Hunger

Female directors and the rise of girl-cannibal horror

We live in the midst of a renaissance of female-driven horror.

Of course, to get a renaissance, you need a dark age first. Over the second half of the 20th century, horror’s epicenter shifted to movies, where Hollywood’s bias toward white male directors threatened to quash female voices entirely. Though great horror movies have been made in every era, by the 1980s, the mainstream was clogged with what Roger Ebert called “dead teenager movies.” Women’s involvement therein was confined to fucking…