The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

by Mallory O'Meara

Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to.

Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it—in the movies and in real life. They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters. In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.

It’s a part of you now, in your skin. All that suffering and you can’t even feel it there. Those weeks of discomfort are worth it, though. You get to dedicate a place on your body to an idea you believe in, a piece of art you think is beautiful, to something beloved.