Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed

Directed by UK-horror scene stalwart Calum Waddell and hosted by scream queen Debbie Rochon (Terror Firmer, Tromeo and Juliet) Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed features, in a change of pace for horror documentaries, especially those focusing on females in the genre, an all-female line-up, discussing horror movies from their perspective – exploring the challenges of being an actress in a genre predominantly made by and for men, from how they came about to be defined as a “scream queen”, about the vagaries of the genre: nudity, violence, misogyny, etc., and about how they feel about the genre and the label

2014

1h 20min

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Debbie Rochon
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Michelle Bauer
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Linnea Quigley
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Lynn Lowry
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Cassandra Peterson
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Adrienne King
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Jane March
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Brinke Stevens
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Melanie Kinnaman
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Jennifer Lim
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Catriona MacColl
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Patricia Tallman
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Emily Booth
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Caroline Munro
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Sybil Danning
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Danielle Harris
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Forbes Riley
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Lisa Wilcox
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Irina Voronina
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