Virginia Madsen has waited 17 years to bring terror back to the big screen. After her horrifying stint in 1992′s Candyman, the actress admits she was waiting for the perfect script. And she found it in The Haunting in Connecticut.

The Oscar-nominated actress who came to fame during the 1980s dishes on her love of scary films, raising a teen and how she stays wrinkle-free.

Q: You’re an Oscar-nominated actress and you’ve been actively searching for a horror film?

A: I love this genre, but I’m very picky. It’s hard to find one that’s really well-written and character-driven. Most of the time, the horror scripts I was reading made me want to throw them across the room. A lot of the horror scripts were about the victimization of women and children and gorefests that I’m really not interested in being a part of. But this one stayed with me. It was really hard to read this alone in the house on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It really scared me just reading it. …Read the Q&A

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