Acting in Fiction at the limits of drama and horror; Barbara Crampton.
Barbara Crampton and Alex Swaney.
© Barbara Crampton and Alex Swaney.
After debuting in a TV series, Barbara Crampton had her first opportunity as an actress in the magnificent film "Double Body" by Brian de Palma, 1984. The protagonist of the movie was Melany Griffith, and Barbara had a brief participation in the film. After her appearance in this film, her great attraction as an actress earned her to start her film career.
Afterwards, with the same profile as a sexy girl, she made the film "Fraternity Vacation". And he reached his great success as a protagonist in his third film; "Re-animator" by Stuart Gordon, 1986. His performance in this movie earned him professional recognition as a leading actress. Re-animator was a movie of the commercial horror genre. So after this performance was devoted to horror movies.
Until those times, beautiful girls in the genre of terror, were listed as "screem girls." That is, beautiful girls who, within their character, remained immobile when they saw terror coming while they shouted. Nowadays the protagonist girls face more to the terror and fight with their character in this genre.
In the black cinema of the 30s, we all remember the girl protagonist of King Kong screaming while King Kong approached her. And this femenine reaction it gave school to the characters of horror movies until the 90s. It was a darkly artistic and sexy form that dominated the scene from the actress herself.
Barbara, after her attractive image and her great talent as an actress, fit in with those horror demands of the movies of that time. And then it was linked with the change from the mythical "screem girls" to their adaptation to today's horror movies.
Barbara Crampton always remembered as great actress, "screem girl", the girl of Re-animator and Double body, and sex simbol. And the truth is that little has changed with the passage of time in everything.
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