British 1990s Friday night TV series The Word remains one of the most notorious shows ever broadcast – a post-pub slice of irreverence and outrage-stoking from Channel 4 that mixed music, celebrity guests, rampant bad taste and some presenters who had no right to be appearing on television. Amongst the many highlights of the show – and we’ll hopefully be unearthing some more as our video digitising project continues – was this look at the world of the Scream Queens, the sort of novelty story that offered a mix of trash culture for the show to look down on (not that The Word had any right to look down on anything) and some gratuitous nudity to keep the viewers titillated. By the standards of the show, this was actually fairly tame stuff – the series revelled in bad taste, bad behaviour and bad everything, right down to the quality of the presenters. It was perfect Friday night TV, designed to alienate and outrage older viewers while offering teenage couch potatoes a virtual party that they could pretend to be a part of.
In this story, we meet top Scream Queens Brinke Stevens, Julie Strain and Monique Gabrielle, as well as cult movie director Fred Olen Ray and the publisher of Femme Fatales magazine as Dani Behr – now an estate agent in Los Angeles after her TV career fizzled out at the end of the 2010s – explores the world of straight-to-video sex and violence. For those of you who are fans of this sort of thing – and I’m assuming that that will be all of you – there won’t be much fresh insight delivered here, but it is nevertheless an amusing time capsule with typically salacious video clips to keep the late-night TV audience happy.
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