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CHANGE IN TIME – 3:00pm Eastern Time. The event started live earlier so that Heidi – who is in Spain – isn’t coming to us live at 2am her time. Below is the recorded presentation.
Join Gal’s Guide for a special event to learn about The History of Women Directing Horror Movies from expert Heidi Honeycutt.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
3pm Eastern
Live on Zoom
Slumber Party Massacre. Pet Cemetery. Near Dark. American Psycho — These horror movies have heavily contributed to pop culture and are loved by horror fans everywhere. But so many others have been forgotten by history. From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this discussion you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic — and the one thing they share in common.
This is the true history of women directing horror movies.
Having conducted hundreds of interviews and watched thousands of horror films, Heidi Honeycutt defines the political and cultural forces that shape the way modern horror movies are made by women. The women’s rights and civil rights movements, new distribution technology, digital cameras, the destruction of the classic studio system, and the abandonment of the Hays code have significantly impacted women directors and their movies. So, too, social media, modern ideas of gender and racial equality, LGBTQ acceptance, and a new generation of provocative, daring films that take shocking risks in the genre.
Check out her new book I Spit On Your Celluloid.
About Heidi
Heidi Honeycutt is a journalist, film historian, and film festival programmer who has been writing about, and researching, horror movies for the past 20 years. She is the world’s foremost expert on women horror film directors and is the co-founder of the Etheria Film Festival, which shows the world’s best new short horror, science fiction, and fantasy films directed by women annually on AMC+/Shudder.
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