SHE DID THAT!

This started off as a personal canon of horror films that #empower me when I’m down because a lot of these elicit a SHE DID THAT! reaction to the heroine kicking ass, but as I went on I decided to expand it to include all of my favorite horror movies that feature a woman front and center even if she doesn’t necessarily “kick ass” in an expected way. This list is all the movies I’ve seen and personally feel have an engaging approach to womanhood and its relation to the horrific: the slashers and American films on this list tend to give their heroines the most attitude and determination to survive, but my main...