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Plenty of horror out there finds the protagonists struggling to make it through and come out the other end alive and intact, which, of course, isn’t always the case. Dismemberment, madness, the necessity of years of therapy following a harrowing experience are often the life survivors have to look forward to after escaping their ordeal.

Well, notwithstanding years of therapy, occasionally we find protagonists who not only manage to escape the terror, but end up fighting back. In this week’s Calamity on Cinema, we celebrate those brave and resourceful protagonists who turn the tables around on their predators, focusing exclusively on women characters. In this short, aptly titled Good for Her! list, we follow three women who fail to be crushed by the horrors they experience, opting instead to crush the horrors themselves.

We begin our journey in celebration of Halloween on All Hallow’s Eve with Haunt, a careless joyride into and through a sick and twisted Halloween maze. Upon exiting the maze, we join Deena as she takes on a last minute babysitting gig in Night of the Reaper. Unfortunately, we know all about horror movies and babysitters, yes? Or do we? When the carnage ends, we travel back in time to 1719, to follow Naru, a Comanche girl wanting to prove herself worthy of being a hunter. She gains that opportunity when a Predator arrives to hunt the humans and animals in search for the greatest challenge.

Three spectacular cases, three spectacular films, especially when considering you’re not left feeling devoid of life after watching a bunch of protagonists struggle to survive. As such, as a whole we give the movies on this list a collective one clown, in accord with 🤡 JEST: The Calamity Content Rating System. This is quite the honor, considering there are three films, and they cannot each be one clown, can they? Well no, but more on this in the review below.

We hope you enjoy the show!

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