In Them: Covenant (Season 1), the character of Grace is a monstrous neighbor. But more disturbing is the "Black Hat" figure—a predatory force that wears the skin of domesticity. Similarly, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit presents a grandmother figure who is literally hunting her grandchildren, turning the expectation of nurturing care into a cage.
The modern predatory woman operates without that arithmetic.
That trope is dead.
