… horror film, and so it is these women whom Heller-Nicholas wants to bring to our attention. …
and classic horror films? As Heller-Nicholas notes, “if women horror audiences have been …

… happening in our emerging women horror filmmaker histories, particularly in relation to
issues of self and nation. So, when we begin to consolidate these women filmmaker histories – …

… Her key area of interest is the role of women in horror films, both in front of and behind the
camera. Coming hard on the heels of her recent book 1000 Women in Horror: 1895–2018 (…

… on the growing range of horror studies that highlight ways in … of academic non-fiction writings
on horror, with Michele Brittany and … century Gothic to twenty-first century cinematic horror. …

… that we saw a concerted shift in what women horror critics were studying, and how they
were studying it. Notably, this shift was international: Rusnak in North America, I am in the UK, …

… I think this puts me in a unique place, then, to contribute to our written horror history, as a
female horror filmmaker. While The Devil's Doorway may have been the first horror film made …

… a dual motivation for the subject of our examination here: we focus on women horror
filmmakers as industry outsiders who have made vampire films focused on outsider figures. This …

… make women’s bodies more hygienic, more feminine and thus, more socially acceptable”(55).
The first Kotex ad appeared in Ladies Home Journal in 1921 and showed two women with …

Marking the end of a rollercoaster and frequently controversial career straddling exploitation
cinema, hardcore pornography, and horror, Roberta Findlay’s long-unreleased final film …