12 Great Female-Directed Vampire Movies
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While vampire stories find their roots in gothic literature, and early vampire films are mostly calibrated as horror, modern vampire stories can be found in a myriad of genres. You’ll also find that vampire films tend to be highly eroticized, and thus often filled with a great deal of male gaze. With this in mind, I present twelve vampire films from a variety of different genres, each directed by a woman. The male gaze is gone, but the eroticism remains mostly intact! (For more of Nerdist Vampire Week, click here!)
The Velvet Vampire, 1971 (dir. Stephanie Rothman)
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20 Essential Horror Films Directed by Women
Near Dark (1987)
Female characters are prominent in scary movies, and not always as helpless victims. Think about the Final Girl, without whom slasher films would not exist, or other kick-ass heroines, like
Alien’s Ripley. Behind the camera, though, you’ll find
way more male writers and directors which is why these horror movies directed by women are worthy of extra celebration.
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Director Harron
(I Shot Andy Warhol) and Guinevere Turner co-wrote the script, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’ satirical best-seller about a materialistic, appearance-obsessed, serial-killing yuppie. Christian Bale’s note-perfect titular turn forever distanced him from his child-star beginnings, and Harron’s movie stylish and impressively grisly, while still emphasizing the source material’s razor-sharp, pitch-black humor continues to be influential in so many ways. Where would
I would do anything for you, Angela. Strange Days
Unstreamable is a weekly column that finds films and TV shows you can t watch on major streaming services in the United States. This week we re celebrating Women s History Month by highlighting 12 films directed by women that we think should be more broadly available to watch. We ve got films from Mira Nair, Kathryn Bigelow, Céline Sciamma, and more. This list is definitely not comprehensive if you have any unstreamable recommendations, send them our way!
(Also, a little housekeeping: Chase is out on vacation for the next two weeks, so we ll have a few special guests joining Jasmyne for the column.)
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