These 5 Feminist Horror Movies are a Must Watch!

  1. The Badadook (2014)

The Babadookcan be read in many different ways, but for me, it’s about a woman suffering from depression and isolation. With each passing scene, director Jennifer Kent creates a creeping sense of terror, and it’s all I can do not to cover my eyes when Amelia confronts the Babadook head-on, knowing that if she doesn’t defeat it, she and her son will perish. 

Amelia is a multifaceted and relatable character in The Babadook, a multi-layered horror film about grief and motherhood pressures. She is not a perfect mother; her frustration frequently overpowers her, and it is clear that she harbors resentment toward her child. She’s also tired of people looking down on her and dismissing her. Amelia becomes so enraged that she becomes the monster from her own story. Few horror heroines have the opportunity to shed their good girl persona, but Amelia does, and it’s a cathartic experience to witness.

2. Ginger Snaps (2000)

Ginger Snaps, a Canadian cult horror film, tells a werewolf story unlike any other. Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), two outcast sisters, hide a big secret: the former is a werewolf. Karen Walton wrote it, and John Fawcett directed it. A lycanthrope bit Ginger on her first period, and she hasn’t been the same. Brigitte must save her sister and herself because she is hell-bent on eradicating everything and everyone in her path.

Ginger Snaps flips the werewolf subgenre to explore female puberty in new and intriguing ways. Periods are unpleasant for 99 per cent of women, and getting one’s first period can be terrifying. Ginger Snaps recognises this by using lycanthropy as a metaphor for the harrowing physical and emotional transformations that occur during menstruation. It’s hilarious how relatable it is and admirable that it introduces such a “taboo” topic into the horror genre. Ginger and Brigitte are other fantastic characters who know what they want and aren’t afraid to go after it, and Ginger is willing to sacrifice her life for it.

3. Alien (1979)

Alien, unquestionably one of the most iconic films of all time, is a feminist film. Ripley, the only astronaut who realises her crew is in danger and possibly the most iconic badass woman in cinema, is the protagonist, and the film contains intricate metaphors about sexual assault. Ridley Scott and writer Dan O’Bannon transform men’s reality into women’s reality; O’Bannon even says, “I’m going to attack the audience.” “I’m going to sexually assault them,” he says, referring awkwardly to his repeated metaphors for sexual assault, which so many women have experienced.

4. Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Silence of the Lambs, another Jodie Foster film, depicts what it’s like to be a wuss. Silence of the Lambs shows what it is like to be a woman in a male-dominated environment. Several shots of Starling walking/jogging are used to draw the viewer’s attention to the number of men. Buffalo Bill, the serial killer Starling is pursuing, began his stalker activities by spying on women. 

Silence of the Lambs is a now-classic story about FBI agent Clarice Starling on the hunt for a serial killer. To understand the killer’s mind, she must first understand how their brains work.

5. The Invisible Man (2000)

The Invisible Man is a feminist of H. G. Wells’s novel of the same name by Leigh Whannell. It stars Elisabeth Moss as Cecilia, a woman who cannot escape her abusive ex-partner, a scientist named Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). Cecilia reports to the police that Adrian has used his power to become invisible and stalk her, but she is quickly dismissed. 

The Invisible Man by Whannell is a story about domestic abuse and gaslighting, and its examination of the latter is incredibly moving. The police’s dismissal of Cecilia and insistence that she is insane is a harsh reminder of our world: a world where women’s concerns are frequently dismissed and ignored. Elisabeth Moss handles the material sensitively, and Cecilia is a heroine that women would be lucky to have on their side.

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