Over at the Sci-Fi Wire, there’s an item about the upcoming Creepshow III (and how it might just be, well, awful):
The stories include “The Radio,” about a guy who is ordered around by a female voice that comes from his radio; “Alice,” about a snotty girl whose family changes each time a magical remote control is pressed; “Call Girl,” about a serial-killer prostitute who hooks up with a vampire; “Professor Dayton’s Wife,” about two students who dismember their professor’s fiancee because they think she is a robot; and “The Haunted Dog,” about a mean doctor who kills a homeless man by giving him a contaminated hot dog. “We did not want it to seem too comic-book, but we wanted something different that was also fun and silly,” Dudelson said.
Am I the only one who sees a sort of pattern in those stories? I don’t want to read too much into it, especially without having seen the stories in question, but those don’t seem like the strongest roles for women imaginable. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the mean doctor was a woman, too.)