With the release of Raw and Prevenge, the fact that there are brilliant women making brilliant horror films has been hammered home once again, and all-female horror anthology XX has arrived to showcase five excellent filmmakers: Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin, Annie Clark (better known as musician St Vincent), Jovanka Vuckovich and Sofia Carillo.
“Todd Brown is the producer at XYZ films and his wife, who is a staunch feminist, had been pestering him saying: ‘Hey, if you’re really a feminist, then how come you haven’t produced any movies for women yet?’” laughs Vuckovich. “So he put his money where his mouth is.”
The result is four short films (with wraparound animation provided by Carillo) with women at their centre. A child’s party goes horribly wrong, a mother watches her family…