Charlene Amoia (How I Met Your Mother, American Reunion), seems to be making her bid for scream queen status. She’ll star in a new horror film for Zoe and Pebbles Productions in association with Mulberry Street Films, LLC.
Amoia will play Julia, a quirky single mother who has left the big city with her teenage daughter, Charlotte and has taken up residence in the old Miller house. What she is unaware of is that the Miller house is known by the townspeople to have been a place where demonic possession occurred throughout the past. As history repeats itself, Julia must work with the previous owner of the house, Dr. Miller, to save not only Charlotte from this evil case of possession but to ultimately keep the evil entity from latching on to Dr. Miller.
Let’s face it, monsters and screaming chicks just go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Most are one-time screamers, but some keep coming back for more, earning the title “Scream Queen.” Some even use their scream queen status to launch a mainstream career, like the queen of the queens, Jamie Lee Curtis. Who’s your favorite of the scream queens?
Janet Leigh – Alfred Hitchcock’s Queen of Scream
FILMS:
Psycho (1960)
The Fog (1980)
Halloween H20 (1988)
Janet Leigh made us all afraid to get in our showers, in the classic “Psycho” murder scene. Tame stuff by today’s standards, but quite shocking in the day. And a great study in how to be scary without gratuitous
gore – watch it closely…it isn’t as gory as you think. Such is the artistry of a master filmmaker like Alfred Hitchcock.
Barbara Steele
FILMS:
Black Sunday (1960)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock (1962)
The Ghost (1963)
Castle of Blood (1964)
Night of the Doomed (1965)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Shivers (1975)
Piranha (1978)
Silent Scream (1980)
Despite a role in Fellini’s “8 1/2,” Barbara Steele is best known for her horror films, especially Mario Bava’s classic “Black Sunday.” She also found herself featured in Roger Corman classic horror movies as well as the TV series “Dark Shadows.”
The Women of Hammer
While most people think of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing when they think of Hammer Horror films, the studio kept a bevy of babes on hand to make their leading men look good. Ingrid Pitt, Caroline Munro, Veronica Carlson, Hazel Court, Barbara Shelley, and even big names like Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch.
Jamie Lee Curtis – John Carpenter Discovers A New Talent
FILMS:
Halloween (1978)
The Fog (1980)
Prom Night (1980)
Terror Train (1980)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Virus (1999)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t use the star power of her parents to launch her film career, but a low budget horror film by a then unknown director named John Carpenter. The rest, as they say, was history.
Linnea Quigley
FILMS:
Post Mortem, America 2021 (2009)
Dead End (2010)
Strangers Online (2009)
Night of the Demons (2009)
Vampitheatre (2009)
Spring Break Massacre (2008)
Each Time I Kill (2007)
Hoodoo for Voodoo
Voices from the Graves
The Naked Monster (2005)
Wolfsbayne (2005)
The Rockville Slayer (2004)
Frost (2004)
Zombiegeddon (2003)
Corpses Are Forever (2003)
Scream Queen (2002)
The Monster Man
Horrorvision
Kannibal
Venice Beach
Curse of the Lesbian Love Goddess
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula in 8 Legs to Love You (1998)
Fatal Frames (1996)
Jack-O (1995)
Vampire Hunter (1994)
Beach Babes from Beyond (1993)
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993)
Innocent Blood (1992)
Blood Church (1992)
Guyver (1991)
Witchtrap (1989)
Deadly Embrace (1989)
Blood Nasty (1989)
Night of the Demons (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Creepozoids (1987)
Nightmare Sisters (1987)
Treasure of the Moon Goddess
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Savage Streets (1984)
Psycho from Texas (1975)
Linnea Quigley isn’t exactly a household name…unless you are a diehard horror fan. If you are, you know this cult legend.
Heather Langenkamp
FILMS:
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Shocker (1989)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Danielle Harris
FILMS:
Halloween 4 (1988)
Halloween 5 (1989)
Urban Legend (1998)
Halloween (2007)
Halloween II (2009)
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2010)
The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (2010)
Stake Land (2010)
Out of all the starlets trying to be the new quintessential Scream Queen, Danielle Harris is clearly the frontrunner, with a resume that includes appearing in the original series, as well as being recruited by Rob Zombie for his new versions.
Angela Bettis – Not Your Typical Scream Queen
FILMS:
May
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Scar (2007)
There is something wonderfully off-kilter about Bettis, and not your typical horror film “babe.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar
FILMS:
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Scream 2 (1997)
The Grudge (2004)
The Grudge 2 (2006)
The Return (2006)
Scout Taylor-Compton
Wicked Little Things (2006)
Halloween (2007)
April Fool’s Day (2008)
Halloween II (2009)
