Gender In Horror

Women
Women are normally murdered for indiscretions and rule breaking, but after years of playing screaming victims, women in today's horror TV series/films depict something much more scary - repressed female anger... 

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Female Horror Archetypes:

• Sex crazed bimbo
• Badass babe
• The smart one
• The bitch
• The invisible one
• The witch
• The postmodern 
• The final girl, e.g. in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream, Saw II, etc.

"The viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film." - Carol J. Clover, 1992. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Blondes:

• Slashers tend to prefer blondes
• Different types of blonde - dumb/evil/innocent 

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints." - Alfred Hitchcock

Men

• Men are the expendable gender
• Men are neither supposed nor allowed to be dependent - they are expected to take care of others & themselves, when they can't/won't the assumption is that they are somehow less than men and therefore unworthy of help

Double Standards: Abuse - Female on male

• It's humorous?
• Retribution 
• Women aren't really strong enough to harm a man/can only be a weak man
• Men have done something really bad to be injured by a woman
• Women would only resort to violence when necessary