One of CinemaBlend’s favorite scream queens, Samara Weaving is among the youngest actresses to grasp that title so firmly, with roles in horror hits such as The Babysitter movies, Scream VI, and Azrael, as well as Ready or Not and its sequel set to hit the 2026 movie schedule very soon. She’s great in every performance, to be sure, but her icon status is indeed largely due to her wildly intense screams.
It’s quite awesome that Weaving has packed so many great horror (and thriller) projects into less than a decade, and it’s perhaps no coincidence that her rise in genre stature came relatively soon after she first discovered she was capable of belting out such ear-piercing screams. While taking part in a Reddit AMA to promote the star-studded Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Weaving responded to a fan’s high praise of her screaming talents, sharing that it originated in a project co-starring another horror legend, Bruce Campbell. As she put it:
