Folk horror and the modern world converged during the 1970s and produced perhaps cinema's most varied selection of femme fatales to date. From Britt Ekland's impassioned seduction of Sergeant Howie in ...

An evocative inversion of the “damsel in distress” trope, the femme fatale has become one of cinema’s most compelling character archetypes. A femme fatale is a cunning seductress ensnaring men with ...

From villainous vixens to irresistible beauty and scandalous powers of persuasion, the femme fatales of the 1980s were some of the most formidable characters in Hollywood's dark history. Boiling ...

The femme fatale has been a stock character across film genres. The term is defined as a seductive or alluring woman who either causes distress or disaster for any man who becomes involved with her.

This week, Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” picks up the femme fatale and takes her for another run at her usual narrative — seducing a good man with doe eyes and promises of sex and money. Things have ...