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Saner, E. (2007, April 05). Everything but the ghoul. //The Guardian//. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/apr/06/2

(Saner, 2007)

__**15 Facts:**__
 * 1) ** "There are **** so few female directors of any genre **** . I think the type of horror films **** women tend to like are perhaps more interesting, more psychological **** ."- **** Sandey Sims **
 * 2) The ** Hills Have Eyes 2 ** -Nearly ** half of the audience are women **, but ** most seem to have come with male friends ** - there are ** no groups of women ** , although there are of young men.
 * 3) ** Psychologists ** have long ** believe ** d that ** our attraction to horror films is that they allow us to explore and experiment with fears and emotions **, but ** there are suggestions that women respond to fear in a way that men don't. **
 * 4) "Fear can facilitate sexual responsiveness in women, whereas it inhibits it in men," says Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at King's College London.
 * 5) Horror films, for men and women, are about learning to cope with emotions that would threaten to overwhelm us if they happened in reality.
 * 6) modern horror still can't seem to work out what to do with women.
 * 7) American horror movies seem to be revelling in ever greater levels of misogyny and violence
 * 8) Los Angeles Times columnist ** Steve Lopez described a new horror film, Captivity, as "torture porn". **
 * 9) MTV, Eli Roth, the writer and director of the ultraviolent Hostel, said he wants to see even more violence in horror films. "I feel like in the 1990s horror lost its way and everything became safe and watered-down,
 * 10) ** "There will always be horror films that present negative nasty images of women as long as we live in a misogynistic world," ** says Professor Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine
 * 11) " Horror reflects society . What we probably need are more thoughtful horror films that speak directly to female experiences"
 * 12) "We are focusing on horror because the genre is becoming more popular," says Caroline Cooper Charles,
 * 13) It is a psychologically focused film that centres on female characters, doesn't contain extreme violence, or anyone running around in a bikini screaming.
 * 14) The so-called ** "torture porn" films didn't do well with women **
 * 15) They are a rite of passage for girls, about learning to confront one's inner fears, and horror films are modern versions of myths that speak to both sexes.