Preview Episode: It's Women in Horror Month and I wanted to do my part to promote films directed by women and centered around women.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982): The first episode of the Women in Horror Month special series is
The Slumber Party Massacre. Written by Rita Mae Brown as a parody of the slasher genre but filmed straight by Amy Holden Jones, what emerged was a slightly off-kilter horror flick that might just make you question what it is you like about these films.
[EPISODE CORRECTION: Brinke Stevens was in
TSPM not Michelle Bauer.]
The Invitation (2015): The second episode of the Women in Horror Month special series is on Karyn Kusama's tense horror/thriller
The Invitation. This movie triggers my social anxieties, contains my favorite horror sub-genre, and has a killer cast.
Mia Farrow: Mia Farrow, though not necessarily labeled a genre actress, has been in some of my favorite horror films. In Episode Three of the Women in Horror Month series I discuss four (well five) of Ms. Farrow's horror films:
Rosemary's Baby (1968),
Secret Ceremony (1968),
See No Evil (1971),
The Haunting of Julia (1977), and (ever so briefly)
The Omen (2006). Please check out
The Projection Booth's episode on
The Haunting of Julia: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2012/09/e…ulia.html
The devil made me do it: Women in Horror Month 2019 concludes at
WUH with an episode on Jocelin Donahue and Alex Essoe and their starring roles in two of my favorite modern horror movies:
The House of the Devil (2009) and
Starry Eyes (2014).
