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Horror movies don't fair too badly when compared to other genres. While there is a fair slice of misogyny thrown into plenty of horror movies there have also been some great representations of women and great female role models/ heroines too. It kinda depends how you want to approach the subject, there are plenty of positives and negatives. Even in the movies with perceived 'strong' female leads, its really easy to look a little deeper and question whether those characters are as strong or deep as they appear.
Personally, I think one of the biggest problems is that there just aren't enough writers who understand well enough how to write for women and make the characters three dimensional, which is why there is an imbalance in cinema. That's why you sometimes end up with these bizarre movies that try to have strong female leads but often end up in this weird place where the characters are still defined by the men in their lives, even if the woman is 'on top'. That applies to all genres, and isn't specific to horror.
That said, if you apply The Bechdel test to recent horror movies there are a few great examples to be found, such as The Descent and Innkeepers. I don't put a lot of stock in the test myself, even though it seems the 'go-to' benchmark. Its much more relevant to me if the characters are multi-layered and have legitimate depth than fulfilling a set of very basic criteria. If you look at a movie like, say, Alien, that barely passes the test, but probably has one of the strongest, most positive female role models in cinema. The same can be said for Halloween.
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