Top 8 Greatest Female-Led Horror Movies

Horror movies usually cast beautiful women for three reasons: to have them show their sexuality, scream like they’re actually dying, and act like helpless victims. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes these ladies are the evil monsters that need to be dealt with, and sometimes they’re the heroes who do the slaying.

Here are the top 8 greatest female-led horror movies!

1. Scream

Sidney Prescott is beautiful and smart enough to handle not one but two maniacs wearing the famous grinning face masks. First, she jukes the killers and then brutally murders them in cold blood. Another interesting thing about Syd is that she is the main protagonist in all the sequels, so we can actually see her becoming more and more badass as time goes on.

2. Halloween

If it wasn’t for Jamie Lee Curtis, we would not get as many “scrappy girls” in the horrors as we do now. In many ways, her character became the trendsetter of that movie cliché where the heroine survives and kills the bad guy. If only Mike Meyers was an easy ghoul to kill, eh?

3. Jennifer’s Body

This dark comedy/horror starring Megan Fox can be safely called one of the most memorable movies of the last decade where a spectacular cheerleader turns into a demon seductress. She shamelessly uses her sexuality to get what she wants, which is men. But the succubus bit off more than she could swallow when she killed her best friend’s boyfriend. Now Amanda Seyfield’s character must stop her evil sexy friend.