Typically, men are portrayed as the killers and victimize women in all sorts of ways. An example of this would be Laurie from the Halloween frachise. She is constantly in need of being saved and barely escapes the hands of Michale Myers but manages to survive. This deals with the way the film industry portrays females in horror movies.
Films portray woman as "marinal, pathetic figures". They are stereotyped and put into gender roles.
Many include half naked women running around, dark houses. The murderer, always catches her and brutally murders the victim he lusts for. Also the victims are very often engaging sexual activities before or during these attacking murder scenes.
Men tend to watch horror films in order to see women objectified and lacking intelligence in order to stay alive.
The female characters are portrayed as stereotypical needy woman. Who are saved by others or die.
Getting scared is the main reason to watch a horror movie, the outcome is to frightened and disturbed.
"Slasher films victimize females more than other film genres, and that female victimization should be looked at in the context of those genres."
Viewers expect to see a male killer, a female murderer has underlying issues and a male is likely to be the source of her anger.
Best way to sell tickets is with exposed skin and idiotic young women running into the arms of a killer.
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Horror movie franchises portray females as paranoid, sexually defiant, having "adject terror personified," and very often victimized.
They are shown as vulnerable, highly sexualized, and not intelligent.
On the rare occasion there are females playing the role of the murderer, this is because a male drove them to that point.
Women are objectified ansd controlled by the male driven society.
The male gaze keeps the females as secondary to men. The men hold the power in many situations as women are often forced to do as they are told, or risk losing their lives. These women are objects to the males.
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