There comes a time in a porn girl’s life when she thinks about packing up her thong and Valtrex prescriptions to leave the land of gangbangs and bukkakes for the glamor and respect of Hollywood stardom. Things usually don’t work out so they end up in horror, where beautiful women willing to get naked are loved and adored by guys who want to see them die violent deaths.

The following is a list of some of porn’s hottest babes to have crossover to our beloved genre. The twelve were picked by a committee comprised of my penis and balls. But, this being a democracy and all, feel free to add your own favorites!

12. JENNA JAMESON

The biggest porn star since your dad was Fred Willard-ing his pee-wee at the local Pussycat theater, Jenna Jameson’s crossover into horror came in 2008’s Zombie Strippers, in which she played a featured stripper at a nudie bar overrun by undead lapdancers.

The flick is on the cheap side and its dialogue and humor are about as good as any of Jameson’s adult features, but it does deliver a fully nude Jameson to those millions of men whose significant others would kick them to the curb if caught watching her Saturday Night Beaver.

11. MARIA OZAWA

Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa starred in director Nozomu Kasagi’s Tokyo Species, a 2012 kink-fueled re-imagining of the 1995 MGM sci-fi actioner Species, starring Natasha Henstridge as a horny, but deadly, alien.

Maria plays Michiko in the flick, a high school girl who commits suicide and is re-animated by an alien parasite that turns her into an insatiable sex fiend with a homicidal streak and the unique ability to poop out marbles from her rectum.

Maria’s adult offerings include Anal Slave Enema Spray, Fallen Urine-Drinking Pig Idol, Torture with Sperm 2 and the epic Multiple Black Rape.

10. SOPHIE DEE

Gonzo queen Sophie Dee to a break from fucking large groups of black men this year to make her horror film debut in Cannibal Blood Girl, one of five short films featured in the Psykik Junky Pictures anthology Theater of the Deranged.

Not one to rest on her laurels, Dee followed her debut up with Unmimely Demise, a horror short in the Theater of the Deranged II collection about a mime who kills people with invisible weapons.

Dee’s previous works of horror include 10 Man Cum Slam 15, Clean My Ass 2, I’ll Take It Black 3, Drink from the Stink, My Daughter Is Fucking Blackzilla and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

9. ADRIANA SEPHORA

Brazilian porn star Adriana Sephora made her horror movie debut this summer in Full Moon Features’ campy frightener Zombies vs. Strippers, about a group of nude dancers fending off the undead at the seedy Tough Titty strip club.

In addition to her horror crossover, Sephora excelled at her day job, landing the career-making role of an attractive lesbian in the adult parody This Ain’t Avatar XXX 2: Escape from Pandwhora. The petite 22-year-old spinner can also be seen in Anchorman XXX, Big Titty Lesbians, Stripper Diaries 2 and Stripped and Hogtied.

8. VERONICA RICCI

Veronica Ricci, a star of lesbian porn and 2010’s Penthouse Pet of the Year Runner-Up, continued her horror crossover this year with Cannibal Blood Girl, one of five short films featured in the anthology Theater of the Deranged and TomCat Films’ Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewoman.

Ricci, who also toplined the 2011 TomCat feature Bloody Mary 3-D, has only starred in a handful of all-girl titles, including Welcome to Bondage, Veronica’s Private Tickle Hell, CosWorld Undercover, Forced to Strip and Sideline Sluts: Cheerleader Confessions.

7. TRACI LORDS

Unlike the lazy teen girls of today who find popularity by merely posting Lolita pics of themselves on Instagram and Twitter, Traci Lords was already working her fingers to the boners of mustached men at 15 in hardcore pornographic films.

Lords crossed over to feature films at the age of 20 in the 1988 Roger Corman-produced sci-fi frightener Not of This Earth, in which she plays a nurse in a story about an alien seeking blood. The film, sadly, marks Lords’ final nude appearance on film.

Lords acting chops, however, continued to get exposure in such notable genre films as Screen Gems’ Underworld, the Denzel Washington android thriller Virtuosity and the 1998 vamp-actioner Blade. The still stunning 44-year-old can currently be seen in Anchor Bay’s critically acclaimed surgical nightmare Excision.

6. PRIYA RAI

Indian porn star Priya Rai toplines TomCat Films’ new supernatural thriller Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy. The 34-year-old star of Titty Sweat and Gag Holes also serves as an associate producer on the project.

Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy stars Rai as the reawakened spirit of Egyptian Goddess Isis. Cranky over being disturbed, she hunts down the Archeology students who disrupted her sleep one-by-one. TomCat Films owner Ted Chalmers said he had Rai in mind for the role of Isis when he first conceived the movie… while masturbating at his laptop to the aforementioned Gag Holes, he did not add.

5. TORI BLACK

Porn superstar and former Penthouse Pet Tori Black bared her acting chops in Breaking Glass Pictures’ 2012 werewolf frightener Half Moon. The dark-haired anal-queen-turned-scream-queen plays a prostitute who takes a private with a guy whose palms may be hairy for a completely different reason one may thought.

The Jason Toler-directed film is a low-budget, high-concept affair that allows Black to stretch more than her vagina with a demanding role that is both sexy and dramatic, though not quite as intense as her work in Anal Buffet 5, Brother Load, Black Up In Her, and Cum Coat My Throat 4.

4. SORA AOI

Japanese porn star Sora Aoi toplines director Takao Nakano’s coming-of-age tear-jerker Big Tits Zombie 3-D, an adaptation of the popular manga “Kyonyuu Dragon” (aka: “Big Tits Dragon”) by artist Rei Mikamoto.

The busty actress (G-cup!) plays a stripper out to save a small town from a zombie invasion. The role is quite a departure from the parts she’s taken in her esteemed pornographic career, including her work in Wife Violated in Front of Her Husband, Sora Will Relieve You Greatly, Big Dick PakoPako, Repeated Death: Grand Orgasm, Bodily Fluids Mingling, and  Staggering Facial Ejaculation.

3. SASHA GREY

The biggest porn star since Jenna Jameson gave up gargling cock-snot on film, Sasha Grey scored serious mainstream cred by landing roles in Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience and HBO’s “Entourage.” Those performances soon revealed, however, that Grey’s best acting is when she’s pretending to enjoy an eight-man anal train.

Still, the mainstream’s loss is horror’s gain as the sexy 24-year-old is now diving headlong into the genre, scoring parts in the upcoming SAW-like torture thriller Would You Rather, the rape/revenge actioner Skinny Dip, the Katie Cassidy-toplined Scribbler and Nacho Vigalondo’s (Time Crimes) abduction thriller Open Windows opposite Elijah Wood.

2. ALEXIS TEXAS

It’s been said that everything is bigger in Texas. The shapely ass on porn star Alexis Texas proves just that. White American women just don’t have booties like that. It’s as if her ass fell into a batch of radioactive goo, making it grow bigger, stronger and deadlier than the common white girl tush.

That ass is why Texas’ crossover into horror is monumental and makes her horror film debut Bloodlust Zombies an important work. In a genre chockfull of beautiful, but skinny-assed white girls, Texas brings badonkadonk thrills not often seen, giving fright fans hope for the future of scary movies.

Texas’ masturbatory offerings include Anyone You Can Do, I Can Do Better, Butthole Bitches, Valley of the Facesitters, and Destination Tonsils 2 (the Empire Strikes Back of the series).

1. RILEY STEELE

Digital Playground contract star Riley Steele made her mainstream acting debut in Alexandre Aja’s 2010 fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-D. The gorgeous 5-foot-7 California native played a party girl opposite British model/actress Kelly Brook.

The 25-year-old star of Assassins, Bar Pussy and Mothers & Daughters has yet to star in another horror film, but her underwater nude lesbian make-out scene with Brook in Piranha 3-D is as silently powerful as Marlee Matlin’s work in Children of a Lesser God, ensuring it as an all-time classic to be revered for years to come.