Exclusive: Organizer Miki Hickel on the History, Significance, and Future of WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH
As we near the end of the final Women in Horror Month, Yvonne Villasenor talks to organizer Miki Hickel about the movement s history and future. By Yvonne Villasenor
“Women don’t like seeing gore or violence.”
“Horror is a guy’s genre.”
The notion that women don’t belong in a particular genre especially one that is supposed to be as welcoming as the horror genre is incredibly outdated to us nowadays.
The late and great Bela Lugosi once said, “It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”