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Diablo 2 savegames level 99 download. June 9, 2012 In Creeds theory the feminine is constructed as the other and in the horror genre the other is the monster that has to be repressed or controlled ‘ The reasons why the monstrous-feminine horrifies her audience are quite different from the reasons why a male monster horrifies his audience’ (Creed 1993: 3). The idea of the monstrous feminine is all about crossing borders and boundaries and therefore becoming abject.

More specifically it is about the female body itself crossing these borders whether that be through a certain bodily transformation, whether that be through, death, mutilation, vampirism, witchcraft or in the case study for this essay possession ‘ The possessed or invaded being is a figure of abjection in that the boundary between self and other has been transgressed’ (Creed, 1993: 32). It is this body that needs to be controlled, usually in the case of horror cinema by male heroic figure that is a symbol for the clean, pure and human, it is the ‘ inability of the male order to control the woman whose perversity is expressed through her rebellious body’ (Creed, 1993: 34) that makes the woman in the narrative or the ‘monstrous feminine all the more terrifying.

I will be looking at Barbra Creed’s theory in depth and using the example of The Exorcist to illustrate how this framework is useful when understanding horror, ‘ Connections drawn in the film between feminine desire, sexuality and abjection suggest that more is at stake than a simple case of demonic possession. Possession becomes the excuse for legitimizing a display of aberrant feminine behaviour which is depicted as depraved, monstrous, abject – and perversely appealing.’ (Creed, 1993: 31), and Creed’s monstrous feminine theory helps to explain why this is simply not a film about demonic possession. ‘ When the subject is invaded by a personality of another sex the transgression is even more abject because gender boundaries are violated.’(Creed, 1993: 32) this usually in horror films is the possession of a male body by a female personality or spirit, it is more uncommon but not unseen to be the reverse of this ‘ in films depicting invasion by the devil, the victim is almost always a young girl, the invader a male devil. One major boundary that is traversed is that between innocence and corruption, purity and impurity’ (ibid). However in The Exorcist Creed argues that the devil possessing Regan me actually be female. This could be read as the devil being a metaphor for her mother, for example the scene where Regan masturbates with a cross and spouts verbal perversions to her mother could be seen as a demonstration of her mother’s unfulfilled sexual desires due to an absent father and a highly career driven life.

The possession of her daughter could also be recognised as a punishment for her not fulfilling her role as woman in the traditional sense. Regan is a teenage girl on the verge of womanhood but not yet aware of the female sexual desires, she is still innocent to these notions.