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Tracing the must-see films from the women’s horror renaissance

The Love Witch (2016)

For a long time, horror was an exclusionary genre, both in terms of gender and race. Women have been mercilessly stalked, tortured, and maimed for the viewer’s pleasure, with films gratuitously screening disturbing acts of violence against women, portaying them as mindless victims with zero agency nor characterisation – other than their fuckability.

But scary films have also been a powerful tool to mirror the real horrors of society and boldly critique the status quo, as well ashellip;

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Felicity Martin, Khareem Sudlow