To me, a Scream Queen has to be sexy and in a lot of films. I won't take anything away from Jamie Lee Curtis, although she wasn't the sexiest woman in horror.
Jennifer Carpenter was great in her roles, but to me she's not a scream queen after two movies.
Plus, there's the hotness factor, in the films I mean.
Linnea Quigley has the resume plus the sexy factor:
Jennifer Carpenter was in two horror flicks compared to a career of horror flicks and these are her sexy shots: