10 Most Terrifying Women In Horror Movies
2. La Femme - Inside
The first decade of the 21st century saw the rise of intense, ordeal-based horror, and many of the best examples of this came out of France. 2007's Inside (AKA À l'intérieur) was one of the key titles in what was dubbed the French New Wave of Horror, and it gave us one of the scariest female villains ever put to film.
Alyson Paradis stars as an expectant mother and recent widow, home alone on Christmas Eve, who gets an unexpected knock on the door from an unknown woman, played by Beatrice Dalle. A vicious home invasion ensues, as the unhinged stranger's motivation becomes clear: she wants Sarah's unborn child for herself, and is prepared to do anything to get it, even if it involves going in with scissors.
Directorial duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury deliver (no pun intended) a jaw-droppingly tense and grisly spectacle, but it wouldn't pack half the punch without the supremely sinister central turn from the excellent Dalle.