Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

Released on
Documentary
Runtime
63 mins
(23 votes)

Three girls living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1980s found cult fame when they "accidentally" transitioned from models to B-movie actresses, coinciding with the major direct-to-video horror film boom of the era. Known as "The Terrifying Trio," Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) and Michelle Bauer (The Tomb), headlined upwards of ten films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teenage boys, and deadly showers. They joined together in campy cult films like Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1988) and Nightmare Sisters (1987). They traveled all over the world, met President Reagan, and built mini-empires of trading cards, comic books, and model kits. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary remembers these actresses - and their most common collaborators - on how smart they were to play stupid

Cast

  • Linnea Quigley
  • Fred Olen Ray
  • Brinke Stevens
  • Michelle Bauer
  • David DeCoteau
  • Kenneth J. Hall
  • John Henry Richardson
  • Richard Gabai
  • Ted Newsom

Director

  • Jason Paul Collum

Producers

  • Jason Paul Collum

Screenwriter

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