Some are smart and conniving, some as dumb as a bag of hammers. Some are literally evil, some just high school evil. Join us as we count down the 27 meanest high school girls in the movies…. Ad — content continues below. Though, on balance, we suppose there are worse things she could do. My life is an audition for reality TV. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
Tsk Tsk. The pair spend their days spitting bile in bus shelters, reading trashy mags, and looking down on man, woman and beast with the kind of disdain only high school girls can muster. Of course, even eczematous pyromaniac Jordana is no match for the ego of her boyfriend narrator Oliver Tate, whose self-involvement is practically a pathology.
Meanest moment: Driving off with jock boyfriend Billy Christiansen while Romy is left waiting for him at the school dance. The only trouble is that, the first time around, she was ridiculed and outcast, leaving scars well into her adult life. Their plan to ruin the prom of nerdy girl Aldys finally causes Josie to reveal herself, and condemn the girls for their behavior. Just horrible. Thankfully, this girl gets her just desserts, and Nick abandons her mid-seduction attempt.
Suffocated by their overprotective parents, all five Lisbon sisters seek to escape their suburban lives, but Lux is the one who, hurt by callous treatment from boyfriend Trip, takes an odd kind of revenge on the men in her neighborhood. Meanest moment: How to decide? The jawbreaker, the cover-up, framing an innocent man for rape, the list goes on…. Heathers is about a twisted as a teen movie can get, and it contains some of the evilest and conniving mean girl tactics committed to screen.
The film made Winona Ryder a star, but it was the manipulative and troubled leader of the group, portrayed by Kim Walker, who created the definitive mean girl of the genre.
