These Are The Toughest, Coolest, Most Badass Women In Halloween Movies

Some seriously badass ladies are featured in our favorite horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV shows.

While some of them kick the bad guy’s ass, others are the bad guy. Some have hearts of gold, some are evil to the core, but all of these badass women in Halloween movies slay the game in their own way. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.

Laurie Strode (Halloween)

Laurie is such a badass in every way. Looking at the original Halloween movie, she is a shy, brainy babysitter who is just trying to watch little Tommy Doyle on Halloween night (she even agrees to watch her friend’s charge while her friend ends up getting murdered) and ends up stabbing Michael Meyers in the neck, stomach and eye.

She’s the ultimate scream queen.

Tatum Riley (Scream)

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Obviously final girl Sidney Prescott and unexpectedly brave Gale Weathers are cool as hell and kick some serious Ghostface butt, but let’s have a moment of silence for Tatum. Yes, she died a tragic cat-door death, but she fought back hard against Ghostface (one of whom was her boyfriend!

) in the garage and did it with sass and wit to boot.

Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Willow, Tara and Anya are all powerful ladies, but Buffy goes through so much throughout the series – Hellmouth demon-fighting stuff AND normal teenage angst stuff – that she’s one of the strongest women ever to appear on TV.

She kicks vampire ass, regularly saves her friends/little sister/boyfriends, deals with the death of her beloved mom AND looks phenomenal in late 90s/early 2000s outfits through all of it.

Wendy Torrance (The Shining)

Wendy seems to start off as a passive, meek, traditional wife and mother. She is Jack’s punching bag, but she is a good mother to Danny and is protective of him after Jack hurt him during a drinking binge. Once Jack loses his mind, Wendy is surprisingly tough and resilient.

She slashes Jack’s hand with a knife, locks him in a freezer and saves Danny by pushing him through a window to take refuge in the snow.