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Scream Queens!

by Tom JF
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Almost by accident rather than design, the horror movie has always been relatively progressive in its portrayal of women. The genre’s misogynistic desire to heap torment upon nubile young women (usually at the hands of a demented male’s sexual anxiety) often sees them rise to occasion, turning the tables and finding empowerment amongst the lashings of blood.

This is a list dedicated to my favourite horror movie actresses – the iconic, those that survived and the ones that heaped out some torment of their own.

1930s

It was Fay Wray’s beauty that killed the beast in 1933s King Kong

Gloria...


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