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Day 29: Ending Women in Horror Month the right way! #srphotochallengefebruary16 #wihm666 #wihm #wihm7 #janetleigh #lindablair #jessicalange #vampira #kristinaklebe #joancrawford #thesoskasisters

Last Day!!!!!! We didn't have a day 29 on our original photo challenge flier for February, so we added one! Let's end Women in Horror Month the right way! Show us your favorite woman in Horror! Don't have just one? Make a collage and tag us! #srphotochallengefebruary16 #wihm666 #wihm #womeninhorror #photochallenge

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Since 2011, Jennifer‘s Bodies Film Festival in Scotland has continued to grow and grow…moving to a bigger location and venue each year. :) February 2014 saw Starburst Magazine write a review of the festival, and they had THIS to say about the festival and its quirky founder – “Jennifer’s Bodies is a roving annual festival of female-helmed horror movies and part of Women In Horror Recognition Month, an international assortment of affiliated events organised partly to highlight just how much women can and do contribute to the genre outwith the typically accepted factors of tits, ass and mezzosoprano screaming.” “The event was hosted by Jennifer Cooper, a genre fanatic and tireless promoter of indie horror. Opinionated, verbose and engaging, she has the all the nerdy enthusiasm of Felicia Day, the encyclopaedic knowledge of Quentin Tarantino, the effortless charisma of Jennifer Lawrence and the warped humour of Eli Roth. Or to put it another way, she’s basically an amalgamation of Jen and Sylvia Soska. She also possesses an amazing ability to link anyone and everything to The X-Files along with an unabashed fixation with Jeremy Renner, both of which were frequently demonstrated.” This year, due to the opportunity to have Miss Tristan Risk herself come along, Jennifer‘s Bodies has bled into March. The festival shall beheld on Friday 6th, and Saturday 7th March 2015, with special guest Tristan Risk…and more to be announced shortly! Tickets are free and served on a first come, first signed up basis, with a suggested donation of however much you can afford to be donated to Beagle rights charity, Unite to Care. A UK based charity working tirelessly to ensure the compulsory retirement of former lab Beagles into a loving environment!!

Already looking forward to 2016!

Christine Parker of Fix It in Post

“Before everyone’s favorite hockey mask wearing mutant son began terrorizing Camp Crystal Lake, his Mommy Dearest was the original slayer of sinful counselors. The cable knit sweater wearing killer was a mother scorned, hoping to avenge the unnecessary death of her precious son Jason. Pamela Voorhees was dealt a rather difficult hand. Enduring a pregnancy at the age of sixteen while residing in a trailer with a verbally and physically abusive man, her son would later be born hydrocephalic, forcing her to home-school him while she herself was still a child. When you really put it into perspective, she had a child at sixteen without the assistance of MTV or her parents.Sixteen year old girls are some of the most self-absorbed individuals on the planet, and she was responsible for raising a deformed and learning disabled child. Jason was her entire world. Growing up without the support or interaction with anyone other than his mother would cause a lot of psychological issues for both Jason and Pamela, and it was after his death that she began to hear the voices telling her to kill those responsible for his untimely demise. We know this now after twelve movies, a series of novels, a line of comic books, and countless other forms of media. But what about the original FRIDAY THE 13TH? Without any of this back story, finding out the killer in the film that started a franchise was actually a woman was shocking for its time and still remains as one of the most “Oh shit” reveals in horror history. While using a female reveal as a shock treatment is not the most equal of treatments, the fact that the killer remains genderless (aka-equal) until the final moments helps make FRIDAY THE 13TH unexpectedly feminist.” Read the full piece by BJ Colangelo here—> http://dayofwoman.blogspot.com/2015/02/unexpectedly-feminist-horror-films_13.html

I interviewed filmmaker Christine Parker for Stoned Crow Press's interview series for Women in Horror Month. Check it out!