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Us Ranks the Top 10 Scream Queens: From Jamie Lee Curtis to Neve Campbell


From Jamie Lee Curtis to Neve Campell and Janet Leigh, horror movies have seen incredible Scream Queens go head-to-head with big baddies over the years

From Jamie Lee Curtis’ decades-long portrayal of Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s endless roles in horror and horror-adjacent projects, there are handfuls of women who have cemented themselves as queens of the genre — and relish being the heroes of their own stories. While Campbell’s filmography in the horror movie canon is mainly limited to the Scream series, she also plays a witchy teenager in 1996’s cult classic The Craft and joins Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon in the 1998 erotic thriller Wild Things. From Jamie Lee Curtis’ decades-long portrayal of Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s endless roles in horror and horror-adjacent projects, there are handfuls of women who have cemented themselves as queens of the genre — and relish being the heroes of their own stories.

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