I utilize Barbara Creed’s discussion of the abject and the monstrous-feminine to establish Hard Candy’s protagonist as a site of abjection and queerness within the film. Hard Candy explores the victim/monster relationship, which has evolved past the female victim/male monster standard of horror film. Elements of each of these sub-genres of horror are brought together in the film Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005). More recently, horror films have formulated terror through depictions of the extensive torture of victims at the hands of a killer. Clover, is typically an androgynous female who triumphs over the (male) killer by adopting his violence as her own. The final survivor of the slasher film, termed the “Final Girl” by Carol J. The rape-revenge film features a victimized woman who seeks revenge against her tormenters (or men in general). The horror genre has an interesting relationship with gender in that violence is always gendered masculine. ![]() Horror film has gone through many different cycles since the beginning of cinema.
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