48. Marilyn Burns

Key Movies: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Eaten Alive (1977
Survival Rate: 50%

Not only do we want to press flesh with Marilyn Burns in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-we want to give the girl a damn hug. Seriously, what a trooper! In one of horror's most physically demanding heroine roles, Burns evades Leatherface and his fully juiced chain saw with NFL-running-back moves, leaps through plate-glass windows from the second floor, and endures several weak hammer blows to the head at the hands of a half-dead old man. Prior to the movie's grislier parts, Burns is pure '70s hippie chick hot, though it doesn't take long for her naturally cute state to descend into bloody hysterics