I think you would love Ravenous, personally. But I'd love to see what you thought of everything/everyone else here, too (especially Fujiawara Kei, who co-starred in the original Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and is just a startling brand of Brechtian/Grand Guignol body horror theatre-nerd weirdo).
And no, I don't think you're wrong, considering how making films generally is often seen as an act of macho dominance. But I also wonder whether women worry more about being tarred with the genre brush, assuming that if they start off in a certain place, they're almost surely doomed to stay there, like the way so many female directors get automatically slotted into relationship movies/comedies, no matter what they're actually interested in. Good example, and someone I totally forgot: Penelope Spheeris, whose spree-killer movie The Boys Next Door was lost in the shuffle after Wayne's World.
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And no, I don't think you're wrong, considering how making films generally is often seen as an act of macho dominance. But I also wonder whether women worry more about being tarred with the genre brush, assuming that if they start off in a certain place, they're almost surely doomed to stay there, like the way so many female directors get automatically slotted into relationship movies/comedies, no matter what they're actually interested in. Good example, and someone I totally forgot: Penelope Spheeris, whose spree-killer movie The Boys Next Door was lost in the shuffle after Wayne's World.