Reyna Young

David Byron, author, owner of NVF Magazine, and filmmaker has just released the trailer for his new documentary Hot and Horrifying, featuring women who work and live in the horror industry - to go along with a book release of the same title. If it looks slightly similar to the documentary by Reyna Young about the exact same topic entitled Welcome to my Darkside - well, that's because it is. Except Byron's film's title seems to suggest a slightly more, er, sex-oriented film and may be for a different audience - one that just wants to look at hot chicks.

We're going to have PMS, get our panties in a bunch, and start being humorless feminists again in a second (yes, fellows, I have heard it all) but all I really want to say is this: If the film is about women, why aren't they getting the credit they deserve?

EVENT: Women in Horror Con: In Honor of Bay Area Women In Horror

DATE: February 27, 2010 1:30 – 6pm [free!]

PLACE: SF Center 1800 Market Street /San Francisco//ONE DAY ONLY EVENT

Quirky Montrealean filmmaker Maude Michaud's new documentary project Bloody Breasts: Women, Feminism & Horror will ask questions like Is horror a genre that can only be enjoyed by men?. Does it still serve to reinforce desired gender roles/societal stereotypes? and Can a woman call herself a feminist AND still enjoy horror films? Fast on the heels of women-in-horror documentaries Pretty Bloody by Donna Davies and Welcome To My Darkside by Reyna Young, Bloody Breasts promises to fill in the gaps in the academic literature by providing a comprehensive outlook at female artists and consumers of horror...

Check out the trailer for Reyna Young's new horror documentary about women called Welcome to My Darkside. You'll notice Heidi Martinuzzi in there from Pretty-Scary, as well as our faves Michelle Tomlinson, Shannon Lark and Tucky Williams. Though we have an objection to the over-use of the term 'scream queen', we want you to develop your own opinion about the film.