Genre research and Intertextual links

Slasher

In a Slasher movie, there is usually a killer who murders innocent people mainly teenagers, and who are in a large group. Usually when the Murders occur, a person goes missing, followed by the others. The last person finally manages to kill the killer, but this isn't the case in some of the slasher films. More over we have been looking at various books in the library based on slashers. One of the book is asmedia studies handbook, this had information about slashers.

Killer

With notable exceptions, the killer in the slasher film is usually male. His identity is often, but not always, unknown and/or concealed either by a mask or by creative lighting and camera work. He is often mute and seemingly unstoppable, able to withstand stabbings, falls and shootings by his victims. Slasher villains tend to prefer hand held weapons such as knives, axes, hatchetes, and chainsaws as opposed to bombs or guns. As the sub-genre developed, some argue that the real star of a slasher is the killer, not the victims or Final Girl.

Victims

The victims tend to be young, attractive, high school or college-aged adolescents. Mainly Blonde teenagers are ended up being killed.

Final Girl

Slasher films frequently only have a single survivor. She is frequently a female peer of the victims but is cinematically developed. She frequently doesn't participate in the activities of her friends. The heroine is also known as the final girl because by the end of the movie, all of her friends are dead, and she's left alone to deal with the killer. Certain movies do deviate from this in favour of having a final boy who tends to be morally suspect.