Women in horror films are typically confined to a stereotypical role: whether it’s the
innocent virgin, the cheerleader, or the morally uptight girl.
The formula goes that if they are good enough, they will survive the horror onslaught.
However, there are a handful of women out there that are not limited to these set of
roles, and are instead murderous villains, hellbent on destroying everything in their
path.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down the Top 5 Scariest Female
Horror Movie Villains.
Lets jump in.
5 Ginger Fitzgerald - Ginger Snaps Ginger from Ginger Snaps is a teenager obsessed
with the morbid side of life -- and someone who is simply afraid to grow up.
She then gets bitten by a werewolf, and begins to experience animalistic symptoms.
Now, there is a push and pull between Ginger’s humanity, and her beastly nature, which makes
you almost sympathize with the character -- almost.
Over the course of the film her beastly side begins to win, and Ginger begins to grow teeth,
extra hair, and even a tail.
Now -- the film is a perfect metaphor for puberty -- and we watch on as Ginger grows
in confidence and aggressiveness as she becomes more wolflike -- quickly learning that she
is no longer afraid of growing up.
However, Ginger’s humanity slips away, and although she is becoming more confident and
independent, she is also growing increasingly more bloodthirsty -- which leads her to tear
apart a guidance counselor, a janitor, and a drug dealer.
4 Pamela Voorhees - Friday the 13th Like our other numbers, Pamela is a terrifying
villain, because she’s a somewhat normal human -- to an extent -- though her circumstances
get more and more absurd through the course of the Friday the 13th franchise.
However, let’s focus on the first film, where her role was genuinely shocking, and
very important.
So, back in the day 15 year old Pamela got pregnant by a man named Elias Voorhees -- she
gives birth, to Jason, of course -- who has hydrocephalus.
Pamela is incredibly protective of her son, to the point that she refuses to send him
to school.
However, Pamela still has to provide for him, so she takes a job at Camp Crystal Lake as
a cook, and Jason comes along.
He is relentlessly teased for his deformity, and during one night he goes for a late night
swim in order to prove he is good at something.
However, he drowns, tragically, and Pamela blames the camp counselors who were not looking
after her son.
Following the incident Pamela begins to hear Jason’s voice, telling her to kill the counselors
who are supposedly responsible for his death.
So, what does she do?
She goes on a killing spree, and the camp closes after the grisly murders.
The camp eventually reopens, and Pamela is compelled to kill once again.
You can’t help but feel bad for Pamela, who suffered an incredibly tragic event -- but
to murder the counselors that weren’t even connected to the murder, instead of receiving
help for her mental health issues, well I think she should have reconsidered.
3 Julia Cotton - Hellraiser While some villains have redeeming qualities,
or a logical rationale for why they act the way they act -- there are some out there that
are just straight up evil.
Julia Cotton is one of those.
She is the stepmother of Kristy Cotton in Hellraiser, and had an affair with her brother-in-law,
Frank.
So the family dynamic is a little funky right off the bat.
Frank is also a self-centered creepy who shares a very weird connection with Julia.
When Frank goes missing, aftering solving a mysterious puzzle box that lands him in
hell with the demonic Cenobites, the family move into his home.
Kristy’s father Larry injures himself and bleeds all over the spot where Frank died,
and somehow this allows for Frank to come back from the dead, skinless, and begin to
terrorize everyone.
Now most people would quake in fear and flee the scene -- however, not Julia, no.
She instead procures victims for Franks, as he needs blood to fully rebuild his body.
In the end Julia meets her demise when Kristy calls back the Cenobites and lets them take
Frank back to Hell -- during which time Julia gets stabbed, dies, and is doomed for eternity.
2 Margaret White - Carrie Margaret White still haunts me to this day
-- her daughter Carrie has a horribly difficult life -- and mostly due to her Mother’s overbearing
qualities.
So, backstory for this who have never watched the film.
Carrie tells the story of a high school outcast with supernatural powers.
She is shy and incredibly naive and the other students relentlessly torment her for this.
But more so for the fact that she doesn’t know basic facts about her own body.
Like a period.
With the opening scene showing Carrie getting her first period, screaming and crying in
terror, and her classmates tossing tampons and pads at her yelling “plug it up.
Plug it up.”
Not nice.
Not nice at all.
Now, this is all horrifying enough, but let’s talk about Carrie’s mum, who is arguably
worse.
She’s an unyielding religious mum, who tells Carrie that her menstruation is the result
of sinful thoughts -- so she locks Carrie in a closet and forces her to pray for forgiveness.
So, when Carrie gains telekinetic powers she wreaks havoc on her classmates as well as
her mother -- who meets a very, very grisly end.
1 Annie Wilkes - Misery Annie Wilkes is arguably the most chilling
villain on our entire list, and that’s because she is merely a human -- and evil can lurk
behind any door, even your seemingly friendly neighbor, or the woman that rescues you after
you wreck your car.
At first, Wilkes seems far too sweet to even be considered evil -- she’s the type of
woman that you wouldn’t think twice about -- a cozy sweater wearing, sweetheart who
seems to have everyone’s best intentions at heart.
But oh boy, were we wrong.
After novelist, Paul Sheldon, crashes his car, Wilkes rescues him, and brings him back
to her home to recover.
However, when he awakes, Wilkes tells him that she is his number one fan -- and she
is a particularly big fan of his novels featuring Misery Chastain.
She informs Paul that help is on the way, but of course, there is a blizzard outside,
so the snow is delaying things.
She nurses Paul, and as a thanks he lets Wilkes read the first draft of his latest novel -- and,
well, Annie hates it.
A lot.
To the point that she smashes Paul’s ankles with a hammer.
Yup. Paul soon figures out that Annie never even called for help -- and that no one even
knows where he is.
During which time Wilkes forces him to write a new Misery novel -- while inflicting more
pain and torture upon the helpless writer.
Annie Wilkes is the kind of evil that will haunt your dreams for years to come.
Well, there we have it!
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Were there any female baddies that we missed?
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do a part 2.
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