Women in Horror Month focuses pretty heavily on actresses and directors every year. In fact, I’m hard pressed to think of many pieces I read each February that don’t center on a beloved Scream Queens some girl power super slasher film that didn’t actually have a woman working anywhere behind the lens. But this month isn’t just about actresses and storylines about women and empowerment. It’s about recognizing women on and off camera who make some of our favorite horror movies

I saw a lot of incredible short films during the Women in Horror Film Festival. Everything running the gamut from psychological torture to outright gore and always from a unique perspective. There were movies that gave me the creeps, that made me laugh, and more than a few that left me pretty shaken up as the lights came up in the screening room. But none of what I saw had prepared me for the abject horror and discomfort that I suffered at the hands of Unbearing. Warning, the

I was fortunate enough to return to Atlanta this past weekend to attend the inaugural year of the Women in Horror Film Festival. There’s no argument from anyone that women play an integral role in the creation of some of our most beloved movies and television shows but while they are instrumental in bringing these stories to life they are often overlooked and disregarded in the world of filmmaking. In fact, unless a woman happens to be the pretty face of that final girl in a

Women have always had an integral, if not somewhat cubbyholed role to play in the horror genre. In the earliest days of the genre on stage and screen they became either the damsel in distress to be rescued by the heroic male lead or they were some villainous monstress, a concubine of Satan sent to steer that same male hero into disaster. Even with the emergence of women’s rights and changing views of sex and sexuality in society, the most you could ever hope for was still som