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By Alexis Oatman ·Updated October 31, 2023
Films frequently serve as a medium for expressing personal experiences, communicating ideas, addressing trauma, and presenting different perspectives. Additionally, they offer a window into the societal viewpoints of the time. This is particularly evident in the horror genre. In its earliest iterations, women were almost exclusively victims—pretty damsels in distress whose only chance of survival, if at all, was through a
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