WOMEN IN HORROR RECOGNITION MONTH: FEMALE FILMMAKERS

In honor of Women In Horror Recognition Month, I hereby present my top 3 of female filmmakers. 







MARY LAMBERT

Mary Lambert (2007)

Mary Lambert is known to horror fans for directing the 1989 adaption of Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary (1989), and its sequel Pet Sematary II (1992). This Arkansas born film director is also known for Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), the thriller The Attic (2007) and the upcoming action/horror High Midnight (2012) where a "broken-down sheriff is forced to join forces with an obsessed Victorian vampire hunter to defeat an undead force consuming a small frontier town in 1892 New Mexico".


Other trivia: Mary Lambert stars as herself in the 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror. She is also known for directing some of the music industry's most famous music videos, amongst them Chris Isaak's Dancin and Janet Jackson's Nasty and Control. She has also directed videos for Annie Lennox, Mick Jagger, Whitney Houston (RIP), Live, Mötley Crüe, Queensryche, Sting and many others. Her most famous include Madonna's videos Like a Virgin, Material Girl and Like a Prayer.

DEBRA HILL 

Debra Hill

Debra Hill (November 10th 1950 - March 7th 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer, mostly known for co-writing and co-producing my all time favorite horror movie Halloween (1978). After working with John Carpenter as a script supervisor and assistant editor (of Assault on Precinct 13 in 1975), Debra Hill started further professional collaborations with Carpenter, which also marked the beginning of their personal relationship.

In 1978 Debra Hill and John Carpenter co-wrote and co-produced Halloween. Following its success, they worked together on Halloween II (1981) and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). Hill and Carpenter also worked on The Fog (1980) together.

Other trivia: Debra Hill was in 2003 honored by Women In Film with the Crystal Award.




DIABLO CODY

Diablo Cody (2007)

Born Brook Busey, Diablo Cody is an American screenwriter and author. She first became known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her 'The Pussy Ranch' blog and her 2006 memoir Candy Girl. A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.

In 2007, Diablo Cody sold a horror script called Jennifer's Body to Fox Atomic. Released in 2009, the horror/comedy Jennifer's Body starred Megan Fox as the title character, a movie which Cody also directed and for which Cody now is widely known in the horror circuit. 

Other trivia: Diablo Cody has been nominated for several awards for her movie Juno, amongst them People's Choice Award during the Toronto International Film Festival, the Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, and has earned four Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture and won one for Best Original Screenplay.