Images of feminine monsters in pop culture and myth

In this class, we first saw Medusa in Teeth, as a quick flash in one of the movies that was being watched. Very meta. The legend of Medusa is that she has a head of live snakes and that if you look at her, you will turn to stone. 

No one can forget the lightning streaked bride of Frankenstein in the movie with the same name, or her comic counterpart from the Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein. 

I'm also thinking about women in films who were maybe read as atypical bad asses, like Charlize Theron in Mad Max (she was the futuristic heroine) but also in Monster (she was the main character who murdered, but we are sympathetic to her because we see she's had a very difficult childhood and life).