The horror genre often oscillates between reinforcing traditional gender roles andproviding space for subversive or destabilizing representations. Gender-focused horrorscholarship by Creed (2005, 2024), Clover (2015), and Benshoff (1997) explores tropeslike the “monstrous feminine,” the “final girl,” and queer subtexts, showing how... See more

As Summers notes, "horror belongs to women because we understand, on a gut-punch level, how it feels to be viewed as a monster [...] as well as how it feels to be reduced to body parts".3

Bugonia proposes that if you want to convince a godlike alien that humanity deserves extinction, you wouldn’t show her our wars or prisons or famines. You would make her live as a beautiful, highly successful woman. The ultimate horror of this film isn’t just an alien deciding to end all human life on Earth, but that her reasoning makes a terrible... See more