Analysis of Slasher Films
Let's dive deeper into the Slasher film! It's evolution, Proto-Slashers, Psycho, Halloween, Censorship, tropes, the Slasher killers and the survivors. We'll talk about it all!
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Sources: (All in blog post ^)
Images from films are all from IMDb.
Book cover images from Amazon.
‘The Teenage Slasher Movie Book, 2nd Revised and Expanded’ by J.A. Kerswell (2018).
‘Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film’ by Carol J Clover (1987).
‘The Story of Film: A Odyssey’ by Mark Cousins (2020).
‘Censorship: A Beginner’s Guide’ by Julian Petley (2009).
‘The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar’ by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris (2023)
‘I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies’ by Heidi Honeycutt (2024)
‘Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre’ by Alison Peirce (2020).
‘Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry’ by Frank Walsh [1996]. Link.
‘A Brief History of Film Censorship’ by National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC.org (2023).
‘What data on 3,000 murderers and 10,000 victims tells us about serial killers’ by Zachary Crockett. Vox (2016).
‘Why are there fewer serial killers now than there used to be?’ by Cody Mello-Klein. Northeastern Global News (2023).
‘why were there so many serial killers between 1970 and 2000 — and where did they go?’ by Brenna Ehrlich. Rolling Stones (2021).
Chapters:
0:00 - Opening!
3:15 - Timeline of film
10:30 - Definition
18:53 - Origins Psycho/Halloween
31:17 - Censorship
47:46 - Learned Bias
49:44 - What's Scary?
56:47 - Serial Killers
1:04:39 - Proto-Slashers
1:07:46 - Methodology
1:15:58 - Slasher Killer Trends
1:17:22 - Mental Illness
1:29:12 - Slasher Motives
1:36:41 - Hicksploitation
1:42:53 - Final Girls
1:50:00 - Final Boys
1:52:49 - Black Guy Dies First
1:58:56 - Interpretation