The Women Directing Horror, From Ida Lupino to Julia Ducournau

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The most durable myth about women and horror is that they mainly turn up in it screaming. It is a myth with a long tail, because for decades the genre’s female roles really were written by men and photographed for men, and the criticism that grew up around the films inherited the same blind spot. Look at who was actually directing, though, and a different line appears — a thin but unbroken thread of women who used horror precisely because it was the least guarded room in the house. The genre’s low prestige was its own kind of open door. Nobody polices the servants’ entrance.

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The Women Directing Horror, From Ida Lupino to Julia Ducournau