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Slasher Presentation
Slasher Presentation
famous scene
● Early slasher films like Psycho were revolutionary to the Horror genre because they
drove away from featuring the killer as a fictional monster, but instead a human
being
Historical View of slashers/killers
● Friday the 13th ● A Nightmare On Elm
Street
Historical View of slashers/killers
● Reality-based slashers
● Films such as The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre
introduced situations that
could actually occur in real life
Historical View of slashers/killers
● First of many...
Historical View of slashers/killers
● Fictional based slahsers
Chucky Rubber
Historical View of slashers/killers
spoofs
Reference
Clover, Carol J. Men, women and chain saws: gender in the modern horror film.
Princeton University Press, 2015.
Petridis, Sotiris. “A Historical Approach to the Slasher Film.” Film International, vol.
12, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 76–84., doi:10.1386/fiin.12.1.76_1.
Dika, Vera. Games of Horror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the films of the Stalker
Cycle. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.