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According to wikipedia, the first horror film was The Execution of Mary Stuart (1895). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_of_Mary_Stuart">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXljxujXoAc">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
1st horror film co-directed by a woman was Anita (1920). Luise Fleck was second ever female feature film director. http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/great-directors/kolm_fleck/">https://sensesofcinema.com/2004/grea...
And then we don& #39;t see another woman helmer on a horror film until 1959 with Rosemary Horvath co-directing House on Haunted Hill.
And then there& #39;s Blood Bath in 1966, co-directed by Stephanie Rothman (Roger Corman& #39;s former assistant). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Rothman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step...
It wasn& #39;t until 1971 that a woman directed a horror film on her own. That woman was Rothman with The Velvet Vampire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Vampire">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...
Messiah of Evil (1973) marks the first horror film co-directed, co-written, *and* co-produced by a woman (Gloria Katz).
In 1979, Anna Thomas directed, wrote, and produced The Haunting of M (1980). Roger Ebert gave the film four stars. #v=onepage&q=anna%20thomas%20the%20haunting%20of%20m&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=v43dJNPMJIkC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=anna+thomas+the+haunting+of+m&source=bl&ots=L0FWvhGvQw&sig=Y0rapFEtSn1HbPtJTW1d5ZP2HEg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0iICa1JnXAhXC8CYKHXXlDSQQ6AEIQjAE #v=onepage&q=anna%20thomas%20the%20haunting%20of%20m&f=false">https://books.google.com/books...
You can watch the first 48ish minutes of Anna Thomas& #39;s The Haunting of M. on Dailymotion. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrk1g7 ">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrk...
In 1981, Nettie Peña directed the Thanksgiving-set Home Sweet Home. Here is Peña& #39;s professional website. https://nettie-pena.pixels.com/ ">https://nettie-pena.pixels.com/">...
Slumber Party Massacre (1982) was directed + produced by Amy Holden Jones, written by Rita Mae Brown, + co-edited by Wendy Greene Bricmont.
Beverly Sebastian co-directed, co-wrote, and co-produced Rocktober Blood (1984). Here& #39;s the trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYGEA-9wZ0o">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Carol Frank (assistant to director on Slumber Party Massacre) wrote and directed Sorority House Massacre (1986). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v51e1usmCCg">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
That same year, Eugenie Joseph edited and co-directed Spookies (1986). Here is the film in full on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EtfOdRRxTc">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
1987 saw 5 horror films directed by women: Blood Diner, Blood Sisters, Munchies, Near Dark, and Slumber Party Massacre 2.
1988 also had 5 horror films directed by women: Celia, Deadly Dreams, Necromancer, Spellbinder + Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Mary Lambert directed Stephen King& #39;s Pet Sematary (1989). The highest grossing horror film ($57.5M B.O.) directed by a woman to that date.
Marina Sargenti directed and co-wrote Mirror, Mirror (1990) with Gina Cascone, Annette Cascone, and Yuro Zeltser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AaCIFNE7_Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
That same year, Rachel Feldman directed Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death and Sally Mattison directed Slumber Party Massacre III.
1991: Sargenti& #39;s Child of Darkness, Child of Light, Rachel Talalay& #39;s Freddy& #39;s Dead: Final Nightmare, Hope Perello& #39;s Howling VI: The Freaks.
1992: Fran Kuzui& #39;s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Maria Lease& #39;s Dolly Dearest, Lambert& #39;s Pet Sematary Two, Judith Priest& #39;s Reanimator Academy.
1994: Anne Goursaud& #39;s Embrace of the Vampire (made for $500k in 13 days) and Julie Davis& #39;s Witchcraft VI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vojrKsiKix8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
1999: Antonia Bird& #39;s Ravenous is a must-see and Svetlana Baskova& #39;s The Green Elephant is a must-be-seen-to-be-believed.
2000 marks dawn of a new millennium + the release of Mary Harron& #39;s American Psycho! (Screenplay is co-written by Harron + Guinevere Turner.)
2001: Claire Denis& #39;s Trouble Every Day (screened out of competition at Cannes) + Ann Hui& #39;s Visible Secret. (Both also co-wrote their films.)
2005: Courtney Solomon& #39;s An American Haunting, Lambert& #39;s Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, and Olga Levens& #39;s Haunted Boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeckwDDXO7c">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2006: Kate Robbins& #39;s Candy Stripers, Lola Wallace& #39;s Legend of the Sandsquatch, Erin Berry& #39;s Living Death, and Emily Hagins& #39;s Pathogen.
2007: Grace Lee& #39;s American Zombie, Katja von Garnier& #39;s Blood + Chocolate, Aisling Walsh& #39;s Daisy Chain, and Silvana Zancolo& #39;s Shadow Within.
2008: Credo, Dorothy Mills, Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust, Hurt, Best& #39;s Splatter Movie: The Director& #39;s Cut, Strigoi, and Wilderness
2009: Family Demons, Hotel Darklight (Rice), Jennifer& #39;s Body, The Landlord, Slaughtered, Sutures, and Tannöd,
2010: Cinco (Garcia-Molina), Hard Ride to Hell
2011: Red Riding Hood
2012: American Mary, Silent House
2013: Carrie, Dark Touch
2011: Red Riding Hood
2012: American Mary, Silent House
2013: Carrie, Dark Touch
2014: Jennifer Kent& #39;s THE BABADOOK, Ana Lily Amirpour& #39;s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Soskas& #39; See No Evil 2, TEN, Twilight Online
2015: Karyn Kusama& #39;s THE INVITATION
2016: Anna Biller& #39;s THE LOVE WITCH, Julia Ducournau& #39;s Raw, Blood of the Tribades (Sophia Cacciola)
2016: Anna Biller& #39;s THE LOVE WITCH, Julia Ducournau& #39;s Raw, Blood of the Tribades (Sophia Cacciola)
2017: Stacy Title& #39;s Bye Bye Man, Anna Foerster& #39;s Underworld: Blood Wars, XX (Roxanne Benjamin, Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Jovanka Vuckovic).
Over the course of 4ish hours and 34ish tweets, this thread has outlined the almost-entire history of women directors in horror.
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