Category Archives: Bechdel the Dog

How To Watch A Slasher: or, Let Me Tell You About This Book I’m Reading

Carol J. Clover’s MEN, WOMEN, and CHAINSAWS has some exciting insight into gender in horror! It also highlighted a gap in my horror education that I plan to remedy ASAP.

We Need A Bechdel Test for Horror: Introducing the Carie-Burns Test

I think about gender in film constantly. My film reviews feature five different representation tests, including the famous Bechdel-Wallace Test. Those tests don’t quite account for all the murder and mayhem that horror ladies have to endure. It’s time for a chainsaw-proof Bechdel Test.

Every Alien Movie Ranked by How Much it Hates Women’s Bodies

The Alien franchise is an ode to the terrors of reproduction. But the original is also a classic feminist talking point. Do the rest live up to the first? Absolutely not.