Shewired�s Top 10 Scream Queens

Ah October, it’s my favorite month of the year. It marks the beginning of the end….of the year.  

The leaves are changing color, the weather is cooler, hot apple cider is on the stove, pumpkins are being picked from their patches and candy is plentiful. 

And of course, you always have the countless hours of horror films flooding the airwaves. It is the only time of year when you can walk into your local video store and check out the most blood soaked, gore filled titles without judgment. 

So, in honor of the darkest holiday of them all, we give you the top 10 scream queens:

10) Margot Kidder - The Amityville Horror

Widely known for playing Lois Lane in the first Superman franchise, Kidder took her turn in the horror genre, starring in the 1979 film, based on Jay Anson's novel The Amityville Horror: A True Story.  Amityville is the story of George (James Brolin) and Kathy Lutz (Kidder) who’s first home turns out to be cursed, which is exactly what Kidder’s real life turned out to be. She’s had three failed marriages, she was seriously injured twice, in two different car accidents, one forcing her out of work for over two years. As a result, she went broke and had to claim bankruptcy. Worst of all, she has suffered many public manic episodes at the hands of her self-proclaimed “monsters.” In 1996, she was found by LAPD hiding in a garden, cutting her hair with a razor blade and she then started removing some of her dental work. 

9) Jennifer Love Hewitt/Sarah Michelle Gellar - I Know What You Did Last Summer

We had to mention these two together as you couldn’t get any hotter than the both of them during the 90s and 00s. Hewitt and Gellar have made successful careers out of spooking their fans. Hewitt starred in the Summer series as well as the successful TV show; The Ghost Whisperer. Gellar, also in the first I Know What You Did Last Summer, as well as Scream 2, The Grudge 1 & 2, and is best known as TVs Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 

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