{"id":4315,"date":"2019-02-06T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2019-02-08T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:30:22","slug":"10-best-female-revenge-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/best-female-revenge-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Female Revenge Movies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes there’s nothing so sweetly satisfying as watching a vicious vengeance\u00a0unfold. Movies are a perfect place for us to live out our revenge fantasies, imagining ourselves in the shoes–or stilettos–of the onscreen anti-hero. Whether she’s pushing back against an abusive boss, a neglectful husband or a merciless murderer, we can’t get enough tales of women serving up just desserts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To toast the debut of Reed\u00a0Morano’s\u00a0revenge-thriller The Rhythm Section<\/em><\/a>\u00a0later this year, we celebrate the ladies vengeance with a list of the very best in female revenge movies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Revenge<\/h2>\n

Written and directed by\u00a0Coralie\u00a0Fargeat, this 2017 French thriller is merciless in its grit and carnage.\u00a0Matilda Lutz\u00a0stars as Jen, a party girl who’s whisked away by her rich\u2013and married\u2013boyfriend Richard\u00a0(Kevin\u00a0Janssens)\u00a0for a romantic weekend. But their getaway goes off the rails when his hunting buddies show up unexpectedly and things turn violent. Jen is brutally attacked and left for dead. But neither rape, being pitched off a cliff or impaled on a tree stops the steely survivor. Jen treks through the desert, finding scraps to patch her wounds and to use as weapons. Soon she turns the full force of her rage upon those who crossed her. The results involve scorched flesh, coarse screams, exploitation-style gore and enough blood to fill a kiddie pool.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Lady Vengeance<\/h2>\n

With films like Old Boy<\/em>, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance<\/em>, and The Handmaiden<\/em>, Park Chan-wook\u00a0has defined the South Korean revenge thriller. The third installment of his heralded Vengeance Trilogy centers on an angel-faced mother convicted of an unspeakable crime. After serving 13 years in prison, Lee\u00a0Geum-ja\u00a0(Lee Young-ae) is free. Now is the time for her revenge on the man whose horrors she was blackmailed into hiding. It’s not enough to scrape the scattered shards of her broken life back together. Refashioning herself as an avenging angel, Lee hunts the murderer who got away and with the help of his surviving but suffering victims gives him precisely the justice he deserves. Warning: this one is not for the faint of heart or stomach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Hard Candy<\/h2>\n