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Slasher Film Origins - The Rules of the Kill: How a Genre Wrote Its Own Rulebook in Record Time

Slasher Film Origins - The Rules of the Kill: How a Genre Wrote Its Own Rulebook in Record Time

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Barnaby Ellison Thatch examines how slasher films created rigid moral rules in just six years. From Halloween to Friday the Thirteenth, the genre codified conventions that punished transgression and rewarded virtue, reflecting Reagan-era anxieties about youth behavior and sexual freedom.

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