Top 10 Scream Queens of the 80s

As Laurie Strode in Halloween, Curtis created the 'final girl' archetype that would influence horror for decades. In the years that followed, she built a reputation as the face of the slasher film.

As Nancy Thompson, Langenkamp plays the teenager who takes on Freddy Krueger in her dreams. The role made her one of the best-known horror heroines of the 1980s.

Quigley became a fixture of 1980s horror, with roles in Return of the Living Dead and countless other low-budget productions from that era.

Besides her famous role in E.T., Wallace starred in the horror film Cujo, in which she spends most of the film trapped by a rabid St. Bernard.

As radio DJ Stevie Wayne in this John Carpenter film, Barbeau plays one of the most recognizable roles in the ghost stories of that era.

As Megan Halsey, Crampton plays a key role in one of the biggest cult horror comedies of the decade.

Munro combined roles in horror films with appearances in bigger productions and was one of the best-known faces of the British genre in the 1970s and 80s.

Stevens appeared in several 1980s slasher films, including The Slumber Party Massacre, and became a fixture of the low-budget horror circuit.

After her breakthrough as the possessed girl in The Exorcist, Blair remained active in the horror genre throughout the 1980s, with roles in various slasher and occult films.

As Alice in the first Friday the 13th film, King is one of the earliest final girls of the slasher film, in the series that would dominate the genre for years to come.