Women in Horror Month

I just discovered this website.

As someone who has been championing the women in horror cause for many years I was very excited to come across this initiative to celebrate women as writers, directors, aficionados etc. of horror not just as busty scream queens in movies solely aimed at men who never leave their bedrooms. There are tonnes of talented, smart female horror fans out there that deserve to be taken seriously as an audience and as filmmakers in their own right. We need to stand up and claim it for ourselves to dispel the myth that horror is just for men.

I'm a girl, I like make-up and clothes and kittens but I also like horror and I take it very seriously (I wrote my dissertation on body horror at university), I like sci-fi, dystopian, post-apocalyptic stuff too, I play videogames and go to film festivals and conventions, and not just because my boyfriend goes but because I want to. I find it disheartening that so few women take an interest in genre film and that the only women who get any attention for their work are the nubile scantily glad young actresses who have all the fan boys slavering at the bit.

In fact there needs to be more women in film full stop, not just in horror, I have my fingers and toes crossed that Kathryn Bigelow takes home the best director oscar, and not just because she'd be the first woman to do so but because she deserves it.



Come on ladies, lets show them how it's done!