Sure, they look for awesome sets of everything, these canny casting directors, but it really is imperative that the leading ladies in any half-decent (or even completely awful) scare-fest be able to screech the audience's ears off.

Urmila Matondkar, for instance, has long been the genre's resident diva. Of course, after her most recent outing opposite a certain baseball-capped singer -- wherein said singer outshone her in the acting department, heck, the coffee table did better than her -- directors of bhootiya schlock have been hunting for a new face.

Enter the atypically attractive Kangana Ranaut, somehow Bollywood's first pick whenever it comes to roles demanding weeping, drunkenness and hysteria. As the makers of Raaz: The Mystery Continues have cleverly judged, there's a thin line between schizophrenia and, say, being possessed, which makes her ideal for the genre.

Here then, for the sake of our fearmongers, are a set of other actresses who we think might fit the scary movie bill.

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