Theorists associated with our horror
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Laurie Strode, final girl from "Halloween." -1978
weapons
There are no guns in slasher movies, as this is too quick and clean. Sometimes victims get firearms, but just like telephones and other modern commodities, they never work.
Terrible places
Places such as decaying and haunted mansions are not terrible just because of their appearance, but also because of the terrible families and histories inside them.
Walls in a house which at first seem safe, end up trapping the victim inside with the killer.
This theory is shown in "Ils" where the victim locks herself in the car to try and keep the killer away from herself, but she does in fact end up locking herself inside the care with the killer.
Killers
Killers in horror films usually either have issues with childhood or are sexually disturbed. One of the only female killers to show gender confusion us the mother in Friday 13th. Other females kill for different reasons.
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Dixon believes horror film are so popular because humans have a subconscious feeling of masochism. Because of this, women and men in horror films are "sites of activity," situations rather than characters. As the "level of graphic specificity" continues to rise in the horror film, it is not so much the story of the film that matters, but rather the "certainty of fleshly mutilation." |