Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror
Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror is a television documentary about women involved in the horror genre, directed by Donna Davies and produced by Kimberlee McTaggart.
The documentary interviews several women about their love of and contributions to the horror genre (see below for a list of the women featured). It is an hour-long (including commercial breaks), made-for-television, Canadian production, with a focus on the North American horror industry in film and literature. It aired on Space on February 25, 2009.
Pretty Bloody offers a well-rounded approach to women of horror, with interviews from women in special effects and marketing, and positions of leadership (as editors and directors, for instance), and testimonies about the appeal of horror to the participants, it also goes into what women get out of the more gendered roles of women in horror, such as career opportunities within the scream queen niche for actresses, the emergence of the final girl in horror narratives and its impact on viewers, and the interviewees talk about the clichés of ghost stories as women's horror, and the "softcore" crossover appeal of supernatural romance to non-horror-fans.
Featuring
Women interviewed in this documentary:
- Jovanka Vuckovic, editor in chief of Rue Morgue magazine
- Karen Walton, writer of Ginger Snaps
- Chela Johnson, VP of marketing for Lionsgate
- Heidi Martinuzzi, founder of Pretty-Scary.net
- Debbie Rochon, actress and radio host
- Katt Shea, film director (notably of The Rage: Carrie 2)
- Mary Lambert, film director
- Elza Kephart, director
- Tanya Huff, writer
- Nancy Kilpatrick, writer
- Brinke Stevens, actress (scream queen)
- Cerina Vincent
- Maitland McDonagh
- ...
Also featured (archive footage):
- Maila Nurmi, creator of Vampira
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