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When someone thinks of the phrase "Scream Queen", they usually think of people like Jamie Lee Curtis or Janet Lee. Most don't know that the phrase actually refers to three actresses who starred in tons of b-movies throughout the 80s: Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, and Brinke Stevens.

"Screaming in High Heels" covers the era in which these three wonderful actresses were most prominent. Linnea was of course Trash in "The Return of the Living Dead". Brinke was in "The Slumber Party Massacre" as well as being the first cover girl for Femme Fatale magazine back in the day. Michelle Bauer was the female lead in "The Tomb". All three have become friends and appeared in a bunch of films together. Titles included classics like Creepozoids (1987), Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987), Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama (1987), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Nightmare Sisters (1988), Beverly Hills Vamp (1989), Bad Girls from Mars (1990) and Teenage Exorcist (1991), to name but a handful of the more notorious titles.

This doc is a love letter to these three ladies. We see their rise in the business as well as their fall due to video becoming a much different beast in the 90’s than it was in the 80’s. It's sad because these ladies are really good at what they do but were never given the chance to shine in bigger films.

Director: Jason Paul Collum
Cast: Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer, Fred Olen Ray, David DeCoteau, Kenneth J. Hall, Jay Richardson, Richard Gabai, Ted Newsom, Jason Paul Collum, Tony Brown, Adrian Najera, Jarrod Clayton Cox
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:03:25 | 6.59 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none

Extras:

--- Interviews
Additional interviews are presented here. Extra material from interviews with Linnea, Michelle and Brinke is shown, as well as a Q&A session at Flashback Weekend with Brinke and Screaming in High Heels director Jason Paul Collum, and a shorter Q&A with Linnea and Jason, also at Flashback Weekend. There is a lot of good stuff in all of these segments.

--- Screaming in High Heels Trailer
This is a very good trailer for the feature, coming in at 2:16.

--- Breaking Glass Trailers
Trailers for Breaking Glass releases 6 Degrees of Hell, Scalene and El Monstro Del Mar are included.