I’m trying to think of the last big breasted horror icon that people took seriously, and I can only think of Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil.
But whether it’s Hollywood or video games, creators and the audience don’t seem to believe big breasted women are capable of being evil, angry, traumatized, lonely, regretful, guilty, or any of the other reasons to haunt the earth.
Every ghost and demon is either a petite woman, an old person, a child, or just a guy.
There’s actually a lot of very cool reading you could do about the ties between the feminine and the monsterous. A lot of folk lore and monsters draw from femininity corrupted (as determined by a dominant patriarchy, so usually stuff like women who are sexually aggressive, or women who are independent, or women who don’t want to be baby factories).
It may be the case that because large breasts are a “good” female trait, and serve the purpose of being motherly and sexually appealing for/to men they aren’t deemed threatening.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12844-8_1 this is something that turned up in a quick search and may be a good jumping off point
In Japan there is not the same associations historically, and that may be why there’s more evil women well endowed in e.g. animoo
tldr: the same fucking answer as always?
Caliban and The Witch may be a relevant read
That’s a good point. Although children are also exploited and simultaneously considered pure and innocent, yet those traits are subverted in horror whereas large breasts are mostly ignored. And thanks for the link, I’ll take a look at that today