10 Badass Female Horror Villains

8. Pamela Voorhees - Friday The 13th

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Another displeased mother, Pamela Voorhees was the antagonist in the first Friday the 13th film. Portrayed by Betsy Palmer, Voorhees (the camp cook) loses her son in a drowning in Crystal Lake at Camp Crystal Lake. Devastated, and already a little demented, she murders two sex-having counsellors, which results in the camp closing. When it€™'s reopened twenty years later, it€™'s just too much for a mother to handle, and she proceeds to murder more counsellors, using hatchets and other sharp implements.

Ms. Voorhees is a brawler too. She gets into multiple fist fights, takes a frying pan to the face and a fireplace poker over the head, only to come back with a vengeance.

Given the conditions of Camp Crystal Lake, she probably did a lot of children a favour. The counsellors were always too busy having sex to pay attention, none of the cabin doors locked, the phones were always dead and all of the signs were rickety, meaning anyone could have gotten a splinter at any time.

 
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