Posted in Feminist Halloween, Gender, Media, tagged horror film, slasher films, Wes Craven's New Nightmare on 2017/10/16| Leave a Comment »
This favoritism of a monstrous child killer [Freddy Krueger] over a strong, well-rounded female protagonist says a lot about both our antipathy toward women and our glorification of violence toward women.
Here’s an article from Lady Geek Girl and Friends that takes a look at rooting for the monster over the female characters in a horror film: “Sexualized Saturdays: Choosing Monsters Over Women.”
Posted in Feminist Halloween, Gender, Media, Race, tagged Annihilation, film adaptation, horror fiction, horror film, Jeff VanderMeer, whitewashing on 2017/10/14| Leave a Comment »
Annihilation! Annihilation! Annihilation!
Back in 2015, I reviewed The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. In the first novel, the twelfth expedition to Area X, which has been cut off from the rest of the continent for 30 years, is lead by a five-woman team: the biologist, the anthropologist, the surveyor, the psychologist, and the linguist. Their mission: avoid contamination and survey the mysterious area from the lighthouse to the camp to the tunnel. Or is it a tower?
Alex Garland will be directing the film adaption.
