While it’s a well-known fact that queer characters are fodder for horrific cinematic deaths, in some cases, out and coded villains are too conniving to be killed off. For decades, sexually fluid women — in the forms of femme fatales, succubi and outright psychopaths — have stalked their prey in genre films that underscore how untrustworthy women who seek the company of other women (and occasionally men) can be.
Source: From psychopaths to succubi, a look at cinema’s scary fixation with queer women