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...... There is a chapter entitled "Getting Even" which talks about many films that have rape as a story line and the victim gets even. This chapter was the most obscure to me, because many of the films the author mentioned did not seem to fit into the horror genre, or were pretty much unknown films (at least to me). I understand the problem with rape-related horror films, and how they often make the victim appear as if she subconsciously wanted to be raped, but I do not think the examples the author uses are the most effective. I did not relate to this chapter as much because I did not know the films, and I think that weakened the book for me. It would have helped if the films were more well known, or there were other examples that proved the point. The other point of this chapter, that women have to arm themselves to survive, does seem to come up in many other films, so that point made more sense and I could see that element in many horror films where the woman is victorious against the villain or monster
Finally, the "Eye of Horror" was probably the

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