Foxnews has a way of promoting something fantastic, and delivering something not-so-much fantastic.  I’ve done a lot of their stuff here.  They are doing it so fast now I can’t even keep up.  I do have somewhat of a life.  However, this one I couldn’t ignore.  Here’s their list:

This one’s kind of a trick.  I’m gonna bet a lot of people don’t even recognize this one.  She is hot.  However, in the movie, not so much.

OK, Megan Fox at this time is smokin hot, covered in blood or not.  I’ll go along with this one.

OK, this screamin scene is from the horror flick, Ghoulies.  Remember Ghoulies?  It’s not a scary movie.  For that, she’s disqualified.

Katherine Heigl in Bride of Chucky.  Now we’re talking.  Hiring models for screamos changed the complexion.

Point of clarification here, Christina Ricci has never screamed in a scary movie.  She usually IS the scary part.  She should be disqualified for never screaming, but, she’s just too hot in a morbid way.  And, since I’ve already got her pic here, there’s no reason to debate her scream queen status any further.

I knew Sigourney Weaver would be on this list.  I have SOME issues with this.  First of all, Aliens wasn’t a slasher or horror flick, it’s suspense.  Secondly, Weaver never screams.  Thirdly, Weaver only appears hot in this movie because she sweats profusely the entire time.  Otherwise, she’s not hot.  She could be hot, but not in these flicks.

Jessica Biel in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  Yes.  However, I preferred her in a different role.  I’ll get to it later, maybe.  I’m gonna bet anyone who knows Jessica Biel, or knows me, already knows what that role is.

Nicole Kidman in The Others?  What the?  I mean sheez, these Fox peeps are amazingly easily horrified.  The Others wasn’t scary.  It wasn’t supposed to be.  It was suspense, if not drama.  And, Nicole never screams.  Pathetic.

First of all, Courteney Cox could be sexy, but she wasn’t in her “horror” roles.  Scream does count, but I don’t recall Cox screaming.  Additionally, I think she doesn’t even qualify from that movie.  You had Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, and Drew Barrymore in their primes.  Weak Fox, very, very weak.

Emilie de Ravin in The Hills Have Eyes.  I don’t know who she is, and not sure I ever saw the movie.  Regardless, nothing stuck apparently so it couldn’t have been very hot.  Or, very scary.

This one’s another trick.  She’s not really looked like that since.  Although kinda smokin hot here, usually she’s been kinda frumpy since.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is about as screamish as you can get, but Renee Zellweger just isn’t quite that hot.

OK, I understand the need to get Halle Berry in any list, but Gothika?  Monster’s Ball maybe, Gothika, not.  Scratch yet another one.

Jamie Lee Curtis HAS to be on the list.  She defined the modern scream queen.  She could scream, she had big boobs, and she did stupid perfectly.

Jennifer Lopez in The Cell?  Did she scream?  I don’t think so.

Lara Flynn Boyle was definitely hot for a short period of time.  Poltergeist III I’m not sure would qualify as a horror.  Once again, there’s a difference between horror and suspense.  Fox obviously doesn’t get it.  And, to be a scream queen, one has to scream.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is on here because of two reasons.  Those reasons do not include screaming or being in a horror movie.  I Know What You Did Last Summer was not horror.  Once again, it was suspense.  I don’t recall Hewitt screaming in this one either.  And, since you don’t see any of the two reasons she’s on this list, scratch her.

Angela Bassett.  Yes, THE Angela Bassett.  You have to know who she is.  However, her entry here, Critters, doesn’t qualify.  I don’t think she’s hot either.

Naomi Watts could be hot.  However, she’s not really so much in The Ring.  Oh, and best I recall, she doesn’t scream, and The Ring is not horror.

Patricia Arquette.  Now we’re talking, sorta.  Although cute as button in 1987, she was barely old enough to be sexy.  It just didn’t seem right putting her in that category.  Nightmare on Elm Street III definitely qualified, but considering some of the competition, it doesn’t matter.  She’s not top 20.

Sarah Michelle Gellar.  Fox has her on here for The Grudge 2, I think I liked her better in Scream 2.  She definitely has earned her spot on this list.  Smokin hot, shows lots of flesh, screams, all of it.

That’s Fox’s list.  Mine’s a little different.

Keep Jamie Lee Curtis and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

First of all, do understand that in order to discuss hottest scream queens, some pictures may not be safe for work.  That kinda helps in convincing me they’re “sexist” caliber.

Janet Leigh got the ball rolling in what could arguably be considered the first slasher flick defined by a scream queen.  She was hot, maybe not in this pic, she totally defined the scream, and it was truly a horror flick in the sense that something horrific and startling occurs.  She’s got it all in Psycho.  Has to be on the list.

Fay Wray’s scream in King Kong was epic.  King Kong had a monster, a very big monster.  People died violently.  That’s sort of a staple of horror.

Shannon Elizabeth in a bunch of screamers.  Need I say more?

Jessica Biel in her best role.

Heather Langemkamp.  She actually did two different Nightmare on Elm Streets.

Robin Sydney.  Her screamer list is impressive.  However, her performance in The Lost stands out for me.  Robin’s my entry for all the smokin hot babes with gratuitous nude scenes.  That was honestly the only thing that kept me going to screamo movies until I got broadband.  

Teri Garr.  Her career didn’t mean much to me.  However, something stood out when she did Young Frankenstein.

Madeline Kahn.  Her scream at the end of Young Frankenstein wasn’t the usual.  And, for that reason, she’s hot.

And finally, Susan Sarandon from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Turning tradition on it’s side, she’s the only one in history I can think of who elicited screams whenever her stage name was mentioned.  Meatload getting slashed qualifies this movie.  The screams were actually best from Magenta and Columbia.  However, they weren’t quite as hot as that slut Janet.

These are my odd ones that no one else seems to mention.  To fill out my list, go to SheSoCrazy.com and pick whichever ones you like best. ( NSFW )