Females in horror

Females in horror

Females in horror

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Tue, 11/21/2006 - 10:55pm — cici
General Horror Discussion

Females we need a little credit that we can be bad and killers not just the men we are not just the brides for these men we are killers to we need to be reconised sorry guys

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bob grey on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 6:31am

I looked for the best of the best Blood Dragoness with Clare Higgins right at the top!

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quietension on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 7:03am

Ryo Ishibashi as Shigeharu Aoyama in Audition was pretty nice

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bob grey on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 9:37am

"deeper...deeper"

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Silentshadow on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 8:48pm

Yes we do need more intelligent and tough women in horror films. Any idiot can produce a film with some silly girl running around almost nude screaming her head off for most of the movie. What's harder is a woman that can out think and out fight her assailant with what's at hand. The Descent was a good example of a film with lots of tough woman fighting off bizarre creatures while trapped! Besides what kind of stupid message are they sending out to the audience.

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PerfectVictim on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 8:56pm

There was a great book I read in the 90's called "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" that discused the role of women in horror. Don't know if it's still in print though.

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Nightmare Angel on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 11:10pm

It wasn't nessarly Horror but the main character (I can't rem her name as of now?) in KISS THE GIRLS kicked some good ass...Oh and Leelee Sobereksi in the Glass House she was good for a young chick..

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BernadetteJimenez on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 11:12pm

quote:
There was a great book I read in the 90's called "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" that discused the role of women in horror. Don't know if it's still in print though.

Wow i hope so. so i can read it for my self.

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Adrian Brattelli on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 12:24pm

accually girls arent so bad as the victims because most horror films follow a certain structure. its called the "final girl" she is always teh main character faced with the killer and always is the last to servive. Not such a bad deal although a female killer some times would be nice, High tension tryed to portray that an i thought it really kicked a!

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trash4081 on Thursday, December 7, 2006 - 1:22pm

If you want to dig even further, a lot of the exploitation revenge movies of the seventies have a hell-fire spitting revenge seeking super powerful woman lead. (I Spit on Your Grave, Thriller: A Cruel Picture, etc.) Sure, they got to that point by being completely victimized and dehumanized, but if you look at the message objectively, it's actually very female possitive. "You did your worst, motherfucker, and I'm still here. My turn."

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Capt Otto on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 10:57pm

Cici, check out "Hard Candy". I think you'll like it.

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