ABOUT FEMHORROR

FEMHORROR is the passion project of horror author Emily Lynn. Created out of want for positive expansion in the genre, this feminist horror blog seeks to uplift women in this historically male-dominated subsect of media. Here you will find a variety of posts centered around horror as seen through the feminist eye. From lists of recommended reads and watches, to feminist essays and analyses of the genre, FEMHORROR seeks to embody all sides of feminist horror and to raise the voices of all kinds of women.

You can read Emily Lynn’s book Cute Aggression here!

Emily Lynn is a Thai-American from California. She works as an English teacher in Thailand. Cute Aggression, published by Grindhouse Press, is her first novella. She is currently writing her next novel. When she is not writing, she can be found reading and playing video games.

She cannot remember the first horror movie she ever watched because, for better or for worse, horror movies have always been in her life.  Having grown up watching horror at probably too young of an age, she is deeply drawn to the genre. And although she cannot remember a time in which she hadn’t had horror in her life, she does remember the movie which forever changed her perception of horror. A genre which once frightened her as a child suddenly thrilled her in a good way after she watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel on her box TV at twelve years of age. She found herself no longer frightened, but thrilled. Glued to the screen. Suffocated by the oppressive backdrop and heat of rural Texas. It was like an action-adventure movie, and she was glued to the screen, wanting to find out how or if these characters could ever survive a situation as horrible at this. With a backdrop of such interesting characters and motives, set against an oppressive environment of heat of Texas, and grotesque threats which propelled the characters into survival.

As she grew older, she continued consuming horror movies, eventually going down the extreme horror and exploitation film rabbit hole. And as she got older, she noticed a theme in the movies that didn’t quite sit well with her as a young girl. The focus of these movies were almost always about the sexualized suffering of women. And the creators of these movies were almost always men.

And she couldn’t help but wonder, where was the equality in that?