I'd love to see a remake of Cape Fear, but with all the male roles played by females, and vice versa. Even if the remake was done shot-for-shot, I think the change would add such an interesting element. Imagine a female face that reads I'm-going-to-kill-you-and-your-family-because-I-fucking-can peering into your soul, all the while sitting idly on a concrete fence outside your home. Maybe it's because I'm not used to female serial killers (not the same as the femme fatales), but I think that'd be truly frightening.
There aren't many films that have a female in the vicious, heartless, ruthless killer role. (The ones that come immediately to mind are few and far between: The first Friday the 13th and Monster.) There are others that do exist, but they have the female killer play by a different set of rules. I mean, there's Jennifer's Body, but one could argue that a) it's the demon who's possessing her that's doing all the killing and b) she uses her sexy charm to lure her prey into striking distance, and not brute physical force. All the Boys love Mandy Lane is similar, in that the female lead lures the boys with her sexiness to be slaughtered, and it's her male friend who does all the ruthless killing.
In this slasher gender equality equation, women are falling short as the killers in these films. So let's have more maniac females cuttin' throats and taking names.
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