How Women Spectatorship in ‘Run Sweetheart Run’ Makes it the Most Relatable Horror Film for Women
‘Run Sweetheart Run’ has everything women fear the most, from psycho boyfriends to tampons.

One hundred meters down, in the pitch-black darkness of some of the world’s most treacherous waters, a twenty-strong team of elite divers use cutting-edge equipment and revolutionary techniques to create some of the most stunning underwater visuals captured on film. Their mission; to chronicle and pay tribute to the countless war-time wrecks at the bottom of a sea which has never known peace and is, even now, being contested by the world’s superpowers.
‘Run Sweetheart Run’ has everything women fear the most, from psycho boyfriends to tampons.
Now that we're officially halfway through Hispanic Heritage Month, let's look ahead at movies featuring Hispanic & Latine representation through the rest of 2021.
Two Distant Strangers (2020) centers around Carter James (Joey Bada$$) as he tries to get back home to his pitbull, Jeter, after spending a night at the apartment of his date Perri (Zaria Simone). What gets in the way of Carter reuniting with his dog is that every time he tries to leave Perri’s apartment, he is killed by police and wakes up back in her bed in a never-ending cycle. It addresses the issue of police brutality which rightly has been in the public eye more and more with the unjust deaths caused at the hands of law enforcement.
The accountant in question is Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), who’s neurodivergent. We know this because at a dating event, he bores women with tax advice. He also places his breakfast foods in neat stacks and has no friends.
These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.
Eventually, “Hobbs and Shaw” introduces us to a Samoan community. Clearly, Johnson’s Samoan roots are on display. Quite frankly, I found this section of the film very intriguing. The “Fast and Furious” franchise has a solid track record in the diversity department