Ah, the stunning women of horror. With their extensive eyes, heaving bosoms, and glass crushing screams, these damsels in anguish run down ill-lit hallways and through shadowy forests in skimpy underwear, fighting off knife-wielding psychopaths and bogeymen.

Some are blond, some are brunette; some have virginal, girl-next-door looks, while others are vampy femme fatales or schlock goddesses. There are ice queens and sultry final girls. There are girls who finally get the axe after hitting the high notes for 90 minutes.

Temptresses, vixens, vampires, sorority babes, Nightmare Sisters, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers –horror has seen them all.

There are heroines who never achieved more than straight-to-video B-movie status, and who relish that sleazy low-budget status, and there are actresses whose gore-and-glamour roles led to bigger and better things.

Click above to see top 10 of the hottest horror heroines, the bloody best from the 80s to today.