Talk:Scream queen

message: I think a scream queen is an actress that expressed horror, in a panic way. Not just strong fear, like Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs or Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Both should be maybe in the list nevertheless for Panic room and Copycat (though even in these movies the actresses act very controlled).
But I think that Linda Blair and Sissy Spacek caused horror, they did not express horror. That's why I would exclude them from the list.
--Abe Lincoln 09:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of scream queen 

message: Why would Jennifer Lopez be a scream queen because she appeared in one movie with a monster?  Was it even a horror movie or more of an action movie?  Also, Sissy Spacek was the monster in Carrie, not the victim.  This list is lame, IMO  Steve-O 06:22, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This list is still very unclear 

message: I have put the following into the page so that it is only seen when someone attempts to edit the page: 

I put it here becuase it took me ages to clean-up this page (when it was tagged) when I was not a registered user. And in my point of view it is hellish to clean up such a large list.
Thanks --Kilo-Lima 20:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetical Order 

message: As far as I was aware the 'scream queens' were the not-terribly-talented-but-good-looking actresses (such as Brinke Stevens etc) who appeared in low budget slasher movies of the 80's and 90's. That's the context in which the phrase was first coined. It was a genre thing: like 'porn stars'. Including Fay Wray and mainstream actresses in the list is stretching it a bit....One gets the impression that whoever wrote this article has absolutely no idea what he/she is talking about....Colin4C 19:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is a scream....... 

message: Shouldn't she be on the list?--Gonzalo84 (talk) 03:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Jennifer Love Hewitt

message: This list is a JOKE. You cannot have a list about Scream Queens without mentioning Linnea Quigley. It just can't be done. I don't want to mess this list up because I'm pretty bad with wiki formatting, but you guys better correct that. --71.190.133.77 (talk) 05:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: WOAH WOAH WOAH...

message: This link: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-04-26-scream-queens_N.htm#?POE=click-refer is used as proof that certain actresses are scream queens. Problem is not all of these actresses are mentioned in the article. New sources are needed.  Bigpindahouse (talk) 05:23, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Link Needed

message: American scream queens are mostly WASPs. Of the 33 listed in this page, all came from British offspring but:
* (Barbeau) has a Québecois father and an Armenian-American mother
* 1 of German descent (Kebbel)
* ½ of Albanian descent (Dushku, through her father)
* 1 and ½ of Irish descent (McGowan and, through her mother, Barton; she’s also born in UK)
* 1 and ½ of Hispanic descent (Alonso and, through her mother, Taylor-Compton)
* 2 of Jewish descent (Harris and Gellar)
* 1 and ½ of Scandinavian descent (Leerhsen and Dushku, through her mother)
* 1 of Italian descent (Vincent)
* ½ of Chinese descent (Crystal Love)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.59.154.43 (talk) 11:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  descent

message: Rather a big gap between 1960 and 1978. What about Ingrid Pitt? 217.39.82.117 (talk) 23:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ingrid Pitt?

message: I can see about 10 or so that aren't unreferenced, and what's with the 6 references (more or less) on some of them, one or two is all that is needed. The section's name of which the table is under is bias. See WP:NEUTRAL. The grammar is terrible, why list the films they appeared in? The reference doesn't verify that's why these people consider them to be that. A couple of people in this list aren't even notable enough to quote them. If they have no article then they are probably not notable, rather similar to WP:CSD A9. The table is unneeded, it could simply be broken and dispensed in a section. • S • C • A • R • C • E • 06:51, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: It might be worth mentioning that the best of the UK's 'Carry On' films was 'Carry On Screaming' - a tribute to the Scream-Queen film genre81.157.27.129 (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carry on Screaming? 

message: I removed a table of "top 20 scream queens" based on this feature on the Comcast website. I did this firstly because I didn't think the table merited the prominence it had in the article, and secondly because the table effectively reproduced the entire text of the comcast feature, which is problematic from a copyright perspective.
Eljayess (talk) 10:11, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comcast scream queens table 

message: No mention of Ingrid Pitt? I thought she was one of the prime actresses of the genre. Valetude (talk) 00:01, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ingrid Pitt? 

message: In the Beginnings section there was this short phrase:
In 1928 first sound horror film The Terror (1928).
It was just there, between Fay Wray and Barbara Steele. I guess it's a leftover part from a previous mention to May McAvoy or Louise Fazenda, but I'm removing it because right now it makes no sense. I leave this notice here in case it is considered important to mention that movie. --Elideb (talk) 08:54, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Terror empty mention 

message: Much of this article is simply editors' personal opinions about who is a scream queen. We need sources or that information has to go. Unfortunately that leaves very little in some sections. Sundayclose (talk) 01:26, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced original research 

message: I don't recall ever having heard the term Scream Kings. Can we see some citations for this? Examples of Scream Kings? Anything at all to back this up?
119.18.9.138 (talk) 23:28, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scream kings? 

message: It is well known that the actual scream is provided by a specialist scream-artist, who is audio-only. Did any of the famous Scream Queens actually do their own screaming? Valetude (talk) 18:27, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only miming 

message: Unbelievable. Truly, this Wikipedia entry is a mess.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2803:9800:98C6:85ED:6DBA:28FC:85DD:5546 (talk) 05:44, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? Karen Black is not in the list? 

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