Gender in horror films
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The representation of gender in horror films, particularly depictions of women, has been the subject of critical commentary.
Multiple horror film stars' face molds displayed at The Hollywood Museum
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) was a prominent example of a character who kept his murderous female identity a secret.
In Rosemary's Baby (1968), Mia Farrow portrays a young woman who is impregnated by Satan.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and featuring Victor Buono i
Gender in horror films
…unbalanced and terrorizes those around her. The genre is considered by scholars such as Shelley and Tomasz Fisiak to have been launched with the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Films in this vein continued to be released through the mid-1970s and, per Fisiak, have influenced multiple areas, including music videos. Renata Adler…
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Bette Davis 1935
Joan Crawford 1936 Hurrell