Tag: horror movies
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part Four: New Beginnings
Cross Posted at Ms. When the film industry finds an idea that works, they tend to use it again and again. And again. And again and again. In the realm of horror, once a franchise has spawned seven or so sequels, filmmakers continue to capitalize on name recognition by simply going back to the beginning…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies Part Three: Worlds Without Patriarchy
Cross posted at Ms. This is the third post in a three-part series on watching horror movies as a feminist spectator. Having covered films which reinforce the necessity of the patriarchy and films which question its value while still punishing challenges to patriarchal norms, let’s look at two movies in which the patriarchy is almost…
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A Feminist Guide to Watching Horror Movies, Part Two: It’s Not Just About Vampires
This piece is Part Two in a three-part series. See here for part one. Since Edward Cullen first graced the pages of a young adult novel in 2005, vampires have been the sexy bad guys du jour. But it’s not just the lingering fear that sex might lead to death that makes these nightmarish manifestations…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part One: Daddy Knows Best
Cross posted at Ms. Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. … John Carpenter My love of horror movies is a product of both nature and of nurture. My mother loves them. My older brother says I ended up in theaters as a child watching movies that were definitely not…
Holly L. Derr 