Maude Michaud

The Viscera Film Festival, which we sponsor, was created by Shannon Lark and presents horror films made by women from all over the world! Lark has just announced the 2009-2010 officially selected Viscera films. Viscera is judged by a panel of female horror filmmakers.

Animated super-short Barbee Butcher by Sophie Lagues, Beautiful As You Are by Doug Mallette and Mary Katherine Sisco, Hollywood Skin by Maude Michaud, the humorous I Spit on Eli Roth by Devi Snively, the experimental Mary Jane Go Round by Ginnetta Correli (Viscera Award Winner), super-creepy Mockingbird by Marichelle Daywalt, stylized Salome's Picnic by Victoria Waghorn, and action-packed Switch by Melanie Light are the official choices for 2010...

Nia Edwards-Behi's women-only horror festival, Ghouls on Film, has announced the initial lineup! Starting at 3pm on February 20th, 2010 at the Mixing Bowl in Birmingham, United Kingdom is an hour of shorts, including films by Amanda Boyle, Paula Haifley, Faye Jackson, Melanie Light and a brand new short by Maude Michaud.

There will be two feature films screening for your pleasure: Kate Glover’s outback slasher Slaughtered and the UK PREMIERE of the Soska Sisters’ Dead Hooker in a Trunk!

In addition to all this filmic goodness, very special guest Emily Booth will be in attendance and giving us a peek at her brand new webseries, Behind the Screams! Full details of the program will be made available nearer the festival date.

Nia Edwards-Behi's women-only horror festival, Ghouls on Film, has announced the initial lineup! Starting at 3pm on February 20th, 2010 at the Mixing Bowl in Birmingham, United Kingdom is an hour of shorts, including films by Amanda Boyle, Paula Haifley, Faye Jackson, Melanie Light and a brand new short by Maude Michaud.

There will be two feature films screening for your pleasure: Kate Glover’s outback slasher Slaughtered and the UK PREMIERE of the Soska Sisters’ Dead Hooker in a Trunk!

In addition to all this filmic goodness, very special guest Emily Booth will be in attendance and giving us a peek at her brand new webseries, Behind the Screams! Full details of the program will be made available nearer the festival date.

Written and Directed by Izabel Grondin
Featuring Felixe Ross, Patrick Lauzon
15 minutes
Review by Maude Michaud

Anyone who’s familiar with the films of Izabel Grondin knows she often tackles disturbing subjects matter. Fantasy, her latest short film, is no exception. The premise is straightforward: a man and a woman meet through an ad to fulfill a particular fantasy. Revealing what that fantasy is would destroy most of the mystery and tension of the first act, so I’ll refrain from doing so. I’ll just say that it involves something that is unpleasant for most of us, women...

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...