What sets them apart is not who wins and who dies, who suffers and who laughs, who has a penis and who doesn’t, but the emotional and sociopolitical motivations behind the filmmakers’ decision to shock - and even brutalize - their audiences with violent story pieces applied to specific characters. These extreme scary movies wield over-the-top gore and violence like exacting scalpels, peeling away society’s thick skin of deference and niceties (you know, the surface-level subjections too many men regard as pre-requisites for women deserving safety and respect?) to reveal an insidious underbelly of gendered violence, gendered shame, gendered betrayal, gendered hell.Īs with other body horror films, these themes can play out on the flesh of the hero, villain, or both. At the controversial intersection of graphic violence in pop culture and women’s liberation in politics, you’ll find the taboo and too often overlooked subgenre of feminist body horror.
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