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Femme Fatale - French for 'deadly female'. She's a heartless, cold woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants, but why do we love her so much? Because, secretly, we all want to be her. Here are some of the best Femme Fatale films ever made:

BASIC INSTINCT
Sharon Stone heated up the cinemas (and her career) in this slick psychological thriller about a wealthy writer who is suspected of killing her lover with an ice-pick to heighten sexual pleasure. If the opening sequence doesn't disturb you, the leg crossing scene in the interrogation room will.

BODY OF EVIDENCE
Ok, ok, I know what you're thinking. But this slick Femme Fatale flick is heaps of fun even if it’s just to see Madonna’s fanny.

CARRIE
Brian De Palma made some of the most memorable horror/thriller films post Hitchcock, and before being killed and replaced by an alien host (according to People magazine, since making forgettable genre pictures like Mission To Mars, and Femme Fatale) Carrie was one of them. A cocktail of pubescent rage, adolescent angst, and a blood curdling massacre. It’s the ultimate revenge flick as Sissy Spacek uses her psychic powers to exact vengeance on all those that bullied her in school. Spacek turned in a great performance, both achingly innocent and devastatingly destructive.

HEAVENLY CREATURES
One of my all time favourites, this film brilliantly explores the psyche of two young girls and their obsessive friendship leading up to death of one of their mothers. Never one to let his audience down with ease, Peter Jackson goes all out here perfectly combining creative fantasy sequences and brutal reality to give us one of the best and most original depictions of a true story. The ending is definitely not for the faint hearted.

FATAL ATTRACTION
Glenn Close is at her best as the icy vixen who won't take no for an answer in this ultimate femme fatal classic. When a happily married Michael Douglas decides to indulge in a weekend of passion with Close he soon realises she wasn't the one weekend kind of gal. A great performance by Close who takes what could have been a stereotypical vixen and makes her so believable you almost feel sympathy for her. Almost.

KILL BILL
I don't think I’ve ever enjoyed a revenge film so much in my life. Uma Thurman is fantastic as the vengeful sword wielding Samuri who sets out to kill those who wronged her. You will never see a more creative use of blood splatter.

MISERY
One of my all time favourites. Kathy Bates give her Academy Award winning performance as crazy neurotic who gets a little too obsessed with her favourite writer. One of the best adaptions from a Steven King novel and some of the most imaginative swearing you will ever hear.

MONSTER
After you stop comparing Charlize Theron's face prosthetics with Nicole’s nose you get taken in with this story about one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos. Theron is fantastic and well deserved her Oscar.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
It’s your classic Femme Fatale film and it’s about as predictable as they get but what makes this film a favourite is the great performance from Jennifer Jason Leigh as the obsessive psycho roommate from hell who copies Bridget Fonda’s hair cut! Well, I’d be scared...

THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
Rebecca De Mornay seeks revenge on the woman who caused her husband to kill himself and as a result loose her baby. And boy is she pissed! As far as clichés go this one has em all but a fun ride for fans of the genre.

THE LAST SEDUCTION
Linda Florenteno is simply fantastic as a woman without a pulse who will stop at nothing to get the New York life she's always dreamed of. After her doctor husband pulls of a scam to pay off his loan shark, Linda takes off with the loot and heads to "cow country". Here she meets the most stupid male on the face of the earth, uses him for sex and then seduces him into killing her husband. Pure guilty pleasure.

TO DIE FOR
Nicole Kidman is fantastic in this dark comedy about a young woman who is obsessed with being on television. When her husband decides it’s time to start a family she seduces a young town hoodlum into killing him. One of Gus Van Saint's better films, giving originality to a much used theme.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
As far Femme Fatale goes, this film would have to right up there as you not only get one but two crazy females, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This psychological thriller from the 1960’s has it all; a number of clever twists, a dark old house, a secret, murders, torture, and an ending that echoes the beginning in a way that is only slightly more disgusting. But in this case it’s the stars that make the whole experience worth the ride, which is grotesque, funny, camp and dark.

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