Adrienne Barbeau has had a long and wide-ranging calling — she went from leg , to TV , to the big projection screen , where she star in several offbeat films that have become genre classics . Being married to John Carpenter from 1979 - 1984 did n’t hurt her career , but Barbeau had quite a little of talent to deliver the goods on her own deservingness .
In 2009 , Barbeau released a witty , insightful autobiography , There Are regretful Things I Could Do . The deed of conveyance references her Broadway breakthrough as Rizzo in Grease ; the vintage come - hither concealment pic is a get it on nod toher sexuality - symbolic representation image . ( As she acknowledge in the book , her physical assets were often the centering of her grapheme ’ costuming over the long time , something she did n’t always bring in at the time . )
1) Swamp Thing
Wes Craven ’s oddly endearing 1982 adaptation of the science fiction / repulsion comic features Barbeau as a regime agent ( smart ! ) who sticks by her man even after he ’s turned into a hideous beast ( angelic ! )
“ When I interpret it , I fell in passion with the screenplay , ” she explainsin an audience with Shout Factory , which released Swamp Thing on Blu - ray . “ It was whimsical , and magical , and adorable . I did n’t see it as a repugnance picture show . I guess I do n’t see it as a horror film to this Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , actually . It ’s Beauty and the Beast — it ’s more of a fantasy or a fairy tale , maybe , in my mind . ”
2) The Fog
Barbeau ’s first movie with her then - hubby , John Carpenter , is about a picturesque coastal townspeople cursed by a infestation of vindictive , ghostly lepers .
Two old age after starring in Halloween , Jamie Lee Curtis get to play a sassy hitchhiker . But Barbeau flirt the motion-picture show ’s coolest character by far : a radio disc jockey named Stevie Wayne , who broadcasts from a lighthouse on the edge of town . This gives her a unique advantage item when the sinister fog begins twirl in , and she ’s able-bodied to monish the Ithiel Town of its front ( and pull through her youthful Word , who ’s trapped alone at home , in the cognitive operation ) .
As a side government note , Barbeau ’s pleasing vox — which makes for a perfectly sultry wireless presence here — would serve her well throughout her vocation , including an extensive stint voicing Catwoman on various Batman toon .
3) Creepshow
In 1982 , George A. Romero and Stephen King team up up for this repugnance anthology that often draws more laughs than screech . But Barbeau ’s segment , “ The Crate , ” is perhaps the film ’s scariest . Barbeau overplay it up as the simply awful wife of a college professor who fantasise about killing her on the habitue . ( Played by Hal Holbrook , who ’s also in The Fog . ) He decide he ’s line up the everlasting murder weapon : the mystic wight he disclose lurking in a long - hidden wooden boxful .
Ok , earnestly . The “ Father ’s Day ” chapter is shameful - drollery atomic number 79 , but that Abominable Snowman thing is freaking terrifying .
4) Escape From New York
In 1981 , Barbeau appear in Carpenter ’s outflow from New York as Maggie , a rugged gal with barefaced segmentation who hang out with a fellow convict , “ Brain , ” play by a scarf joint - wearing Harry Dean Stanton . This could have been a thankless character , but Maggie is no breeze ; she agitate alongside her “ main squeeze ” and his frenemy , Kurt Russell ’s Snake Plissken , until the bitter end . Her death allows a rare moment of sorrow into a moving picture where the characters all prioritize macho posturing over showing any real emotion .
5) Two Evil Eyes
Barbeau ’s other with child repugnance - anthology outing is in George A. Romero ’s one-half of 1990 ’s Edgar Allan Poe tribute Two malefic Eyes . Her character , Jessica — a flight attendant turned prize married woman , who ’s scheming to inherit her dying husband ’s lot — could have been a bromide , but Barbeau makes her surprisingly sympathetic . This make her inevitable expiry — at the hands of her not - quite - dead husband — even scarey . “ Jesss - i - caaaaaaa … ”
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6) Terror at London Bridge
Also known as Bridge Across Time , this 1985 made - for - TV motion-picture show has one of the most outstandingly nonsensical motion picture premise of all time : when London Bridge is reconstructed in Arizona , it waken the spirit of Jack the Ripper , who begins obliterate afresh . A peak Knight Rider - era David Hasselhoff plays the bull on the pillow slip ; his chief is played by B - movie legend Clu Gulager ; and Barbeau ( and Centennial State - star Stepfanie Kramer , of Hunter fame ) bring a little class to the cheese .
Really , there ’s nothing notable about this carrying out other than the fact that made - for - TV movies used to be much more insane than they are nowadays . And this tidbit , from an interview Barbeau did withThe Terror Trap , which shows her good sense of humor about her career ’s less - than - stellar moment :
I do retrieve that I had reserve my first voice - over commercial message the day after I finished filming that movie . And in my last scene , maybe I was getting kill … I was screaming a fortune … and I woke up the next day and drove back to L.A. to go to the studio to do this national television commercial for Jack In the Box and I could n’t babble out . I had cry my way out of a chore … [ and ] they had to hire somebody else . So THAT ’S what I remember about Terror at London Bridge . ( Laughs )
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