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Fay Wray, King Kong (top); hear Fay Wray’s King Kong scream (middle); hear Janet Leigh’s Psycho scream (bottom) Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Jane Wyman: Top Ten Scream Queens Pt.2 5 – Janet Leigh, Psycho (1960). I don’t recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh’s shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly one night long ago when [...]

Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 – Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin’s screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin’s dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]

Denise Cheshire in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws Halloween has come and gone, but the Day of the Dead is still here. In the follow-up posts you’ll find my list of the movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens of All Time. You won’t find any new movies here because I tend to avoid most recent horror movies — partly because most of the recent ones I’ve seen are [...]

Junio Valverde, The Devil’s Backbone Dead Man’s Voice Recording, THE SIXTH SENSE: Top Five Scariest Living Dead Pt.5 When it comes to making my skin crawl while sitting in a movie theater, the pool sequence at the climax of Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone takes the top prize. As greedy, murderous villain Eduardo Noriega falls into a muddy, underground pool, a very young and [...]