5 F amke Janssen
“Well, 100 Feet was a bit naff but she was great in House on Haunted Hill [1999] and, a film I really love, Deep Rising. It’s like a cross between The Evil Dead and... I dunno, some boat movie.” [Laughs]
6 Ingrid Pitt
“We utilized her on our album based on Elizabeth Báthory, called Cru- elty and the Beast, and she reprised her [titular] role as Countess Dracula, which I think is the first film for Hammer that actually featured a nude woman in it. She’s just cool and she’s really into horror. She’s written books about ghosts and vampires ever since giving up her movie career. The Vampire Lovers, The Wicker Man, the Amicus film The House that Dripped Blood – everyone assumes Countess Dracula to be raven-haired and yet you have this strange Hungarian blonde woman portraying her. Her life was very interesting as well. She was in a Nazi war camp and escaped by swimming the Danube or something ridiculous. She’s had quite a hectic life.”
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Sheri Moon Zombie
“I think, because of the ties with her husband [Rob Zombie], she’s obviously forging a path in this kind of thing despite mainly only being in his films. She’s in Toolbox Murders [2004], as well. I think she’s made quite an impression on people and, really, her career’s only begun. She probably lives with corpses too, so that’s a plus, isn’t it?”
8 Sigourney Weaver
“You’ve got the whole Alien legacy, well… the three and a half good ones at least. (I’m not going to mention that Avatar movie. I doubt anyone’s heard of it anyway.) She definitely led the way for the powerful, female archetype, like Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil films; the survivor – that’s what she represents. And she looked good doin’ it!”
9 JanetLeigh/Jamie Lee Curtis
“The mother-daughter combo. Although [Leigh] was only in Psycho, that was such a monumental piece of celluloid. It was so brilliantly done; you’re watch- ing a movie about a woman, and she’s the main character, and suddenly she gets killed off halfway through and you have to literally start the film again with someone else. It was such a pivotal moment and, for that, she should be recognized. ... Jamie Lee Curtis, obviously, for Halloween [1978], The Fog [1980], Prom Night [1980], et cetera. She was even in Halloween III: Season of the Witch. She calls up as the operator’s voice, I believe.”
10 Asia Argento
“Obviously, the daughter of Dario Argento. I did a track for The Third Mother [released as The Mother of Tears in North America]. I didn’t get to meet her but I’ve seen a lot of her films, like Trauma, The Phantom of the Opera [1998], XXX (unfortunately), The Keeper – which is a strange film with Dennis Hopper. She’s been in some dreadful films, like Land of the Dead, which wasn’t brilliant. Another person that’s kind of a horror diva though.”
Honourable Mentions:
Linnea Quigley (“Just because she was on my wall when I was a kid. She was like a pin-up.”), Caroline Munro, Nastassja Kinski, Milla Jovovich, Natasha Henstridge and Tippi Hedren (“Just because of The Birds. I had a bit of a crush.”).
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