Slumber Party Massacre. Pet Sematary. Near Dark. American Psycho... These horror movies have heavily contributed to pop culture and are loved by horror fans everywhere. But so many others have been forgotten by history. From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this book you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic — and the one thing they share in common. This is the true history of women directing horror movies. Having conducted hundreds of interviews and watched thousands of horror films, Heidi Honeycutt defines the political and cultural forces that shape the way modern horror movies are made by women. The women’s rights and civil rights movements, new distribution technology, digital cameras, the destruction of the classic studio system, and the abandonment of the Hays code have significantly impacted women directors and their movies. So, too, social media, modern ideas of gender and racial equality, LGBTQ acceptance, and a new generation of provocative, daring films that take shocking risks in the genre. Includes short films, anthologies, documentaries, animated horror, horror pornography, pink films, and experimental horror. I Spit on Your Celluloid is a first-of-its-kind celebration, study, and “a book that needed to be written” (says cult filmmaker Stephanie Rothman). You will never look at horror movies the same way again!

ハイディ・ハニカットによる本作は、単なる映画史の記録ではない。ホラーという男性優位の視線が強いジャンルで、女性監督たちが如何に血を流し、独自の審美眼を築き上げてきたか。その魂の闘争を解き明かす「呪われし歴史の復権」である。膨大なインタビューと緻密な分析が、忘れ去られた沈黙の叫びを鮮烈な文学的叙事詩へと昇華させている。 社会運動や技術の変遷と表現者の執念が交差する描写は圧巻だ。タブーを侵食し、生理的な嫌悪さえも美へと変容させる彼女たちの映像言語は、私たちの既成概念を根底から揺さぶるだろう。ジャンル映画の境界を越え、抑圧された感性が解き放たれる快楽。読み終えたとき、あなたの眼裏に映る恐怖の風景は、決定的に塗り替えられているはずだ。