In addition to Demi Moore taking home a statue for her performance in The Substance, the Screen Actors Guild Awards also celebrated horror in an unexpected way last night.
Prior to Jamie Lee Curtis coming on stage to present an award, the Netflix-streamed live event aired a video package paying tribute to horror’s Scream Queens, featuring clips from a handful of horror movies alongside insights from Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Jenna Ortega.
The video package put the spotlight on classics including Scream, Halloween, Psycho, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, but it also featured clips from deeper cuts including Night of the Demons, Leprechaun, and even Chopping Mall. Other films featured include Poltergeist, Immaculate, Carrie, Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Next Generation.
“I’ve made my living screaming,” Jamie Lee Curtis says in the video, while also noting that a scene from the original Halloween showcases the first time she had ever screamed in her entire life. Jenna Ortega notes in the video, “I’ve always considered horror to be a home.” Neve Campbell ponders, “What makes a great scream? Commitment. Letting go.”
You can watch the full Scream Queens tribute video from the SAG Awards last night down below, which was edited by indie horror filmmaker Erick Lorinc (The Last Thanksgiving)!
The #SAGAwards paid tribute to iconic ‘Scream Queens’ of horror last night with a video package featuring clips from Scream, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Black Christmas, and many more. You can watch the full tribute video right here: pic.twitter.com/JIxXb2QXAz
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