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people started coming to me -- Premiere Magazine. And they start calling me, you

know, Queen of the Screams, which is like, I

love it, you know? I like that title. I want it. And so I embraced it, where a

lot of the actresses back then -- like nudity

wasn't, you know, you just didn't do nudity back then. I was doing some nudity. You didn't do,

like, these B-films that would hurt your career. And I just, like I said,

embraced it instead of just shrugged it off, and said, I'm

not doing one of those films. It's blood, breasts,

and they did say bimbos, but it's not bimbos anymore. It's more strong women. But you've got to

have some blood, and you've got to

have some breasts, I think, to have a

good horror film. I mean, I make the

perfect scream queen, it's shown at theaters --

it's been shown at theaters. I've done like 100

films, I love horror. I think you have

to love horror too. And you have to

scream very well. This is a crazy fan is

coming after you: Ahhh! -There's a lot of really

good horror bands out there, but I think the one that did

-- has the greatest influence over things would

be White Zombie. They're one of the

few that started off doing horror for the very start. And even the name, White

Zombie comes from the movie White Zombie, which

some people think is the first zombie

movie ever made. -I joined White Zombie be back

in 1980 -- like late '85/86. Joining a band before

White Zombie with Shauna. It was a band called LIFE. And so that's how I met her. We did a few shows,

band broke up. They got -- she was going

out with Rob Zombie, and basically they called me

up right after they had this drummer Peter do a couple songs. I jumped on board and we

started, just immediately writing and recording,

and touring. We just picked up right away. Rob had that band named before

the band was even formed. So White Zombie already

existed before the band was even in existence. He just said, I want a band to

be called White Zombie one day, and then he put the band

together with Shauna. Rob and I both had that

background of horror movies. He brought that

flavor into the band, and I was all about

that because, you know, I came from the

horror stuff myself. And I was all into Iron Maiden

with the Eddie monster thing, so I thought that was

perfect, you know, for something I wanted to do. You know? IVAN DE PRUME: Toxic Zombie,

man, these guys are awesome. Bryan Bennett worked

with me on "Metalopolis." That's when I first -- when

he first joined Toxic Zombie, and they did a Halloween show

where they had me come up, play "Thunder Kiss" with them. We hung out and

talked about doing the some songs

here in the studio. [MUSIC] -If you were to describe

what kind of music we play, if you would imagine that --

and you have to have a good imagination for this --

imagine if Kiss, Motley Crew, and the Misfits had a gang

bang with Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Wendy O. Williams, we would

be their bastard children. It didn't actually start

out as a zombie band, even though we were called

Toxic Zombie at first. We actually started out more

as just a regular hard rock band with a little influence. And then we had the dancing

girls, of course and stuff. But it didn't actually

start out as a zombie band until probably a couple months

into doing our first shows. We just kind of embraced

it a little bit more. And I actually

think Sam, actually, is the one who kind of embraced

the concept a little bit more. SAM: Yeah, I was the first

one to put on the make up, and I looked rather

weird without everybody else putting the make up on. -It's a very unconventional

type of thing. There is a zombie culture,

there's a horror culture, but there are -- in Portland

and I'm sure they're out there, but I'm not aware

of them, there's not too many horror bands. -We've played a

lot of gigs with -- we've played with the

Misfits, Wednesday 13, Gunfire 76, is also connected. And we opened up for Creature

Feature was one of our first, bigger shows that

we played with, which kind of led to all

those other shows, Wednesday 13 and the Misfits and what not. And we also played a local event

called Zombie Prom a few years ago, and having 600

people scream out "we will eat your

brains" with us was probably one

of the best moments ever to have at a show, you now? -Especially when they're

all dressed like zombies. Got a mass of zombies

in front of us chanting, "we will eat your brains." Like, how can it be better? MAN 1: We're here

at Zombie Prom 2011. -We are in fabulous

Portland, where there is nothing but

zombie awesomeness. [MUSIC] HEATHER ERICKSON:

[INAUDIBLE] is Zombie Prom 4. My inspiration for

doing it, really was, there's not enough events

downtown that were inexpensive, fun to go to. My idea for this was

someone could roll around in the dirt, the mud, come

in, you know, with clothes from Goodwill, something like

that, and come to a prom. [MUSIC] -My name is Blake. This is -- who the hell are you? -Janellle. Nice to meet you. -Oh, OK. I found her. She's a random zombie. We like her though. JANELLE: My impression

is really fun. Just a group of people dressing

up and going to a dance. I don't care for horror movies,

but I'm here to have fun, so this seemed like a

really fun thing to do and I'm all dressed up. [MUSIC] MAN 2: This is my

first big zombie event. The first I've actually

gotten dressed up to show up outside of

Halloween, other than being cast for a play or a movie. Actually I set the

Guinness World Record for fastest straitjacket

escape in 2007 when I was stationed

over in Japan, and it works great as a costume. everyone seems to

recognize it wherever I go. It's kind have been a

staple for Halloween, any other type of

dress up event, or anything for fancy dress. -We are foreign exchange

students at this zombie prom. WOMAN 1: This is our 4th

year, and I was just looking for something

different to do so -- I always wondered if

the vampires did exist, what would they do when

everybody turned into zombies. What are they gonna eat? -Maybe they would just

come out and have some fun. -Yeah. HEATHER ERICKSON: The first year

we didn't have a theme with it, it was just Zombie Prom 1,

and we expected about 200-300 people and ended

up with almost 700. So we weren't

expecting that at all. So we had to move to

move to a bigger venue, and we've been at the

Bosanova ever since. The first one we had here

was Under the Dead Sea. And then we had a Pretty

in Pieces last year, and then this year

is Tiki Terror. AUDREY ANGEL: My

name is Audrey Angel. I'm one of the merch girls this

year, selling the art up there. I do colored pencil work

that's pretty photo realistic, but I do it of a fantasy nature,

so I turn people into zombies, or mermaids. You know, I've done lots of

zombie events in the past. I did Zombie Prom here a couple

years ago as a merch girl. I do the Zombie

Walks every year. I had a random zombie wedding

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