Welcome to Women in Horror month!To celebrate the advent of Halloween, this blog will shine a light

Welcome to Women in Horror month!To celebrate the advent of Halloween, this blog will shine a light on women in horror film and television throughout this month. Our first horror queen: Carla Gugino as Jessie Burlingame in Netflix’s excellent, chilling new Stephen King adaptation Gerald’s Game (2017, Mike Flanagan; pictured here with Bruce Greenwood and Carel Struycken). A must-see for fans of great female performances in horror.“The film adaptation is an arrestingly and sometimes excruciatingly suspenseful psychological thriller lightly garnished with horror-movie flourishes — including one especially squirm-inducing instance of copious bloodletting — and driven by a compelling lead performance that is entirely worthy of a description too often misapplied to lesser work: tour de force. Gugino adroitly intertwines varying threads of panic, rage, resentment, gallows humor and long-simmering resentment while Jessie struggles to remain sane, or at least tightly focused, while pulling double duty: anxiously searching for any means of escape, and reluctantly taking stock of the life she has lived, as well as the emotions she has repressed, up to the moment Gerald clicked on the cuffs.” — Joe Leydon, Variety (September 2017) -- source link

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