Clockwise from top left: XX , Mirror Mirro , Slumber Party Massacre , and The Quiet . Photo: Magnet Releasing, New City Releasing,New World Pictures, Millenium PIctures, In recent years, the release of successful woman-directed horror films like Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook , Julia Ducournau’s Raw , and Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night have often come with an implied air of “can you believe women even make horror films these days?” And even then, it is still somehow possible for major industry players like Jason Blum to claim women filmmakers aren’t even interested in the genre (to his credit, he backpedaled pretty quickly in the face of the backlash that followed). But not only are women horror directors far from uncommon today, they’ve been around for a really long time. Since the early days of cinema, women were making films about all sorts of spooky, dark things, be they home-invasion movies with split-screen effects that would make Brian De Palma blush, or surrealist experiments in the dark poetry of sex and death. As a companion to Vulture’s 100 Scares That Shaped Horror, we’ve put together a beginner’s guide that reflects the scope and longevity of…