Screen veteran Salma Hayek recently returned to theatres with House of Gucci and Eternals, but it has been some time since there was a Salma Hayek horror movie. Despite starting as an action heroine, Salma Hayek has not made as many horror movies as some readers may guess. The veteran star has cropped up in a slew of sci-fi efforts, but over the decades of her career, Hayek has only appeared in four horror movies.

Hayek’s first horror movie came shortly after her star-making role in Desperado and reunited with that movie’s director, Robert Rodriguez. After 1996’s vampire western From Dusk Til Dawn, Hayek steered clear of the genre for two years before Rodriguez tempted her back to the dark side with 1998’s The Faculty. Penned by Scream franchise co-creator Kevin Williamson, that 1998 sci-fi horror gave Hayek a minor role. She had a bigger part in her next horror, 2009’s Cirque Du Freak, before her final horror movie to date, 2015’s Tale of Tales, relegated her to a smaller role again.

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However, while Hayek may not share Kevin Bacon’s love of horror, some of her outings in the genre have been critically acclaimed. That said, some of Salma Hayek’s later horror movies were not so fortunate with reviewers. The failure of Hayek’s most recent horror movies may even have played into her decision to move away from the genre. Here are Salma Hayek's horror movies ranked worst to best.

Cirque Du Freak

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Mr. Crepsley and Madame Truska

Released in 2009, Cirque Du Freak was a big-budget adaptation of Darren Shan’s YA best-seller. Unfortunately for Hayek and the talented cast, Cirque Du Freak was one of the lesser Harry Potter knock-offs, with no scares, minimum edge, and a miscast John C. Reilly wasted in a predictable plot. Hayek is fun as the bearded lady Madame Truska but, like Blind Alley’s Ana De Armas, the star is unable to single-handedly elevate the material.

Tale of Tales

Salma Hayek eating meat on white table in a still from Tale of Tales

While 2015’s Tales of Tales itself is as uneven as most anthology efforts, the inventive fusion of horror, fantasy, and fairy tales shine during Hayek’s creepy story and Vincent Cassel’s standout segment. A collection of European folk tales reimagined by director Matteo Garrone, Tales of Tales meanders at times but the central story of Hayek’s mad queen eating a dragon’s heart in the hopes of conceiving an heir is arresting and surreal. Tale of Tales can’t keep this level of artistry throughout its lengthy runtime but, at its best, it is the best horror movie Guillermo Del Toro never made.

The Faculty

A split image depicts Salma Hayek as Harper in The Faculty and Neve Campbell as Sidney in Scream 4

Underrated since its release, director Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty is a Kevin Williamson-scripted effort that aimed to do for body-snatching sci-fi what Scream did for teen slashers. The self-aware humor is not quite as sharp this time around, but the cast is uniformly superb. Hayek only nabbed a small role playing against type as the dowdy school nurse but she slots into the solid lineup and has as much hammy fun as campy co-stars Robert Patrick, Famke Janssen, and Jon Stewart.

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From Dusk Till Dawn

Salma Hayek with a large snake in From Dusk Til Dawn

1996’s chase movie/vampire western From Dusk Till Dawn is a wild genre hybrid that by all rights should not have worked. Initially a tense kidnap thriller, From Dusk Till Dawn pulls a midway plot switch when the antiheroes hole up in a bar infested with vampires. Unlike Midnight Mass’ Stephen King-influenced vampire story, in this fast-paced, sillier effort the bloodsuckers appear suddenly and without explanation, but the movie is still a blast despite not making much sense. From Dusk Till Dawn also gave Salma Hayek one of her most iconic roles to date, making it the star’s best horror and one of director Robert Rodriguez’s best movies.

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