Weekly Feminist Film Question: Who Is Your Favorite Female Horror Movie Hero?

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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