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Is Heather Langenkamp the worst scream queen?


Out of all of the good horror films with a female lead, she has to be the worst one by far. Her performance is distractingly bad.

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I like her. She's just fine.

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I found that she had her teeth clenched throughout the whole movie. I remember the scene where she's showing Freddy's hat to her mom, it looks like she's trying to hold in laughter.

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I think she's one of the better 80s final girls. I don't know if I ever considered her a scream queen though. Strange, as by all definitions she should be.

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From wikipedia:

A scream queen (a wordplay on screen queen[1]) is an actress associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre or recurring roles in the genre.


I do agree with you, though. To me a scream queen shouldn't have to be in a few horror movies outside of one franchise.

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Yeah, I think it's the one franchise thing for me. I would consider Barbara Crampton to be more of a scream queen than Heather Langencamp, yet I think Heather is more known.

I don't know. I didn't hate Nancy. I stand by what I said about thinking she was a good final girl.

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She was middling at best
A couple of the Friday girls were better and Curtis smoked all of them imo

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Curtis is definitely up there among the best.

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Jamie Lee is number 2 for me. Neve Campbell is my number one. Scream is essentially a parody film and her performance was way too good for a parody film.

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I like her, so no. I've enjoyed most of the performances by actresses who do a lot of horror, though.

Dana Kimmel was pretty underwhelming in Friday Part 3. Not bad, but not a lot of personality came across on screen.

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Have you see "Countdown"? The movie is awful but the main actress is way too good for the film.

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I haven’t seen Nightmare on Elm Street in a while but I remember liking her. If I had to nominate someone for the number one spot of best scream queen of all time it would be Catriona MacColl.

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Didn't know the name so I checked the interwebs. I know the face. I agree, she's good.

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ONE OF MY FAVORITES...SHE PLAYS IT FROM A DIFFERENT PLACE THAN MOST...UNIQUE LOOK TOO...HER CHARACTER GETS BETTER WITH EACH APPEARANCE AS WELL.

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I havent seen New Nightmare, but maybe she's good in it because she's playing herself.

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Yeah, she improved by leaps and bounds in New Nightmare

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She's not spectacular or anything, but she gets the job done well enough

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