In honor of Halloween weekend, I created a TOP 10 list of my favorite scream queens. Thanks to their steel-iron lungs and abilities to make blood curdle and send chills down spines, the horror genre is able to produce a bloodier and gorier perspective to fairytale's damsel in distress and big bad wolf.
TOP 10 SCREAM QUEENS
- Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Prom Night (1980), Terror Train (1980), Roadgames (1981), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Virus (1999), Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
- Fay Wray – The Original; Doctor X (1932), The Vampire Bat (1933), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), King Kong (1933)
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- Shelley Duvall – The Shining (1980)
- Heather Langenkamp - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Freddy vs Jason (2003)
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- Erica Leerhsen - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007), Living Hell (2008), Lonely Joe (2009), Slaughter (2009), The Message (2009), Shiver (2009), The Fury (2009)
- Sarah Michelle Gellar - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Scream 2 (1997), The Grudge (2004), The Grudge 2 (2006), The Return (2006), Possession (2009)
- Evelyn Ankers - Hold That Ghost (1941), The Wolf Man (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Captive Wild Woman (1943), Son of Dracula (1943), The Mad Ghoul (1943), Jungle Woman (1944), Weird Woman (1944), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), The Frozen Ghost (1945)
Honorable Mentions: Vera Miles – Psycho (1960) and Jada Pinkett Smith's death scene in Scream 2 (1997)
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