“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex. Our rejection or acceptance of a particular type of horror fiction can be as rarefied or kinky as any other phobia or fetish.
Horror is made of such base material–so easily rejected or dismissed–that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in this, our materialistic world.”
—Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors
whenever someone’s too enthusiastically hating on female characters I become a beacon of feminism, I put her on that pedestal and worship her because she’s divine (I also hate her but I don’t like the way you’re hating her so now she’s my favorite character)