Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama’s Brinke Stevens hosts this hour long look at B-Movie Scream Queens. The actresses featured are a good mix of modern-day beauties (Debbie Rochon), ladies who appeared in classics (Night of the Living Dead’s Judith O’Dea), Skinamax icons (Julie Strain), fan favorites (Felissa Rose), and unsung Scream Queens (Lilith Stabs). Each actress talks about how they got their start in the business, experiences meeting fans at conventions, receiving fan mail, their willingness (or sometimes unwillingness) to do nudity, and their fear of aging and/or the use of cosmetic surgery.
The overall look of the documentary is a little on the cheap side, but it remains a breezy, entertaining, and fun way to kill sixty minutes, especially if you’re a fan of Stevens, Rochon, and Strain. I also dug the fact that they gave the floor to some lesser-known actresses like Ariauna Albright who give a little bit of insight to some of the smaller budgeted horror flicks out there. The clip selection is rather decent too as snippets from films such as Bloodletting, the Slumber Party Massacre trilogy, Sleepaway Camp, Terror Firmer, and many Andy Sidaris movies as shown. I highly enjoyed the compilation of Brinke screaming too.
Something to Scream About kind of loses points when writer/director Jason Paul Collum tries to get serious. Things threaten to go off the rails near the end when he tries to find a link between horror movies and real-life violence (which is complete hogwash). It works much better when he keeps things light. Still, it is sad to hear the late Strain talking so bluntly about her disillusionment with the industry. Then again, when you’re one of the hardest working women in the business, I can see how easy it would be to get burned out and feel used by the Hollywood system.
Collum later made the similarly themed Screaming in High Heels.
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