Anna Biller on The Face of Horror: ‘My films teach men about women’
The auteur behind The Love Witch discusses monstrous beauty, glamour as a form of magic, why today’s misogyny feels medieval, and the dangers of making feminist work in 2026
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“I think there’s a kind of neo-misogyny now that’s very medieval,” says filmmaker Anna Biller. In her new film, The Face of Horror, there are caddish knights (Jonah Hauer-King) and a forsaken, then disfigured, bride (Kristine Froseth), forced to enact her bloody revenge from beyond the grave. Rendered in sumptuous technicolour, it reveals a patriarchal society in miniature; lucid and eerily beautiful. But the real horror? Its 14th century settinghellip;
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