5 female-led teen horrors to watch on Halloween Masterpieces of both chills and aesthetics
Rivers of ink have been written about the privileged relationship between horror cinema and female protagonists. Since the genre's early days, with Feuillade's epic Les Vampires, the fatal women of horror cinema have dominated the imagination of the authors. There have been many films that have represented the so-called sub-section of female horror: from Cat People in the 1940s to Roman Polanski's Repulsion, to Suspiria and the modern final girls of the American slashers of the 70s and 80s, horror cinema has always been at the forefront of the times in the representation of identity and the female psyche. In the 90s, the subgenre of teen horror was born, a family of films all related to Scream, who found themselves using a more or less fixed formula: a sleepy American city, the classic high school with lockers and canteen, a plot made of family and sentimental intrigue and, of course, a female protagonist.
To get better into the Halloween mood and rediscover some of the forgotten classics of this filmography, as well as to receive excellent inspirations for your outfits of the 90s, nss G-Club has compiled for you a list of the five best female-led teen horror movies to watch on Halloween.
The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996)
Cherry Falls is the first film to subvert the stereotype that, in horror films, it is only the characters who abstain from sex who survive. The killer of this film, in fact, kills exclusively virgins – and this will lead to increasingly ironic and unexpected evolutions in the plot until the final revelation. The star of Cherry Falls is the late Brittany Murphy, star of many girl movies in the 90s, and she holds on her shoulders a film that goes head-to-head against all the stereotypes of American male culture.
