Film scholar Patricia Pisters is more than your common-or-garden cinephile. Her writings take on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and Frankenstein monsters. By following a crimson trail, Patricia illuminates a new generation of female directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre. In her essay for Extra Extra, Patricia contemplates the concept of transgressive intimacy, deconstructing Yang Lina’s independent film Longing for the Rain and the character of Lucy Elkins in the American TV-series The Knick.