Five awesome new school scream queens (and five old school)

Samara Weaving first came to my attention with her role as Bee in Netflix film The Babysitter. It’s a fun horror film, and part of what makes it work is the relationship between young Cole and his babysitter Bee. Even though Bee turns out to be the ringleader of a demon-worshipping cult, you can’t help but like her. She is SO cool!

But The Babysitter and its sequel are not the only two horror films Weaving has appeared in. She also appeared in the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead and 2017’s Mayhem, in which she appeared alongside The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun.

Then came Ready or Not, which pretty much ensured her place among modern-day Scream Queens. Weaving plays Grace, a young woman with no family of her own who marries into a rich family that owns a game company. On the night of her wedding, Grace (still in her wedding gown) agrees to play along with the family tradition; each family member must pick a card from a puzzle box. Grace’s card reads “Hide and Seek”, and she quickly learns that she now has to hide like she has never hidden before, because if she is found before dawn, she will be killed.

If you need more proof of why Weaving deserves a Scream Queen crown, you only have to hear her unusual scream: it’s warbly and unique, and she uses it several times throughout Ready or Not.

You know how the Scream films typically set up a well-known actress to be killed very early on? In Scream VI, Weaving is that victim. That alone is almost enough to render her a Scream Queen.