A Damned Take on Women in Horror Films
The Guy’s Point of View!

In honor of Women in Horror Month 2017, I asked six male horror writers for their top-five favorite horror films staring strong leading ladies and why they loved them so much. While this particular pick is a TV series, it’s earned it’s place in the horror entertainment world.  So, without further ado…

Day 24 – Jon Olson:

The X-Files (TV Series)
Leading Lady: Gillian Anderson

Synopsis:

Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Jon’s opinion:

“For my final pick, I’m going to offer up one of my favorite television shows of all times, The X-Files. The show follows FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) as they investigate unexplained cases known as X-Files. Mulder is…

A Damned Take on Women in Horror Films
The Guy’s Point of View!

In honor of Women in Horror Month 2017, I asked six male horror writers for their top-five favorite horror films staring strong leading ladies and why they loved them so much. So, without further ado…

Day 23 – Hunter Shea:

Creature from the Black Lagoon
Leading Lady: Julia Adams

Synopsis:

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

Hunter’s opinion:

“For my money, this is the best monster movie ever made with the most beautiful woman ever to grace celluloid. Julie Adams plays Kay, a scientist who accompanies her boyfriend on an Amazon expedition to find the missing link. She’s intelligent and exceedingly brave. Knowing the creature is out to get her, she doesn’t resort to hysterics or…

Write Her Story

Grave Miracles
by Paula D. Ashe

Light thirty white candles. Set a polished human skull — aged fifty years and never buried– near them. Take a necklace from a corpse, affix a shard of amethyst to its end and tie this to your dead bride’s neck. This is for your protection.

She’ll be ravenous. Serve her the hearts of strays in a hot stew. Waste nothing. Give her the bones; she’ll suck out the marrow. Give her the brains; she’ll separate the folds and lick the fluids from her fingertips as you or I would an orange. Give her the offal; she’ll unspool those slick delicacies as if they were taffy. Perhaps, save the liver for yourself. You look like you could use the iron.

Pray nightly to the Queen of the Prickling Things. Every month, scrub down with a fetish of yourself from crooked nails, used needles…

A Damned Take on Women in Horror Films
The Guy’s Point of View!

In honor of Women in Horror Month 2017, I asked six male horror writers for their top-five favorite horror films staring strong leading ladies and why they loved them so much. So, without further ado…

Day 22 – Brian Moreland:

HUSH
Leading Lady: Kate Siegel

Synopsis:

A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Brian’s opinion:

“This movie follows a similar set up to I Spit on Your Grave, in that Maddie (Kate Siegel) is a lone writer innocently working on her book at a remote cabin in the woods. The big differences in Hush are that Maddie is deaf and she’s being stalked by one sadistic killer with a crossbow. It’s another cat-and-mouse game, as the cocky killer…

by Kate Colby

So writing is your creative calling, your life’s purpose, your ultimate joy. Congratulations! You’re part of (in my totally unbiased opinion) one of the best groups of people in the world. You know it, I know it — and yet, your friends and family don’t.

After all, what’s so special about being a writer? Literally billions of people on the planet write every day. It’s a basic life skill, one of the first we learn. And as a career? Psh! You might as well steal a cardboard box from behind your local grocery store and get comfy on the street.

A Damned Take on Women in Horror Films
The Guy’s Point of View!

In honor of Women in Horror Month 2017, I asked six male horror writers for their top-five favorite horror films staring strong leading ladies and why they loved them so much. So, without further ado…

Day 21 – Mark Steinwachs:

Quarantine
Leading Lady: Jennifer Carpenter

Synopsis:

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Mark’s opinion:

“Of the movies I’ve picked, this is the one that has the best chance of making you jump out of your seat. A reporter (played by Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman are on assignment to spend a night following firefighters in Los Angeles. They get called to an incident in an apartment building. While inside, the CDC arrives and barricades them in, killing…