Horror Movies Forum - Who is your favourite female horror director?

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Vasquez) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:44:41 +0000

kXnPunk wrote:

Bloody Mary Lambert and the Soska girls are amazing.
Oh and no, NOT the girl that did Twilight even if her Tony Hawk and Bones Brigade movie was great.
Oh, BTW, congrats on your new spot on the main site Vasquez.

Thx kXnPunk. I will be sure to come up some new editorials soon.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (LoudLon) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:25:25 +0000

I don't have one. That's not a sexist thing; it's because there aren't enough female directors out there who can actually be called horror directors. Directing one horror film -- like Kathryn Bigelow, Mary Harron, Holly Dale, et al -- doesn't make them horror directors. In their bodies of work horror is far, far from a regular occurrence, hence I don't be consider any of them to be horror directors any more than I would Stanley Kubrick or Johnathon Demme, who also made only one horror film in their careers.

As for Mary Lambert, while she actually does have plenty of experience in the genre, I haven't really enjoyed any of her horror flicks so logically I can't call her a favorite, either.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (kXnPunk) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:08:54 +0000

Bloody Mary Lambert and the Soska girls are amazing.

Oh and no, NOT the girl that did Twilight even if her Tony Hawk and Bones Brigade movie was great.

Oh, BTW, congrats on your new spot on the main site Vasquez.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Vasquez) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:55:33 +0000

Near Dark and American Mary fantastic - Katherine Bigelow and The Soska Sister's are the WOMANS!

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Chomper) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:36:55 +0000

I really hadn't thought about it, weird. Only know Near Dark as an example.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Fulcento) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:22:39 +0000

Say wuut? There're women making horror movies these days!?? Whatever next? Women drivers? Women voters? When will this madness ever end?

Now, I'm a rather forward thinking type of bloke who's all for interesting social experiments but I draw the line at letting smelly girlz direct horror films. Ew, yucky!!!

I must admit to being rather ill-informed about this subject but I always loved the fact that Slumber Party Massacre was helmed by a bitch, oops, I mean a ho, oops, I mean a woman because that film really riled up the censors who accused it of being misogynistic, see, the wimminz can make misogynist slashers too.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (wolfman1959) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:53:52 +0000

Jaime D Jenkins ! xxx

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (kXnPunk) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:43:11 +0000

Godzilla_Rules wrote:

i DID NOT KNOW FEMALE HORROR DIRECTORS EXISTED

Then you need a kick in the balls.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (freakofcinema) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:31:18 +0000

*BUMP*

Great thread here! Although there's not many female horror directors, they do exist and have created some fantastic movies. Obviously, as mentioned American Psycho is a must see! Such a brilliant film and Bale's best role.

Has anyone heard about American Mary? It's a new body horror film directed by a pair of sisters and staring the woman from Ginger Snaps. From what I've read and the trailer, it sounds like a rather disturbing but fresh horror film. I can't wait to see it!

http://youtu.be/LXqHADm_cZQ

Oh, and Mary Shelley - surely the author of Frankenstein counts too!

Mary Shelly, American Mary and Mary Harron? I see a trend here!

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (wolfman1959) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:43:37 +0000

i would definitely agree with Kathryn Bigelow

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (fredgarvin) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:45:43 +0000

Ravenous and Near dark were the best films imo, so I guess Bigelow and Bird.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (BlackTequilaKiss) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000

MistressOf Horror wrote:

aaaaw thanks BTK Mistress blows a kiss~~ great topic for a thread !!!
Like you, I also am a fan of Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark) and Mary Lambert. (Pet Sematary 1 & 2)
I also liked then work of Mary Harron's American Psycho and Antonia Bird's Ravenous
I'd like to see them do more Horror

and remember,,,,,
"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."
--Bela Lugosi

You're welcome hun and I've heard about Ravenous, really need to see that.
Great choices too!

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Godzilla_Rules) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:52:30 +0000

i DID NOT KNOW FEMALE HORROR DIRECTORS EXISTED

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (hellrat) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:27 +0000

Suspiria_89 wrote:

Mary Lambert for sure. And I don't know her name, but I'm pretty sure a woman directed Slumber Party Massacre. She did a damn good job with SPM.

Amy Holden Jones directed SPM.
Deborah Brock directed the second movie.
Sally Mattison directed the third.

Re: Who is your favourite female horror director?

dummy@example.com (Doctor_Pepper) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:10:30 +0000

MistressOf Horror wrote:

"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."
--Bela Lugosi

If that were true I'd get laid more often.