Top 10 Best Female Horror Movie Characters

The Top Ten

1 Laurie Strode (Halloween)

Arguably the original Final Girl™, Laurie Strode set the bar high for all the Final Girl characters to come after her. The 2018 movie really just drove in why she's one of the absolute best horror movie protagonists ever – even 40 years later, she's ready.

2 Sarah Carter (The Descent)

3 Erin Harson (You're Next)

4 Ellen Ripley (Alien)

Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver.

She is badass, smart, and brave! Unlike Laurie

5 Selena Nolastname (28 Days Later)

6 Regan Macneil (The Exorcist)

Regan Teresa MacNeil is a fictional character from William Peter Blatty's horror novel and film adaptation The Exorcist as a supporting character and its first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic and the sequel television series, The Exorcist, as one of the main protagonists in season one. In both films, ...read more.

7 Molly Reynolds (Lovely Molly)

8 Anna Peterson (The Guest)

9 Sidney Prescott (Scream)

10 Kate (Creep)

The Contenders

11 Jennifer Mills (I Spit on Your Grave)

12 Carrie White (Carrie)

13 Pamela Voorhees (Friday the 13th)

Though she turned killer, I actually sympathize with her. She lost her only child (Jason) because he was bullied and pushed off the dock and the counselors were too busy having sex instead of watching the kids, which resulted in Jason drowning. That was her whole motivation. She wasn't really bad. She was just a mother with a broken heart and loved her son.

14 Tiffany Valentine (Bride of Chucky)

15 Asami Yamazaki (Audition)

16 Kayako Saeki (The Grudge)

17 Sadako Yamamura (The Ring)

18 Mimiko Mizunuma (One Missed Call)

19 Mitsuko Kawai (Dark Water)

20 Donna Trenton (Cujo)

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