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‘Timestalker’ Director Alice Lowe On Women And The Horror Genre: “I Like Outraging An Audience”
Alice Lowe, Rose Glass, Coralie Fargeat at the forefront of a new generation of women diving into the once male-dominated horror genre.
Although Cannes has a long way to go in terms of gender parity, the festival has been quick to tap into the new wave of female-directed horror that has sprung up in the wake of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook 10 years ago. Outside of Cannes, the phenomenon has also been embraced by Sundance, where The Babadook debuted, and which recently hosted the world premiere of Rose Glass ’s steamy, sexually transgressive, steroid-abuse crime story Love Lies Bleeding. She made her debut behind the camera in 2016 while heavily pregnant; the film was called Prevenge and starred Lowe herself as a grieving widow whose unborn child commands her to kill, messily, the people she believes were responsible for her husband’s death.
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