Friday the 13th\n\n While most people associate Jason and his iconic hockey mask with the horror franchise, Mrs. Voorhees deserves the same amount of recognition. She's easily one of the most frightening female slasher movie villains of the twentieth century and killed her victims in creative and surprising ways.

The horror genre has often been labeled as one that casts the majority of its female characters as victims. Although in many cases this is true, a majority of the most famous killers, villains, and antagonists in horror are in fact female.