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05-13-2006, 10:33 AM
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yes i have noticed that it tends to be the recent slasher films where the woman is the heroine and the surviver.
But still they get themselves into situations of peril where a man has to rescue them. I am also looking at the exorcist becuase many of the camera angles show the females as vulnerable character, especially the scene where the mother goes into the attic. 
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05-13-2006, 10:36 AM
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recent nothing, the survivor is almost invariably female (although nowadays they're lowering the bodycount so there's usually a bunch of survivors), and has been since Halloween at least
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05-13-2006, 11:02 AM
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Rolling Stone did a whole article on how Silence of the Lambs challenged the role of victim in dark/horror movies. The article suggested that the roles of Clarice Starling as the heroine and Catherine Martin as the rescued sort of princess role by another woman challenged those roles that put woman as victims or, Punky, as you said, women only suriving with the aid of a man.
You might be able to either find that issue, it's pretty damn old, on microfilm in a large city library. I read it in middle school, and I'm now 28. I'm also the forum's token feminist.:D
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05-13-2006, 11:04 AM
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Thanks Haunted, i will see if i can find it
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05-13-2006, 12:19 PM
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Women aren't always victims in horror and/or slasher films. For example;
High Tension I spit on your grave House of 1000 Corpses The Devils Rejects Underworld 1 & 2 Resident Evil 1 & 2 Flesh-eating Mothers Women have came along way in horror based films, but even in the classic era there were still movies that displayed women as monsters and not just the victims. Consider the many vampire flicks (ie., Dracula's Daughters), Creature flicks (ie., The Wasp Woman, Lair of the White Worm), Slasher flicks (Friday the 13th.) and Zombie Flicks (Dawn of the Dead). Women practically "own" a sub-genre of horror flicks known as "revenge" films (such as the forementioned I spit on your Grave). All of the above is just off the top of my head, but if I put some thought into it or checked out my own collection, I'm sure that I would find hundreds of movies that the woman/women are most definately NOT the poor, screaming, running-up-the-stairs victim, but the "bad Guy".
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05-13-2006, 12:24 PM
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Quote:
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05-13-2006, 03:26 PM
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I also understand that a lot of what many feminists see as anit feminism or anti woman are not. I don't necessarily believe in coincidence, but in something as mundane as a movie or book, I think that some of the female roles and characters just have things happen for the sake of the story and not necessarily because they're women. For instance, I'll use an old stand by: Jason isn't killing the nude girl on the pier overlooking Crystal Lake because she's a girl. He's killing her because he's Jason, and he get's his jollies by killing people. I maybe a righteous feminist, but I'm not stupid. Plus, S, I know better than to pull that shit with you.;)
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05-13-2006, 10:14 PM
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Go to Pretty-Scary.net . It's a horror site for women, by women, about women, etc.
CK
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05-14-2006, 12:00 AM
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And also--oh yes!--check out "They're Coming To Get You, Barbara," at
www.theyrecoming.com GREAT horror site run by Barbara and Barbara.
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05-14-2006, 04:47 AM
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Hey, lets not forget about Neve Campbell in Scream. She kicked some ass.
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