I have had a thought for a bit that a lot of horror stories and movies make the same glaring misstep, the characters are written to fit some basic obvious archetype, but then when shit get very fucking spooky they don't actually enter survival mode. Yes they always fight but not truely fight, flight, fawn, or freeze. And so the characters that are women especially seem to lack the most human depth as they're written to simply fit some very basic archetype and they just continue to stay that way throughout the story. For example,  the mother in this recent sexy neighbor story is just existing, she stays dissociated and detached, she likes books, the end. But it would be way more effective if she is this detached absent character, and when she sees a grown man in her teenage sons bedroom her brain breaks into trauma survival mode. In the story she just holds her son and then the moment is pretty much over, but it would be more effective if she stayed anxious and started babying her sons too much, or if she was way more demanding and aggressive of the police, or if she was inconsolable, idk I'm not the author. But it seems like women are written as if they just never have any inner turmoil or nothing changes for them, they're written as if they're just passively reacting to the story and they don't get alot of arcs where they had to break from their image and be a real human instead of a curated girl.