Going into XX, it’s easy to look at each of the respective shorts as representing a different horror sub genre. The Box, as we’ve covered elsewhere, is psychological horror at its’ finest. Annie Clark’s birthday party is a nice slice of horror comedy, served up with a hilarious stinger to tie everything together in the short’s closing seconds.
Read MoreJen and Sylvia Soska (2017) #WiHM
If WiHM has a mascot other than that delightful girl with the scythe, then surely it’s the Soska Sisters. Over the past four years, Jen and Sylvia Soska have emerged as the movement’s diplomats, cheerleaders, and heads-of-state, all rolled into one charismatic packages. With an exuberance and vivacity that just might actually be infectious, the Twisted Twins have become not just the face of WiHM but the face of the entire women in horror cause célèbre.
Read MoreJennifer Blanc-Biehn (2017) #WiHM
Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, co-star of the recently released Havenhurst, is best known as an actress. However, she’s also a producer and director of horror movies. With her husband Michael Biehn, she co-starred in and as well as co-directed The Victim.
Read MoreAsh Von Horror (2017) #WiHM
For Women in Horror Month, CineDump has brought you interviews from some of the genre’s greatest ladies but this Monday, we wanted to take some time to showcase an up and coming artist. Ash Von Horror has had a social media presence for several years, and she’s been wowing followers and fans with her screen ready makeup effects. Her creations are as lovely as they are macabre, often mixing the disturbingly sexual with just plain disturbing.
Read MoreEden Royce (2017) #WiHM
Women in Horror Month is all about celebrating the ladies who make horror such a complex, crazy, fun, and fascinating genre. It’s also about exploring those aspects of horror art and literature that mainstream journalism often overlooks. Eden Royce, with a background steeped in Southern gentility and the magical, is one of the most creative voices in horror fiction today.
Read MoreBarbie Wilde (2017) #WiHM
Barbie Wilde is the Renaissance Woman of the Horror World. She’s starred in the genre’s freakiest franchise as the elegant and terrifying Female Cenobite, written two gore-geous books about the dark side of the human mind, and now she’s working with celebrated director Chris Alexander to adapt her story “Blue Eyes” into a film later this year. In addition to her filmmaking efforts, she also enjoys a position as a sort of grand dame of horror fandom, graciously gracing horror conventions to meet, greet, and regal fans with warm and fascinating tales of her genre adventures.
Read MoreJulie Benz (2017) #WiHM
“Horror.” It’s almost a dirty world in the acting community. Sure, everyone has to do the dreaded slasher or DTV monster flick to pay their dues, but, past a certain point, those roles go out the window, replaced by moody indy dramas, Academy Award winning masterpieces, and, if you’re lucky enough to stay in the business past forty, edgy erotic thrillers that reinvent you as a middle-aged sex symbol.
Read MoreAnnick Mahnert (2017) #WiHM
Soft spoken, polite, articulate and thoughtful rather than blunt and demanding, blending in seamlessly with the crowd at Fantastic Fest, Annick Mahnert does not fit the typical image of the angry, haranguing Hollywood producer. Then again, she’s NOT your typical producer. After studying production at NYFA, she cut her teeth at Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons before going big-league, handling programming and distribution for such studios as 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., then went solo in 2013 to become an independent producer.
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