The Power of Fear: How Women Turned Horror into Empowerment
Over time, the women of horror began to fight back, rewriting the genre from the inside out.
They stopped being the victims and instead started being the survivors, the investigators, even the monsters themselves.
Horror has always been obsessed with women, their bodies, their fears, and their desires, but for much of its history, it was the male directors who controlled the narrative.
Examples come from Carrie White’s telekinetic rage to Jennifer Check’s darkly feminine revenge, each generation of female characters has pushed horror to confront its own anxieties about power and femininity.
These women didn’t just survive the surrounding horrors, instead they transformed them, turning fear, pain, and repression into strength.
Their evolution tells the story of horror itself: a genre that, at its best, exposes what society most wants to suppress.
These are just a few examples of the many female characters who revolutionized horror forever.
Author's summary: Women empower themselves in horror genre.
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