Legendary Scream Queen, Vegan and Former Playboy Model Linnea Quigley

In a crowded trailer filled with extras and unpaid production crew, sits a petite woman who will be celebrating her 47th birthday in just a few weeks. She is dressed in a colorful two piece bohemian blouse and dress, her braided hair is wrapped up in a silk scarf, shiny earrings dangle from her lobes, earthy necklaces hang from her neck, and every time she speaks with her hands, several silver bracelets clink and chime as if accompanying her words.

Her name is Linnea Quigley and she’s been in over 85 horror/comedy schlock-fests, a few mainstream films, and Playboy. Her resume includes B-rated films with catchy names like Zombiegeddon, Bimbo Movie Bash, and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. It also includes more mainstream films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Play It to the Bone, and her most popular film, The Return of the Living Dead.

Producer, actress, model, 20-year vegan, PETA advocate, and model, Quigley is anything but ordinary and currently she’s involved in the latest feature project by Orlando movie maker Steven Shea called Hoodoo for Voodoo.

“It’s about a bunch of kids that get involved in something they don’t know a lot about and everything goes really wacky,” the soft spoken Quigley states while in between scenes. “It’s a dark comedy almost along the lines of Return of the Living Dead. I think Steven’s film is going to have that same kind of flavor to it.”

Quigley is playing a Voodoo priestess that’s really using Voodoo to scam New Orleans tourists to make a little extra money. Unfortunately, her false faith and misuse of the Voodoo religion has sinister consequences for her and some unsuspecting college students.

It’s her first of two days on the shoot and she’s happy that she had met Shea a few months earlier at the 2004 Scream Fest in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It was there that Shea pitched the idea for Hoodoo to Quigley.

“[Steven] gave me the script and he seemed really nice and about a couple of months ago it was a definite and I [thought] that this was good. Let’s do it. It’ll be fun.”