Donna Davies

Starz Inside: Zombiemania, directed by Donna Davies and produced by Kimberlee Mctaggert (the team behind Pretty Bloody) premieres tomonight, Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 p.m. on Starz! This documentary is a fun look at the Zombie craze around the world.

Featuring clips from a vast library of Zombie films and Zombie experts, including the “grandfather of Zombie films” George A. Romero and best-selling author Max Brooks, it traces the evolution of the Zombie from its roots in African folklore and Haitian Voodoo to its current role as pop culture icon. Watch the trailer, and then watch tonight...

Quirky Montrealean filmmaker Maude Michaud's new documentary project Bloody Breasts: Women, Feminism & Horror will ask questions like Is horror a genre that can only be enjoyed by men?. Does it still serve to reinforce desired gender roles/societal stereotypes? and Can a woman call herself a feminist AND still enjoy horror films? Fast on the heels of women-in-horror documentaries Pretty Bloody by Donna Davies and Welcome To My Darkside by Reyna Young, Bloody Breasts promises to fill in the gaps in the academic literature by providing a comprehensive outlook at female artists and consumers of horror...

Pretty/Scary produced short horror film Wretched was selected to play at the Horror Society Women of Horror Film Festival in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday April 25th.

It'll be playing alongside some great female-helmed/oriented films including Pretty Bloody, which extensively features Pretty/Scary. Pretty/Bloody is a documentary about women in horror by Donna Davies and Kimberly McTaggert. Also playing are Liz Adams's Side Effect and Devi Snively's Death In Charge, which is a huge honor, because both those films are way better than Wretched. Also playing are the features Women's Studies, Phobia, The Making of Sculpture, and Wicked Lake.

Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror, from female-helmed production company Sorcery Films, is a new documentary making its television debut Feb. 25 on SPACE (Canada's Sci-Fi Channel). (It features Pretty/Scary and the founder, ME!, Heidi Martinuzzi, as well as interviews with lots of other more important women in this business)