Scream queen Kate Siegel has starred in some of Netflix’s biggest horror hits. Now, she’s tackling her scariest endeavor yet: directing.

Siegel was already a longtime fan of the “V/H/S” franchise when she was approached to direct a segment for the latest installment, “V/H/S/Beyond,” now streaming on Shudder.

The franchise, which started with a 2012 film and has since spawned seven movies, is unique in its format. They’re anthologies comprised of multiple short films, each directed by a different filmmaker. “Beyond” takes the franchise beyond horror, entering the sci-fi realm.

The “V/H/S” franchise is credited with helping to launch the careers of prominent directors like Ti West (who later wrote and directed the acclaimed “X” trilogy), Adam Wingard (who’d go on to direct two “Godzilla v. Kong” blockbusters), and Radio Silence (the team behind hits like “Ready or Not,” “Abigail,” and the rebooted “Scream” franchise).

Siegel particularly admired how the franchise allows individual directors to flex their creativity, providing the right combination of freedom and structure. All that said, she still didn’t feel like doing it.

“I am tired. I have young kids, and it feels like a lot of work,” Siegel recalled of her initial reaction to the offer.

She asked her manager to gratefully pass because she didn’t feel she was ready. They didn’t take no for an answer, however, and with some extra encouragement from her manager and her husband, Siegel agreed to take the leap.

She credits Josh Goldbloom, the producer responsible for rebooting the “V/H/S” franchise in 2021 after a seven-year hiatus, with changing her mind. “He changed my path as an artist,” she said.

It was particularly important to Siegel that the “V/H/S” team was open to her ideas.

“I had thought about writing it myself. I had thought about doing a Muppet version of something. I had thought about doing a musical version of something,” Siegel said.

In the end, though, Siegel realized that, though she’d written before, her tendency to bite off more than she could chew might prove to be too much when making her directorial debut. So, she enlisted help from her favorite creative partner: her husband.

For their latest team-up, Siegel took the reins while Flanagan provided support.

Now that Siegel has her first directing credit, she’s caught the bug. She already has multiple projects lined up. One is in the early stages (“I don’t think I’m allowed to talk about it yet, but I’ve had a very positive reaction to what I’ve done so far, and I think that that will bear fruit”). The other is a collaboration with another horror icon: Stephen King.

Siegel has created a series of animated horror shorts — that could work as an entry to the genre for kids — called “Dark Corners” to be released later this month. The short Siegel is directing is based on an original story by King. She’s also written another of the shorts herself.

“I’m thrilled to be working with Stephen King in that capacity. He’s a hero of mine, and so to get to direct his words is a real coma-dream moment,” she said.

Siegel’s husband is known particularly for many of his adaptations. “Hill House” is loosely based on the 1959 Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, and he’s directed three separate King adaptations. As for the dream IP, she’d love to get her hands on, Siegel had an immediate answer.

“I have a very interesting take on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ that I’ve always wanted to do,” Siegel said, referring to the seminal 1892 short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, credited as one of the most important works in early feminist literature.

So, would it be a horror movie? Siegel said not exactly, but she’s envisioning a feature-length film “starting from that place of isolation” that delves into “birth and the fourth trimester.”

“I think it’s a feminist thriller, which is a weird genre that immediately makes most executives go ‘Delete!'” Siegel said. “But it’s what I like to make.”