Let’s be honest – the film industry is dominated by men. If this year’s Oscar nominations are anything to show, there are very few women taking lead roles in front of and behind the camera. Action films, crime films, even comedies are packed to the rafters with men, while women just get assigned the damsel in distress or the plucky sidekick.
However, one genre that has a surprising amount of women leads is horror. This is odd, as it’s typically seen as a more masculine genre, but women in horror films make up a large amount of the characters. But it’s the actual roles these women play that interests me the most, and in this blog post I will be looking at that exact thing – or, as I like to call it, ‘the transition from damsels to teenagers to mothers’.