# Most evil female characters in film history **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667 "2004-06-29T03:56:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/81 "2004-07-06T05:07:03Z")
See, if I saw Samara’s tape, I’d copy it…and pass it along to really vile serial killers on Death Row! See, problem solved. Saddam Husein, Charles Manson, all of them would view the tape, die, and I’d still be alive, without having harmed any innocents. TV characters are okay? Then I nominated Pearl Forrestor, of _MST3K_: “an evil gal who wants to rule the world.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/82 "2004-07-07T14:53:14Z")
> [@Number Six](#): > > Think “He’d kill us if he knew”, and you get the idea. [nitpick]It’s “He’d kill us if he had the chance.”[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/83 "2004-07-08T01:05:33Z")
I just watched _Mildred Pierce_ for the first time (I always thought it was a period drama for some reason) and have a new entry for this thread: Veda Pierce, Mildred’s utterly unredeemable, manipulative, money-grubbing daughter. Wow! What a bitch! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/84 "2004-07-12T08:13:39Z")
> [@The Asbestos Mango](#): > > And I really don’t agree that eventually there would be nobody to pass the curse on to. People on this planet tend to reproduce, thus making more people who have never seen the tape. Yeah, but you only have a week! Can you show the tape to a newborn? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/85 "2004-09-10T22:47:26Z")
It hasn’t been three months yet… I saw a movie today that made me think of this thread. **Evelyn** in [The Shape of Things](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308878/combined) was wonderfully evil. I saw the ending coming, but I still couldn’t believe that she went through with it. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/86 "2004-09-11T00:12:33Z")
> [@Oy!](#): > > MiLady DeWinter (Faye Dunaway) in _The Three Musketeers_ and especially _The Four Musketeers_ - the 70s version that actually followed the books quite closely. A brilliant performance on Dunaway’s part, and a truly amoral, immoral woman. > > Absurdly, when they remade the movie yet again in the 90s, they made Milady (Rebecca DeMornay) a misunderstood victim. Of course, that entire remake was sad and absurd… The Faye Dunaway character was the one I immediately thought of when I saw this thread. Nurse Ratched too. For the heck of it, I’ll also nominate… **Endora** (Samantha’s mother) in _Bewitched_\* ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/87 "2004-09-11T06:31:08Z")
Debra Winger Not in any particular role, I just think she is evil. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/88 "2004-09-11T07:02:48Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > From Ginger Snaps 2 > > The young girl Ghost (about 12 or 13) who makes friends with Bridgette at the asylum and seems so innocent and sweet. She later turns out to have burnt almost to death the mother she was apparently the obedient child in visiting all the time at the hospital. Later she pretends that the horney male nurse had raped her, and gets Bridgette to feed him to the werewolf. Finally trapping the werewolf-Bridgette in the cellar of her mother’s house and using her to off Ghost’s enimies in her reign of ‘Moral Terror’. [spoiler]It’s actually her grandmother, not her mother. And there are hints, fairly early on, that Ghost ain’t quite as sweet as everyone in the movie - other than her gramma - thinks she is - like the terrified look on granny’s face when she comes in at one point. And she’s obviously rebellious, and not-quite right, right from the start. All that said, she’s still fucking creepy. I loved the faked rape bit…was so…evil and calculating. I was waiting for the werewolf to eat him, but I was shocked - in that unpleasant way that’s so pleasant in a horror movie - at HOW it got him.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667/89 "2004-09-11T12:44:04Z")
Jodie Foster’s character in “Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane” is female child evil personified. And a damn good performance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-evil-female-characters-in-film-history/252667.md?page=4)