If i have these right...

Top left — Carrie in the film carrie
Top right bottom left — Jennifer from Jennifer body...revenge story about a teenage girl becomes a demonic predator
Bottom right — Pearl...she's a psycho basically

I get the humour but I'm uncomfortable. 2 wrongs don't make a right and all that

Isn't the bottom right one from The VVitch (2015)? That looks kinda like Anya Taylor-Joy. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I haven't seen Pearl (2022), so I'm not able to verify if that's actually a scene from it.

Yep you're more likely to be right than me! I'm really not sure

Yes that's from The Vvitch. Pearl isn't up there.
Top Left - Carrie
Top Right - The Love Witch
Bottom Left - Jennifer's Body
Bottom Right - The Vvitch

The thing that entices me about movies like this is that when I'm frustrated, I can live vicariously through the movie without any harm being done to any real people. It's cathartic, in a way. It allows me to release that frustration in a way where no one else is affected, and I just get to go on with my day as if nothing happened, feeling better because of it.

Nah, let the bastards burn

It never happens in real life

I just got done watching Jessie Gender's video about Obsession: https://youtu.be/Ta51v9tW3CA

Part of the video talks about the trope that women in horror movies become the monsters the patriarchy is afraid of. Sort of along the line of "If they get the chance they will treat us like we treated them." which apparently is a legit reason for some types of men to be actually afraid of feminism.

So I am torn. On one hand scenes like these are cathartic and I will never fault a sister for getting revenge on her tormenters. On the other hand this is a patriarchial trope and almost a dog-whistle against feminism.

(I probably didn't express what I want to say here perfectly clearly, very open for input!)

That's the big difference...men killing women is constant

Top left is Carrie

Top right is the Love Witch - a feminist horror movie that pretends it is from the 60s. It is very convincing in that endeavor. I personally didn't like the movie, but have endless respect for the vision and how it was crrated. The director, Anna Biller, recently made a new movie called The Face of Horror, that also pretends to be from around the 60s and/or 70s and it looks really beautiful. Haven't seen it, though.

Bottom left is Jennifer's Body

Bottom right is The VVitch - not Pearl. The VVitch is a period piece about fanatical religion in settler times and how a coven of actual witches starts messing with one fanily that has been cast out of the larger community and must life close to a dark, fucked up forest.

Pearl is about a woman who is stuck on her parents' farm and wants to be a movie star while also displaying signs of sadism and delusions of grandure. The difference between Pearl and The VVitch is that we feel sorry for the girl in the VVitch who gets blamed for pretty much every bad thing that happens to the family as she is slowly blossoming into a woman and doesn't know who to turn to for support and guidance.

Pearl is about a disturbed girl who snaps under the pressure of being stuck in a life she doesn't want and that the dream that has kept her alive all these years, will never go anywhere. Not so much a "good for her" type of story. More like a "feels bad, man" type of story.

Here's a couple of other "good for her" types of horror movies:

American Mary - very fun watch

Midsommar - artsy

Ready Or Not - goofy, but fun

I Spit On Your Grave - not a fun watch

Ooh that sounds like a good video. And yeah I get the concerns with it being used as antifeminist propaganda, but at the same time fucking hell I need some catharsis sometimes. But also, I think a lot of these stories are ones of women being pushed over the edge, which is something our culture doesn't fear enough. Horror is the better medium for it, because something like if a feminist were to make something inspired by Kill Bill for example, it would be too easy to put into the general "killing bad people" fantasy.

And I want to clarify, I don't want women to get in on murder sprees, but a cultural instinct that tradwives and abuse victims might just snap and rapists sometimes don't wake up if the cops don't arrest them quickly enough…

Sometimes it does though. The whole killing the killer makes you just as bad is propaganda in my opinion.