Horror’s female gaze: six features directed by women at the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 first published by BFI, 20 Aug 2024 Includes capsules of: Broken Bird, Agatha, 7 Keys, Saint Clare, Scarlet Blue, Charlotte The elegiac neo-noir A Desert begins as a portrait of Alex (Kai Lennox) trying to lose himself in the desert as…
The 1001st Woman In Horror: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on disinterring genre’s buried gender, first published by Little White Lies magazine “I grew up believing that horror was a boys’ club. Of course, in many ways it still is – both in the industry and in terms of the fandom – but I know for myself and…
Monstrous Feminine: gender and genre at FrightFest 2017 first published by Sight & Sound Horror often earns itself a bad name for the way that it treats its female characters: reducing them to objectified T&A for the male gaze, or to helpless damsels in distress requiring male assistance, or to screaming pin cushions for male killers….