Week 8

 

Horror film is usually considered to be the least feminist type of film, a type of conventional opposition, sexual assault, torture, rape and murder of women and girls. However, if from different perspectives, horror films usually give the wrong way to present  female power to deal with their injustice in their lives. In many Japanese folk tales, the feminine spirit is linked to the brutal and unpredictable natural world.The best example of this connection with nature is the famous film Yuki-onna (The Woman of Snow) at Komori by Masaki’s KWAIDAN (1964). Yuki-onna is a beautiful woman with long black hair, likes to hunting the lost traveler in the snow. She  kills the  traveler she encounters,  however she also takes handsome man as lover. She is spirit of winter, beautiful and cold.  She also show the bury of woman,  to reminder people that no woman can be  fully trusted. Unlike western horror film,  I found Yuki-oona present the ghost woman is a absurd or even funny way, especially the  heavy and bulky costume she wears, and the way she walking. The music of the film is quite helpful building immersion, however the cinematography may not found as immersive elements, the continues of the panning shot and zooming shot somehow hinder the mood of horror.