All of media has been a playground for all aspects of liberalism for a long time because that's what we live under. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is, for example, extremely gay. That said, some people have interpreted the slasher movie trope of "be promiscuous; get murdered" with actually being socially conservative. AFAIK John Carpenter, who started that trope with Halloween, has said that was not his intent, but it's still a message people pick up on. It's even stated overtly in Scream, with one of Randy's rules for surviving a horror film being never having sex.
Horror movies are no more intrinsically feminist than video games or TV shows. These things are the way they are because of the people in charge.
All of media has been a playground for all aspects of liberalism for a long time because that's what we live under. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is, for example, extremely gay. That said, some people have interpreted the slasher movie trope of "be promiscuous; get murdered" with actually being socially conservative. AFAIK John Carpenter, who started that trope with Halloween, has said that was not his intent, but it's still a message people pick up on. It's even stated overtly in Scream, with one of Randy's rules for surviving a horror film being never having sex.
Horror movies are no more intrinsically feminist than video games or TV shows. These things are the way they are because of the people in charge.