaten senseless and left for dead by the assassination squad that she used to roll
with, and aside from her, everyone else in the movie is a villain that she is out to
kill as part of her revenge scheme. One such villain is O-Ren Ishii, who is known as the
“queen of the Tokyo underworld.” She is played by Lucy Liu and is one of the only
characters that actually seems to present any kind of real threat to the Bride. In the
end, she has the top of her head lopped off in the snow. It could be argued that O-Ren
gets an unfair amount of backstory when compared to the rest of the Deadly Viper Assassination
Squad, but that’s just because she is the most interesting one of the bunch (and, thanks
to the fact she’s played by Lucy Liu, the sexiest).
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Theodora/Wicked Witch of the West
As a prequel movie and an origin story, Oz the Great and Powerful opens up a lot of questions
when it begins and slowly answers them over the course of the plot. We are introduced
to three female characters – Glinda, Evanora, and Theodora – all of whom are framed as
a potential Wicked Witch of the West. They start framing each other as the witch, which
confuses Oscar, but in the end, Mila Kunis turned out to be the evil character. Her skin
turned green and she got very angry and cackly – but she was still hot as hell. Any role
that the beautiful Mila Kunis plays is going to be the sexiest one of something. She has
played the sexiest terrifying ballerina, the sexiest bad mom, the sexiest girlfriend of
a guy who owns a talking teddy bear, the sexiest voice actress of an ugly character – you
get the picture. Kunis ended up winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for her performance
as the Wicked Witch of the West. The original Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 movie
was not very sexy at all, but don’t worry, you can rest assured that the Mila Kunis one
definitely, definitely is.
Terminatrix
When the Terminators appear in our present day from the future, a bright ball of energy
appears, kicking up papers and tumbleweeds, and then fades away, leaving behind a naked
time traveler. If that time traveler is Arnold Schwarzenegger or Kyle Reese, then the ladies
in the audience have something to enjoy. But let’s be honest, these movies were made
for dudes. So, the third movie introduced us to a female Terminator, known as the Terminatrix,
or T-X if you’re into the whole brevity thing. The guys in the audience got to enjoy
the sight of a naked Kristanna Loken traveling back in time and defeating John Connor. Loken
was clearly committed to the physicality of the role, as she put on 15 pounds of muscle
to play the T-X, and she is crazy sexy in the movie. Loken reportedly loved the leather
jacket, leather pants, and leather boots that she wore in the movie, so if you’re into
leather, that should make her seem a heck of a lot sexier.
Dr. Julia Harris
In Horrible Bosses, three friends who are sick of their employers conspire to kill each
other’s bosses to cross over all the motives and therefore get away with it scot free (or
so they think). In the movie, the three bosses were based on real bosses that screenwriter
Michael Markowitz had put up with over the years. The Kevin Spacey character was a composite
of a few bosses because if he had made it too specific, Markowitz might’ve ended up
on the business end of a lawsuit, but the Jennifer Aniston character was based on one
specific boss that he had who “was very sexually aggressive with everybody.” In
the movie, Aniston’s character sexually harasses Charlie Day, which his friends don’t
see as too much of a bad thing. The only problem with the real boss that Markowitz had who
was like this was that she looked more like Cruella De Vil. It was like flirting with
a cobweb. So, he decided for the sake of the movie, to go with Jennifer Aniston. Ironically,
the creation of a character who would end up becoming one of the sexiest characters
to ever hit the silver screen began with a real woman who was not sexy at all. It’s
fun how these things work out.
Regina George
Lindsay Lohan originally did not audition to play Cady in Mean Girls. She auditioned
for the role of Regina George, the horrible, backhanded villain. While it seems like a
natural fit to cast Lohan as the ultimate ‘mean girl’ now that we’ve seen what
she’s like in her personal life, the sweet, kind-hearted, polite, innocent Rachel McAdams
is actually the perfect choice, because you don’t expect her to turn out to be such
an a-hole. That’s the genius of the character – and the casting. McAdams has since spoken
about the impact that Regina George has had on her career, and how she has to reckon with
being immortalized in this role and being best known for it when she’s done so much
more dramatic work since then. She said that Regina George had given her some longevity.
And that she would be forever grateful to Tina Fey and Mark Waters. Right from the start
she called her agent and said please, please, please to get her into this movie. It is a
really great movie, to be fair.
Harley Quinn
2016’s Suicide Squad, which gave a bunch of DC supervillains center stage, was not
very well received by critics, who considered it be rushed to meet the DCEU quota for the
year, full of forced exposition and world-building, super confusing, and all-round terrible. But
still, it did manage to gross more than $745 million at the worldwide box office. How did
that happen? Well, it probably had something to do with Margot Robbie’s red-hot Harley
Quinn. Robbie described Quinn’s relationship with the Joker as the focus of the movie and
said that she is “mad about him – like, literally, mad. She’s crazy. But she loves
him. And it’s a really unhealthy, dysfunctional relationship. But an addictive one.” According
to Barney Stinson’s theory, the crazier a girl is, the hotter she has to be. Well,
Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is super duper wacko crazy, but she is equally hot! And let’s
not forget her performance, which was a spot on interpretation of the comics, included
a flawless Brooklyn accent, and it was one of the few things in the movie that was actually
good and worth watching. But still, she is really hot. She’s one of the hottest movie
villains ever!
Rose Armitage
Get Out was absolutely adored by critics and audiences alike. It was a horror movie, and
yet it was also a smart study of the current sociopolitical climate surrounding race. And
it was also a huge hit at the box office. Those three things don’t usually go together,
but trust Jordan Peele to throw them into the mixing pot and make the magic happen.
He made a plethora of smart decisions with that movie to make it the resounding success
that it was. For example, he changed his original bleak ending to a happier one – the point
about police brutality still gets across, because we expect it to happen, and that makes
us reflect on ourselves and the society we live in. The happier ending is better because
we want Chris to succeed. We get that satisfaction. These are the kinds of decisions that won
Peele his Oscar. Another smart decision that he made was casting Alison Williams in the
sinister role of Rose Armitage, because she’s a classic case of looking like the innocent
flower, but being the serpent underneath it. Williams explained that Jordan had told her
that he had always pictured her as Rose because Peter Pan or Marnie would make it easier for
people to trust her. She was looking for a role that would weaponize everything that
people take for granted about her. So, she instantly signed on to it.
Hela
Thor: Ragnarok was praised by critics for many things. It was hailed as the best movie
in the trilogy of Thor’s solo movies, which was mainly attributed to how its sense of
humor made it the most entertaining of the bunch. The other two – particularly the
second one – were much more dull and solemn and serious and it was just a drag. One of
the other best-received parts of the third movie was Cate Blanchett’s performance as
Hela, the older sister of Thor and the Norse goddess of death. In the comics, Hela is not
Thor’s sister, but she was made so in the movie, according to one of the screenwriters,
so that her character would become “the thing that [represents] what it is to rule
Asgard, [Thor’s] family, what he’s been told, what he hasn’t been told.” Blanchett
worked with stuntwoman Zoë Bell and Chris Hemsworth’s personal trainer Luke Zocchi
to get into shape to play Hela. That, paired with her seductive smokey eye makeup and the
inherent attractiveness of her massive amount of power, makes her one of the sexiest female
villains in any movie in recent memory. She’s certainly a lot hotter than Thanos or Supreme
Leader Snoke.
Catherine Tramell
Sharon Stone’s murderous character in Basic Instinct and its less successful sequel is
one of the most iconic movie villains of all time. She has been described by one critic
as “a mix between the classic femme fatale and the new psycho killers, one of the most
evil characters ever created, on Hannibal Lecter’s level.” She was included on Entertainment
Weekly’s list of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. And yet, she is not
just a psychopathic villain. She is also remembered in the annals of cinema history as a sex symbol.
Well, Sharon Stone is and Catherine Tramell is her most iconic role who also flashes her
entire vulva on camera, so Catherine Tramell is basically a sex symbol in and of herself.
She seduces her victims and gets them into bed, where she stabs them to death with an
ice pick. It’s a very specific modus operandi, but that’s what she does. Let’s not judge.
The movie itself, which went on to gross a whopping $350 million at the worldwide box
office, has been described as “a neo-noir masterpiece that plays with, and transgresses,
the narrative rules of film noir.” Most of its commercial success, though, can be
attributed to Sharon Stone’s sex appeal.
Amy Dunne
Gillian Flynn has been back in the news recently, as her debut novel Sharp Objects has been
adapted for the small screen by HBO. But her best selling work is still Gone Girl, and
the most popular adaptation of one of her books is still the David Fincher movie adaptation
of Gone Girl, which made an unprecedentedly huge amount of money at the box office. It
made over $369 million at the global box office, despite being a tremendously dark thriller
that was over two and a half hours long. Who saw that coming? This success can be at least
partly attributed to Rosamund Pike, whose unsettling and chilling performance as the
villainous Amy Dunne (who, like many of the characters on this list, looks like the innocent
flower, but is the serpent underneath it) keeps you on the edge of your seat from start
to finish. As well as being an interesting character, she’s a really sexy character.
In fact, she stands out for being an evil character who uses her hotness to her advantage
to trick men into destroying their own lives.
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