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“Women have always been the most important part of monster movies. As I walked home one night, I realized why. Making my way down dark city streets to my apartment in Brooklyn, I was alert and on edge. I was looking for suspicious figures, men that could be rapists, muggers or killers. I felt like Laurie Strode in Halloween. Horror is a pressure valve for society's fears and worries: monsters seeking to control our bodies, villains trying to assail us in the darkness, disease and terror resulting from the consequences of active sexuality, death. These themes are the staple of horror films.
There are people who witness these problems only in scary movies. But for much of the population, what is on the screen is merely an exaggerated version of their everyday lives. These are forces women grapple with daily. Watching Nancy Thompson escape Freddy Krueger's perverted attacks reminds me of how I daily fend off creeps asking me to smile for them on the subway. Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to. Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it — in the movies and in real life. They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters. In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.
Horror films help explore these fears and imagine what it would be like to conquer them. Women need to see themselves fighting monsters. That’s part of how we figure out our stories. But we also need to see ourselves behind-the-scenes, creating and writing and directing. We need to tell our stories, too.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
There are people who witness these problems only in scary movies. But for much of the population, what is on the screen is merely an exaggerated version of their everyday lives. These are forces women grapple with daily. Watching Nancy Thompson escape Freddy Krueger's perverted attacks reminds me of how I daily fend off creeps asking me to smile for them on the subway. Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to. Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it — in the movies and in real life. They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters. In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.
Horror films help explore these fears and imagine what it would be like to conquer them. Women need to see themselves fighting monsters. That’s part of how we figure out our stories. But we also need to see ourselves behind-the-scenes, creating and writing and directing. We need to tell our stories, too.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
![Mallory O'Meara](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540864522i/16042254._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to. Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it—in the movies and in real life. They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters. In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
![Mallory O'Meara](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540864522i/16042254._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“The best monster films don't just parade some sort of terrifying beast in front of your eyes. They pull at a hidden element of your mind, a part that feels ugly, or afraid, or lonely. They give it flesh and blood, and sometimes sharp teeth.
The power of a monster movie is in seeing that dark part of you running around on-screen. You get to watch it wreak the havoc and devastation you should never effect in real life. It's cathartic to see what happens if you let that part of yourself loose instead of shunning it and banishing it to its own Black Lagoon.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
The power of a monster movie is in seeing that dark part of you running around on-screen. You get to watch it wreak the havoc and devastation you should never effect in real life. It's cathartic to see what happens if you let that part of yourself loose instead of shunning it and banishing it to its own Black Lagoon.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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“There was something in Ruth's furtive glances and in Millie's agonized avoidance that bound the two of them together in a way Arietta hadn't first noticed. There was an ache behind their smiles, a palpable longing-- the same expression her aunties used to have before her father broke his silence and finally decided to speak openly about her mother. It was then that she realized the burden the sisters shared: each had a secret she was keeping from the other.”
― The Wartime Sisters
― The Wartime Sisters
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“Women don't need an idol to worship. We need a beacon to walk toward.”
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
― The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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