Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In (2008) are spellbinding horror films. They both break the stereotyped product of their respective “monster” depictions by allowing the audience to align themselves with the monstrosity. The viewer cannot help but sympathize with the shy, pretty, and complicated female monster, but the fascinating aspect of these films is the way in which gender is shown as a threat to the dominant ideology. This paper will use gender criticism in an attempt to show how “otherness” is a manifestation of real-world fears and anxieties, in particular, dealing with the dominant ideology and gendering paradigm. In Carrie, we see a young misunderstood teenager who is victimized by bullies
