A brilliant example of a scream queen is Drew Decker in the film Scary Movie(Keenen Ivory Wayans)(2000). This film has really taken every single convention of a scream queen and put it into one character. This convention relates largely to the male gaze theory as it is a women who is being objectified.
Sometimes the films also challenge the conventions and create a 'Scream King' which is basically a male version of a scream queen. We have done this in our own film opening.
Here are some few examples of scream queens in slasher movies.
Scream (Wes Craven)(1996) - Casey Becker...
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In this clip Casey Becker is at home on the phone and the killer is on the other side telling her what to do and asking her questions. The killer then appears and she is chased throughout the house. To her parents shocks she is killed at the end and hung from a tree.
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans)(2000) - Drew Decker
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This is one of the first scenes in the film. It is a recreation of Casey Becker getting killed in Scream. With the same scenario of her being chased throughout the house. Drew Decker is a great example of a scream queen, there are shots where it shows how 'dumb' she is. For example, a sign saying saftey pointing to the left and a sign saying death posting to the right. Drew decided to go right where the sign says death. All this links into the fact that Scary Movie is a post-modern deconstruction of the slasher genre.
Halloween (John Carpenter)(1978) - Annie Brackett
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Black X/Cmas - Barbra Cord
Psycho - Marion Crane
Cherry Falls - Jody Marken
NoES - Tina Grey
Cry_Wolf - Becky
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - (Scream King) Dylan
Babysitter Wanted - Rebecca Miller
TCM - Pam
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