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Posted on August 13, 2021

Select Essays on the Slasher

Dawn Keetley

We’re attending avidly the Slasher Studies Summer Camp – and also getting ready for our forthcoming special issue on the Neoslasher – so we thought we’d curate some of Horror Homeroom’s slasher content, because we are huge slasher fans!

1. Killing the Sad Fat Guy and the Pregnant Lady: Uncomfortable Death in Friday the 13th Part III – 3D
Wickham Clayton
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/killing-the-sad-fat-guy-and-the-pregnant-lady-uncomfortable-death-in-friday-the-13th-part-iii-3d/
2. Too Much Freedom at Camp Crystal Lake: Narrative Architecture and Friday the 13th: The Game (2017)
Caitlin Duffy
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/too-much-freedom-at-camp-crystal-lake-narrative-architecture-and-friday-the-13th-the-game-2017/
And check out our entire special issue on Friday the 13th for the 40th anniversary:
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/special-issue-1/
3. Sleepaway Camp and the Transgressive Possibilities of Queer Spectatorship
Daniel Sheppard
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/sleepaway-camp-and-the-transgressive-possibilities-of-queer-spectatorship/
4. Slashers, Sex and Sisterhood in The Slumber Party Massacre
Rebecca Booth
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/slashers-sex-and-sisterhood-in-the-slumber-party-massacre/
5. Thirteen Women (1932): The Slasher Film that Started It All
Dawn Keetley
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/thirteen-women/
6. Beavers Bite Back: Rape-Revenge, “Good for her,” and Freaky‘s Final Girl
Christy Tidwell
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/beavers-bite-back-rape-revenge-good-for-her-and-freakys-final-girl/
7. The Other Secret of Marrowbone: The Domestically Entrapped Male in Horror Film
Mark Fryers
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-other-secret-of-marrowbone-the-domestically-entrapped-male-in-horror-film/
8. Stranger by the Lake and Subtractive Spectatorship
Elizabeth Erwin
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/stranger-by-the-lake-and-subtractive-spectatorship/
9. Trailblazing Self-Reflection and Post-Modernism in Student Bodies (1981)
Gwen Hofmann
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/trailblazing-self-reflection-in-student-bodies-1981/
10. The Other Bad Seed: Talking Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Elizabeth Erwin, Gwen Hofmann, Dawn Keetley
11. Jaws, the Slasher, and the Encounter at the Heart of Horror
Dawn Keetley
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/jaws-the-slasher-and-the-encounter-at-the-heart-of-horror/
12. Pick for the Final Woman: Sarah Logan
Gwen Hofmann
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/final-woman/
13. Review: The Final Girls
Elizabeth Erwin
http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-final-girls-2015-film-review/

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