Please write me a 5 person script that is a podcast episode. Include these topics and notes- Women are treated with excessive violence in horror movies, particularly in films directed by a man
Often sexualized, almost a fetish to see women in compromising/contradicting situations
Goes against the image of women often portrayed: docile, angelic, child-like, doe-eyed
A visual reminder that a woman’s body is not her own
Abjection? – you cannot exactly explain why the object/person
Doing gender – gender is a performance, women in these films are playing into the role of perfect, captivating victim
Her defiance is punished, ridiculed, mocked, fetishized
Goes against everything ‘natural’ Sexism that has perpetuated a vast majority of class horror films
Laura Mulvey’s groundbreaking essay 1975- “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Traditional cinema –spectator in a masculine viewing position
Perpetuating a male gaze
Forces female characters to maintain passive roles—”objects of desire”
Female victimization and violence– meant to satisfy male spectators
Recently, producers have developed more progressive understandings of gender
Psycho– Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic
Marion falls victim– traditional tropes
Violence and sexuality–set new standards on cinematic history–Slasher film genre
Murder scene– blurs the lines of male and female pleasure
Close-up shots of her naked body in the shower
Up until her dealth–constant object of the camera’s lens
Positions of vulnerability–brought upon male characters
Active male and passive female
This shows the influences of strict gender roles in classic cinema—- in which these ways reinforce cultural violence towards women
Jennifer’s Body— 2009– Karyn Jusama
Orginially promoted in an ad campaign that focused on the sexualization of Megan Fox to appeal to a straight male audience
Has recently garnered a feminist cult following
Director’s intention of creative the film for young women
Summary of the film:
It follows Jennifer Check, a high school girl who is transformed into a man-eating demon after a band, composed entirely of men, tries to sacrifice her to Satan in exchange for fame. The sacrifice fails because Jennifer is not a virgin, and this scene thus satirizes the classic trope of women being punished for their promiscuity. The film continues to stray from tradition by giving Jennifer the opportunity to become a monster that fights against and from within the ultimate societal villain: the patriarchy.
Her friendship with Needy is ripped apart as a result of the men who victimized Jennifer in the first place
Forefront of our culture today—hits many gender-based stereotypes and issues
Ex, sexual violence, blaming of women, perspective of women being sexually permiscious
Needs a critical revisit of a modern feminist perspective
Work to be done in the genre at large
Traditional depictions of women perpetuate violence inflicted toward women and a suppression of female sexuality.
We should enjoy these films, but acknowledge the movement toward gender equality, needs to align itself with these changes
Films can be entertaining even when it is not victimizing women
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Suffolk University- Female Victimization in the 1970s and 1980’s Slasher Film-Sarah Lukowski
Written– April 28th, 2022
1970s, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and John Carpenter’s Halloween, emerged a new era of horror.
As it evolved, it concerned itself with the representation of women dn the roles women assume as victims.
Texas chainsaw massacre– responds to the values of the late sixties and early seventies
Horror films “plays on fears about the environment” comments on the dangers faced within our neighborhoods, camps, schools
For women, these fears are different from men, fear of being sexually assaulted, drugged, or brutally killed while walking alone late at night.
Slasher films differ from traditional horror– explicit violence primarily directed towards women
Violence in slashers– often paired with sexual behavior
Basis of many plots– appeal to male audiences
Misogynistic representation of women in slasher films from the 70s and 80s
Suffering of female characters
Slasher- recognized for being predictable and this predictability is part of the experience for moviegoers– high level of replication in terms of narrative structure
Misogyny manifests itself in the genre– what type of people survive or are immediately killed
Sexually-active women get brutally slashed in lengthy scenes, whereas the pure, less attractive women survive.
Ruby: Horror Movies
Scream 2
Maureen talking about the historical exclusion of Black people from horror
Movie within the movie paying homage to Psycho and original Scream with Drew Barrymore lookalike getting naked about to shower, Maureen asking what her being naked has to do with the plot
Maureen gets stabbed as the movie is going on in the background and nobody is paying attention because they’re focusing on the movie
Dies in front of the screen
Sidney’s roommate Hallie–black best friend/side kick trope?
Encouraging Sidney to get her life together, move on from the crime
Violence towards sexually active women in the first movie (ie. Tatum was killed when she was sexually active, Sidney wasn’t a target until she had sex with Billy)
Dewey and Randy talking about who could be the killer, speculating about Hallie–Dewey says the killers are commonly white males, Randy brings up the fact that Mrs. Voorhees was the perfect killer, Candyman’s daughter
Hallie calls herself Sid’s therapist
Hallie gets killed because Sid wanted to see who was under the mask in the car, ultimately taking the fall for Sid
Psycho
Origin of “slasher” type films
The sexualization of Marion’s murder scene–she’s naked in the shower, close-ups of her naked body as she’s dead
Frequently reinforced as vulnerable and passive
Terrifier & Terrifier 2, All Hallow’s Eve
Unnecessarily brutal and graphic scenes of women being murdered
First movie, woman hung upside down and sawed in half with a hacksaw starting at her groin (hanging people upside down causes blood to rush to their head, keeping them alive longer and subjecting them to more pain)
All Hallow’s Eve, one woman has her limbs and breasts cut off and has misogynistic obscenities carved onto her body
Sequel, bedroom scene where one girl is murdered so brutally that this specific scene is infamous for how disgusting it is–Art mutilates a girl, scalps her, and pours salt and bleach into her wounds, rips her face off
Previous scene known for making people vomit and faint
Director intentionally based kills off of Jack the Ripper and medieval torture methods
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