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Not everyone can get <i>Hereditary</i>...but you can try.

Not everyone can get Hereditary...but you can try.

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Survive These Horror Movie Scenarios And I'll Give You A Monstrous-Feminine Movie To Watch

Monstrous Feminine Horror Movie Personality Quiz

You've just gotten back home from fighting in a war and notice that your hometown seems a lot stranger than you remember. What do you do?

You begin to notice that recently you've developed a hunger for human flesh. How do you react to this? 

You're in a brutal fight to kill the monster that's been tormenting your family. How do you kill it? 

You've been lured into a cult and are now trapped in their commune. How do you escape? 

You think your son might be killing people. How do you stop him? 

You're filming a documentary about a club of elderly people but you slowly begin to realize that these people may be vampires. What do you do?

Finally, you're being chased by a serial killer. How do you escape? 

Ari Aster's debut feature film, "Hereditary," focuses on a family struggling through the process of grief after experiencing death within their family. Motherhood is a major concept of this film and specifically the complicated and negative emotions a mother can have toward her child. In my opinion it is the scariest film on this quiz but its quality is well worth the nightmares it might give you.

"Hereditary"

While movies like "Mean Girls" choose to express the toxicity that can exist within some female friendships using the medium of comedy and drama in Andrew Fleming's cult classic. "The Craft" instead chooses to explore it through horror and one of the main archetypes of the monstrous-feminine discussed by Creed — the witch.

"The Craft"

In this film, Leigh Whannell reworks the classic story of the Invisible Man into a critique of victim blaming and one society's unwillingness to listen to women. Why this explanation might not make it clear how this movie fits into monstrous-feminine at all — wait until the end of the movie and you will see how.

"The Invisible Man"

Originally torn apart by critics, "Jennifer's Body" has more recently become a cult classic for it being one of the clearest examples of monstrous-feminine in filmmaking. Diablo Cody's brilliant dialogue combined with Megan Fox playing the role makes it clear as to why this film in recent times has been re-examined and recognized for its brilliance.

"Jennifer's Body"

The directorial debut of famed director Satoshi Kon, "Perfect Blue" follows Mima, a Japanese pop idol who is trying to become an actress. Slowly throughout the movie we see her lose her grip on sanity as the pressure of the acts she is forced to do in order to become an actress as well as being followed by a stalker slowly destroy her. This movie shows the brutal way the entertainment industry treats women as well as expressing the male gaze in an incredibly disturbing way.

"Perfect Blue"

Probably the most well known film on this list for good reasons, "Black Swan" is a story of obsession where a women slowly becomes the monster she believes she needs to be in order to achieve greatness. If you haven't seen this film you must.

"Black Swan"

Jennifer Kent's "The Babadook" is a film where the monster is quite literally motherhood. Often gut-wrenching and deeply upsetting this movie pushes against the motherhood is or should be all butterflies and rainbows.

"The Babadook"

Scarlett Johansson takes possibly her strangest role in this film as a predatory alien who kidnaps men. Much of the film was filmed without real actors and instead shows unscripted sequences which often expose the levels of sexism within society.

"Under the Skin"

"Carrie" may be the classic monstrous feminine film. A young girl oppressed both within her highly religious home and at school by her peers eventually takes revenge on everyone.

"Carrie"

One of the main archetypes in Creed's theory of monstrous feminine is the witch and that is no surprise as women, especially those apart of ethnic minority groups, have been scapegoated as witches for much of Western history. "The Witch" explores this scapegoating with the story of a Protestant family kicked out of a New England colony who began to blame a witch for bad things that are happening to them and more and more throughout the movie believe that witch is their daughter.

"The Witch"

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Survive These Horror Movie Scenarios And I'll Give You A Monstrous-Feminine Movie To Watch

The "Monstrous-Feminine" is a concept coined by feminist film critic Barbara Creed who argues that instead of focusing solely on women as the victims in horror, it's important for us to see the way they are represented within the monsters in these films.

Survive These Horror Movie Scenarios And I'll Give You A Monstrous-Feminine Movie To Watch

The "Monstrous-Feminine" is a concept coined by feminist film critic Barbara Creed who argues that instead of focusing solely on women as the victims in horror, it's important for us to see the way they are represented within the monsters in these films.

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