10 MORE Forgotten Horror Movie Scream Queens

8. Deborah Foreman

Caroline Munro
Paramount Pictures

Deborah Foreman seemed to be on track to be America's girl-next-door of the 1980s following her starring role in 1983's Valley Girl. However, rather unexpectedly, she is perhaps best remembered for a number of horror pictures in quick succession.

The same year Foreman landed Valley Girl, she also filmed a small part in the "lost" grizzly bear slasher Grizzly II. Here she starred opposite completely unknown talents such as George Clooney, Charlie Sheen and Laura Dern.

Since her horror debut never saw release, Foreman's first on screen foray into genre roles was with 1986's divisive "slasher" April Fools Day. Foreman is just one of a plethora of likeable characters and delights in her surprise "dual" role.

1988 would see Foreman take on two "final girl" type roles in two supernaturally driven cult classics. Destroyer sees Foreman and her terrible mullet star opposite Anthony Perkins as part of a film crew being picked off by a ghostly inmate in a long abandoned prison.

Waxwork teams Foreman with a host of darkly comic characters as she and Zach Galligan battle the supernatural inhabitants of a wax museum. Waxwork's director Anthony Hickox would re-team with Foreman for 1989's similarly offbeat horror-comedy-western Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Following her sudden rise to Scream Queen status, Deborah sadly stepped away from acting, and today chooses to focus on interior design.

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