“When I first started edging into film writing in the mid-'90s, I was all about girl-power; how horror films (even slasher films) were empowering to women, how most horror films were about men's anxieties concerning the nature of femininity and female sexuality, gender relations, castration anxiety - all this great, meaty stuff. I saw positive female representation in everything, no matter how ostensibly reprehensible the film's politics. For a female horror/exploitation film fan, that's a great place to start; certainly much more productive than denouncing the genre altogether as some counter-revolutionary, misogynist exercise in populist entertainment” (Janisse 3)