This is an interesting and mostly far-more-readable-than-the-norm academic collection on women film-makers and how they approach horror. I'm a horror writer myself, which developed out of being a horror fan, but I'm not a film-maker, so I find it appealing to see how other women with the same horror interests use a visual medium to tell their own horror stories, instead of a purely written one.

There's rather more practical than theory here, although the latter does exist - the various papers tend to be latched on very heavily to one or more examples, which is useful (and which, helpfully, adds to my to-watch list). There's also a tempting variety of papers from various academics, and while I enjoyed nearly all of them, I think my favourite chapters were the ones on Korean cinema, the subverted gaze in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and the uncanny in the French eco-horror film Évolution - I actually have a paper coming out on that last film myself soon, and mine is nothing like Loreck's take on it, so that was really fascinating to read. We've taken completely opposite approaches - Loreck's looking at Évolution through the lens of the uncanny, while I'm looking at it through the lens of the intertidal zone.

Well worth reading for film-makers, I think, and quite interesting for the rest of us too.