Representation of Young Women is horror films.

Representations of the two genders, male and female have been seen as very stereotypical in society, especially in the different forms of media, ranging form tv shows/dramas to films or magazines. Men are seen to be the more dominant and heroic ones, whereas women are seen to be the weaker sex in any form. 

In horror films women are usually represented as the ones who are powerless and who need to be saved from the killer and the ones who usually have no idea with what is going on around them. Or either the cause of trouble. This shows how conventional the horror genre is, in order of gender. Due to this, women are the ones who are seen to be attacked and killed first in the films, especially young blonde females. We can see this from the horror film, Scream (1996) which within the first 10 minutes sees the death of a female character, resulting from her not co-operating with the killer. This connotes how men are physically and emotionally stronger then women, representing inequality between the two. It shows that they are the dominating gender, which many feminists would disapprove. In comparison to this, in Jennifer's Body the main character is a young female who is completely opposite to the general stereotypical view of women in horror films. She is the dominating character who kills people especially men. 

In some films, the killer or the bad guy usually goes out for a women, but then doesn't kill her because of there feminine use. Therefore, women are also seen as sex objects. This shows that in horror films, they are seen to be the beautiful ones whereas the men are the gruesome frightening ones. This can be seen 70s film, Vampira, from the characters look, (skinny waist yet very curvy) she was seen as the beautiful young women. It can also be seen in Sorority Row where there are 4 beautiful young women who are the sufferers of a horrible prank that goes wrong.

However, the roles of women changed as the ways the were being portrayed. By the late 90's, women were seen to be more of the female protagonists  who often had unisex names. An example this can be scene in the horror, Scream with its main character called Sidney. This could've been done purposely to tell the audience, that the main protagonist is not full female, and that she could have strong features as male protagonists would. It also connotes that the use of unisex names are done in order for the film to relate to both genders of the target audience.