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Hello all, I'm new here and am in desperate need of some opinons and views into the roles and portrayals of women in horror films, for my Media Studies Critical Research Paper tomorrow.
All I ask is to select which opinon(s) you most agree with, you may elaborate if you wish too.


Many thanks

Best examples to check out, IMO:

Night of the Living Dead (Original AND Remake)
Aliens

halloween anyone?(jamie lee curtis)

salley hardestey(don't know how to spell her name)-texas chainsaw massacre(1974 version)

Shawnee Smith as Amanda in Saw II and III, she broke a lot of molds while keeping true to some of the stereotypes of women in horror.

It is so all over the place, none of the abopve choices are really appropriate. it depends largely on when the movie was made, and who made it.

learn how to spell before questioning our choices...do you have better ideas????

Above>abopve

Exactly, there are so many extremes that those generalizations just can't be true. Maybe if you stick to a small part of mainstream cinema some of those things are true but even then, as somebody mentioned with Alien, stereotypes are broken constantly.

Above is greater than abopve????

shows how to spell it right...i don't think our choices have to be perfect...those are examples of how women were portrayed in movies...those were some of the top movies in my opinion

Those questions are not asking us for our opinions, it is giving us a choice of which opinions to have. Not the same thing.

I gave a list of opinions, if you call them that, that relate directly to the context of my research with feminist theory.
I am only seeing which are most agreed with.

look at the way women are portrayed in Street Trash.

http://www.sevillagrande.com/resources/6694116a04s8.jpg

Nurse Mildred Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lt. Ellen Ripley - Alien
Amanda Young - Saw
Annie Wilkes - Misery

None of these people fit your criteria.

It's also odd that you ask our opinion but are really asking us to vote on which of your opinions are right. I'm not giving you a hard time, just saying that you should be a little more open minded. Maybe instead of simply focusing on women in horror movies you could focus on female victims or female victims in slasher films. Choose a small sub-genre where roles can be a little more accurately assigned.

I agree with Despare. There are too many different factors to pick one of your choices.

Are we talking about women in horror movies in general? Are you considering how their roles have changed in the genre throughout the ages? What about foreign cinema as opposed to American? I think the choices you have would go better with the modern American slasher genre. Even though the roles have changed greatly over the past 30 years, breaking it down to that might be helpful.

Especially notice how a lot of females have went from terrified running victims to the cliche modern day take no shit tough girl who takes on the slasher.

You know that when I try to write a screenplay, the main character has no gender at the beginning. I come up with personality traits first. I guess it's just a matter of flippin' a coin for me. As long as someone dies in a fantastic, horrible way, I'm happy!:D

" I like women,beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure,I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.I certainly don't have to justify myself to anyone about this.I don't care what anyone thinks or reads into it.I have often had journalists walk out of intervews when I say what I think about this subject."



Dario Argento




What he said.

This is a little off topic but...does anyone remember Shawnee Smith in the 80's movie "Summer School".
She was the HOT pregnant girl. ;)
Chainsaw and Dave were also kick ass. :D

The GUYS who made Street Trash should be so ashamed.:(



Ugly CHICK, good flick.:)

aint seen it and she looks scary

Didn't like the game of keepaway with the severed penis? ;)

That is some funny stuff.:D