Mara is a list article writer for Game Rant with experience writing professionally as a content creator and a degree in Creative Writing. In her free time, she likes to write, bake, watch horror films ...

From Ellen Ripley to Sidney Prescott, final girls number among some of the horror genre's most celebrated and memorable characters. A term used in cinema to describe the last woman left standing by ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...

Universal Studios hopes to "create powerful female characters" to reinvent the "male-centric" horror genre at its annual Halloween event. Earlier this year, Universal announced the themes of eight new ...

When it comes to terrifying horror movie villains, the ones most often cited are men. Michael Myers, Leatherface, and Pennywise are just a few in a long line of horror legends. But although these ...

Horror movies have long centered their stories around female characters—think The Exorcist‘s demon-plagued mother and daughter duo, Halloween‘s fierce babysitter, or Black Christmas‘ determined ...

Horror has always been a genre that allows creatives to explore all manner of themes, no matter how potentially taboo. While the genre has a history of relegating women to the roles of eye candy or ...