Kristen Bell thrives in roles where she's playing sharp, witty, and fast-talking characters in comedies and dramas. Such was the case with her breakthrough role as a teenage private detective in "Veronica Mars," which ran for four seasons and had a movie between 2004 and 2019. The same goes for her character, Eleanor Shellstrop, in the existentialist comedy "The Good Place," which ran for four seasons from 2016 to 2020. In "The Good Place," Eleanor is sent to heaven (the titular Good Place) by mistake after she dies and must pretend she belongs or risk getting sent to The Bad Place. Since 2024, she's been starring in the hit series "Nobody Wants This" on Netflix .

But it may surprise fans to know that Bell has tried her hand at horror, too, like in the 2006 film "Pulse," a remake of the hit techno Japanese horror (J-horror) of the same name.…