The Horny Woman Renaissance

what raw desire on the big screen tells us about ourselves

A woman that wants is a woman that terrifies. To the untrained eye, her wanting, an act equally sinful and moving, is a deadly spectacle.

I went to see Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and Halina Reijn’s Babygirl back to back. Two distinctively unique and layered stories, once stripped bare from their contextual and stylistic differences, are both tales of fema…