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Monster Fest is an annual genre film festival in Melbourne, Australia. Called “Australia's foremost celebration of international cult and horror cinema,”.[1] as of 2017 it is the only genre film festival in Australia to be supported by the federal screen agency, Screen Australia.

2016 Keynote speaker Ted Kotcheff said of Monster Fest: “I loved the creative energy of Monster Fest, the great programming, the enthusiastic audiences. In the course of over half a century of filmmaking, I have attended almost every film festival there is and Monster Fest is one of the most interesting and enjoyable that I’ve experienced.”[2]

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History[edit]

Monster Fest was established by Neil Foley and Grant Hardie in 2011 as the exhibition arm of Monster Pictures.[3] It was originally called the Fantastic Asia Film Festival (FAFF), as a vehicle for showcasing a selection of Asian films acquired by parent company Monster Pictures.[4] The original Fantastic Asia Film Festival took place November 10–13, 2011 at the Cinema Nova in the Carlton neighborhood of Melbourne, and was sponsored in part by online entertainment retailer YesAsia.[5] The festival lineup consisted of 20 features including Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver, Takashi Miike’s Ninja Kids!, Na Hong-jin’s The Yellow Sea, Noboru Iguchi’s Karate-Robo Zaborgar, Kim Jee Won’s I Saw the Devil, Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love, Sion Sono’s Guilty of Romance and Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly.[6] Special guests of the 2011 festival included director Yoshihiro Nishimura and Marc Walkow, then-co-director of the New York Asian Film Festival.[7]

In 2012, the festival was renamed Monster Fest and expanded to an international festival with both premieres and repertory offerings. The 2012 festival took place from October 31-November 9, 2012 at the Nova Cinema in Carlton. Special guests of the 2012 festival included the Soska Sisters,[8]Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) and Laurene Landon.[9] Films screened at the 2012 festival included the Soska Sisters’ American Mary, anthology film The ABCs of Death, Jon Wright’s Grabbers, Mikkel Nørgaard’s Klown, Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac, Daniel Krige’s Redd Inc., Astron 6’s Manborg and Tanzeal Rahim’s Muirhouse, among others.[10] Astron 6’s Father’s Day was refused classification (RC) by the obligatory Australian Classification Board two days before it was meant to screen at the festival, and had to be replaced by the Soska Sisters’ Dead Hooker in a Trunk.[11][12] The 2012 festival concept trailer was directed by animator/visual artist Isabel Peppard[13] and the key art was created by Tom Hodge.[14]

Monster Fest 2013 took place November 21-December 1, 2013 at the Nova Cinema in Carlton. The festival screened 30 features, many of them Australian premieres.[15] The festival’s guest of honor was Linda Blair, who opened the festival with a 40th Anniversary screening of The Exorcist.[16] Other films screened included Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, Mike Mendez’ Big Ass Spider!, Daniel Armstrong’s Murderdrome, Richard Wolstencroft’s The Last Days of Joe Blow,[17] Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, Glenn Triggs' Apocalyptic, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon’s Hell Baby, Jeremy Gardner’s The Battery, Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s Here Comes the Devil, Cody Calahan’s Antisocial, J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders, Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned, Jake West’s Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape and more. Special events included a VHS swap meet and a sidebar of films and presentations showcasing women in horror curated by Briony Kidd of Tasmania’s Stranger With My Face Film Festival.[18] The festival concept trailer (using the tagline “Feed Your Beast”) was directed by Stuart Simpson[19] and the festival key art was created by Pete Barrett and Kelsey Simon of Hoof Design, with illustration by Dave Dunstan AKA Loopy Dave.[20]

Monster Fest 2014 marked its first time receiving support from federal funding agency Screen Australia. The festival took place November 20–30, 2014 and was sponsored by Howling Wolves[21] with the tagline “A Feast of Depravity”.[22] All screenings were held at Cinema Nova in Carlton, with special events at Yah Yahs in Collingwood (dubbed ‘The Monster’s Lair’ for the run of the festival). Special events included a Lloyd Kaufman ‘Make Your Own Damn Movie’ Masterclass as part of the festival’s new industry component ‘Monster Academy’, a horror trivia night, and free happy hour screenings.[23] The Soska Sisters returned to the festival (having visited in 2012) alongside fellow Canadians Matt Kennedy and Conor Sweeney of Astron 6. Films included Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer’s Starry Eyes, Honeymoon, Julia, Savaged, Summer of Blood, David Gregory’s Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, Andrew Leavold’s The Search for Weng Weng, Charlie’s Farm, Under a Kaleidoscope and more.[24]

Monster Fest 2015 took place November 26–29, 2015, moving to the newly re-opened Lido Cinemas in Hawthorn.[25] Special guests included Dee Wallace, Fred Williamson and Butch Patrick. The opening film was the World Premiere of the Melbourne-made Scare Campaign, with directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes and producer Julie Ryan in person. The official selection featured 21 films including Bound to Vengeance, Scare Campaign, Bite, Australiens, Vixen Velvet'sZombie Massacre, Bunny the Killer Thing, Hellions and Howl. The program also featured the world premieres of Queensland horror-western Bullets for the Dead (the final role of Prisoner star Carol “Franky Doyle” Burns), making its debut screening alongside Dave Jackson’s feature version of his 2012 short film, Cat Sick Blues,[26] while guest Fred Williamson presented the world premiere of Nico Sentner’s Atomic Eden alongside retrospective screenings of Black Caesar and The Hammer.[27] The festival also included a special 10th anniversary screening of Australian horror classic Wolf Creek, a rooftop bands-and-burlesque event called “Munsterpalooza”[28] and an all-day acting masterclass with actress Dee Wallace, co-presented with Melbourne-based film exhibition group Cinemaniacs.[29]Butch Patrick presented a rare screening of Munster, Go Home! and a clip-and- tell presentation called “I Was a Pre-Teen Werewolf”.[30] The festival key artwork for 2015 was created by Canadian artist Jason Edmiston.

From 2011-2015, the Festival Director was Neil Foley, co-founder of Monster Pictures and Monster Fest and director of the 1999 mockumentary film Bigger than Tina. In 2016, Monster Fest hired Kier-La Janisse, Canadian film programmer and author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) to be the new Festival Director.[31] The 2016 printed program was launched at the Lido Cinema on October 31, 2016 with a screening of Rob Zombie’s 31.[32] While previously known for its emphasis on horror films,[33] the 2016 festival expanded to showcase other genres including crime, action, western, children’s films, animation and documentary. The 2016 festival theme was ‘ritual’ and its concept trailer was an homage to the 1966 film Eye of the Devil.[34] This theme coincided with the creation of Monster Pictures’ rebranding of its website as ‘The Cult of Monster’ with the festival tagline “Join the Cult!” urging customers to sign up for fortnightly newsletter ‘The Monsterite’ and to attend the Cult of Monster Marathon at the festival, where the first 50 participants would receive a free Cult robe with embroidered Cult of Monster insignia.[35]

The keynote speaker for 2016 was director Ted Kotcheff, who presented screenings of Wake in Fright, First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Split Image,[36] as well as a masterclass moderated by Mark Hartley, the director of Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation. Other guests included director Julia Ducournau, who appeared to present the Australian Premiere of her film Raw as the festival’s opening night film, director Mattie Do,[37] who presented the Australian Premiere of her film Dearest Sister, director Neil Edwards, who presented the Australian Premiere of his film Sympathy for the Devil: The True Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement[38] and actors Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo who appeared with Closing Film The Greasy Strangler.[39] De Razzo had replaced actor Michael St. Michaels, who was denied entry to Australia a week before the event.[40] Other features screened at the 2016 festival included Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, Chris Peckover’s Safe Neighborhood, Alice Lowe’s Prevenge, Bartosz M. Kowalski’s Playground, Liam Gavin’s A Dark Song, André Øvredal’s The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Sophia Takal’s Always Shine, Jesse Moss’ The Bandit, Matthew Holmes’ The Legend of Ben Hall, Gonzalo López-Gallego’s The Hollow Point[41] and a new digital restoration of Andrzej Żuławski’s On the Silver Globe.[42] The festival included many symposium events including talks on Ghostwatch, The Evil Touch, occultism on daytime soaps and a panel on Made-for-TV movies as part of its ‘Frequencies’ sidebar on genre TV,[43] and to coincide with the world premiere launch of Made for TV Mayhem blogger Amanda Reyes’ new book Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999.[44] Special events included a Nightmare VHS Boardgame Party, Kooks + Spooks Trivia and a live radio play, Maxie Diablo and the Funky Funky Sex Murders. The festival key artwork for 2016 was created by Canadian artist Matt Ryan Tobin.

In 2016 the festival announced its most successful year to date, noting that it had tripled attendance from the previous year.[45]

In June 2017, Festival Director Kier-La Janisse left her position at Monster Fest.

Monster Academy[edit]

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Monster Academy is the industry and educational component of Monster Fest. The Academy began in 2014 as the 'Monster Academy of Horror & Mayhem' with a Masterclass by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and a panel on ‘Elevated Genre Screenwriting’ featuring Aaron Sterns (Wolf Creek 2), Shayne Armstrong and Shane Krause (6 Miranda Drive), Matthew A. Brown (Julia), and Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres), moderated by Mark Lazarus of Arclight Films. It was held at Yah Yah’s in Collingwood.[46] After a hiatus in 2015, Monster Academy returned in 2016, dubbed 'The Swinburne University Media and Communication Monster Academy' as the result of a partnership with Swinburne University, who hosted the event at their Hawthorn campus.

The 2016 Monster Academy was a two-day event held November 23 and 24, 2016 including a masterclass with Ted Kotcheff moderated by Mark Hartley, a Romper Stomper panel with director Geoffrey Wright,[47] producer Daniel Scharf and actors John Brumpton and Frank Magree, a classic Ozploitation panel with producer Antony I. Ginnane and cinematographer Vincent Monton, a producer’s panel with John Jarratt, Lizzette Atkins and Raquelle David, a women in genre panel with Julia Ducournau, Mattie Do, Briony Kidd, Donna McRae, Isabel Peppard, Marisa Brown and Heidi Lee Douglas, and an FX panel with artists Dieter Barry and Nick Kocsis. Monster Academy also featured a screening of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright and a presentation on the transmedia project The Westbury Faery.

Satellite Events[edit]

In addition to its annual festival in Melbourne, Monster Pictures has mounted screenings year round under the banner “Monster Fest Presents”. These have included compacted satellite versions of the festival in Perth (2012, 2014), Auckland (2013)[48] and Hobart (2016)[49] as well as screenings at the Lido Cinema and the New Farm Cinema in Brisbane as part of a series called 'Friday Fright Nights.' Friday Fright Nights screenings have included The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) with star Laurence R. Harvey in person[50]The Green Inferno, The Pack, Cat Sick Blues, I Am Not a Serial Killer (with Skype Q+A with director Billy O’Brien),[51]Aaaaaaaah! (with actress Lucy Honigman in person and Skype Q+A with director Steve Oram)[52] and The Eyes of My Mother.

In August 2016 Monster Fest presented a tour of the Australian zombie filmBullets for the Dead at the Dendy Cinema in Sydney, the New Farm in Brisbane and the State Cinema in Hobart, with select cast and crew in attendance at each event.[53] December 2016 also saw a tour of The Greasy Strangler (dubbed the #GREASYDOWNUNDER Tour)[54] with stars Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo accompanying the film to Ballarat, Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney.

In January 2017, Monster Pictures announced that it would be presenting “The Monster Fest Travelling Sideshow,” a weekend-long event featuring highlights from Monster Fest 2016 alongside the Australian premieres of horror anthology XX, Sydney-made crime film Skinford and a new 4K of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, in partnership with Australian cinema chain, Event Cinemas, March 9–12, 2017 at Sydney’s George Street Cinemas.[55]

Monster Fest also announced Horror for the Homeless, an all night marathon screening event held on March 11, 2017[56] at the Burswood Parklands in the city of Perth in conjunction with Telethon Community Cinemas and Perth based homeless agency, Youth Futures WA[57]

List of Awards[edit]

Since 2014, Monster Fest has held a juried competition as well as an audience award called the “Monster’s Choice.' Past jurors have included Barbara Creed (author, The Monstrous-Feminine), Evrim Ersoy (Director of Programming, Fantastic Fest), Heidi Lee Douglas (Director, Little Lamb), Amanda Reyes (Editor, Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999), film critic Simon Foster, Donna McRae (Director, Johnny Ghost), Isabel Peppard (Director, Butterflies), Michael Helms (editor of Australian fanzine Fatal Visions), Chris Brown (Producer, The Proposition) and more.

2014[edit]

Features[edit]

Crystal Monster: STARRY EYES (Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer, USA)
Crystal Monster 2013 (retroactive): CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA (Stuart Simpson, Australia)
Best Australian Feature: UNDER A KALEIDOSCOPE (Addison Heath, USA)
Best Director: HONEYMOON (Leigh Janiak, USA)
Best Female Lead: Ashley C. Williams, JULIA (Matthew A. Brown, USA)
Best Male Lead: Adam Brooks, THE EDITOR (Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, Canada)
Best Screenplay: Onur Tukel, SUMMER OF BLOOD (Onur Tukel, USA)
Best Special Effects: CHARLIE’S FARM (Chris Sun, Australia)
Best Sound: THE EDITOR (Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, Canada)
Monster Special Jury Award: LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (David Gregory, USA)
Monster Spirit Award: THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG (Andrew Leavold, Australia)

Short Films[edit]

Best International Short Film: DEAD HEARTS (Stephen W. Martin, Canada)
Best Australian Short Film: WATERBORNE (Ryan Coonan, Australia)
Best Victorian Short Film: 2043 (Eugenie Muggleton, Australia)
Best Director: Shaun McCarthy, THE BOY WHO HAD NO THUMBS (Shaun McCarthy, Australia)
Best Screenplay: Claire D’Este, THE JELLY WRESTLER (Rebecca Thomson, Australia)

“Monster’s Choice” Audience Award[edit]

Best Film: PLAGUE (Nick Kozakis and Kosta Ouzas, Australia)

2015[edit]

Feature Films[edit]

Crystal Monster: SCARE CAMPAIGN (Colin and Cameron Cairnes, Australia)
Best Australian Film: CAT SICK BLUES (David Jackson, Australia)
Monster Innovation Award: VELVET VIXEN’S ZOMBIE MASSACRE (Stefan Popescu, Australia)
Best Female Lead: Elma Begovic, BITE (Chad Archibald, Canada)
Best Male Lead: Sterling Knight, LANDMINE GOES CLICK (Levan Bakhia, Georgia)
Best Director: SCARE CAMPAIGN (Colin and Cameron Cairnes, Australia)
Best Screenplay: SCARE CAMPAIGN (Colin and Cameron Cairnes, Australia)
Best Special Effects: BITE (Chad Archibald, Canada)
Best Sound: SCARE CAMPAIGN

Short Films[edit]

Best International Short: BEYOND FEROX (Thomas Yagodinski, USA)
Best Victorian Short: THE PRIEST (Goran Spoljaric, Australia)
Best Screenplay: INNSMOUTH (Izzy Lee, USA)
Best Director: NIGHT OF THE SLASHER (Shant Hamassian, USA)

2016[edit]

Feature Films[edit]

Golden Monster: RAW (Julia Ducournau, France)
Best International Feature: THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE (André Øvredal, USA)
Best Australian Feature: SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD (Chris Peckover, Australia)
Monster Innovation Award: PREVENGE (Alice Lowe, UK)
Best Performance (Male): Levi Miller, SAFE NEIGHBOURHOOD (Chris Peckover, Australia)
Best Performance (Female): Mackenzie Davis, ALWAYS SHINE (Sophia Takal, USA)
Best Documentary: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF THE PROCESS CHURCH OF THE FINAL JUDGEMENT (Neil Edwards, UK)
Best Director: PLAYGROUND (Bartosz M. Kowalsi, Poland)
Best Cinematography: A DARK SONG (Liam Gavin, Ireland/UK)
Best Score: A DARK SONG (Liam Gavin, Ireland/UK)
Best FX: RAW (Julia Ducournau, France)
Special Mention: Autohead (Rohit Mittal, India)

Short Films[edit]

Best International Short: THE TUNNEL (André Øvredal, Norway)
Best Australian Short: INSOMNOLENCE (Kiefer Findlow, Australia)
Best Victorian Short: SECRETIONS (Goran Spoljaric, Australia)
Best Director: WHAT HAPPENED TO HER (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, USA)
Best Screenplay: THE INCREDIBLE TALE OF THE INCREDIBLE WOMAN-SPIDER (Pablo Guirado, France)
Best Performance: Najarra Townsend, THE STYLIST (Jill Gevargizian, USA)
Best Effects: THE PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT (James Siewert, USA)
Best Cinematography: DISCO INFERNO (Alice Waddington, Spain)
Best Score: IMITATIONS (Fabian Velasco & Milos Mitrovic, Canada)

Trasharama Awards[edit]

Trasharama Golden Lomax Award: THE CONTRACT (Chrzu Lindstrom, Finland)
Trasharama Encouragement Award: BLOWN AWAY (Frank Daft, Australia)

“Monster’s Choice” Audience Awards[edit]

Best Feature: MONDO YAKUZA (Addison Heath, Australia)
Best Short: Tie: DRAGON FORCE (Stuart Simpson, Australia) / A HELL OF A DAY (Evan Hughes, Australia)

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In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.
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Dec 12, 2016Bridget H rated it really liked it
Well written, well researched and engrossing. I was somewhat disappointed (and confused) by Creed's reluctance to push back against assertions that female monsters are abjectly horrifying solely because they represent castration in some form. I wish she had spent more time with the tropes of women as vehicles for possession, witches, and brood-mothers, rather than her expanded engagement with vagina dentata and femme castratrice, which took up the latter half of the book. I know everything comes...more
Aug 11, 2009Helen rated it really liked it
I'll never watch horror films in quite the same way again! At times, not the easiest read,probably as this is my first foray into the realms of film theory,so I did have to do some reading around the topic to get a better grip on the subject matter, (I understood it's premise better having read up on Kristeva) but I'm sure this will prove to be an indespensible text for my dissertation. Now I'm noticing the monstrous-feminine everywhere!
It's totally acceptable to judge this book by its cover.
Mar 31, 2016Evan rated it really liked it
This is a classic of film analysis and media theory, and it was revolutionary in its way. However, as a queer feminist, I disagree with 85% of pretty much everything Creed uses as a basis for her analysis. Her work is strong, focussed, and she writes well. But the Freudian underpinnings are just too dank for me to be able to agree with much of her analysis. The strong review is for her clear style, excellent scholarship, and the wonderful way she clearly sweeps the legs out from under the analys...more
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I probably would have enjoyed the book more if I was more into psychoanalysis, but I did thoroughly enjoy watching Creed tear apart Freud's phallocentrism.
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Mar 23, 2019Elisa rated it it was amazing
This was a life-changing book for me. It was assigned during film school and going into it I was super excited to dive into what was, at the time, my very favorite film genre: horror. Now... not so much. Women as the abject are often at the center of every horror film and thus the book neatly discusses the seven types of the monstrous feminine by using a particular film to view and discuss the various elements.
Fascinating work, well-written and researched, by far one of the best books to begin...more
May 10, 2017Ash rated it liked it
The first half of this book is amazing, but the second half, despite its inversions of Freud, still has too much Freud. I have a deep, personal, and I believe entirely justified, hatred of Freud, so my eyes glazed over a little there. Which is a shame, because if Creed had just kept doing the stuff she was doing in the first half, deepening it and broadening it, this'd be an easy five star book.
Feb 21, 2018Filip Peringer rated it it was amazing
It's definitely eye-opening. Creed is a genius, both analytically and literary. I'm not used to reading that kind of books, but as a horror fan I must say - it was a delight. It really helps to understand the problem with depiction of women in all kinds of horror genres.
only ever use this site to log what i've read but making an exception because this was so good and you should all read it. i got it out the library and read it all in one day because it was so interesting (and easy to read and understand). highly recommend
Dec 03, 2017Daisy rated it really liked it
Quality Rating: Four Stars
Enjoyment Rating: Three Stars
Sep 01, 2018Alex rated it did not like it
Shelves: thesis-work, theory, metamorphoses-monsters
I am going to tear the entire field of psychoanalysis limb-from-limb as though it came upon me atop Mount Cithaeron. How's that for the monstrous-feminine, Creed?
Wow does this hold up, for the most part.
The Monstrous-Feminine had always been on my to-read list for quite some time, but I never got around to actually reading it - but by some cosmic coincidence, I was assigned to read it for a directed study course (a course I'm only in because my initial directed study fell through). I honestly wasn't keen to read this under the circumstances.
Actually, I wasn't keen to do pretty much anything under the circumstances. This summer was supposed to be about research exclusive to my thesis and mark...more
Jun 20, 2012Vanessa rated it it was amazing
This was a lot of fun to read. I rewatched all of the films as I was reading, and I really enjoyed it. If you don't feel like watching the films, the plots are all described, but I think you'd definitely miss something if you skipped watching the films. I flew through the theory chapters just as quickly as the ones about movies. For an academic work, the theories are decently simply explained, though I might read through all the theory chapters if you're new to Freud.
The only complaints that I m...more
Barbara Creed analyses the seven faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, witch, possessed body, monstrous mother and castrator. Her argument that man fears woman as castrator, rather than as castrated, questions not only Freudian theories of sexual difference but existing theories of spectatorship and fetishism, providing a provocative re-reading of classical and contemporary film and theoretical texts.
On Cindy Sherman photography http://megankarius.com/academi...more
Jun 13, 2007Laura rated it liked it
I read this book because I love monster movies, especially the campy ones where the monster is (invariably) female and on a killing rampage. This is a great book if you revel in movies like Cronenberg's 'The Brood', or the 'Aliens' Quadrilogy, or even more recent movies like 'The Descent'. It examines the issue of gender in horror films, something that seems completely obvious when you read the essays but was always just on the tip of your subconscious mind, waiting for the right articulation.
Sep 11, 2008malicBarbara creed the monstrous feminine rated it it was amazing
Recommends it for: feminist film theory enthusiasts / vagina dentata scholars / people who like my films
this is one of the most enjoyable feminist film theory books i've ever read. jumping off of freud and kristeva, it explores the fear of the monstrous-feminine not as the castrated subject-as freud argued, but as the subject that threatens to castrate. then it gives all sorts of examples of castrating female monsters, with images, from popular culture!
this books makes watching horror movies and reading psychoanalysis so much fun, especially when you think of castration metaphorically as the down...more
While this book was cutting edge for its time, much of the feminist rhetoric in it is now outdated. I appreciated the use of the monstrous feminine as a retaliation against a society expecting only pretty women, and used it in a paper discussing the harpies of Greek poetry, but I found it often lacking quite the point I was hoping for. I would love to see an updated version of the book to incorporate more current feminism.
Feb 22, 2014Kelsey rated it liked it
I read this for a popular culture class in grad school, and as someone with limited knowledge of psychoanalysis, it was hard to get into. However, by the end of it, Creed presents an immensely liberating theory regarding the monstrous feminine, and made me completely rethink the way media portrays women. Since I finished it a few days ago, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Absolutely worth a read if you're interested in women in media.
Apr 26, 2017Peter North rated it liked it
I found this text to be very reserved as a piece of 'feminism.' This topic is very pertinent to my studies (monster/queer/othered comparisons) however I don't know how much I got out of its content. Creed zeros in on some interesting perspectives of the films she is analyzing with the support of her connections to Freud's work, but I just wish she was more particular or made more groundbreaking points.
May 20, 2015Dolly rated it it was amazing
Excellent if you are into cinema, psychoanalysis, feminism and horror. It is a must.It is extraordinary how Creed debates on Freud's theories, but with respect and objectivity. All the points she makes are insightful. Great analysis.
Dec 02, 2016Harry McDonald rated it really liked it
Shelves: read-in-2016, uni-reading, non-fiction-and-essays, horror
A critique of Freudian readings of horror films. Unquestionably massively influential, excellently written with wit and expertise.
totally awesome so far.
3.5
read this as research my english assignment and really enjoyed it!
Great introduction to psychoanalytic approaches to women in horror films.
Nov 10, 2013Richard Cubitt rated it it was amazing
A hugely informative work. Anyone who loves/writes horror will find this a horde of useful information.
I've read some of her essays in my horror film class and of course used for writing papers, but never read the whole book. Would love to get a hold of a copy to explore all those concepts again.
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Barbara Creed is Professor of Cinema Studies and Head of the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is author of the acclaimed The Monstrous-feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny and Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema. She is...more