Horror Movies Are Bad For Feminism
Movies and shows that fall under the genre of horror may have the same base objective – to scare you while entertaining you - but go about it in very different ways. The horror production toolkit includes jump scares, gore, suspense, handheld PoV and the grainy security cam where you can never see who did it. But the true key to any horror story is stupidity. The characters have to be exceedingly stupid to keep putting themselves in perilous situations while ignoring clear signs that something is not quite right with their surroundings. Worse yet, the dumbest and least aware character who tends to set things in motion is almost always a female. I usually only watch horror movies by myself or with a friend of mine. The first half of the film usually focusses on individual hauntings and brutal killings before the dopey characters try to become ghost/monster hunters. Some side characters would get murdered or disappear to suggest that something evil is afoot. However, the d...