5 Cerebral Gore Films Featuring Women: When Slasher Meets Women's Horror
Haven't you heard? There's a new horror subgenre: cerebral gore, that's probably been around for decades and we're now just starting to talk about it.

Registration of the twelth solo program by the Dutch comedian and singer Lenette van Dongen. Van Dongen seeks freedom and silences her inner critics, such as Annie from the laundromat. From the Milkshake Festival to camping adventures and a trip through Canada: she discovers how being yourself can be liberating, but also how difficult freedom can sometimes feel. With sharp observations about single life and unexpected topics, Lenette proves that growing older is anything but boring.
Haven't you heard? There's a new horror subgenre: cerebral gore, that's probably been around for decades and we're now just starting to talk about it.
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.
'También la Iluvia' exploits Indigenous peoples' fight against the privatization of water in order to tell a story about Spanish characters.
The Noel Diary is about a man who unlocks an old diary containing secrets of the past.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.