The Top Ten Horror Flicks for Chicks
Once upon a time, horror-movie fandom was a boys' club: no cootie-ridden girls allowed. But we've come a long way: today, every dark-and-scary night is ladies' night. Women make up a solid half of the audience for fright flicks, and we have our own favorite girls on film. Remember the thrill of seeing Halloween's Laurie Strode (the inimitable Jamie Lee Curtis), the Über-final-girl, stand up to the bogeyman (with a knitting needle)? Well, there's more where that came from.
Flick: The Descent (2005)
Chicks: Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) and Juno (Natalie Jackson Mendoza)
Why Chicks Love This Fright Flick: Take a pack of estrogen-fueled thrill-seekers, drop them in an unmapped cave somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, unleash something super-nasty on them, and, rest assured, they won't run and scream: they'll bring it on. Even in this dude-free zone, Sarah has the final-girl look, and you love to hate Juno, the alpha bitch who gets them into one hell of a mess, then looks out for number one when the going gets tough. The Descent knows that women's friendships are complicated.
Flick: Ginger Snaps (2000)
Chick: Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle)
Why Chicks Love This Fright Flick: Sisters Ginger and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) aren't into girlie-girl games and don't buy into either the commercial crap about self-empowerment through slutty dressing or the touchy-feely Our Bodies, Ourselves celebration of female physiology. There's a bracing truth at the heart of the movie's wicked central joke -- that there's a reason the "curse" ebbs and flows with the moon. And the Fitzgerald girls' growing realization that becoming a woman is a series of scary trade-offs? We've been there.

















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