QUEENS OF SCREAM - INTERVIEW WITH
DANI THOMPSON H
i Dani, thanks for agreeing to chat with me today! Can you introduce yourself in the manner of a dominatrix who’s forgotten what the safe word is?
I don’t think a Scream Queen is necessarily just the typical, girl that runs up the stairs instead of out of the door while the man with the knife is chasing her character, I think the term applies to an actress whether they play the girl that gets killed first, in the middle, last or even the killer.
Ahhh ha-ha, erm ok, here goes. I’m not quite as scary as some of the characters I play or the psychotic Stepford wife in the pictures so my name is Dani but you may call me Dani Thompson – Scream Princess. Can you tell me more about your involvement with Invasion of the Scream Queens? What would you say are the attributes needed to be a Scream Queen? If there is a mark out of 5, what number would you score personally? I’ve worked with Victoria before and she asked me to be involved in the shoot, it sounded like a lot of fun so I agreed. Obviously to be a Scream Queen a girls needs to have appeared in a lot of horror genre films, I’ve been involved in a fair few but I don’t think enough to earn me a crown just yet so I prefer to think of myself as a Scream Princess, a Queen in the making.
To survive a movie, Scream Queens need to have a bit of girl power, be able to face their fears and fight for survival. I however in real life am a bit of a wimp so if I was in a real life horror movie situation I’d probably get killed first especially if I was faced with a Spider as the killer so I wouldn’t even like to score myself. You are a regular contributor to Haunted After Dark. How were you approached with the idea for Dani’s Deadly Diery? Spill the beans please!!! I am, I actually wrote Dani’s Deadly Diery for Haunted magazine, After Dark’s more paranormal sister, I spent nights at supposedly haunted hotels, visited haunted pubs, went ghost hunting and on ghost tours and had a great time but then when After Dark was launched and was focused more on horror than the paranormal we decided to
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move my column over as being a horror actress, I fit in better there with the films I do and the horror events that I go to but don’t get me wrong I still love a good ghost hunt. I see you’re attached to The Tombs: Rise of the Damned! You’ve had a long association with director Dan Brownlie and I remember meeting you both on the Gorezone Ghost Hunt many moons ago! What’s Dan like as a director and how is working with him compared to working with other directors? I am, I’m producing the film with Dan at brand-B. We met when I presented that celebrity ghost hunt at The Tombs, Dan’s great, we’ve been business partners for a while now, we both love horror although our tastes in horror films are quite different so it’s nice that our films tend to have a mix of both of our styles and it’s nice that we’re going to be filming at The Tombs as it brings us full circle. If you could be a flavour of ice cream, which one would you be and why? You can be as naughty as you like!!!
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