Top 10 Slasher Movie Heroines

A tribute to those ladies, sometimes called "the last girl", that survived and defeated the slashers, monsters and psycho-killers that crossed paths with them.

10. Jess - Black Christmas (1974). Creepy phone calls. An in-house killer. People dying one by one all around her. Sound familiar? Not to Jess it isn't. In 1974 the slasher film formula hadn't been implemented yet. So Jess was truly on her own against this psychopath.

9. Ginny - Friday the 13th, Part 2. - although a sequel, Ginny has the privilege of being the first to vanquish the masked menace known as Jason. Others come and go, but you never forget your first time.

8. Barbara - Night of the Living Dead (1990). Unlike the character in the original film, this Barbara "snaps out of it" and gets her sh*t together becoming a hard-ass killer of the undead. Watch out zombies, this time Barbara's coming to get you.

7. Stella - 30 days of night. Most heroines have to last the night, possibly a weekend. Stella had to survive a full month, watching neighbors and loved ones hunted down and slaughtered by a gang of rampaging vampires. She not only survives, but vanquishes them. When it comes to endurance, no one does it better than Stella.

6. Sally - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). While she never actually killed her villains, she did escape. In her defense, she had an entire family of deranged, demented psycho-cannibals to contend with, instead of a single, lone nut. No other heroine had experienced such a prolonged exposure to the ongoing macabre as she did.

5. Jennifer - I Spit On Your Grave (1978 version). Jennifer is the heroine turned psycho-killer. After surviving a brutal assault, multiple rapes, and attempted murder, Jennifer is out for bloody revenge. Most heroines play the innocent virgin. Jennifer's innocence was taken from her. 

4. Nancy/Heather - Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 3, and A New Nightmare. Nancy defeated dream killer Freddy Krueger, but he kills her in their second go-around in part three. But not before she educated the others on how to become Dream Warriors, to give Freddy the fight of his life. Later on in the series, in a twist, the actress returns to play herself, as Freddy breaks through the 4th wall and begins stalking the cast of the original film. Once again she vanquishes him. Villain 1, Heroine 2.

3. Laurie - Halloween 1,2, and H20. Laurie has the distinction of facing arguably the father of modern slasher villains. Although she finally falls victim to him in H20, her cunning, evasiveness, and determination has been an inspiration, and a blueprint for heroines to come. Her conscious is clear as well, as she never vanquished Michael in any film. She simply survives.

2. Sidney - Scream 1-4. Surviving a psycho killer is hard enough, but to do it four times is unprecedented. Not to mention that while the mask remained the same, there was always a different psychopath underneath. So Sidney herself racked up a bodycount that is on par with the villains. Unlike other slasher heroines, her villains remain dead.

1. Alice - Friday the 13th. Alice survives to the end of the original Friday the 13th. She be-heads  the killer, Mrs. Vorhees, Jason's Mother. What gives her such distinction isn't her survivability. It was her act of self defense that motivated Jason himself to become a killer for 9 sequels, a reboot, and a classic showdown with Freddy. Mrs. Vorhees may have given birth to Jason, but it was Alice who gave birth to a slasher film icon. Thank you Alice.