10 Best Characters From 2024 Horror Movies
3. The Electric Lady - Strange Darling
It's been a fantastic year for heroines in horror, but Strange Darling took this very notion and turned it masterfully on its head.
J.T. Mollner's scintillating horror-thriller initially presents Willa Fitzgerald's unnamed protagonist as the Final Girl, a victim who is desperately fleeing from a murderous maniac, known only as the Demon (Kyle Gallner). However, mid-way through the film we learn that Fitzgerald's character is actually a serial killer called the Electric Lady, and the Demon is really her enraged latest victim hell-bent on revenge.
Strange Darling's concept simply wouldn't work without Fitzgerald's brilliant performance, ensuring the audience buys into her character's apparent vulnerability in the early going, only for the tables to turn and reveal her to be a murderous psychopath.
That said, the Electric Lady's overarching motive - that she kills people she envisions as devils - makes her decidedly more interesting than your typical garden variety killer.