Women in horror movies comprise a range of roles from homicidal villain and gory murder victim to the badass, resourceful Final Girl survivor. Since next week is Women in Horror Film Week, we thought we would kick things off a little early. (Are you all as excited as we are??) So we asked you to tell us: Who is your favorite female horror movie hero?
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Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien
Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) in Black Christmas
Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) in Carrie
Sarah (Shauna MacDonald) The Descent
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) in Drag Me to Hell
Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins) in Ginger Snaps
Laurie Strode (Jaime Lee Curtis) in Halloween
Sally (Catherine O’Hara) in Nightmare Before Christmas
Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) in Nightmare on Elm Street
Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) in Quarantine
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in Scream
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) in Silence of the Lambs
Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) in Suspiria
Selena (Naomie Harris) in 28 Days Later
The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh) in The Woman
Did your favorite women in horror make the list? Tell us in the comments!
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Ohh! Pretty much all those i wanted to see here are here! 😀