Blog Supporting Female Filmmakers
For the longest time the term horror film was synonymous to women being tormented by x threat for 90mins through an intensified predatory male gaze. So I thought I would walk through some of the key ways the genre is shifting for the better under the female gaze.
How to get your female filmmaker fix this spooky season. I already compiled a list, a little while ago now, of some top female directed horror films but this year I realised that there are still many more films to talk about, and even some new ones that have since been released. So here are …
Dark Whispers is an Anthology horror film from creator Megan Riakos and features 11 different stories each from 11 different female directors. When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of the twisted human psyche... or the not-so-human, as the case may be.
Now it's October, and officially spooky season, I thought I would turn my attention to some of the biggest Horror movie franchises to see which ones were adding female directors to their properties.
It is the month of the Hallows and so everyone is looking for some seriously spooky entertainment to appropriately scare the socks off their frightened flailing feet. So why not change up your classic list and watch something directed by a woman this year? Horror has a habit of victimising the female by shooting women with …