Week 5: Women Archetypes

For this week we were asked to discuss a trope or archetype in horror/fantasy of women. Having a small talk after class, I wanted to explore the idea of the "Unsatisfiable Women" in horror and primarily in the older films mainly in the 1950s.

 The first movie I thought of when thinking of women like this my mind came to the film, "The Brain

That Would Not Die". After a fatal car crash a scientist is able to keep his wife's (Jan) head alive. She is enrage by this, and even more so has the scientist begins to try and find a new body for her. She goes around town, find and drugging the most beautiful women he can find back to his house. Right from the get go all Jan wants is to me left alone and die, however he will not let her. This causes her to hatch a murderous scheme. Luckily for her there is a monster in the labs closest locked away, and the juices keeping her alive give her the ability to talk to it mentally. Through of series of events her plan is success and all three of them burn in flames.

The second is "Attack of the 50ft Women"