I am She: The Witch and Patriarchal Disruption- Filmography & Bibliography

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by Tori Potenza

First off I want to thank Final Girls Berlin Film Festival for having me present at their “Brain Binge” event this past weekend. When I first covered the festival in 2021, it made me feel connected to a network of incredible horror filmmakers and fans, during a time when I was literally in isolation. Because of this, Final Girls has become my favorite festival. I love to cover it for Moviejawn and being a part of the festival with so many incredible people was a dream. If you missed it, my talk, and the others from this past weekend will be on the Final Girls Youtube page soon. However I wanted to offer everyone a list of the films, books, and other media I referenced during the presentation. 

Filmography

  • Haxan  dir. Benjamin Christensen (1922) Sweden/Denmark
  • Il Demonio dir. Brunello Rondi (1963) Italy
  • The Long Hair of Death dir. Antonio Margheriti (1965) Italy 
  • Viy dir. Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov (1967) Russia/soviet union
  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders dir. Jaromil Jires (1970) Czechoslovakia
  • Season of the Witch dir. George Romero (1972) USA
  • Belladonna of Sadness dir. Eiichi Yamamoto (1973) Japan
  • The Devonsville Terror dir. Ulli Lommel  (1983) USA
  • The Pit and the Pendulum  dir. Stuart Gordon (1991) USA
  • The Craft dir. Andrew Fleming (1996) USA
  • The Witch dir. Robert Eggers (2015) USA
  • The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016) USA 
  • I am Not a Witch dir. Rungano Nyoni (2017)  UK/Zambia  
  • Suspiria dir. Luca Guadagnino (2018) USA
  • Lux Æterna dir. Gasper Noé (2019) France) 
  • Gretel & Hansel dir. Oz Perkins (2020) USA 
  • The Old Ways dir. Christopher Alender (2020) USA
  • The Craft Legacy  dir. Zoe Lister-Jones (2020) USA
  • Hellbender dir. John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser (2021) USA
  • You Won’t Be Alone  dir. Goran Stolevski (2022) UK 

Bibliography

  • Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) by Heinrich Kramer 
  • Lights, Camera, Witchcraft by Heather Greene 
  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen
  • Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness by Jane M. Ussher
  • Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture by  Per Faxneld 
  • In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
  • The Witch in History- Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss

Other Tv/Podcasts/Articles referenced 

Published by Tori Potenza

I am a writer, academic, and programmer for Brooklyn Horror Fest. My work mainly focuses on sex and gender themes in film and mainly on the horror genre. You can find my writing at MovieJawn, Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, and Horror Press amongst others. I was featured in the documentary, BOUTIQUE: TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT which focuses on physical media preservation and collection. I have contributed essays to physical media releases with Arrow, OCN, 88 Films, amongst others. You can follow me at Instagram, Threads, Blusky, and Letterboxed at Theneonbanshee.