“Beyond Scream Queens and Rape Revenge”
A panel discussion about gender and the horror genre in 2013, moderated by SWMF programmer Briony Kidd. This event is part of the Stranger With My Face short films program at Monster Fest 2013. Our speakers will share their perspectives on questions such as trends in horror, the rise of the female director, sexism in genre and more.
Sunday 1 December, 2.30 pm
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Originally from Montreal, URSULA DABROWSKY is an independent horror writer and director based in Adelaide. In 2009, she completed the first instalment of her Demon Trilogy, Family Demons. Her sophomore effort, Inner Demon, is due for release in 2014. Ursula is currently developing Demonheart, with script consultant, Stephen Cleary.She is also working on an online horror game, Demon House, with games producer, Dan Thorsland.
- KIER-LA JANISSE is a writer and film programmer based in Montreal, Canada. She has written for Filmmaker, Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, has contributed to The Scarecrow Movie Guide (Sasquatch Books, 2004) and Destroy All Movies!! A Complete Guide to Punk on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012).
After a series of experimental shorts, PHILIP BROPHY made his feature debut with Body Melt (“A slime-soaked all-out shocker!”—Fangoria) in 1992. He’s also a musician, composer, sound designer, writer and film curator.Recent film project include The Morbid Forest and The Prostrate Christ and the animation The Hungry Vagina.
- ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS is the author of Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011) and Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (2014).
She is currently working on a book about Dario Argento’s Suspiria.
