Scream Queens & Monster Women

A blog dedicated to the women of horror - from final girls to female slashers to monster women to the scream queens prominent in the horror genre. This is not a spoiler free zone. Content warnings will be tagged. We track #horroredit and #horrorladies. Want to be a member or affiliate? Message us here or user girlsarewolves directly.

[pondmelody]

female awesome meme: 2/10 ladies in movies  ♡  lydia deetz  (beetlejuice) “i myself, am strange and unusual.”

[kingofthepitt]

When Weaving first read the script, she said that while she noticed that Grace was in danger a lot of the time, it wasn’t a story that necessarily painted its heroine out to be more of a helpless victim compared to some of the fictional characters in older horror flicks. “A lot of them, they’re crying, screaming, or in every script they use the word “hysterical.” So I wanted to just put that on its head and make her a badass." 

[neon-green-reagent]

Liliana Komorowska as Helena Monet in Scanners III: The Takeover 

[uspiria]

Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

[night-dawn-day]

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019) dir. Ruben Fleischer

“I didn’t tell you. We met at the mall.”

[lalocorleone-deactivated2026041]

“Of Anke Meier, of Patricia Hingle, of Sara Simms, of Susanna Bannion…”

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[briarrosefromthedead]

The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) dir. Piers Haggard

[italianhorrors]

Catriona MacColl in The Beyond (1981) dir. Lucio Fulci

[cinemaspam]

Carnival of Souls (1962) dir. Herk Harvey

[carriewhlte]

Sydney Prescott (Scream) Headers

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[uspiria]

Barbara Steele in Black Sunday (1960) dir. Mario Bava

[midnightmurdershow]

The Final Girls (2015) Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson

[briarrosefromthedead]

The Ruins (2008) dir. Carter Smith

[elliot-amy]

Scary Movie (2000) Keenen Ivory Wayans

[altmode]

Carrie (1976)

[depalmafan]

Next of Kin (1982), dir. Tony Williams.

[uspiria]

Cat People (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur