Sample Questions' Answers on Horror Movies: Slasher

1.     Which of the following apply to the movie You’re Next? (Choose more than one if applies)

a)     Females are objectified.

b)     Males are objectified.

c)     Monsters are objectified.

d) Objects are objectified

2. The minefield of the contemporary horror film, with its bloody display of the all-too-often female body in bits and pieces, is fraught with danger for women.

3. In studies of horror film the female viewer is accused of masochism.

4. According to PowerPoint file for this week (Gendered Horror), what is the first Slasher sub-genre movie?

5. Female spectatorship of horror is a much neglected and misunderstood topic.

6. What can be a proof for horror film being a pleasure for men?

a)     Men feel sympathy with victims in the horror film.

b)     Little boys and grown men make it a point of horror to look, while little girls and grown women cover their eyes or hide behind the shoulders of their dates.

c)     Women feel satisfied when watching a horror film.

d)     Men hold their girlfriends’, sisters’, or mothers’ when watching a horror film, while women feel sorry for the monsters.

7. Carol Clover advances the idea that the primary pleasure for male viewers of the genre is a masochistic rather than a sadistic one.

8. The female spectator is truly deprived of ‘solace and pleasure.

9. Barbara Creed, who turns her attention to female monstrosity, maintains that the monstrous- feminine in the horror film speaks to men about their fear of women.

10. The feminist movement, founded on the imperative that women must be free to control their own bodies, has repeatedly drawn attention to the issue of violence against women.