Scream Queens & Monster Women

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

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." 

Liliana Komorowska as Helena Monet in Scanners III: The Takeover 

Isabelle Adjani in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

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

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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

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

Carnival of Souls (1962) dir. Herk Harvey

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