| “ | When I get what I want, I'm happy. And when I'm happy, I'm not a bitch. | „ |
| ~ Danielle |
Danielle is the main antagonist of the 2005 black comedy Bad Girls from Valley High.
She was portrayed by Julie Benz, who also portrayed Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawn Sterling in Law & Order.
Biography[]
Danielle is the queen bee at Valley High and ruled with her bitchy, aggressive personality alongside her loyal minions Tiffany and Brooke. The popular kids in school hail from Hundred Pines, an exclusive housing estate built solely for the wealthy, and so they're given the nickname "The Huns". She has a huge crush on Drew, the ex-captain of the football team who turned into a brooding loner due to his girlfriend Charity's death the year prior. However, he (and everyone else) is unaware that it was Danielle and her friends who were responsible for Charity's untimely demise.
Her stable social status is threatened when a new seemingly-perfect Romanian exchange student arrives at Valley High, Katarina, and weird things start to happen around her. Danielle and her friends volunteer at their local elderly home, but are less than welcoming to the residents in there. Danielle often terrorises her charge, Mrs. Witt who lays paralysed as a result of a stroke. Tiffany enters the room on their latest visit and suggests they binge all of Mrs. Witt's chocolate stash. Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke (who only has a couple due to her diet) eat Mrs. Witt's chocolates and fall asleep.
The next day, the girls feels tired, with aches and pains and other symptoms begin to emerge such as: worsening eyesight, incontinence and mysterious freckles on their hands. Danielle starts to think that Katarina is the ghost of Charity Chase, cursing them for her death and stealing Drew from her. She decides to take matters into her own hands and kill both Katarina and Drew.
Danielle lures them to the same spot Charity was killed, and now with the trio aged rapidly, believes it's her last chance to reverse what's happening to her and her friends. Danielle points her gun towards Drew, but is distracted by a clown, Drew fights her for the gun and it shoots Katarina in the hand. Danielle realises that she is bleeding, so therefore she can't be the ghost of Charity Chase.
Some time later, Danielle and Tiffany are lying in the elderly home and on life support when Mrs. Witt, fully mobile enters the room. She informs them that it was her who poisoned them with a chemical weapon that induces rapid ageing and she injected it into the chocolates they consumed weeks prior. Mrs. Witt tells Danielle that she is Charity's grandmother and wants revenge for what they did to Charity while Tiffany silently dies. Danielle gives the middle finger to her victim/tormentor before she dies while Brooke thankfully didn't eat as many of the poisoned truffles.
Danielle and Tiffany are sent to "heaven", thinking they cheated the system and were being rewarded, the pair are shocked to quickly realises they are in hell and joined by the most annoying kid in school, Jonathan, where they will be tortured by him for all eternity.