She has also appeared in the comedy The Cannonball Run, Back to School, and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.
With a string of early 80s movies like the fog escape from new york the cannonball run swamp thing and creepshow adrienne barbeau established herself as a tough sexy dream girl of young male movie junkies appearing in exactly the movies young men liked.
Beyond acting, she has recorded music and is the author of an autobiography, There Are Worse Things I Could Do.