I don’t like slasher movies. In my youth, I thought they were cheap and gratuitous, and when I got a little older I thought they were sexist and reactionary. Something about watching young women get dismembered with a knife while undressed struck me as pretty gross. I am aware that plenty of people have tried to rehabilitate some slasher flicks from a feminist perspective, but I have not been able to overcome my dislike.
The Subversiveness of John Carpenter's Halloween
The Subversiveness of John Carpenter's…
I don’t like slasher movies. In my youth, I thought they were cheap and gratuitous, and when I got a little older I thought they were sexist and reactionary. Something about watching young women get dismembered with a knife while undressed struck me as pretty gross. I am aware that plenty of people have tried to rehabilitate some slasher flicks from a feminist perspective, but I have not been able to overcome my dislike.