Believable Villainous Females in Film?

I really enjoyed the Mags Bennet character in the FX "Justified" series.

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Anita Pallenberg as The Black Queen in "Barbarella"

sandra bullock in the blind side

jennifer anniston in marley and me

Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction

Jeanne Moreau as the title character in The Bride Wore Black


(This movie greatly influenced Quentin Tarrantino's Kill Bill.)

Kathy Bates in Misery.

Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Margaret Hamilton from all those coffee commercials The Wizard of Oz.


Bette Davis, planning Joan Crawford's menu in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?


Oh, wait, you want believable female villains?

Never mind.

Jessica Walter in Play Misty For Me

Bette Davis scared the daylights out of me in that movie!

I found Angelina Jolie as Olympias in Alexander to be very convincing, in a Mommy Dearest sort of way . . .

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. Even more heartlessly cruel and cunningly vicious than that bitch Jessica Harper she played in Murder, She Wrote.

Bringing up Alexander is pretty villainous in itself. You are history's greatest monster!

Officer Nancy Taylor, Conviction.

SPOILER ALERT!

I just watched this movie this passed weekend. It's based on a true story in which a guy, Kenny Waters, is wrongly convicted and sent to prison for life. To get him out his high school dropout sister resolves to get her GED, a bachelor's degree, and then a law degree so that she could represent him.

Officer Nancy Taylor, who has it out for Waters, coerces two witnesses to give false testimony against him.

I hadn't even heard of this film when it came out last year. I don't recall even having seen it in The NY Times Movie Review. I came across the trailer that was on the Black Swan DVD that I had rented.

I recommend it.

The wicked Queen in Snow White.


Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed

Anne Baxter in All About Eve.


Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

Eihi Shina in Audition (a 1999 Japanese film)

That little girl gave me nightmares! I have seen the remake of that movie and I think Claire Brown played the mother but the child.....she could not touch the original's performance. All About Eve.........I watch it everytime it comes on.