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Horrorphile - January 2007

Who's the bustiest ... er ... bestest SCREAM QUEEN?

January 7th 2007 23:56

I watched Prom Night (1980) last night. I’d never seen it. One of those slasher flicks that slipped through the net. I can see why now. It’s a terrible movie. Even by slasher standards. I have no idea why it features on numerous so-called horror fans favourite slasher flicks lists??

Perhaps it’s because the amply-bosomed Jamie Lee Curtis is the damsel in distress. She ruled the roost there for a wee while as horrordom’s official Scream Queen. First there was Halloween (1978), then The Fog (1980), Prom Night, Terror Train (1980), Road Games (1981), then Halloween II (1981). By 1983 she’d hung up the golden tonsils, but not before satisfying all the lads who’d been secretly oogling her by exposing that sensational bosom and revealing those uber-long legs in John Landis’s Trading Places.

She went on to do more physique flicks like the dire Perfect (1985), and horror movies became a fading memory until she returned to Haddonfield in the dreadful Halloween H20 (1998), along with her mother, another classic screamer, Janet Leigh.

But why is it that so many of those early horrors, in particular the slasher movies, feature teenagers played by actors who look more like they’re in their late 20s than mid-teens? What was going on with the casting process? Watching the highly risible high school antics in Prom Night, including the absurd disco dance, one can’t help noticing just how ludicrous all the “teenagers” look. There’s even an adolescent with a full beard! There were never any students at my school who looked that hirsute?! Perhaps he thought he was in a werewolf flick?!

But I digress.

In Brian de Palma’s brilliant Blow Out (1981), sound recordist Jack (played wonderfully by John Travolta, who rather amusingly would go on to star opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in Perfect) has been instructed to find the right scream for a low-budget horror flick. The film opens with what appears to be a cheap looking exploitation horror flick with scantily-clad sorority girls playing mischievously around their campus rooms while a peeping tom/psycho killer stalks them. He enters the building and steals into the bathroom where one of the girls is showering and pulls back the curtain, about to stab the buxom student. She emits a very lame attempt at a scream.

Cut to Jack shaking his head. It turns out we’ve been watching a screening in a theatrette. The director asks what cat he strangled to get the scream. The actress on the screen Jack replies. The director demands Jack go and record something better. And what ultimately transpires is Jack ends up using a real scream, the voice of Sally, a hooker with a heart of gold, and another damsel in distress, but hey, I don’t want to ruin a great thriller for you.

So who else has a great pair of lungs? Jennifer Love Hewitt has an impressive pair. She lets them loose in the very average I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its silly sequel. Jessica Biel is another with a solid set of bouncing vocal chords. Her busty howls in the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) were the most consistent in years.

Another fine set of screamers and equally well-endowed in the lungs department are Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell and Rose McGowan, all of whom bared their screams loud and proud in the post-modern, but bloated and highly over-rated Scream (1996). Oh how apt.

And one can’t forget the sensational chests of Denise Richards, who provides a few hearty screams in the lovers slasher flick Valentine (2001), and buxom Brittany Murphy in the virginal blood-letter Cherry Falls (2000).

And one mustn't forget B-grade Trash Queen of 'em all, the slinky'n'perky lil' Ms. Linnea Quigley.

So who is the Queen Screamer of them all? And does the size of the bust have anything whatsoever to do with the strength of the scream?

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Comment by Cibbuano

January 8th 2007 01:17

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I don't know.... Raquel Welch?

Comment by JohnDoe

January 8th 2007 01:57

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Jamie Lee really deserves the mantle, just for volume of work and pitch no doubt.

The most blood curdling scream I think I ever heard is Cloris Leachman as she is viciously torture in Robert Alderich's Kiss Me Deadly.

Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hitcher (Original) lets out a good wail too.

Ellen Sandweiss being raped by the tree in Evil Dead also curls the toes.

I guess I dont see the size of the boobies as proportionate to scream ability.

Comment by Cibbuano

January 8th 2007 02:03

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And here's my response to your post...

Comment by DuskDevi

January 8th 2007 02:14

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Well...the bigger the jugs the better the (s)cream....

I cannot believe I am going to create this comment...

Comment by DuskDevi

January 8th 2007 02:15

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Oh [bleep]. I did.

Comment by Stanley

January 8th 2007 02:24

whoa! cleavage fever. i'm sorry were there any words in this post?

Comment by Always Eighteen

January 8th 2007 02:32

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Naomi Watts!

I heard she screamed so loud in filming either Ring 1 or 2 (I forgot) that she broke a glass.

Comment by Cibbuano

January 8th 2007 02:55

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always, really? C'mon, I saw on Mythbusters that breaking glass is only possible with amplification, I think...

Comment by KylieW

January 8th 2007 04:29

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Dusk - Love your comment!!

I think Jamie Lee Curtis should get the title. She was the original.