2. Bridget Gregory - The Last Seduction (1992)
Linda Fiorentino gives a bravura performance as stone cold, heartless floozy in neo-noir The Last Seduction. She steals her husband's drug money and buggers off into a small town where she meets Mike, a nice amiable chap with whom she starts an affair. Husband eventually tracks her down and sends some guys after her, but wily Bridget intends to kill hubby and frame Mike as the fall guy. Bridget is such an amoral, conniving cow she is a wonderful creation with audiences watching agog as to which devious act she will commit next. Linda Fiorentino is a very good looking woman, but she does not have the assets you would suggest of a sultry seductress - she is tall and skinny with a very small chest size. This adds to her quirky appeal. Bridget is very foul mouthed, constantly wisecracking and ready to exploit the heck out of any man in the vicinity. She is so villainous, the audience develops a kind of fond fascination for her and her wicked deeds. And full props must go to director John Dahl for not taking the easy moral condemnation way out and having his anti-heroine skip away scot free. Easily one of the best modern portrayals of a femme fatale and a particularly vicious one at that.