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Women’s Roles In the Horror Genre "What's your favorite scary movie?" "Randy, you know I don't watch that shit- they are always about some big-breasted-blonde running up the stairs when they should be running out the front door- it's insulting" --Sidney Prescott, Scream Those lines, spoken by Neve Campbell in Wes Craven's blockbuster Scream, can sum up a great deal about the horror genre as a whole. Campbell plays Sidney Prescott, an average high school girl who is stalked by a killer after they committed a series of murders involving her friends. She speaks the truth on the phone. Women in horror movies are tended to be victimized more than their gender warrants. They are constantly stalked, hacked-up, and tossed behind without a second glance, while their more-common-than-not antagonist male counterpart keeps coming back for more. Why do the majority of horror films depict most women as helpless targets for insane madmen? Typically the ideal scene most people picture when thinking of a horror movie is a chase scene. Within that scene, there is some girl being chased through woods, or a house, or some dark alley by a male somehow costumed or covered so his identity cannot be discovered. She is screaming while he is