Seventh Row

A place to think deeply about movies

Genre Films

Explore films that leverage — and problematize — the definitions of a given genre, from horror films to the Western.

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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.

This is an excerpt of the essay which appears in the ebook Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and The Struggle for Female Agency. Get your copy of the ebook here.

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‘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.

This is an excerpt of the essay 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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Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror

Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.

This is an excerpt of the essay which appears in the ebook Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and The Struggle for Female Agency. Get your copy of the ebook here.

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