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Halloween Countdown 2017, Day 22
Oct. 22nd, 2017 10:48 amHere’s a round up of some thought-provoking, Halloween-friendly articles on horror. (Images are from The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.)
“Fear is not the best thing in the world, of course, but it’s not going anywhere and we are likely forced to meet it in some capacity, great or small, each and every day. There’s no way around it. Denying this fact only provides more fertile ground for fear to take root. Worse yet, denying it robs us of our agency to meet and overcome it. The more we ignore scary things, the bigger and scarier those things become.”
- Greg Ruth, “Why Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)"
“A young guy in a festival audience told me that it was nice to have women in the genre because it brought some ‘softness,’” says Ducournau, whose movie will be getting a wide release next year. “Softness? Have you seen my movie? When you make horror, it’s the expression of a form of violence that you feel inside of you – and it’s important we recognize that women feel violence and anger as well.”
- Phoebe Reilly, “From 'Babadook’ to 'Raw’: The Rise of the Modern Female Horror Filmmaker: How the genre has attracted an unprecedented number of female directors – and why these artists are elevating scary movies to a whole other level”
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“While the general trend for gender parity in film has seen a decline in women’s representation, horror has been the exception. A recent study by Google and the Geena Davis Institute used technology to recognise patterns in gender, screen time and speaking time in major films. While the results revealed that men are seen and heard twice as much as women, the opposite was true of horror. Women held 53% of the on-screen time and 47% of the speaking time.”
- Kayleigh Donaldson, “Women Love Horror: Why Does This Still Surprise So Many Dudes?”
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“It isn’t just that the women in these movies have to do things — we have to understand what they’re afraid of. We as viewers need to understand not just the physical fears, of death, of bones breaking, of torture. These movies aim to make the things these women fear the fears of the audience as well.”
- Gita Jackson, “Horror Movies Are One of the Few Places Women Are Told Their Fears Are Real”
“Violence in the real world doesn’t always have a satisfactory resolution. One of the appeals of violent entertainment is, you can see a story with a just resolution,” Goldstein said. “When we see justice is done, it reaffirms our belief that justice is possible.”
- Jen Christensen, “Go Scare Yourself! It’s Good for You”
“Fear is not the best thing in the world, of course, but it’s not going anywhere and we are likely forced to meet it in some capacity, great or small, each and every day. There’s no way around it. Denying this fact only provides more fertile ground for fear to take root. Worse yet, denying it robs us of our agency to meet and overcome it. The more we ignore scary things, the bigger and scarier those things become.”
- Greg Ruth, “Why Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)"
“A young guy in a festival audience told me that it was nice to have women in the genre because it brought some ‘softness,’” says Ducournau, whose movie will be getting a wide release next year. “Softness? Have you seen my movie? When you make horror, it’s the expression of a form of violence that you feel inside of you – and it’s important we recognize that women feel violence and anger as well.”
- Phoebe Reilly, “From 'Babadook’ to 'Raw’: The Rise of the Modern Female Horror Filmmaker: How the genre has attracted an unprecedented number of female directors – and why these artists are elevating scary movies to a whole other level”
“While the general trend for gender parity in film has seen a decline in women’s representation, horror has been the exception. A recent study by Google and the Geena Davis Institute used technology to recognise patterns in gender, screen time and speaking time in major films. While the results revealed that men are seen and heard twice as much as women, the opposite was true of horror. Women held 53% of the on-screen time and 47% of the speaking time.”
- Kayleigh Donaldson, “Women Love Horror: Why Does This Still Surprise So Many Dudes?”
“It isn’t just that the women in these movies have to do things — we have to understand what they’re afraid of. We as viewers need to understand not just the physical fears, of death, of bones breaking, of torture. These movies aim to make the things these women fear the fears of the audience as well.”
- Gita Jackson, “Horror Movies Are One of the Few Places Women Are Told Their Fears Are Real”
“Violence in the real world doesn’t always have a satisfactory resolution. One of the appeals of violent entertainment is, you can see a story with a just resolution,” Goldstein said. “When we see justice is done, it reaffirms our belief that justice is possible.”
- Jen Christensen, “Go Scare Yourself! It’s Good for You”