Who Are The Greatest Scream Queens?

If you love a good scream with your scare, Ranker.com’s list of the Top 10 Scream Queens proves horror royalty never dies, it just keeps coming back for the sequel.

Here are the legends of lung power:

1. Jamie Lee Curtis — The undisputed queen of screams, slashing her way through Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train, and Scream Queens. No one runs from Michael Myers like Jamie Lee.
2. Neve Campbell — The face of the Scream franchise, with extra chills in The Craft, The Dark, and Are You Afraid of the Dark.
3. Janet Leigh — The OG, mother of Jamie Lee, and the woman who made shower scenes terrifying forever thanks to Psycho.
4. Heather Langenkamp — She fought Freddy Krueger across multiple Nightmare on Elm Street movies and lived to tell about it.
5. Linda Blair — Her head-spinning role in The Exorcist still defines the genre.
6. Sarah Michelle Gellar — She slayed vampires and serial killers in Buffy, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Scream 2.
7. Vera Farmiga — The modern master of possession in The Conjuring universe.
8. Sarah Paulson — American Horror Story’s reigning queen of emotional terror.
9. Sigourney Weaver — From Alien to Ghostbusters, she’s proof that scream queens can fight back.
10. Jenna Ortega — The new blood, blending creepy and cool in Wednesday and X.

From showers to space, these women turned terror into an art form.

Doug O’Brien