While there were more women directors during that time period (because minority populations face a two-pronged problem of both struggling to get in the door and then having their achievements erased once they do), this means that almost every horror movie we go to reinforces ideas about the way the world works based on the experience of wealthy white men. In the 867-page overview Horror Film Directors 1931-1990, for instance, there is only one woman listed in the entire exhaustive tome. This might not seem like a big deal until you zoom out and realize almost all our storytelling is based on a wealthy, white male understanding of reality. This means more women and people of color as well as people who grew up poor and without family connections have an opportunity to get their art made and seen by audiences. Short films are also super important to the horror genre because they give a platform to directors who don’t have access to the hundreds of thousands (or more realistically, millions) of dollars it takes to make a movie. There’s no time to decompress and be spoon-fed answers as our hero/heroine recovers in the hospital, we have to do that work on our own. Rarely is the story explained and shorts often end immediately after the film’s climax.
The audience is simply dropped into a scene and asked to be intelligent enough to keep up. Why? There’s limited time to explain what is going on.
It is common for short horror films to be scarier than features.
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