Best Female Villains

hopefully she gets a solo movie

I've argued before that if you take the movie at face value, and don't include information from the book, Nurse Ratchett isn't as bad as she seems to be. Unprofessional at times, definitely, but not a monster. It's the doctors and administrators that would be responsible for most of the bad things that happened. And the suicide near the end is just as much the protagonist's fault.

Know everyone will say WTF? But!

Carolina Carlsson as The Snake in Dragonheart - Vengeance!

Poison Ivy (Batman & Robin)

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No, she's very much a monster in the movie as well. Don't let her nonsense logic, and calm demeanor fool you. The insidious nature of her evil is its most potent element.


And the suicide is absolutely not the protagonists fault. She consistently infantilizes him, and uses her relationship with his mother in ways she knows will keep him under her control. What he ultimately gets punished for is 'breaking rules', but this final rule he breaks is tragically the one moment of comfort he has in the entire film. And she punishes him for that, simply out of her anger that he defied her. She does not care about the care of these patients, what she cares about is absolute control.


She's recognized as one of filmdom's worst villains for good reason. She's horrible in a way that truly horrible people are in real life. The use institutions and 'the rules' as a way to dominate and break people.

The Woman, from 'Woman in the Dunes'

Mrs. Kehoe (Julie Walters) in Brooklyn.