#Horror
“Deadpool’s” Brianna Hildebrand and “X-Men’s” Alexandra Shipp Join Forces for “Tragedy Girls”
Two comic book heroines are set to team up for a new horror comedy with an enticing premise. “Deadpool’s” Brianna Hildebrand and “X-Men: Apocalypse’s” Alexandra Shipp will star in...
St. Vincent to Make Directorial Debut in All-Female Horror Anthology ‘XX’
Musician Annie Clark, better known by her stage name of St. Vincent, will be making her directorial debut with a segment in “XX,” the upcoming all-female horror anthology film. As Rolling Stone...
Support ’13 Chambers,’ a Horror Anthology by 13 Women Directors
An abandoned, 97-year-old school will be the site of a new horror anthology featuring 13 female filmmakers — provided the producing team can fundraise just $10,000 for the project. There are...
Why Horror Is Good for Women
People are always telling me they don’t like horror. Like rightafter I tell them I make horror films. Or programmers pickingme up from the airport who have barely said hello and whose festival...
‘See No Evil 2’ Directors Jen and Sylvia Soska on Reinventing Horror and the Benefits of a Creative Partnership (VIDEO)
Mary Harron, Karyn Kusama, Jennifer Lynch, Jovanka Vuckovic to Direct Horror Anthology
Anthologies are one way the horror genre has experimented with new stories, effects, and themes without the arduous burden of stretching out a good idea or visual into feature length. As with...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Kent’s Sundance Favorite ‘The Babadook’
When it debuted at Sundance this year, writer-director Jennifer Kent’s debut, The Babadook, became one of the festival’s breakout hits, with critics praising the film as a “flat-out...
Lyle Director Stewart Thorndike on Making the Lesbian Version of Rosemary’s Baby and the Need for Feminist Horror
You’veheard the story before: A pregnant woman suspects her neighbors are part of aSatanic cult, and they want her unborn child. As her paranoia grows, so doesthe danger. But is she truly the...
Jane Clark Talks ‘Crazy Bitches,’ Horror Films and Slasher Satire
Seven crazy bitches and one fabulous gay guy take a weekend getaway to a remote ranch for some R&R, gossip, and grub, to celebrate their friend Alice’s birthday. What the group finds out is...
SXSW Women Directors: Meet Leigh Janiak
Director Leigh Janiak’s first feature, Honeymoon, came out of the NYU grad’s desire to tell “an intimate, grounded genre story.” Shot in North Carolina, the thriller owes its existence to...
Death Walks in High Heels: The Silent Avenger of Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45
In recent years there has been a surge of renewedappreciation for the rape-revenge film and, surprisingly, most of thesechampions have been women. The genre was validated to some extent (albeit...
Jennifer Lynch, Mary Harron to Contribute to All-Female Horror Anthology
There’s no shortage of women in horror — on screen or in theater seats, that is. “We know that women make up about half of the audience for horror films, and yet the female creative voice...
October Horror Series Wrap Up
Throughout October, Women and Hollywood has been examining women in horror — coming of age, lady killers, demon girls, witches, haunted women — in television and film. We’ve also had...
“Fear Teaches Us A Lot About Ourselves” — An Interview with Ginger Snaps Writer Karen Walton
As we’ve explored in this month’s horror series, there’s a lot — both good and bad — to discuss when it comes to the intersection of horror, women and feminism. One movie that...
Season of the Witch: Conjuring Strength Through Power
It’s the season of the witch, both in the sense that it’s Halloween, and that supernatural sisters are in the midst of a huge comeback. Meryl Streep’s playing the Witch in a movie adaptation...
Examining the “Woman Anxiety” Problem in The Exorcist
William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) has been a horror classic for the past 40 years, often referred to as one of the scariest films of all time, and an Oscar winner to boot. The film comes at...
Ripley: Believe it or Not, It’s About All That
When Women and Hollywood asked me if I wanted to do a couple of guest posts on horror movies, I jumped at the chance. Like Kerensa Cadenas mentioned in her introduction to the series, I have an...
Turning Ash into Mia: Changing the Gender of One of Horror’s Most Iconic Characters
In the past few years, horror films have seen more than their fair share of sequels, remakes and reimaginings. As a genre, it’s been particularly hospitable to distinctive, memorable characters,...
The Horror of Little Girls and Social Anxiety About Women
Horror films frequently provide commentary on the social fears and anxieties of their time. A universally recognized truth of horror is that children can be terrifying — especially little...
October Horror Series Interview: Emily DiPrimio on Horror, Carver and Directing at 13 Years Old
At 13, Emily DiPrimio is well on her way to starting a career in the lady-sparse horror genre. She co-wrote and will co-direct, Carver, which just made its Kickstarter goal earlier this month. From...
We are the Weirdos, Mister: Revisiting The Craft
I was eight years old when The Craft came out in 1996. I remember seeing the VHS on the shelves of the video store for years and then finally picking it out when I was in sixth grade. There’s...
There’s a New “Final Girl” in the House — and She’s a Beast: A Review of You’re Next
Crispian : Where’s Felix? Erin : I put a blender on his head and killed him. You’re Next is sick, and I mean sick like “disgusting” and sick like “badass” because somewhere in my...
The Haunting of Hill House and a Sense of Belonging
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against...
The Lady Killers: Considering the Female Killer in Horror
In contrast to many other genres, horror films have long been hospitable to the concept of the female hero. From Marion Crane to Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson to Clarice Starling, many of horror’s...
“It Reaches the Level of Myth” — An Interview with Kimberly Peirce — Director of Carrie
Kimberly Peirce is taking a stab at reimagining one of the most iconic horror classics, Carrie, which arguably stars one of the best horror heroines in the genre. Hitting theaters on Friday,...
Woman Seeks Revenge: What’s the Purpose of the Rape/Revenge Horror Film?
If you want to start a spirited debate amongst horror fans, a sure fire topic to bring up is the infamous rape/revenge sub-genre probably best knownbecause of movies like Meir Zarchi’s 1978 film I...
Overcoming Trauma of the Home: Women Gaining Strength in Light of Abuse
Much has been made by media critics of the propensity of horror movies to fetishize the murder of women — to make them victims, suffering at the hands of brutal forces for their sexual sins....
The Bad Girls of American Horror Story: TV’s Most “Unlikeable” Women
At the American Horror Story: Coven premiere last weekend, Women and Hollywood asked creator Ryan Murphy how he goes about creating such complex and interesting female characters for the show. I...
Introducing October’s Women and Horror Series
I grew up being deathly afraid of horror movies. I’d flip quickly through channels that had anything horror related on to prevent nightmares. As I grew up my taste for horror began to...