Patti O'Connor (Curtains)

Patti O'Connor (Lynne Griffin) is the main villainess of the 1983 horror film Curtains. She was a comedian and aspiring actress who was one of six women who attended a casting call hosted by esteemed director Jonathan Stryker. During the event, Jonathan put Patti through an impromptu session which he quickly ended, to which Patti angrily blasted Jonathan for believing she wasn't cut out to play Audra.
But as revealed in the film's climax, Patti had been murdering all of the other competing actresses, doing so to ensure she won the role. Prior to meeting at Jonathan's house, Patti murdered auditionee Amanda Teuther in her home. stabbing her to death while wearing the mask of a haggard woman (which she also wears in her subsequent killings).
Once at Jonathan's house, Patti's first victims were Jonathan's assistant Matthew (who she killed off-screen for unknown reasons) and Christie Burns, who she attacked with a sickle while she was ice skating. Christie managed to briefly subdue Patti before running away, but was eventually caught and beheaded by the villainess, who later placed her head in a toilet of the house. It was discovered by Brooke Parsons, another auditionee, but Patti managed to hide Christie's head before Brooke could show Jonathan. The psychotic Patti later stabbed Laurian Summers to death and cornered Tara DeMillo in a props warehouse (after Jonathan and Brooke had been shot to death by Samantha Sherwood, Jonathan's former lover and the original actress to play Audra) before eventually killing her in the ventilation shaft.
In the film's final moments, Patti shared champagne with Samantha, who confessed to Patti that she'd killed Jonathan and Brooke out of revenge against Jonathan for confining her to an asylum in order to replace her in the film. At that, the evil Patti took a knife and cornered Samantha as she confessed to killing the rest of the actresses, before finally stabbing Samantha to death. Patti was arrested (off-screen) for her deranged killing spree and the film ended with Patti in a psychiatric hospital, performing a monologue as "Audra" to her fellow patients.
== Victims ==
* Amanda Teuther (stabbed)
* Matthew (killed off-screen; method not shown)
* Christie Burns (stabbed in the shoulder and decapitated)
* Laurian Summers (stabbed)
* Tara DeMillo (stabbed)
* Samantha Sherwood (stabbed)
==Trivia==
*Lynne Griffin later appeared on Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye as villainess Beatrice Lawrence.
==Gallery==
Patti O'Connor disguise.png|Patti's villainous disguise
Patti O'Connor reveal.png|Patti's villainous reveal
Patti O'Connor institute.png|Patti in a mental institute
Category:1980s
Category:Axe
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Knife
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Decapitation
Category:Murder: Stabbing
Category:Psychotic
Category:Serial Killer
Category:Show Business
Category:Slasher
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested