•Examples:Halloween,
Halloween is a classic film. If all the slasher movies that have ever been seen there are several characteristics which could be found in them all.
The first being the film either takes place in a small town, or a suburb of a larger city. This is also a factor which makes the films appeal. Small towns and suburbs are thought of as being far from the dangers associated with the city. These places are where people come to raise family’s in a good environment and the films bring terror to these so called nesting grounds. This makes the film appealing to the everyday teen. Usually that teen lives in a suburb or small town making them identify with the subjects in the film. Also the whole basis of horror genre is making the impossibly frightening possible. This is done by centering a story around a normal group of friends in a normal town, and then having this normal setting rocked by some type of monster.
Second there is the idea of this “final girl”. Usually a female is the main character of the story. Usually her attacker is a serial killer/rapist who attacks a long line of females until he comes across out main character who somehow finds the will and strength and ingenuity to get away from her attacker unlike her friends.
the arguments that women in slasher films are depicted as powerful and cunning and able to compete with their male there is a lot of work and criticism that argues the opposite. Many would argue that throughout slasher films women are there for the benefit of the male. Women are shot in ways that demean them. For example the camera shot angles down on them, there are always sexual references made between the killer and their victims and that the male gets his pleasure through the punishment of women. Considering most of these films throughout show several female bodies stalked, attacked, and then mutilated.
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