The female scream is now an all-powerful cry in horror films

By James Deaville, Professor of Music, Carleton University
Sara Beth Lyons, Graduate Research Assistant, Carleton University

As Halloween approaches and screen audiences are saturated with the sights and sounds of screaming women in horror films and TV shows, it’s a great time to look at the women whose vocal artistry created genuinely effective screams on screen.

Behind every memorable cinematic scream lies a vocal performance that is often reduced to a natural, unreflective outburst. But that assessment obscures the women behind…

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