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Slasher Film Origins

Slasher Film Origins

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 Barnaby Ellison Thatch dissects the slasher film's global origins, tracing how European art cinema, Italian gialli, and American suburban dread coalesced into horror's most rule-bound genre. From Psycho to Halloween, discover why this genre keeps returning.

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  • Slasher Film Origins - Uncover the bloody beginnings with Barnaby Ellison Thatch

    Slasher Film Origins - Uncover the bloody beginnings with Barnaby Ellison Thatch
    Apr 20 2026
    Join host Barnaby Ellison Thatch as he traces slasher films from Italian giallo and Hitchcock through decades of evolution. Discover who wrote the genre's rules, who shattered them, and why these films refuse to die. Uncover sinister threads connecting continental cinema to suburban nightmares.

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    1 min
  • Slasher Film Origins - The Killer Always Comes Back: Death, Self-Parody, and the Genre That Won't Stay Dead

    Slasher Film Origins - The Killer Always Comes Back: Death, Self-Parody, and the Genre That Won't Stay Dead
    Apr 20 2026
    Host Barnaby Ellison Thatch dissects the slasher film's paradoxical immortality, tracing its trajectory from 1970s invention through 1980s saturation, 1990s meta-textual resurrection, and endless cycles of death and rebirth. He explores how the genre's inability to die mirrors its unkillable villains, revealing deeper cultural anxieties beneath the blood and masks.

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    33 mins
  • 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
    Apr 20 2026
    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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    40 mins
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