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Scream Queens

Scream Queens
By · October 27, 2010October 29, 2020
01
Halle Berry

Movie: Gothika (2003)
We would rather let Halle look coo-coo and see dead people, than in a sex scene with Billy Bob Thorton.

02
Brandy

Movie: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Brandy went from being Moesha, to surprising us how well she could deliver a super suspenseful scene in a greenhouse.

03
Tyra Banks

Movie: Halloween Resurrection (2002)
Talk about foul, we didn’t even know Tyra had died until Sara slipped on her blood.

04
Meagan Good

Movies: Venom (2005),One Missed Call (2008), Saw V (2008), The Unborn (2009)
After four films, Good knows the formula to being the perfect scream queen = distress, scream, and die.

05
Angela Bassett

Movies: Critters 4 (1991), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Bassett proved twice that horror, well, it just might not be her forte.

06
Garcelle Beauvais

Movies: Manhunter (1986)
Beauvais was anything but fancy, when she played a young house buyer in this creepy “Silence of the Lambs” type film.

07
Jada Pinkett Smith

Movie: Scream 2 (1997)
Of course Jada had to date the Black guy who died before the opening credits even rolled out.

08
Elise Neal

Movie: Scream 2 (1997)
Finally two Black women in one horror film? Yes, and they both die.

09
Lisa Bonet

Movie: Angel Heart (1987)
How can you forget that weird blood curdling sex scene with Mickey Rourke? Gross.

10
Tisha Campbell & Tichina Arnold

Movie: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Don’t feed the plants girls!

11
Christina Milian

Movie: Pulse (2006)
The film was a “The Ring” knockoff, but Milian was still a knockout.

12
Teresa Farley

Movie: Breeders (1986)
First starring role given to a Black woman in horror film that was considered a mainstream horror film.

13
Della Reese

Movie: Psychic Killer (1975)
Reese may have needed to be touched by an Angel and to calm her down in her minor but memorable roll with the butcher.

14
Naomi Harris

Movie: 28 Days Later (2003)
“Staying alive is a good as it gets,” Harris declared played Selena said in this sci-fi horror film.

15
Kelly Rowland

Movie: Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
The way Kelly was literally cut off by Jason was one of the best kill scenes in the film.

16
Sanaa Lathan

Movie: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Finally Sanaa made her way out of Black films to an archaeological expedition on Bouvetoya Island.

17
Vonetta McGhee

Movie: Blacula
In this film, the late McGhee plays the wife of a vampire who dies in captivity and comes back as a vampire years later when her coffin is opened.

18
Queen Latifah—Bone Collector
19
Viola Davis–Disturbia
20
Stacey Dash–Ghost Image
21
Ruby Dee–Cat People

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