The 25 Most Deliciously Evil Female Villains in Film and TV

Vogue ^ | 9/29/23 | Radikha Seth

[DallasBiff]

Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Alabama-born Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for her portrayal of Mildred Ratched, the sadistic, tyrannical nurse who presides over the hospital ward which houses Jack Nicholson’s Randle Patrick McMurphy in Miloš Forman’s moving tragicomedy. Thanks to her perfectly calibrated performance, the character became a byword for institutional abuses of power, not to mention one of the most memorable movie villains of all time

[DallasBiff]

Call me crazy, but I don't think her character was evil, just trying to do her job of controlling the mental ward.

In real life, Hillary Clinton Should be #1.

[No name given]

Well said.

[Dr. Franklin]

I saw Hillary Clinton on TV. That should count.

[dfwgator]

Cloris Leachman, two times:

[Macho MAGA Man]

Perfect 👍 I concur!

[dfwgator]

Well I wouldn’t say Hillary is “Deliciously Evil”.

[Macho MAGA Man]

I just remembered another one. The one in the Bond flick “From Russia With Love”.

She was a Soviet officer with a poison knife in her shoe sole.

[lurk]

Kathy Bates in Misery. Girl was out of hand.

Jessica Walter in Play Misty For Me was a Tinder date gone wrong.

[llevrok]

Faye Dunaway in “Mommy Dearest”.

I never had wire hangers in the house after seein that film!

[No name given]

She’s just plain evil!

[Dr. Sivana]

It was only a B Movie, but my number 1 is Ann Savage as Vera in "Detour".



I am a little shocked that Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in "Monster" wasn't included.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have never seen most of those listed...

#7 Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
#9 Goldie Hawn in “Death Becomes Her” (no worse than her costar)
#17 Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct”
#20 Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction”

My first thought was the movie “Misery”
with James Caan and Kathy Bates...

[PGR88]

The article didn’t include Meryl Streep as Amanda Priestly in “Devil Wears Prada.”

I think that character qualifies as “deliciously evil” in that film

[dfwgator]

Another historical figure is Magda Goebbels in “Downfall”.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Lotte Lenya.

The original singer of “Mack the Knife”, in German, and mentioned in the Bobby Darin version:

Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky’s back in town

[Macho MAGA Man]

Indeed. That’s her!

[Varsity Flight]

Simple, real simple, just like today’s:

The Chicks of:

Begiled

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Simple, real simple, just like today’s:

The Chicks of:

Begiuled

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(Beguiled)

[DallasBiff]

What! You never saw “One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest”, great film, Jack Nicholson gets a a lobotomy in the end.