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Feminist Horror

Revenge, Coralie Fargeat, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz

Elena Lazic / November 6, 2017

‘She can be strong, even when she is wearing a bikini’: Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss their feminist rape-revenge film Revenge

Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss Revenge, the stigma around genre cinema, mixing humour and violence, and the way victims are still held responsible for being attacked. This is an excerpt from our forthcoming ebook on feminist horror beyond empowertainment. To read the entire article, get your copy of the book here.

Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, Simon Lavoie

Jake Pitre / September 28, 2017

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror

Simon Lavoie’s gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the Quebec horror film.

Julia Ducournau Raw

Orla Smith / August 8, 2017

Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw

In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine.

Big Little Lies, violence against women

Manuela Lazic / June 6, 2017

Elle and Big Little Lies: Progressive representations of violence against women

Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and Jean-Marc Vallée’s Big Little Lies share the common goal of unmasking the omnipresence of misogyny via its horrific manifestations in violence. In both universes, the best protection from violent men is trusting other women.

Personal Shopper text messages, Personal Shopper eroticism, Personal Shopper horror

Mike Thorn / March 30, 2017

‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper

By using text messaging as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions.

Olivier Assayas

Alex Heeney / March 24, 2017

Olivier Assayas on Personal Shopper, filming text messages

Olivier Assayas discusses the visual and aural aesthetic of Personal Shopper and how he shot that impressive texting set piece. This is an excerpt of the interview which appears in our case study on Personal Shopper in the ebook Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and The Struggle for Female Agency, which is available for purchase here.

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