The B-Movie Queens Tom Jolliffe celebrates some of the most popular B-movie queens of the video era onward… Think of those legendary actresses of the last few decades. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scar Jo, to the recent impact of Margot Robbie. Big names, capable of selling a film themselves and a regular big screen fixture. As someone who grew up in the VHS era, with a huge array of video premiere films to watch, I have become accustomed to the many great female leads who became bankable draws on video. Now some may have started in the video market from the beginning, but others began as a big screen presence before becoming a dependable audience magnet in the straight to video arena. Back on those glorious video store days my eyes would be drawn of course to the latest Dolph Lundgren special, or a whole host of action gods beneath his level like Gary Daniels et al. Likewise though, there were so many B-Movie Queens that caught my eye, and continue(d) to throughout the current century. Here’s a few: