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* In the [[Sci Fi]] [[B-Movie]] ''It Came from Beneath the Sea'', said woman was a marine biologist, utterly convinced a gigantic monster octopus was terrorizing the coast. After spending the day ''swimming in the ocean looking for it'', said monster finally made an appearance when she was standing on shore with the men... and she promptly started screaming like a little girl. One wonders what she would have done had she found it while in the water.
* An impressive subversion occurs in ''[[Kingdom of the Spiders]]'', when the [[Hot Scientist|Hot Entomologist]] opens a drawer in her rural Arizona motel room to reveal a live tarantula. Not yet aware she's in a Nature's-revenge flick, she calmly scoops it up and shoos it outside. (According to the IMDB, Tiffany Bolling beat out other actresses for the part because she was able to do this scene without turning into a [[Real Life]] example of this trope.)
* Willie Scott more-or-less does this for the entirety of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''. Kate Capshaw even had to be taught how to scream.
** In the ''[[Lego Indiana Jones]]', due to an "extra", you can actually ''weaponize it''.
* In the original ''[[King Kong]]'', Fay Wray spent hours in the recording booth so she could scream in just the right way. It succeeded, producing one very memorable scream.
** In the Peter Jackson remake (in a scene deleted from the movie but used for the trailer) a fake movie scream by the actress gets an answering roar from the as-yet-unseen King Kong.
* Dorothy in the 1939 movie ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' sometimes screamed.
* Helen Benson is one of these in ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''. She has been ''told'' exactly what to say, but still feels the need to scream for half an hour or so. If she'd kept screaming too much longer, Gort would've gone on his rampage, not knowing that Klaatu didn't want him to.
* Shannon Sassomon, who stars in the terrible movie ''Catacombs'' as an {{spoiler|unsympathetically ridiculously gullible}} over-emotional lady who plays this trope straight several times, plays this trope, most of the time randomly, as she runs about the underground Catacombs because she's seeing evidence of scary stuff.
* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''
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* Renee Russo's character in ''[[Get Shorty]]'' was a famous B-movie "scream queen" with an extremely impressive scream. When a villain pulls a gun on Chili Palmer, she screams and it distracts the villain long enough to give Chili the upper hand.
* Noticeably averted in ''[[Three Days of the Condor]]''. A female CIA analyst looks up and sees three men pointing silenced submachine guns at her, and realises what's about to happen.
{{quote|'''Joubert:''' [[Affably Evil|Would you please]] step away from the window.
'''Janice:''' ''(calmly)'' I won't scream.
'''Joubert:''' I know. }}
* Happens at the opening of ''[[Lajja]]'', accompanied by the burning of a red sari.
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