Taylor Cole The beauty of slasher films comes from the formulaic approach creators have used for years. The common conventions of the slasher make these films recognizable but potentially cliché. From its inception, the Scream franchise poked fun at these common conventions by making its characters self-aware. As Roger Ebert stated in his review of […]
Jerry J. Sampson Mandy Lane is hot, but she doesn’t know it. Mandy Lane is sexy, but in an accessible way. Mandy Lane has curves that beg to be ogled. Mandy Lane might tell you no, but she’ll probably change her mind if you ask her enough. At first glance, it seems like Jonathan Levine’s […]
Dawn Keetley Benjamin Lee begins his review for The Guardian of the new Netflix slasher, There’s Someone Inside Your House (Patrick Brice, 2021), with two sentences that will most likely enrage horror fans: “There’s obvious business sense behind the cyclical resurgence of the teen slasher, age-old formula cheaply reproduced by barely-paid no-names aimed at an […]
Nick Redfern Many films released as part of the neo-slasher cycle of horror films between 2000 and 2013 were remakes of ‘first wave’ slasher films from the 1970s and early-1980s, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Black Christmas (2006), Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Halloween (2007), Toolbox Murders (2004), When a Stranger Calls (2006), […]
Julia Aloi Women in past slasher films never truly triumphed, as evidenced in the often exploitative, detailed deaths of the female victims or in the eventual removal of the heroine’s agency in the film’s conclusion. Historically, the Final Girl, though central in her role as the resourceful heroine, has never really been the empowered subject […]